The Telegraph announces that on today's BBC One
Britain's Hidden Heritage (7:00 PM) they will take a tour on Norton Conyers:
This series which uncovers Britain’s lesser-known heritage stories comes to a close tonight. Boughton House in Northamptonshire – a stately home known as the “English Versailles” – is one of the subjects and Paul Martin goes digging through its contents, which include a collection of Van Dyck paintings. Elsewhere Ann Widdecombe follows the footsteps of Charles II as he escaped from Worcester and Clare Balding tours Norton Conyers, a Jacobean home thought to be the inspiration for Rochester House in Jane Eyre.
One of the other inspirations for Thornfield Hall is North Lees Hall in Derbyshire.
The Times talks about this year's edition of the
Heritage Open Days (HOD, 8-11 September):
Mr Rochester’s house in Derbyshire North Lees Hall, in Charlotte Brontë’s beloved Hathersage, is credited asthe real-life Thornfield Hall, homeof Mr Rochester, Jane Eyre and the madwoman in the attic. Fortunately, this Elizabethan tower house didn’t get torched. North Lees is a holiday home for most of the year, but paying guests are turfed out during HOD, allowing you to snoop. There will be 30-minute talks on the building’s history, too. Details: ept 8-11; booking for Thursday and Friday tours essential; 0845 090 0194 9 (Gary Cansell)
Wales on Sunday comments on the role of Gary Barlow in the current
X-Factor:
Coming under fire from Gary is like having doilies thrown at you by a consumptive Emily Brontë. (Nathan Bevan)
The Telegraph talks about the Venice Film Festival selection, including Andrea Arnold's
Wuthering Heights:
English director Andrea Arnold, a favourite at Cannes, takes her radical Wuthering Heights to Venice. She has reportedly made Emily Brontë’s classic youthful and passionate, and chosen an intriguing new star as Cathy – the striking Kaya Scodelario from television’s Skins. (David Gritten)
The Observer takes a look at the British Autumn 2011 arts calendar:
September:
9 Theatre: We are Three Sisters Blake Morrison's play is inspired by the parallels between Chekhov's Three Sisters and the Brontës. The Northern Broadsides show premieres at the Viaduct theatre in Halifax, then tours.
November:
11 Film: Wuthering Heights Having won a Bafta last year for Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold takes on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, with Kaya Scodelario as Cathy and young black actor James Howson as Heathcliff.
The Times concentrates on the autumn film season:
Sept 16 Jane Eyre Cary Fukunaga’s atmospheric version pits the wan but steely Mia Wasikowska (Tim Burton’s Alice) against the electric Michael Fassbender in a handsome and satisfying version that makes the landscape as much of a star as the excellent leads.
Nov 4 Wuthering Heights The director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank) can be relied on to find a fresh take on this old warhorse of a story. She has cast an amateur as her Heathcliff and Kaya Scodelario, from Skins, as Cathy, and updates its plot of doomed love across the social divide to the present. Very promising.(Helen Hawkins and Jonathan Dean)
Christopher Fowler writes in The Independent about Charles Dickens but slips in this comment that BrontëBlog endorses:
Great writers tend to have their leading works repeatedly cherry-picked, until we remember only those that become more familiar with each generation, and have to suffer through the 43rd television version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, say, while Shirley and Villette are sidelined.
The Philippine Star interviews the author Samantha Sotto:
Top Ten Fave Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Heathcliff, the first man I loved and hated at the same time. I enjoy characters that you can’t put into a box. (Girlie Rodis)
The Times is not very convinced with the whole book-with-soundtracks thing;
enchanted (in Portuguese) reviews
Jane Eyre 2011; a film for what
The Weekly Squeeze has high expectations;
Jenny Coe posts a Top Withens picture on flickr.
Categories: Brontëana, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
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