"All of us would be the poorer if this unique building was allowed to collapse"

Many sites are reporting Meryl Streep's class act when she received her Golden Globe. As Digital Spy reports, she said,

"How about Michelle [Williams], how about Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre, fantastic, Tilda [Swinton]... oh, jeez," she continued, naming more of her fellow actresses. (Tara Fowler)

The Celebrity Cafe features Michael Fassbender and this is how his role as Mr Rochester is described:

a virile, handsome and complex Mr. Rochester in the classic Jane Eyre[.] (Jackie Morrison)

More showbiz news, as the Brontës seem to have put on an appearance in Desperate Housewives (Season 8, Episode 11, Who Can Say What's True?"). As summed up by Digital Spy:

Bree calls Renee's breasts the "Brontë sisters". Renee: "Even your boob jokes are repressed." (Catriona Wightman)

We don't know if repressed but the last time we counted them (the sisters) they were three.

The Guardian has a fantastic article in praise of Haworth church:

Lead thieves, time and too much wuthering have been unkind to the parish church of St Michael and All Angels in Haworth. Water is coming through the roof, Victorian wall paintings have been damaged and there is damp in the side chapel dedicated to the three Brontë sisters in the church where their father was parson. The raw Pennine air that scarred and shaped, and – like the stunted firs at Top Withens – probably shortened the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne, is now threatening the church itself. Saving churches – in particular 19th century rebuilds – is a contentious business. But without their father's work at Haworth, it would not have been the village and the moors above that enclosed their short lives and provided the passionate setting for their writing. The Brontës' world was always heavy with decay. Haworth church needs to raise £30,000 more by Friday. All of us would be the poorer if this unique building was allowed to collapse.

The Nashville City Paper discusses Classics Illustrated and recalls that,

Only eight female authors were ever adapted: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Ouida, Jane Porter, Anna Sewell, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Tina LoTufo)

Musings of a Literary Dilettante's Blog discusses Wuthering Heights. Reflections in A Major posts about Helen Burns and The Powell Blog reviews Jane Eyre 1983.