Jane/Wuthering Persons

The Scarborough Evening News talks about the new plaque installed on Anne Brontë's tomb in Scarborough:

A new plaque has been installed at Anne Bronte’s grave in Scarborough to ensure that visitors will be able to read the inscription for years to come.The grave, which is located in St Mary’s Churchyard, has been subject to weathering and erosion over the years and had become illegible in places.In 2010 the Bronte Society commissioned a survey of the headstone to see if the erosion could be halted.The professional opinion, supported by York diocesan buildings officers, was that the fabric of the stone was now so compromised that nothing could be done to stop the erosion. The Brontë Society then embarked on a wide consultation of interested parties to see what might be done.
Those included in the discussions were St Mary’s Church Council, diocesan officers, Scarborough Borough Council and visitors to the grave.
Stephen Whitehead, a conservation officer with the Brontë Society, said: “The overwhelming view was that the original stone should be left where it stands but a new plaque, interpreting the fading original should be installed.
“The plaque, which has been executed by J G Gardiner Ltd of Bridlington, is of slate, a native material that will last much longer than sandstone.
“It is now in situ and the Brontë Society would like to thank the officers of St Mary Church and the York diocese for their help and cooperation.”
The Rev Martyn Dunning, of St Mary’s Church, said he was delighted with the new addition.
He said: “The headstone had become quite difficult to read, which was detracting from people’s enjoyment of their visit to the site.
“The new plaque is a really good solution, which gives people the best of both worlds.
“There is a lot of interest in the grave and I think this will keep people coming for many years to come.”

HitFix announces that Robbie Ryan's cinematography for Wuthering Heights 2011 has been awarded in the Plus Cameraimage Festival:

The bronze award, meanwhile, went to my own personal winner in the category this year: Robbie Ryan's breathtaking, nature-wed lensing of Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights," which counter-intuitively boxes the soaring Yorkshire landscape into the Academy ratio, was also awarded at the Venice Film Festival, and deserves every accolade it gets. (US audiences will see what I'm talking about next year.) (Guy Lodge)

The Guardian's The Northerner Blog discusses new funding courtesy of Creative England for regional films. Too many Wuthering Heights?

The agency has opened two new funds, using National Lottery money, to encourage film making in the regions. The total isn't huge in public funding terms - £400,000 - but maybe it will stimulate successors to a great tradition: The Full Monty, Wuthering Heights, Brassed Off, Wuthering Heights, Little Voice, Wuthering Heights...all the way back to Kes. (...)

And maybe a Shirley, or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (Martin Wainwright)

Variety 's The Vote examines the Oscar best actress category:

Mia Wasikowska avoided the previous film versions of "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel about a long-suffering young woman's halting quest for love. "I didn't want to not do something because it had been done, or do something just to be different," she says.
She did, however, immerse herself in Brontë's classic. "I underlined anything I thought was important and ended up underlining most of the book. The tricky thing is, it's 500 pages of her internal monologue. How do you convey that? Mainly, you must do it visually."
Praised for her restrained, unsentimental depiction of the heroine, Wasikowska asserts, "The material is strong enough without you throwing it in people's faces. It's more emotional to watch someone holding something back than to see them falling apart." (David Kronke)

The Guardian has also removed Lucy Mangan's column about the Lynn-Marie affaire:

A Weekend magazine article about a woman who for part of her working life dresses as Charlotte Brontë contained factual inaccuracies. This article, with its related comments, has been removed from our website (Being Charlotte Brontë, 3 December, page 12).

As Lynn-Marie says on her blog:

This was entirely from their own and Ms Mangan's commitment to the truth and fair play. I am slowly starting to regain by faith in the media, I should ask that perhaps any site who have posted her story consider removing it. I also had a lovely email from Luck Mangan which has gone a great way to restoring my faith in human nature .more to follow but perhaps anyone who follows my blog would mention this.

The Boston Globe reviews Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books by Leah Price

As Leah Price writes in her introduction to “Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books,’’ “To expose a bookshelf is to compose a self.’’ This idea - that one’s authentic self is revealed in the construction of a library - explains why we so carefully examine the bookshelves of potential friends or romantic partners. A quick scan of someone’s library shows so much: They’re a “Jane Eyre’’ or a “Wuthering Heights’’ person; they love graphic novels or Penguin Classics; they enjoy world history or personal memoir. There’s something deeply personal, even intimate, about what and how one reads, so much so that we feel embarrassed when we are caught staring uninvited at someone else’s books. (Anthony Domestico)

Great Falls Tribune compares Bella from the Twilight saga with illustrious predecessors:

Such as the heroines of Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse, Bella displays contemporary manners, a strong mind and fierce loyalty. (Meg Smith)

The Business Standard reviews Anuradha Roy's first book An Atlas of Impossible Longing:

There is no magical realism here, and the pace and prose need to be savoured in an unhurried way — think Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters. (Suneetha Balakrishnan)

The Goole-Howden Courier gives away free tickets plus dinner for a local screening of Jane Eyre 2011; a new update of the Brontë Weather Project; Fohnhouse reviews Wuthering Heights 2011 and KevinJesus20's Blog (in Spanish) reviews Jane Eyre 2011; Miguel Olmos (in Spanish) talks about the Brontës.