To Live and To Die in Haworth

An obituary published in The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader has grabbed our attention:

Marilynn (Lynn) Panaway passed away suddenly at home Tuesday, November 9, 2010, in Keighley, England[.] (...)
Lynn’s love of England and interests in literature took her to Harwoth (sic), England, where she lived near the Brontë Parsonage for the last 30 years of her life.
Lynn enjoyed walking the moors and taking in the local country side.

The Orange County Register reviews the Laguna Beach production of Daddy Long Legs:

Caird (book, direction) and Gordon (music, lyrics) have been down this path before; they created a musical adaptation of "Jane Eyre" a few years back. "Daddy Long Legs" contains many of the same themes and character types found in Charlotte Brontë's novel: an orphan who endures privations and an absence of affection, an awkward and distant young man whose love is her eventual goal, a dash or two of social commentary and progressive thinking. (Paul Hodgins)

Bookslut interviews writer Lan Samantha Chang:

What prose writers have influenced you most, especially in your early years when you yourself were a student at Iowa?
As a non-English major who did not begin to write seriously until my mid-twenties, I did a lot of pleasure reading in my “early years.” The choices were pretty much a mix. I spent the twenty-third year of my life reading nothing but Jane Austen and M. F. K. Fisher. In my twenties, I also loved Colette, Poe, Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Tolkien, Ishiguro, Wallace Stegner, P. D. James, Malamud, John Gardner, James Alan McPherson -- as you can see, it was really a jumble. (Richard Wirick)

Factoidz posts about superstitions in Wuthering Heights; It's Writing Time! (in Malay) posts about Jane Eyre and unbridled does the same with Wuthering Heights; My Love-Haunted Heart talks about a couple of 70s editions of the novel with covers by Robert McGinnis; the Brussels Brontë Blog reviews the recent Luxembourg performances of Jane Eyre, adapted by June Lowery.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights