Favourite novels and authors

The Telegraph and Argus reports the acquisition of the original screenplay of Jane Eyre 1943 by the Brontë Society and going on display at the Parsonage next Tuesday:

Ann Dinsdale, Brontë Parsonage Museum’s collections manager, said: “It’s a fascinating archive which includes the preliminary script – it means you can see how the screen play evolved and changed when the film was in the making.
“For anybody studying or researching film and interested in how scripts are adapted and how a film evolves, it will be extremely interesting.” (Clive White)

The Vancouver Sun summarises the forthcoming new adaptation of Jane Eyre as follows:

Jane Eyre: Lonely governess serves wealthy but distant master. Romance ensues. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star. (March 11, limited) (Jay Stone)

And the Jamaica Observer highlights the particular point of local interest in this film:

Jane Eyre
A film adaptation of the popular British novel written by Charlotte Brontë. Literature students should take notice of this film as the Caribbean novel Wide Sargasso acts as a prequel to Jane Eyre. (Dominic Bell)

Buddy TV picks the following as one of the best things to have happened in the TV series Big Love this week (episode "A Seat at the Table"):

5) Barb gives Nicki's daughter Cara Lynn a copy of Jane Eyre -- calling it "my favorite novel." Barb -- that's my favorite novel, too! Who knew? (And just in case you missed the parallels, it's about a young woman struggling to find happiness in world that's often aligned against her.) (Alison Stern-Dunyak)

And the Coronation Street Blog looks back on 2010 and reminisces about the episodes that took place in Brontë Country.

Newsworks interviews Kim Sajet, President and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and asks her about her favourite authors:

Favorite Author(s), fiction or non-fiction:Unfair question! How can you chose a best friend after a lifetime of friendships? Here's a very, very brief list in no particular order: Patrick White, Bertolt Brecht, Emily Brontë, Balzac, David McCullough, James McBride, Isaac Asimov, bellhooks, James Joyce, Malcolm Gladwell, Cormak McCarthy, Shakespeare, Doris Lessing,Virginia Woolf, Kenneth Graham, Knut Hamsun, Gunter Grass, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Friedman...the list goes on....

The Sun Sentinel's Talk Back South Florida comments on Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and adds that what America needs are 'tiger kids'.

Perhaps China needs Tiger Moms -- enforcers of rigorous discipline reminiscent of "Jane Eyre's" orphanage childhood. They may be the ones mercilessly preparing their children to excel and endow China with power and prosperity. (Rachel Patron)

Saran kirjat writes in Finnish about The Professor.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brontë Society, Brontëana, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References