No corner of their lives left uncovered

The Telegraph and Argus reviews Anne Crow's The Brontës And Their Poetry. It seems that hardly a week goes by without a book about the Brontës landing on my desk, leading me to wonder if there could be any corner of their lives left uncovered. The word ‘poetry’ in the title of Anne Crow’s book about Haworth’s literary giants led me to read on. [...] This is a rich collection of Brontë poetry, containing...

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Rosamund Oliver

The first album of the St Louis band Prairie Rehab, Philology, contains a very unexpected song about ... Rosamund Oliver, St John Rivers's hopeless inamorata in Jane Eyre. The RiverFront Times gives more information: The band is aided by a few local hired guns — Grace Basement's Kevin Buckley (fiddle)...

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"Now, I understand"

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recommends a trip to Brontë country. The journalist has been at Haworth and shares his experience with the readers: I'm standing on the doorstep of the 300-year-old Old White Lion Inn, trying to decide where to walk first. Straight in front of me is Haworth's cobbled Main...

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12 days until Jane Eyre 2011

On the Jane Eyre imdb thread, SwingBatta gives the following information. It seems that Focus Features will be taking out full-page ads like these for advance screenings of JE in (perhaps) major metropolitan areas. http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/862/img3735n.jpg Top is the New York Times (in color,...

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Jane Eyre (and more) in Stone Soup

The comic strip Stone Soup, written and illustrated by Jan Elliot has featured Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in a few consecutive strips. You can read them on GoComics: February 1 February 2 February 3 February 4 Categories: Comics, Referen...

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Petition, Remonstrate, and Resist

History repeats itself. When Patrick Brontë opposed the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act little could he imagine that more than 170 years later his words would be so adequate for the current economical situation of his native Ireland. He wrote in 1837 to the Leeds Intelligencer: Liberty or Bondage To the...

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Jane Eyre 2011. Featurettes, Music and More

Lots of new things about Jane Eyre 2011: A couple of new featurettes, behind the scenes stuff and brief glimpses at some new scenes on Fandango. Another one addressed to reading groups can be seen on YouTube. On the Focus Features website: To Score Jane Eyre: Cary Fukunaga and Dario Marianelli Team Up And a couple of very interesting slideshows: Jane Eyre, Superstar: From Brontë to Fukunaga Since...

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Brief Lives: Charlotte Brontë by Jessica Cox - A review

We are very thankful to Hesperus Press for sending us review copies of these books Tales of the Islanders Charlotte Brontë Hesperus Press February 25, 2011 ISBN: 9781843912019 Format: PaperbackBrief Lives: Charlotte Brontë Jessica Cox Hesperus Press February 25, 2011 ISBN: 9781843919209 Format: Paperback The...

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"Jane Eyre is the most wonderful character study"

The New Yorker talks about novels whichfeature characters—mostly first-person narrators, telling of their childhoods—who need to understand, account for, defend, reconcile, or otherwise deal with something difficult in their past, and storytelling is their recourse. (Flora Armetta)Jane Eyre could certainly be on that list but Flora Armetta chooses Villette:Harder to love than “Jane Eyre,” maybe,...

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Written on the Body in Beloit

A new chance to see the Dance COLEctive's production of Written on the Body, the choreography inspired by the Brontës which was premiered in 2005. In Beloit, WI: Beloit College Dance COLEctive February 25th, 2011 to February 26th, 2011. Time: 7:30 pm Location: Studio 1, Hendricks Center for the Arts The Dance COLEctive (TDC) is a modern dance company that aspires to challenge assumptions about how...

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“Dark clouds, metal flowers and the Brontë sisters”

Investors has a press release on the forthcoming release of the Jane Eyre 2011 soundtrack: Sony Classical is delighted to announce the release of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Focus Features' new film Jane Eyre, available March 8, 2011. Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement) has created a romantic and moving score, performed by violinist Jack Liebeck, as the perfect...

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Jane Eyre on stage and Wuthering Heights on screen

A couple of alerts for today, February 24. Thanks to David and Imelda Marsden for bringing the following to our attention: On February 24-26 Ebenezer Methodist Drama Group presents Jane Eyre dramatised by Helen Jerome. Ebenezer Methodist church, Hanging Heaton, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Starts 7.30pm Tickets £5, children £4.50 including refreshments. Tel 01924 473538.And on the other side of the...

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The uneducated, self-educated woman

Jamie Bell continues speaking about Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. From NewsOK: With “Jane Eyre,” he took on the role of St. John Rivers, a missionary who takes in Jane (Mia Wasikowska) when she flees a haunting experience in the home of her employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender) after his manager encouraged him to watch the first film from director Cary Fukunaga, the celebrated 2009 immigration...

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German audiobook

An abridged audiobook in German just released: Emily Brontë Sturmhöhe Read by Wolfram Koch , Eva Mattes Abridged Version Silberfisch (February 2011) ISBN 978-3-86742-680-0 4 CD (AudioCD) Wild und leidenschaftlich, unangepasst und kompromisslos: Heathcliff und Catherine ähneln sich charakterlich wie...

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None of our Brontës is missing

Given that Jasper Fforde's sixth installment of the Thursday Next series - One of Our Thursdays is Missing - has just been released in the UK (and will be available in the US on March 8th), The Tamarind has a recap of previous books, with special attention to the one that started it all: The Eyre Affair. If you haven't read the series, beware of spoilers in that article. And do yourself a favour and...

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Theses time

Recent Brontë-related theses: "The Events of My Insignificant Existence": Traumatic Testimony in Charlotte Brontë's Fictional Autobiographies by Haller, Elizabeth Kari, Kent State University, August 2009 Abstract A significant gap in current criticism surrounding Charlotte Brontë's novels has led to a superficial rendering of her primary characters, situating them as mere autobiographical products...

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