Unexpectedly, Charlotte

Charlotte Brontë is to be found in a couple of unexpected places today.

Firstly, according to the Hucknall Dispatch, she was present in a recent local memorial of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster where

The church minister, the Rev Vanessa Hollingworth, read a poem entitled ‘Life’ by famous novelist Charlotte Bronte.

And secondly, JTA has an article on Adina Bar Shalom, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s daughter:

Bar Shalom was born Adina Yosef in 1945 in Jerusalem, the first daughter to Yosef and his wife, Margalit. She was a good student and an avid reader. Between helping her mother and taking care of her younger brothers and sisters, she says she read everything: “Jane Eyre,” “Gone with the Wind,” Ayn Rand. (Noam Sheizaf)

Jennifer Allee interviews writer Michelle Griep:

Q: If you weren’t a writer, what would you be doing?
A: I’d be running a B&B in England. Near a castle. On a moor. With Mr. Rochester as my neighbor. Wow. Did I mention I’m an out-of-the-closet Charlotte Brontë fan-a-maniac?

Jane Eyre 2011 is reviewed by Some People Like Movies, Zeitgeist Reviews, Grant and Brooke, In the Process and Film Actually. Aylwen Historical Costuming takes a look at the dresses in the movie. Blog dos Maníacos por Filme writes in Portuguese about the 1944 adaptation. A Rose With All Its Sweetest Leaves Yet Folded, Jenny Jackson and high school journal The Goshen Spectrum post about Wuthering Heights. This week's Top Ten Tuesday is about 'jerks in literature': Book World In My Head and The Ladybug Reads pick Heathcliff as one of them and I'm a Book Shark picks Mr Rochester.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Poetry