The Guardian's section Comment is free says that,
Every big town or city has its poet, and so every big station should too. Dylan Thomas in Swansea; WH Auden at Euston or, better still, Carlisle, near where his famous night train crossed the border; William Wordsworth should be on the little platform at Windermere, at the end of the line he objected to but which now does its best to keep cars away from the Lake District; Emily Brontë at Leeds; Thomas Hardy at Dorchester West.
Well, thinking about links with the Brontës, probably York or Scarborough (and obviously Keighley or Haworth) have more solid claims than Leeds.
On
Phillyburbs we read about Christmas presents:
My little sister was gifted with a copy of "Wuthering Heights" which she has never read before. She seemed pretty excited about diving into the story of Catherine and Heathcliff. (Deidre Wengen)
MyBangalore (India) makes their best movies of 2010 list and includes Martin Scorsese's
Shutter Island which
[Dennis] Lehane [the author of the original novel] described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
BBC Radio 6's The Best of Adam Buxton's Big Mixtape: Oddens selected Kate Bush's
Wuthering Heights in their latest broadcast;
Risky Regencies recommends Jude Morgan's
The Taste of Sorrow;
Damselfly wants to read
Jane Eyre (a book that
electroluminescence loves). Now, some reviews:
La favola della botte reviews
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in Italian;
Reviewed by Katie and
Quero Ser Bookholic (in Portuguese) do
Wuthering Heights;
Mrs. O'Dell Reads reviews
Villette and
Dead White Guys: An Irreverrent Guide to Classic Literature reviews very negatively
The Professor.
Categories: Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, References, The Professor, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, Wuthering Heights
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