USA Today interviews Rita Gerlach, author of
Before the Scarlet Down:
Serena: I wonder if it was the crunch or the pickle smell
that gave them away, LOL! Are there any particular authors or events in
your personal history that inspired you to put your stories on the page?
Rita:
Years ago, my cousin Nora Roberts gave me a signed copy of one of her
books at our annual family reunion. After I read Nora's book the desire
to write rose up in me like a wildfire. It had been there throughout my
life off and on, but I needed that push.
Other authors that inspired me are Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Raphael Sabatini. (Serena Chase)
Student Life discusses the Best Costume Design Oscar nominations:
Sandy Powell won just two years ago for “The Young Victoria,” and an
Oscar for “Hugo” would be her fourth. Mark Bridges (“The Artist”) just
received his first nomination, and it is rare for first-time nominees to
win. However, fellow nominee Michael O’Connor (“Jane Eyre”) did just
that. For now, I’ll lean towards “Hugo,” but I think “Jane Eyre” could
surprise. (Georgie Morvis)
The
Arizona Daily Star gives a parent tip with a Brontë twist:
Throw dreams to other children too, not just your own. I
remember a neighbor who saw me carrying a pile of library books and
asked me what I liked to read. I was deep in the Brontë sisters at
the time. She went in her house and came out with a biography of
the Brontës. After I read it we discussed the Brontës and their
books. She treated me like a grown-up, gave me my first taste of
literary criticism, and started me out on the path of becoming a
critical reader. (Marilyn Heins)
SFAudio has created a video mixing a1950s children adaptation of a part of
Wuthering Heights and an audiobook. The illustration is by William Stobbs:
What I’ve actually done here is taken the story’s text and images |PDF| and matched them up with the terrific solo narrated audiobook as performed by the talented Ruth Golding for LibriVox. Or to put it another way I abridged the public domain audiobook of Wuthering Heights to match the text as it appears in The Crackerjack Book For Girls. Here’s the |MP3|.
I should also point out that the complete audiobook of the novel is HERE). (Jesse Willis)
Manx.net informs that
Jane Eyre 2011 will be screened at the
Films in Peel event (March 8) in the Isle of Man;
Immortal Ephemera talks about
Jane Eyre 1944; in The
Jamestown Post-Journal a local student and Brontëite is mentioned;
Centre Départemental du Vaucluse (in French) reviews Sheila Kohler's
Becoming Jane Eyre;
Rebeccas blog posts about
Jane Eyre (in Danish).
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