Proto-literary fiction at its messy best

Cyrstal Lake Patch covers the recent local performances of Jane Eyre. The Musical:

"I was thrilled with our performances during opening weekend. I always marvel at the poise and conviction of the students when our live performances begin," production and stage director, Dave Jensen, said. "With close to 130 students performing various tasks during a performance, it is thrilling to watch the students reap the rewards of four months work.
"This story in particular is both captivating and incredibly touching. The dramatically charged and vocally demanding score is a great fit for the skills of this student group," Jensen continued. (Brook Mrkvrika)

Picture: Ben Terdich as Edward Fairfax Rochester and Elaine Cotter as Jane Eyre during Prairie Ridge's production of 'Jane Eyre.'  Credit Brook Mrkvicka>


The Huffington Post reviews

Discipline and that other underappreciated virtue, perseverence shaped George Sand, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen and Atlas' other literary ladies. (Ellen Kanner) 

Janes on Screen traces a little story of the public of the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-fields.

Charlotte Brontë’s Rochester was not just older than Jane and gruff – an essential part of the plot – he was decidedly not attractive. As Jane herself describes him, he has “stern features and a heavy brow,” and she only feels comfortable talking to him at first because he is not great-looking. “Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentlem, an I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him,” she says.

The Spectator's Book Blog mentions

Trying to truss it all up at the end, she offered a curious theory that the reading public was divided into those who either liked Pride and Prejudice (the ur-text of chick-lit, apparently or Wuthering Heights (proto-literary fiction at its messy best). She was, unsurprisingly, a Brontë fan. (Matthew Robinson)

On Spout (Indiewire)

Unlike, say, Jane Eyre, who has an astonishing ability to arouse almost universal sympathy, Aurora sometimes grates on us.

Cathy A. Montville in Associated Content chooses Wuthering Heights 1939 as the best Brontë adaptation; Botoms, Bows and Brogue has made a little trip to Haworth; on the YouTube channel poetictouchannel you can listen to Charlotte Brontë's Parting as read by Ruth Golding; Two Nerdy History Girls have visited the Morgan Library exhibition  The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives; Pastor Jeff's ramblings compares Les Misérables and Jane Eyre;  Olvasószoba reviews Agnes Grey in Hungarian; Roving Reads liked Jane Eyre. Finally, les Soeurs Brontë posts several robot portraits of the Brontës made with the Ultimate Flash Face v0.42b software.

Categories: Agnes Grey, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Theatre