Locked up, Jane Eyre-style

Janet Todd complains in The Guardian about Sebastian Faulks's author selection in Faulks on Fiction:

He scorns feminist criticism and pays no attention to recently excavated female writers such as Aphra Behn, stoutly declaring Defoe the first British novelist. He chooses some female authors from recent times – Monica Ali and Zoë Heller – but from the 19th century omits Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. He has heard that students nowadays don't have the patience to read Middlemarch, although surely even an impatient student might manage The Mill on the Floss.

The Guardian also gives ideas for holidays and short breaks in 2011:

Now in its 21st year, The Oxford Experience (01865 270360, conted.ox.ac.uk/courses) at Christ Church from 10 July offers more than 50 residential five-day courses, covering topics as diverse as The Brontës and Warfare in the Modern World. (Joanne O'Connor)

The Ophiuchus zodiac sign discussion is a subject of debate in The Patriot Ledger:

Also, it turns out there’s a 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, that we’ve been keeping locked up in the attic Jane Eyre-style all this time. (Dan Medeiros)

 The Guardian also traces a profile of Ted Hughes:

The Yorkshire Moors are as much a character in Wuthering Heights as they are in Hughes's poetry; many of Plath's poems are echoed or responded to in Birthday Letters.

Pipoca Moderna (Brazil) reviews the film Cracks by Jordan Scott:

Lançado direto em DVD no Brasil, “Sedução” acompanha o cotidiano de uma escola não muito diferente da frequentada por Jane Eyre no célebre romance gótico de Charlotte Brontë, embora sob uma orientação mais progressista, onde as estudantes fantasiam o tempo inteiro com aventuras românticas, em contraste à educação rígida e atmosfera austera de seus dormitórios. (Marcel Plasse) (Microsoft Translation)

Curiously, the author of the novel in which Cracks is based on is Sheila Kohler, who wrote recently Becoming Jane Eyre.

La Voz (Spain) compares again the Arjona sisters to the Brontës:

Es el primer libro para Remedios pero no para Teresa y Rosa María, que ya tienen otras publicaciones y premios literarios en su trayectoria poética. «Cuando lo enviamos a la Editorial Torremozas nos dijeron que nos habíamos pasado de versos, que eran demasiados». Hicimos una gran poda y luego nos lo definieron como un libro mágico e inédito en el mundo de la poesía, tipo hermanas Brontë». (V. Montero) (Microsoft translation)

El Diario Montañés and Periodista Digital find parallels between the TV series Bandolera and the Brontës:

Su protagonista es la actriz cántabra Marta Hazas que, tras su paso por el internado más famoso de la televisión, se viste de época para encarnar a «una mujer de armas tomar» que puede recordar a las heroínas de las novelas de las hermanas Brönte (sic). (Gema Martínez) (Microsoft Translation)

Il Giornale (Italy) makes a reference to Jane Eyre's Gytrash:

In questo romanzo che in patria ha avuto un successo immediato, infatti, si mischiano le tradizioni letterarie, il folklore - il cane nero rappresenta nelle leggende gallesi il demonio e compare in un'infinità di libri, da Jane Eyre sino al Gramo di Harry Potter, passando per Il mastino dei Baskerville di Conan Doyle - e la capacità di raccontare uno dei grandi mali del presente. Per di più sfruttando un testimonial d'eccezione come Churchill, il quale contro questa bestia nera dell'anima ha combattuto davvero, per tutta la vita. (Matteo Sacchi) (Microsoft translation)

Népszava (Hungary) has an article about the Brontë sisters:

Sikeres női írók: A Bronte nővérek

A lányok Yorkshire-ben (Anglia) születtek egy ír-anglikán pap, Patrick Bronte és Maria Branwell gyermekeiként. 1820-ban a család Haworth-ba költözött, ahol édesapjukat káplánná nevezték ki. A következő évben édesanyjuk rákban halt meg, maga mögött hagyva öt lányát és egy fiát, akikre nővére Elizabeth Branwell vigyázott. (Read more) (M. Kovács Ágnes)(Microsoft translation)

ADN (Spain) interviews Ana María Matute and the writer points again to Wuthering Heights as one of her favourite books; Suite101 reviews (in German) a 2000 audiobook edition of Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Heights) read by Gert Westphal; Nothing of Importance posts about Jane Eyre 2006; The Brussels Brontë Blog posts about Jolien Janzing's novel project about the Brontës stay in Brussels (more information on this previous post of ours). Matin (Canada) and Télérama (France) are eager to watch Jane Eyre 2011.

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