In Memoriam. Joan Quarm

El Paso Times has sad news today. Professor Joan Helena Quarm died last December 28. Long time member of the Brontë Society and frequent collaborator of Brontë Studies/ Brontë Society Transactions. Nevertheless her tribute book to the Brontës, Touching the Brontës, remains unpublished:

Cultural and arts icon Joan Quarm died from natural causes on Dec. 28 in El Paso. She was 90 years old. (...)
Quarm was a world authority for the Brontë Society, was named to the El Paso Hall of Fame in 2003 and to the Older El Pasoans Hall of Fame in 2009.
Quarm studied at Redding College and Cambridge University. She taught at the progressive Summerhill School in Suffolk, England, directed by Alexander S. Neil. She moved to Portugal, where she taught at St. Julian's School near Lisbon.
She was married to G. Harvey Summ, became a U.S. citizen, and moved to Washington, D.C.
Later, she moved to Peru, where she taught for the American Council and met her second husband, Thomas A.A. Quarm. The Quarms lived in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, before moving to El Paso. (...)
A memorial celebration of her life will take place at 2 p.m. on Jan. 15 at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Downtown El Paso. (Diana Washington Valdez)

Some of her published papers are:

Quarm, J. Arming me from fear. Branwell Brontë's contribution to Wuthering Heights. Brontë Society Transactions, 17:89, 278(1979)
Quarm, Joan, In Search of Villette: A Journey to Brussels. Nova. The University of Texas at El Paso Magazine (November 1983) pp. 8-12
Quarm, J. Purified by woe: on faith and suffering. Brontë Society Transactions, 19:1/2, 17(1986)
Quarm, J. Pink Silk and Purple Gray: Charlotte Brontë's Wish-Fulfillment in Villette. Brontë Studies, Volume 31, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 1-6(6)

EDIT: The Brontë Parsonage Blog publishes the complete article.

The Stuff (New Zealand) describes as follows the new collection of M.A.C.:

MAC's latest collection is raucous and anarchic, ancestral and noble. It's A Tartan Tale, their own Brontë-gone-bonkers story set upon the moors of a fantasy MAC Magicland. (Bronwyn Williams)

The Independent (Ireland) remembers the Dublin performances of Jane Eyre:

For your hit of celebrity glamour, Andrea Corr, right, is at the Gate until January 15 in the role of Jane Eyre, in the play of the same name.

The Irish Times has a curious way of describing the relationship between Manchester City's manager Roberto Mancini and the player Edin Džeko:

They say on Gaelic football teams that the more league matches you miss in the spring the better your reputation gets. With the window the best striker likely to be available on the market assumes the status of legend. Although most of us had never heard of him before he became Heathcliffto Mancini’s Kathy is thrilling headline fodder. (Tom Humphries)

Lejana... (in Spanish) and Dragon's Quill post about Jane Eyre; Organizando o caos (in Portuguese) and two nun gang do the same with Wuthering Heights (in Portuguese); The Catbird Seat discusses how books continue each other and illustrates the idea with Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea; Revista Bula (Brazil) demands a Brazilian edition of Winifred Gérin's biography of Emily Brontë; The Fixed Foot posts several icons of Jane Eyre 2006.

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