"Even now, Jane is pretty ahead of her time"

FemPop talks about the TV series Game of Thrones but the reviewer begins the article with a confession:

Ten years ago I was a freshman in college and taking courses about feminism and writing terrible Buffy spoofs and learning that Anne was my favorite Brontë. I was also reading a lot because high school was over and I suddenly had a wealth of free time.

Two books (besides my beloved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) really struck me that first year. Gone With the Wind which may feature one of the best female anti-heroines ever, and Game of Thrones. (Alex Cranz)

The Ross-shire Journal offers 2x1 tickets for Jane Eyre 2011:

ONE of the most eagerly anticipated new period dramas, a couple of fine romances and a cutting-edge comedy are amongst the September 2-for-1 ticket deals being offered by the Ross-shire Journal in conjunction with Eden Court cinemas. (...)
The following week is a must for fans of the costume drama with the latest reworking of the Charlotte Brontë classic, Jane Eyre. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are supported by Judi Dench in Cary Fukunaga’s re-telling of the tale.

And The Telegraph offers to UK residents tickets for the Haddon Hall screening of the film (more information in previous posts):

It is the second time that Haddon Hall has been used as the set for the Charlotte Brontë's novel having appeared in the 2006 version with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson.
Film makers returned to the house last year for the latest adaptiation which stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender and Jamie Bell.
This Sunday Volkswagen’s See Film Differently is hosting a one-off gala screening the movie at Haddon Hall on Sunday September 4th.
It will give Brontë fans the chance to watch one of the year’s most highly anticipated British films before its general release in cinemas across the UK on Friday, 9th September.
The screening is designed to provide film fans with a unique behind the scenes insight. (...)
The Telegraph has five pairs of tickets to give away.(...)
Those who win tickets will enjoy a pre-screening private viewing of Haddon Hall and Gardens and complimentary cinema style food, followed by an exhibition of original stills from the film.
More information.

Best for film also has 2 pairs of tickets for the event.

IndieWire's The Playlist questions Focus Features Jane Eyre's March premiere:

There’s an inherent bias against anything that doesn’t hit in the fall, regardless of quality: while there’s no way of proving it, we’d bet good money that, had Focus held “Jane Eyre” for the fall, it could have been a contender. Instead, it’s destined for ‘‘most overlooked’ lists, but little beyond that. (Oliver Lyttelton)

The Atlantic considers that Wuthering Heights 2011 may have a chance in the Oscars:

Among the other titles that could generate enough buzz at this fall's major festivals to enter an Oscar race or two: Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights[.]  (Benjamin Mercer)

The Scotsman interviews Mia Wasikowska:

She first read Charlotte Brontë's gothic classic after retreating to her family's home in Canberra, following a year abroad filming Alice and doing other work. "It was the first time I didn't have to go back to school," she says, "so I was at a loss to know what to do with myself."
Instead of simply marking time until the next job, she immersed herself in a pile of canonical literature, including 1984, Animal Farm, To Kill A Mocking Bird and Jane Eyre. "I was in awe of Jane and amazed by her," she says of Brontë's headstrong heroine. "She's such a cool character."
Despite a life blotted by emotional and psychological cruelty, Jane isn't cowed by her "tale of woe", as her employer and future husband, Edward Fairfax Rochester (played by Michael Fassbender in the film), puts it. She chafes against the restrictions placed on her by her status, gender and age, and refuses to believe that people aren't created equal. "Even now, she's pretty ahead of her time," Wasikowska says. "She's got a really strong sense of who she is and she doesn't compromise herself for anybody; and everything that she has become is because of what she has made herself as an individual. She hasn't let certain things in her life damage or weaken her." (Stephen Applebaum)

Wasikowska contacted her agent to ask if anybody was working on a film of the novel.

The Hornell Evening Tribune summarises one of the main challenges of educacion these days:

Students are now reading more, Calkins said, but in “bits and pieces” with texting and Twitter. The educational challenge is to transform “that interest (in reading) to curiosity about Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jack London’s To Build a Fire,” he said. (Al Bruce)

Anne Michaud describes a Jane Eyre moment in Newsday:

Back at home, still chipper about our power loss, my daughter set up a game of Clue. Afterward, we read until the light faded. I had a charming Jane Eyre moment, transported into the 19th century in my imagination as I carried a candle to the basement to feed the cats. Did Jane also scoop kitty litter by candlelight?

It seems that the opening auditions of X-Factor also had a Brontë moment. In Northampton Chronicle & Echo:

People wheeled in for the public to have a good laugh at, like poor Ellen, 47, singing a toe-curling version of What A Feeling or bespectacled mum Ellen, who in her spare time really does think she can do Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. (Richard Edmondson)

RyePatch describes the aftermath of the Hurricane Irene with Brontë humour:

Now that Hurricane Irene has moved on, I'm starting to assess the damage to my Rye Brook home, which is mostly confined to the playroom. There's a broken window. A gusty, romantic breeze keeps ripping around. And the carpeting, soaked, is as covered with grass, dirt and heather as The North Yorkshire Moors. So I better start cleaning up. Either that, or get a girl in here and start performing scenes from "Wuthering Heights." (Peter Gerstenzang)

The Jewish Daily Forward talks about Carmela Ciuraru's Nom de Plume:

Romain Gary chose that name to escape a Russian Yiddish one, and the Brontë sisters wrote as the Bell brothers so that their work would be read, not as women’s, but on its own terms. (Allison Gaudet Yarrow)

Bookish interviews Lena Coakley:

What genres do you like to read in your free time?
LC: Oh, YA fantasy is definitely my first love, but right now I’m also trying to read the literary classics I haven’t gotten to yet. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of the Brontë sisters. Wuthering Heights is definitely the strangest, most perplexing novel I’ve read in a long time. I love it, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand it.

Asylum takes a look at Angra's cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights;  Yahoo! Contributor Network posts a review of the Jane Eyre 2011 Blu-ray; The Sheila Variations discusses Mia Wasikowska's performance; Bridget's books, booksblog (in Italian) and Quelques pages (in French) review the original novel; Pensamentos de Uma Batata Transgênica (in Portuguese) reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1996; bored and crafty is working on a "miniature Wuthering Heights-inspired swing-under-a-tree scene"; Desde la conejera (in Spanish) is reading Wuthering Heights and has seen Jane Eyre 2011.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights