Eyresses and Heathcliff, the dude with a bad attitude

The Telegraph discusses Anthony Trollope's literature concluding he was not really a great writer:

Everyone I know who has read it says that The Way We Live Now, with the monstrous creation of Melmotte, is not merely Trollope’s finest novel (which I think it probably is), but one of the best of the Victorian period (which casts a mighty insult at Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Samuel Butler, various Brontës and Mrs Gaskell). (Simon Heffer)

On the same newspaper, the New Year Literary Quiz included a Jane Eyre question:

Round Three
6. Which 1847 novel features Grace Poole, the pipe-smoking female housekeeper of Thornfield Hall? (James Walton)

Tricky question, as Grace Poole wasn't the housekeeper actually.

More news outlets which mention Jane Eyre 2011 as one of movies of the new year:

An interesting choice of director for a classic 19th-century text: Cary Fukunaga, who made the gripping Sin Nombre, about about illegal Mexican migrants. His governess is Mia Wasikowska, Tim Burton’s Alice; his Mr Rochester, the electric Michael Fassbender. Out on Sept 9. (Helen Hawkins in The Times)

And if you’re in need of a real date night — and you should be, by now — try “Jane Eyre,” this time with Mia Wasikowska as Charlotte Brontë’s shy governess and Michael Fassbender as Rochester. (Stephen Whitty in The New Jersey Star-Ledger)

In this version of Charlotte Brontë's oft-filmed classic novel, Mia Wasikowska ("Alice In Wonderland") stars as the emotionally beleaguered but resilient heroine, and Michael Fassbender ( "Inglourious Basterds") is the brooding Romantic hunk Mr. Rochester. Judi Dench also appears as Mrs. Fairfax, the kindly housekeeper of Thornfield Hall. (Reed Johnson in WSBT)

[F]ans of classic cinema will go for Jane Eyre, which stars Mia Wasikowska as the mild-mannered governess who falls for her employer. (Mark Adams in The Mirror)

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune on the other hand mentions the performances of Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights at the Minnesota Opera as one of the highlights of the season:

Composer Bernard Herrmann is remembered for "Psycho" and "Taxi Driver," but his magnum opus may be a rarely performed opera based on Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights."

The Oregonian celebrates the first anniversary online of Novel Novice and remembers how

Another local writer, Suzanne Young, author of "The Naughty List" and the upcoming "A Need So Beautiful," teamed up with Novel Novice for a weeklong look at romance that covered everything from awesome boyfriends to bad boys in current young adult books. One day focused on classic literary crushes from Heathcliff to Mr. Darcy.

Broadway World interviews Rob Evan who remembers when The Dream Engine was alive and mentions their performances of (It Hurts) Only When I Feel which was partly adapted from If It Ain't Broke (Break It) (belonging to Wuthering Heights 2003, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman):

Pat Cerasaro: And what about "Only When I Feel"?
Rob Evans: I remember going through material with Jim and Steve and asking "What can Rob sing and what hasn't been done and what can we put on the record?" That's constantly what we were trying to do: what is going to be on the Dream Engine record? The Wuthering Heights version was the way I came to know it and only the "Break It" part made it into the movie. It was written like I sing it.
PC: Yeah, Meat Loaf just does the "Break It" part, as well.
RE: It was written as the one big song, though.
PC: Interesting. Some fans call it a bit of a Franken-song.
RE: I know what you mean, but that's sort of the point, I think.

Querida Jane has re-read Jane Eyre (in Spanish) and Jubilee... is discovering it for the first time; the Brontë sisters remembers an event from January 1, 1844 when Charlotte Brontë wrote to Aunt Branwell asking for a loan to allow her and Emily to study in Brussels; Book Mosaic reviews April Lindner's Jane ("I certainly loved it"); Ellinky (in Czech) publishes some nice illustrations from an unidentified edition of Jane Eyre;  Over boek(en)liefde reviews this Dutch edition of Wuthering Heights (in Dutch); racheInwonderland uploads to YouTube a rap inspired by Wuthering Heights ( "my name's Heathcliff! /come take a whiff / i'm one crazy dude with a bad, bad attitude" ... ). Finally Lauren Cerand shared a link on our Facebook wall which can be of interest to our readers. Would you like to take part in a Jane Eyre zine: Eyresses? The idea comes from Mikkipedia:

Myself, Wendy McClure, Kate Harding, and others, are doing a one-off zine about Jane Eyre just because, why not? IT’S A RICH TEXT. Write for it! It will be fun. Some ideas

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