In the style of the Brontës

The Telegraph has an article on Ted Hughes's admittance into Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner and looks back on the history of the place:

The Victorians pursued the game with romantic vigour, commemorating misty heroes such as Walter Scott and William Wordsworth, and even Longfellow, though an American. Only in the 20th century did the thing turn into collecting mania, with all three Brontë sisters bagged in 1947. (Christopher Howse)

Vulture checks whether V.C. Andrews’s Flowers in the Attic still holds up and pauses to reflect on the following:

But, getting down to sick-making brass incest tacks: Let's talk about the writing. Remember when your seventh grade English teacher made you write "in the style" of the Brontë sisters? And you were like, "Hmmmmmm! What if instead of being a nanny ... Jane Eyre is a person who tongue kisses her relatives?" (Julieanne Smolinski)

Northampton Chronicle reports the auction of the alleged portrait of Emily Brontë next December 15:

The recently discovered oil on panel is believed to have been painted around 1840, and handwriting on the reverse is thought to be her sister Charlotte’s. The annotation is signed ‘Currer Bell’, Charlotte’s pen name.
The painting will be sold at JP Humbert in Towcester during a sale on Wednesday and Thursday next week.
Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said: “After much research we are confident this portrait is of Emily Bronte.
“It is the right age, the right medium and the handwriting is almost identical to Charlotte’s known hand.
“In fact so many factors support the contention this is an undiscovered portrait of Emily Brontë, and as such this represents a very important study of one of English literature’s most perennial figures.”

We Are Movie Geeks has a top ten of Michael Fasbender's films where Jane Eyre makes it to number 2:

Nothing could be more romantic than a man pining over a woman – look at the photo above. Who wouldn’t want Fassbender looking at you with such longing in his face. So it should come as no surprise that the brooding Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre is number 2 on this week’s Top 10 list. Everyone remembers the sections in Charlotte Brontë’s novel of Jane’s (Mia Wasikowska) childhood, of Jane being a governess at Thornfield and falling in love with Mr. Rochester, and then bolting. Fassbender conveys such agony after her leaving – the type you feel when you are in love with somebody. Wasikowska and Fassbender scenes together are played out so beautifully. It’s tender, romantic, sexy, and exciting – the sparks fly. Fassbender’s take on the gruff, dark character goes part and parcel with his sexual charisma. If you’ve ever read the book, then go watch the movie. You’ll never think of Jane Eyre again without picturing Fassbender in your mind as Rochester.

This San Bernardino Sun columnist is not aware of the fact that what he thinks it's just a witty remark, is as a matter of fact real (Wuthering Bites, for instance).

Book stores can thrive again, too, if only they will get rid of most of their stock and sell only books that feature vampires and other monsters. There already are enough of these books to easily fill a book store. And a few of the old classics can be genre-spliced to fit the new format. Examples include Leo Tolstoy's revamped "War and Teeth," John Steinbeck's "The Gulps of Wrath," Emily Brontë's "Withering Bites" and Charles Dickens' "David Chopperfield." (John Weeks)

The Philippines Journal talks about the upcoming show Walang Hanggan:

After doing 'Mula sa Puso,’  Dawn Zulueta is happy to be reunited with ex-BF Richard Gomez in the new ABS-CBN soap, “Walang Hanggan,”  a remake of their award-winning romance, “Hihintayin Kita sa Langit” (based on Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”) combined with “Falcon Crest” as it will also be set in a vineyard. “It’s a star-studded show as we’ll be working with Susan Roces, Helen Gamboa and the younger stars of ABS-CBN.”

Via Oh No They Didn't we have discovered that Mia Wasikowska appears in The New York Times 2011 Portfolio playing an iconic villain. She has been chosen with twelve other actors as the best actors of the year; Meta Fetişisti (in Turkish), Antagony and Ecstasy, Life's Blah, BCNCultura (in Catalan) and A Cámara Lenta and El Criticón 5.1 (both in Spanish) review Jane Eyre 2011; 2phrase and Elspeth R reviews Wuthering Heights 2011; Indian's Pages visits Brontë country; Véronique3 uploads a Wuthering Heights-inspired drawing to Flickr.