You won’t get far with Google by skulking around like Heathcliff

The Northern Echo reviews favourably Sarah Freeman's Brontë in Love:

CHARLOTTE Brontë has long been associated with love, passion and romance.
However, this book concentrates on the author’s love life, not that of Jane Eyre.
Sarah Freeman tells of Charlotte’s commitment to her romantic ideas.
The Brontë sister lives her life by the rules of her literary heroines and refuses to marry for convenience, status or money. When she turns down two men’s hands in marriage in her early 20s, she does so with conviction, as neither love her.
Freeman’s storytelling and style make this book very readable, and Charlotte’s life proves almost as captivating as Jane Eyre’s own. (Caroline Davison)

Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë is reviewed in the Decatur Daily:

When I was in high school, students lamented that every teacher/class/ lesson or assignment “stifled creativity.” How we would have groaned had we been in the circumstances of the Brontë sisters. Three intelligent women sequestered in a provincial village dominated by their belligerent father and subordinated by their needy brother, Charlotte, Emily and Anne managed despite incredible odds to make a lasting name for themselves while the male members of the family are remembered only in relation to the women they viewed as “lesser vessels.” (...)
Gael does an excellent job of telling a story from the fragments of correspondence and contemporary commentary about this isolated author and her talented but repressed siblings. Charlotte had only a short time in the limelight and an even shorter time as a wife. Juliet Gael brings her world to us and makes us know what it is truly like to have stifled creativity. (Jane Davis)

Joe Queenan analyses in The Guardian romantic clichés:

Romances are built upon the idea that Prince Charming actually exists, but he may be a bit rough around the edges or temporarily unavailable, like Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre or the long-lost boyfriend in A Very Long Engagement, or the weird guy who keeps popping in from the future in The Time Traveller's Wife.

The Times remembers the ratings of the (2006?) Jane Eyre BBC series talking about succesful TV series:

Even by the end of this first series, it’s set to be the biggest period drama of the century, trumping Lark Rise to Candleford (first episode 7.27m viewers), Jane Eyre (average 6.6m) and Bleak House (a peak of 7.2m).  (Matt Rudd)

The Philippine Star finds similarities between Wuthering Heights and the Bicol Region in Philippines:

Even in the rain and wind, which caught our last leg of the trip, there was something wistful and romantic that reminded me of dramatic scenes from Wuthering Heights. (Stephanie Zubiri)

This week's Clarion's Vocabulary in the Mississippi Clarion Ledger is devoted to Wuthering Heights:

Recently I was skimming the 1847 masterpiece Wuthering Heights, authored by Emily Bronte (1818-48). Holding a prominent position in the canon of world literature, it actually began with a whimper and not a bang. Initially, readers found it appalling and inappropriate, and few copies were sold.
Bronte's sister Charlotte (1816-55) stated in a preface to the book, "Whether it's right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is." (Click here for the test) (Don Vaughan)

Stuck-on recommends how to behave like a Regency novel character in order to improve your Google Places presence. The comments has a funny Brontë coda:

When you want to get featured in Google Places, though, you really should act like the heroes and heroines of a Regency romance novel.
For example, the proper course of romance in such novels runs like this. First of all, the hero moves into the neighbourhood. Visiting cards are handed around, and opinions of him sought from any characters who might know something of him, ensuring he is who he says he is. Next, a gentle introduction is made. The heroine visits the hero in his spectacularly impressive mansion and, after dancing around each other for a bit, the hero and heroine are united in a calm but happy manner. (...)
Note: when we say Regency, we probably mean along the lines of Jane Austen. Darkly attractive as the character may be, you won’t get far with Google by skulking around like Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff.

The Anti-Room and Lynn Reads a Book post about Wuthering Heights as does Cementerio de lunáticos  (in Spanish),  Auntie Knows Best has visited Haworth; Fifitybooks Project and Catching UP talks about Jane Eyre. Associated Content carries an article about Wuthering Heights in its Books at a Glance section. Ghosts and Lovers posts a collection of Jane Eyre 2006 icons and Mystic Medusa posts about Jane Eyre.

Categories: Biography, Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights