Sparks of joy and fulfillment

Let's begin with a possible (?) picture of Mia Wasikowska in the shooting of Jane Eyre 2011 (?). The picture was published in Vogue Italy and was pointed out by Glacier571-3 on the film's IMDb board citing the blog What's Up!. We know that the rights of the picture belong to Splashnews but there is no explicit link to the Jane Eyre filming. If someone out there can solve the mystery please let us know. EDIT: pcesta suggests that maybe the actress in the picture is Jayne Wisener who plays Bessie.

Another review of PD James's Talking About Detective Fiction which mentions Jane Eyre in The Guardian:

She suggests that the detective genre is differentiated from both mainstream fiction and the generality of crime novels "by a highly organised structure and recognised conventions", and by the requirement that it "enshrine a mystery and its solution", a definition loose enough for her to draw comparisons with canonical works such as Jane Austen's Emma and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. (Edmund Gordon)

DNA (India) reviews Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow:

The Taste Of Sorrow manages to bring alive the dark complexity of the landscapes and lives that shaped works like Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. But Morgan illuminates the familiar image of condemned genius with the spark of joy and fulfillment the sisters found in their creativity. That, it may be argued, was a very rare taste of pleasure indeed. Particularly in a world where the tragic death of young women was no great matter after all. (Taran N Khan)

The Sunday Times mentions the upcoming performances of Andrea Corr as Jane Eyre in  Dublin:

And if that isn’t enough Andrea for you, next month she’s starring in the Gate’s production of Jane Eyre, with Stephen Brennan as Mr Rochester.

Pioneer Press presents like this The House of Dead Maids:

"The House of Dead Maids" by Clare B. Dunkle (Henry Holt, $15.99). Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" inspired this dark story about Tabby Aykroyd, who sees the ghosts of dead maids when she arrives to work at a great house in England. She wonders why the savage little boy she's taking care of keeps saying he's the master and is indulged by the mistress of the house and the servants. Tabby and the boy escape a horrible ritual, but the child has set himself on a doomed path and returns to the evil house. That boy will become Heathcliff, tragic hero of Bronte's famous Gothic novel. (Mary Ann Grossmann)

The New York Times traces a profile of Ed Shea, director of Providence's Second Story Theater:

When his comparative literature professor wrote on his A+ paper about “Wide Sargasso Sea” that it was the best close reading of a text he’d ever read, Ed sat in his car and cried. “I realized for the first time that I was smart,” he told me. (Ann Hood)

The Financial Standard (Kenya) mentions the Brontës in an article about the writer Ngugi wa Thiong:

So even Africans could write books? I had grown up reading abridged European classics of the likes of Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stephenson, Thomas Hardy, Miguel Cervantes, Jonathan Swift and others. But here was one person who told a story that was very close to me in idioms and images that I could relate to. (Barrack Muluka)

The New York Fashion Week is always a source of one or two Brontë mentions. This time The Epoch Times talks about Adiba al-Mahbuba's designs:

One long dress looked right out of “Jane Eyre,” and a number of folkloric numbers appeared suitable for “The Sound of Music.” (Miriam Silverberg)

Julie Klassen remembers her reaction after winning the Christy Award for her novel The Silent Governess in Minneapolis Book Examiner:

The comment about The Silent Governess was so effusive (something about the book being better than Jane Eyre) that I came off the stage fanning myself! (Interview by Linda White)

A J Hawke interviews Karen Whitemeyer, writer and Brontëite:

How much of your own experiences influenced your characters? What aspects became traits that were theirs and theirs alone?
I had so much fun creating Adelaide. Like me, she is addicted to romantic stories, everything from fairy tales to novels. My favorite 19th century novel is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. I read it in high school and fell in love with the story. I've seen every major film version and even watched a live theater musical retelling of the class tale. Not only is this novel Adelaide's favorite as well, but she finds many similarities between her own unfolding story and that of Brontë's Jane.

The Jane Austen Tea Society has a series of post preparing their Wuthering Heights meeting; Dodopapa's Blog is reading Jane Eyre; I Wish I Was Able to Sleep posts about Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Fiction, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights