Nothing on the Brontës

Kathy Lette passed the Life in the UK Test and complains about the absence of great British names in the Daily Mail:

But a quick flick through the handbook had me sweating like Paris Hilton attempting a sudoku. Nothing on the Brontës or Blake, Coleridge or Chaucer, Wodehouse or Wordsworth. Britain’s greatest claim to global fame, William Shakespeare, was also completely absent.

The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reviews Peril at Somner House by Joanna Challis:

Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" has been a favorite of mine since childhood, which made Joanna Challis' mystery "Peril at Somner House" (Minotaur, $25.99), featuring du Maurier as an amateur sleuth, all the more appealing. A winter storm strands du Maurier at Somner House, off the coast of Cornwall. Since du Maurier can't "resist a mystery . . . so beguilingly set on an island," when the lord of the manor is murdered, she investigates. With its ornamental facades, closed rooms, and inhabitants whose "hidden tensions lurked behind their display of affection," Somner House looms large in the story. Parallels to Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" abound in this charming mystery with enough melodrama and suspense to please any lover of the gothic romance. (Carole E. Barrowman)

The New Yorker interviews Janie Bryant, author of The Fashion File: Advice, Tips, and Inspiration from the Costume Designer of Mad Men:

She loved them, too, and always took us to the Tivoli theatre in Chattanooga (I grew up in Tennessee), where we’d watch movies like “Wuthering Heights” and “On the Town.” (Kate Bittman)

The Mid-Willamette Valley Statesman Journal interviews Teresa Lucas, Common Sense For Oregon's Community Outreach Coordinator:

In college, she said, her professors would tease her before starting on a certain book — "Madame Bovary", say, or "Wuthering Heights" — because they knew she wouldn't like it.
"I loved the storytelling," she said. "But I would always get frustrated, because I would think, 'These are bad people.'" (K. Williams Brown)

The Miami Herald reviews You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin:

Although You Lost Me There is moving and genuine, it’s not always enjoyable. Baldwin is not writing about the sort of sadness that can sweep us away, the Heathcliff-banging-his-forehead-on-a-tree kind of grief. The sadness in these pages is about the emotional inadequacy that everyone feels, that total loneliness that overtakes us despite love and family, and the ultimate fear of losing our faculties, losing what makes us who we are.  (Fiona Zublin)

The Guardian has an interesting article about women scientists in the Royal Society where the Brontës are mentioned:

Certainly compared with their literary sisters, the scientific women of the 19th century still appear invisible, if not actually non-existent. What female scientific names can be cited to compare with Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, the three Brontë sisters, George Eliot or Harriet Martineau? (Richard Holmes)

Pet naming is the subject of thsi article in Fort-Wayne Journal Gazette:

When I was in my 20s, I had a lot of friends who had pets with cool-sounding names – ones that were designed to show how effortlessly hip or intellectual they were. Hemingway, for instance. Or something stark and awesome, like “X.” I knew a girl back then who had a cat named Bronte for God’s sake. (Emma Downs)

naybob posts on titkketyboo some icons from the trailer of Jane Eyre 2011 and songstressicons does the same on citadel_icons with Jane Eyre 2006.

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