The most famous ladies of letters

Film.com wonders whether Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre will be the 'spookiest ever', judging by its trailer.

Arguably, it could be the darkest Jane Eyre ever -- a shuddersome thriller romance. Fukunaga reportedly spent a lot of time rereading Brontë's book so he could fathom what she "was feeling when she was writing it. That sort of spookiness that plagues the entire story ... there's been something like 24 adaptations, and it's very rare that you see those sorts of darker sides. They treat it like it's just a period romance, and I think it's much more than that."
A spookier Jane Eyre by the formidable talent behind Sin Nombre? How can that not send shivers of anticipation down our thriller-loving spines? (Christine Champ)

And The Herald (Scotland) reports that the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, will include Polly Teale's Brontë in its 2011 season (June 1-4).

Shared Experience further deconstructs the greats in Brontë. Written by Polly Teale, who directed Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie at the Citz this year, Brontë looks beyond fiction to the private lives of what are probably the most famous ladies of letters. (Neil Cooper)

And now the appalling news that a village in India has apparently forbidden single women from using mobile phones 'after at least 23 couples ran off to be secretly married in inter-caste marriages without their parents' approval in the past year'. Lemondrop echoes the news and adds a Wuthering Heights mention:

Even though caste discrimination is banned in India, it still pervades the countryside, so many parents were upset to see their children run off with others they did not think were worthy. So romantic, in a "Wuthering Heights" kind of way. Minus the ghosts. And the moors. Never mind. (Emerald Catron)

The Book Fairy's Heaven picks Jane Eyre among her top ten fiction heroines and Flickr user Tommimc has uploaded an atmospheric image inspired by Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights