This is no Jane Eyre

What's up? uses one of Charlotte Brontë's more popular quotes:

A ruffled mind makes a useless pillow.
This quote, from nineteenth-century author Charlotte Brontë, was penned long before modern day … before the unemployment rate was 9 percent, the housing market was in the crapper, your stupid iPhone wouldn’t stop chirping, and your boss was a total douche.

The Huffington Post includes Wuthering Heights on its top ten of slang narratives:

"Noa! That means naught! Hathecliff maks noa 'count o' t' mother, nor ye norther; but he'll heu' his lad und I mun tak' to him-soa now ye knaw!"
Brontë uses a Yorkshire dialect to denote the servant's station in this sweeping classic, although Emily's sister, Charlotte, unsuccessfully attempted to rewrite the passages after Emily's death. Charlotte wrote,"It seems to me advisable to modify the orthography of the old servant Joseph's speeches; for though as it stands it exactly renders the Yorkshire dialect to a Yorkshire ear, yet I am sure Southerns must find it unintelligible." (Kathleen Massara)

The Orange County Register quotes Michelle Rodriguez describing her new film Battle: Los Angeles:

In her latest role, she plays an Air Force tech sergeant assigned to a Marine unit from Camp Pendleton that has been sent to Santa Monica to rebuff an alien invasion. We never said this was "Jane Eyre." (Barry Koltnow)

Homer Tribune discusses the Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being report. The following quote has to be read in context:

In many ways, I came away with an impression: women don’t have much to complain about nowadays. Not after reading the woes in “Jane Eyre” where a woman was locked up in an attic, or of the fight to gain birth control by Margaret Sanger, or the sad fate of poor Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” which she wrote at the age of 19. (Naomi Klouda)

The Independent's readers review South Riding:

It started off almost like a parody of an Andrew Davies script, with steam trains and rearing horses, but I thought it got much better. It's a hard novel to dramatise because it's got two elements: the social commentary on Yorkshire and the 1930s and its gothic romance, like something out of the Brontë sisters. (Ben Richardson)

PopMatters interviews"braniac" David Anderegg.

The latest book or movie that made you cry?
The last movie that made me cry was Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, which I saw in college (not, happily, on its first release).

Mainline Media recommends a visit to Oxford:

English weather is always unpredictable even in the summer and those planning on coming to Oxford are advised to bring summer clothes as well as warm clothing. Casual dress is acceptable. Classes meet in small friendly groups of up to 12 people. Themes vary from “Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s London” to “Opera in the Age of Bel Canto,” “The Art of Lying,” Jane Austen, the Brontës and many more. If you have sent up the white flag on ever comprehending “The Twilight of the Romanovs,” after a week’s exposure here, you may at least confess to a fraudulence. (Ralph Colier)

The Daily Star (Lebanon) talks about a recent performance of the baritone Audun Iversen:

Glowering like a piqued Heathcliff, Iversen beat his breast and bared his teeth as he sang of eternal wretchedness, lost love and futile longing. Filling the room with his rich baritone, Iversen’s delivery was affecting and displayed an impressive range, from melancholic sorrow through angry thundering. (Matthew Mosley)

DFW describes like this the band Esben and the Witch:

Like so many English musical acts before them, an almost oppressive drape of melancholy is laid over the moody, echo-laden songs. Esben and the Witch skews more electronic than strictly rock; think a tea-sipping, Bronte-obsessed Nine Inch Nails and you're in the ballpark. (Preston Jones)

The Little Professor discusses the Christian/unChristian elements of Jane Eyre; TamiArt posts a  drawing of Rochester and Jane; Dolce Bellezza posts about Villette on the Unputdownables Read-along; The Shelf Life explores the Jane Eyre adaptations so far; All the Year Round reviews in Spanish Carmen Albaladejo's Charlotte Brontë; Life with a pinch of sarcasm would like to know Jane Eyre.


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