Jane Eyre as your muse

The Boston Globe interviews the writer Jennifer Haigh:

BOOKS: Did you start reading those at a young age?
HAIGH: I started reading intensely at 12 or 13. I grew up in a small town miles away from a bookstore so all my reading material came from the public library. Mostly what was there were donated books. There was a disproportionate share of 19th-century books. I read Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Tolstoy. (Amy Sutherland)

The Herald Sun (Australia) talks about the latest album by Stevie Nicks, In Your Dreams:

The rocking Wide Sargasso Sea is based on the 1966 novel by Jean Rhys, written as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. (Sally Browne)

Publishers Marketplace posts about a new book deal with some Brontë references: The Angels' Share by Rayme Waters:

The Angels' Share is the story of Cinnamon Monday, a girl born into the 1970's Northern California counterculture looking up the wrong end of the American Dream. Her family, originally owners of a great Nob Hill hotel, have suffered a reversal of fortune. Her parents are hippies without reliable income and have fallen into drug and alcohol dependence. After nearly dying of meth addiction, Cinnamon finds work at a small Sonoma County winery and rebuilds her life through her resilience, courage, and with a little help from Jane Eyre as her muse.

The Sydney Morning Herald finds a remarkable coincidence between J.K. Rowling and the Brontës:

Rowling, who, like the Bronte sisters, once lived next door to a graveyard, began writing six months before her own mother died of multiple sclerosis.

Vicky Ward describes in the Daily Mail her wedding dress in the eighties like this (you are advised not to read the rest of the article, it's a bit pathetic):

So I wore white tights. White tights? Did I think I was in a Charles Dickens novel? The shoes had square heels. I must have been channelling Jane Eyre.

Associated Press talks about the Lanvin spring-summer 2012's men fashion collection:

Its models like modern-day Heathcliffs racing breathlessly across the moors in billowing silks and lustrous microfibers, Lanvin delivered a ravishing spring-summer 2012 menswear collection that tapped into the raw emotion of "Wuthering Heights." (Jenny Barchfield)

The Independent devotes an article to Alexander Baron, who wrote the 1983 dramatisation of Jane Eyre; a Watertown local librarian and Brontëite in Watertown TAB; Confessions of a Teenage Film Buff and The Story Girl review Jane Eyre 2011; book coasters compares Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennet; Dancing Under the Stars reviews Wuthering Heights.

Finally, we would like to congratulate Erin Blakemore for her recent Colorado Book Award in the General Nonfiction section with her book The Heroine's Bookshelf.

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