Happiest in that Brontë sisters world

A couple of well-known Brontëites today. Author Sarah Waters in the Western Mail:

“I think every writer wants to write a book people will feel so passionate about they will want to pass on.”
She felt this way about Blindness by Portuguese novelist José Saramago, and remains an earnest fan of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. (David Williamson)

And singer Laura Marling in The Irish Times:

By not showboating, not “digging deep” and not being emotionally hyperactive, there is an anachronism about her – both in speech and song. “I’m happiest in that Jane Austen/Brontë sisters world,” she says. “It does sound silly but there was always this feeling of not really belonging to this era and that became even more heightened when I was a typically intense teenager. (Brian Boyd)

The Orlando Sentinel brings up what might be a nice place for Brontëites (and mostly readers in general).

Picture yourself going back in time more than a century to a chilly winter day in Winter Park. Maybe you've made a railroad journey south to escape the cold in Chicago or New England. Maybe the skies have turned cloudy and you're looking for something enthralling to read. Why not mosey over to Miss Lamson's porch, where you can plunk down a dollar and check out a book? How about "Jane Eyre"?
In 1885, 125 years ago this week, the Winter Park Library (Florida) that now boasts a modern three-story building with wireless Internet got its start when nine women got together at the Congregational Church parsonage. (Joy Wallace Dickinson)

Duncan Barnes's column in the Chichester Observer, however, sounds like a non-Brontëite:

We had become interested in Egyptology because of a more moderate master who had seen the world and not just that one small segment of England with its atmosphere of Wuthering Heights.

Several reviews on the blogosphere today: That's What She Read on Villette, parah07 on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (in Russian) and No-Nonsense Reviews on Wide Sargasso Sea. The Crowded Leaf thinks Wuthering Bites is worthy of her 'What were they thinking?' section.

Categories: Books, Brontëites