Jobless but Brontëite

Los Angeles Times discovers one of the few advantages of being jobless:

"Amber and her friends came in yesterday and she took home the Brontë poems," she wrote recently on Facebook. "I told her I was reading 'Jane Eyre' at long last and she told me how it was one of her favorite books, which led us to more talk."
Her post ended with a quote from Brontë: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Marisela Norte wouldn't have met Amber, read "Jane Eyre" or learned to mambo if she hadn't lost her job. (Héctor Tobar)

We suppose that some day or another the list of upcoming films for 2011 will stop being published in the press. But not today:

Jane Eyre (Focus) Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in this new version of the Brontë tale of the governess who falls for her employer and learns his dark secret. (Orlando Sentinel)

The screenplay of the 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë is back. This remake will be featuring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, and is due for release on March 11. (ecPulse)

Little known actor James Howson caused a stir last year when it was reported that he had landed the role of Heathcliff in a big screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Howson, who is in his early 20s and from Leeds, will follow in the footsteps of Hollywood legends Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes and Timothy Dalton. Film insiders say that the production team wandered around the streets of Leeds looking for likely ‘Heathcliffs’ and held auditions for young actors with no previous experience. (Dionne Grant and Chantelle Symester in The Voice)

From Barking to Brontë for Andrea “Fish Tank” Arnold, though she’s likely to shake the dust off the oft-told classic -- with Skins siren Kaya Scodelario as Cathy and newcomer James Howson as Heathcliff, but sadly no Kate Bush cameo. They’ll have Vic-lit competition, though, from Mia Wasikowska’s Jane Eyre. (Peter Bradshawand Steve Rose in Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

Jane Eyre. Mia Wasikowska steps into the now-all-too-familiar role, but with “Sin Nombre” director Cary Fukunaga in charge and the truly haunting feel of the trailer, I’m betting this will have something new to offer. (March 11) (Keith Damko in Macon)

 The Star (Malaysia) reviews Clare B. Dunkle's The House of Dead Maids:

Young Tabby Aykroyd has been brought to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be nursemaid to a foundling boy. He is a savage little creature, but the Yorkshire moors harbour far worse, as Tabby soon discovers. Why do scores of dead maids and masters haunt Seldom House with a jealous devotion that extends beyond the grave? As Tabby struggles to escape the evil forces rising out of the land, she watches her young charge choose a different path. Long before he reaches the old farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the boy who will become Heathcliff has doomed himself and any who try to befriend him. (Daphne Lee)

The Daily Express asks television presenter and journalist Lorraine Kelly for her favourite books:

Jane Eyre. I championed this book for the 2003 BBC series The Big Read. The ultimate winner was Lord Of The Rings but Jane and I came tenth in a poll to find the most loved books of all times.

Estonian Life (Canada) is fascinated by Jane Eyre 2006:

Ruth Wilson is earthy, warm Queenie Bligh – another great performance brimming over with the sensitivity and conviction that made her the greatest Jane Eyre ever. (Hilary Bird)

Vintage and Upcycled list the Brontës among their influences on Creative Boom; A Brontëite and soccer player in the San Bernardino Sun; Lua e seus derivados (in Portuguese), Olvasólámpa fiataloknak (in Hungarian) and Toronto Tales post about Wuthering Heights; The Hairpin vindicates Villette passionately; The Plight of a Passionate Mind reviews Jane Eyre;

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Villette, Wuthering Heights