If Heathcliff had played football

A couple of movie websites - Flix 66 and IndieWire's The Playlist - echo Oh No They Didn't and point to the Focus Feature Jane Eyre minisite where new pictures of Jane Eyre 2011 have been available for a while now.

We wonder if writer Jacqueline Wilson - a well-known admirer of Jane Eyre - is also looking forward to seeing this adaptation. In the meantime, interviewed by The Scotsman, she mentions Jane Eyre once more:

Who is your favourite fictional character? Jane Eyre. Or Kezia in several Katherine Mansfield short stories.

The Yorkshire Post has an article on Winifred Holtby's novel South Riding and its new TV adaptation (to be broadcast by the BBC). This is the plot in a nutshell according to the journalist:

At first glance, South Riding is a Wolds update of Jane Eyre. It shows a young woman falling for a charismatic landowner whose wife has been consigned to a mental hospital.

Liverpool Vital Football, on an article on women and football (or sports in general), remarks:

Either involvement in sport was seen as unladylike (you don't find it mentioned in any Austins [sic], Brontës or Gaskells) so had to be done quietly, or there just wasn't the opportunity for it as ' 'er indoors' stayed exactly there. Doesn't mean it didn't happen though. (Naoise)

You know, because the Brontës' novels were oh-so-ladylike. Actually the critics didn't mind Heathcliff killing a puppy so much but they would have had a fit had a sport been mentioned!

The Brontë Sisters links to a first edition of Jane Eyre currently for sale via Antiqbook. Wuthering Heights is discussed by Desirdelire (in French), Dulces Sueños (in Spanish) and Claro de luna (also in Spanish). DarwinCatholic posts briefly on Jane Eyre. And Deranged Book Lovers reviews April Lindner's Jane. Flickr users geminica and Amanda Baron 2011 upload a drawing of Timothy Dalton as Rochester and several pictures of Wycoller Country Park respectively.

Categories: Brontëana, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights