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In The Independent, Harriet Walker makes a very good point of how women's writing seems to be lumped in one big category these days (called 'chicklit' more often than not) just because it's signed by a woman.

The fact is now that female authors are all tarred with the same brush, in a way they weren't before this amateur jetstream of saccharine silage. If Doris Lessing were to write The Golden Notebook now, it would come with a glittery cover and a blank page at the back for "thoughts and dreams"; Iris Murdoch wouldn't even get a look-in; Charlotte Brontë would have to revert to being Currer Bell.

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is one of Derek Malcolm's choices from the forthcoming BFI London Film Festival in the London Evening Standard.

Wuthering Heights Andrea Arnold's atmospheric stab at relieving the Emily Brontë classic of melodrama among the crinolines is indebted to Robbie Ryan's already award-winning cinematography. The cast of mostly non-actors at times play second fiddle to the Yorkshire weather but Solomon Glave and Shannon Beer are great as the young Heathcliff and Cathy, and Arnold's sheer audacity shines through.

The BBC News comments on Jane Eyre's box office results:

Jane Eyre and The Change-Up were at eight and nine respectively. . .

Female First says that this means that the film has fallen four places.

The Cambridge News mentions the film in an article on the prohibition of selling alcohol at a cinema:

Mr Dosanjh said films which saw the highest number of alcohol sales were those which appealed more to adults – The King’s Speech, Jane Eyre and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. (Rachel Extance)

The Lancaster Guardian highlights the role of Becky Hindley (of Coronation Street fame) in the play We Are Three Sisters:

A former Coronation Street actress will be appearing close to her Warton home when she performs at The Dukes later this month. [...]
[F]rom September 27 to October 1 in Lancaster, Becky will play Lydia Robinson in the new Northern Broadsides Brontë drama We Are Three Sisters.
It’s claimed that Lydia, while still married to a vicar, led the Brontë’s brother, Branwell, astray and her rejection of him began his downward spiral of drunkenness and drug abuse.
“Apparently, Lydia Robinson was a ‘bit of a one’,” said Becky,46. “She was only in the Brontës lives for a short time but made quite a big impact.”

Don't forget we have a special offer concerning the play script of We Are Three Sisters!

The Washington Square News reviews Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant and mentions its Brontë connection:

She has Charlotte and Emily Brontë laugh at their less popular sister Anne, blaming her lack of success on her dislike for gothic men. (Charles Mahoney)

The Bangor Daily News wonders 'What would favorite literary characters knit, crochet or sew?'

What would Jane Eyre crochet? Probably very little before she returned to the ruined Thornfield Hall and married Mr. Rochester. But after that, I’m certain she would crochet the Parisian Mitts at stitchnationyarn.com. She would choose black silk yarn, very respectable, and she would make the mitts for Mr. Rochester’s ward, Adele, who was sent away to school after the big fire. Adele, as you will recall, had been born in Paris to a French mother. The child adored fashion. Jane, who had been deprived of such frivolous adornment while she was a resident of the grim Lowood School, would have deemed it a kindness to allow Adele an occasional “cadeau,” or gift at Christmastime or on the child’s birthday. (Ardeana Hamlin)

The Needham Patch asks readers 'Which Required Reading Books Did You Love or Hate in School?' and the writer of the article confesses to not enjoying Wuthering Heights in the 10th grade.

Writer Kate Walker does love the book, though. As seen on The Gatekeepers Post:

I always preferred the wild, sprawling, dark, intense dramas of the Brontë Sisters rather than the more controlled, elegant, mannered stories of Jane Austen.
And that’s why I was chosen to write my current book – The Return of the Stranger which is part of the Powerful and the Pure mini-series. Books inspired by some of the great classics of Romantic Fiction – Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Jane Eyre or, in my case Wuthering Heights, with its ultimate dark and dangerous ambiguous hero – Heathcliff. It’s a book I’ve loved ever since I was a child. I’ve reread it more time than I can actually remember and I’ve studied it again and again at school and at university. You don’t have to have read the original to enjoy this book – but the fact that it is so much a part of my reading – and writing history shows why I write what I do. If I’d written for Romance or Medicals, or even RIVA then I’d never have been asked to write The Return of The Stranger – but I loved doing it, and loved honouring one of my favourite reads of all time by doing so.

YouTube channel wgharmsworth has a brief clip on Haworth. A White Carousel, Minibach, Amanda Jenner and Crash! Landen's Crash! Site write about Jane Eyre 2011. A Day in the Life discusses Jane Eyre 1997. The Student Review now has a 'guide to the classics' on Jane Eyre and Book Club Babe gives the novel a 4.5 out of 5. A Renaissance Girl writes about it too.

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