Heathcliff-spotting and other news

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, First Person Arts founder and executive director Vicki Solot isn't much of a Brontëite:

AS A CHILD, First Person Arts founder and executive director Vicki Solot was enchanted by stories her father told about the playful mischief he and his twin brother engaged in as children. In her young literary endeavors, she fell for biographies about women like Harriet Beecher Stowe rather than the fictional "Jane Eyre." (Ashley Nguyen)

News Blaze discusses the concept of fiction and says,

Once memorable characters are brought to life in a book-Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, the Karamazov brothers, and so many more-they're alive, in some ways more alive than we ourselves are because they have so much wider a circle of acquaintances than we do. They influence us, they influence events, and the chances are they will be remembered long after we're forgotten. (Djelloul Marbrook)

We wholeheartedly agree.

The New Yorker has an article on TB and of course mentions some of the 'celebrities' who died of it:

Keats, Chekhov, the Brontë sisters, and George Orwell—who was born not far from Patna, where his father managed the regional opium trade—all died of the disease. (Michael Specter)

With the exception, though, of Charlotte Brontë who, in all likelihood, died of hyperemesis gravidarum, not TB.

And now a couple of Heathcliff lookalikes. Daily Express:

“They want to show that ploughing is an art form,” explains Matt Clark, a young landowner whose family has farmed for generations. Dark and square-jawed, he could be Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff. (Jane Labous)

And the Independent (Ireland):

His [Donncha O'Callaghan's] Heathcliff hair is still wet from the showers and, in green, short-sleeved polo shirt, his bare arms look like they could underpin an oil-rig. (Vincent Hogan)

We are sure, though, that none of them looks like the Heathcliff seen on the cover of a 1967 edition of Wuthering Heights uploaded to Flickr by My Love Haunted Heart. Iris on Books has fallen in love with Jane Eyre and Viver a leitura also posts about the novel in Portuguese. YA Highway reviews April Lindner's retelling, Jane.

Categories: Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights