The redoubtable Brontë sisters

WNYC is sharing a little gem which lay hidden in their archives:

Listen to a young Claire Bloom reading from a selection of letters by Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë in "The Brontë Sisters," a 1957 program submitted for consideration to the Peabody Awards.
[...] Francis Steegmuller provides narrative cohesiveness.
This reading was part of a WNYC Program called WNYC Annual Book Festival, which ran for five years from 1953 to 1957.

Do notice the (wrong) 'hay-worth' pronunciation for Haworth, though.
The Telegraph and Argus also looks to the past today:

50 years ago: More than 2,000 people had visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth over Whit Sunday and the following Monday.

We find it quite interesting that a few days ago, news outlets expressed their surprise to find the Brontës in the exhibition Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it at the British Library, which, incidentally is reviewed by Wharf and the Visit London blog. Yet the Evening Standard seems to consider the Brontës well-established in sci-fi:

The premise shouldn't be outlandish. All fiction is speculative fiction, and as SF readers weary of pointing out, if you "don't read science fiction" you miss out on works by Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, the Brontës, HG Wells, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, JG Ballard and so on ad infinitum. (Sam Leith)

The Millions publishes the first paragraph of Jeffrey Eugenides's forthcoming novel The Marriage Plot, to be released in October.

To start with, look at all the books. There were her Edith Wharton novels, arranged not by title but date of publication; there was the complete Modern Library set of Henry James, a gift from her father on her twenty-first birthday; there were the dog-eared paperbacks assigned in her college courses, a lot of Dickens, a smidgen of Trollope, along with good helpings of Austen, George Eliot, and the redoubtable Brontë sisters...

The HopkintonPatch reviews a local production of the play Empty Page, Empty Stage where Jane Eyre puts in an appearance.

Jane Eyre 2011 is reviewed by Mixtapes & Cupcakes, A Restless Moment, O filme da minha vida (in Portuguese), The beginning of Mrs., Unconsciously Me, Simpythegimpy's Slippery Sunbeams of Sagacity and the high school journal The Phoenix. I Love Gooseberry has uploaded a Jane Eyre-related illustration. Peachy Reviews gives a 5/10 to Shirley. Sententiae posts about Agnes Grey.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Audio-Radio, Books, Brontë Parsonage Museum, References