Mr Rochester: Caregiver

Well, Michael O'Conner didn't get to carry his Best Costume Design Oscar home, but Jane Eyre has been awarded by ThirdAge with a Caregiving Oscar.

Jane Eyre – One of the most romantic books and a popular book-to-film property (the Brontë sisters run a close second to Jane Austen in terms of moviemakers going back to the classic well for content),  Mia Wasikowska plays our beloved Jane, while Michael Fassbender gives us a smoldering Mr. Rochester.   Both Jane and Rochester are caregivers -- Jane cares first for a childhood friend, Helen, who dies of consumption, and then for her dying aunt while Rochester cares for a mentally ill wife. (Sherri Snelling)

Well, it's one thing that Rochester didn't get rid of Bertha but saying he 'cared' for her it's giving him way too much credit for having his wife locked up in an attic room.

Anyway, The Daily Californian is still thinking that Jane Eyre was snubbed at the actual Oscars.

The Telegraph and Argus looks at local attractions to 'be proud of':

As well as the Alhambra and St George’s theatres, the city [Bradford] has a number of galleries, the industrial museum, and, within a few miles, Brontë country and the Dales.

This Bethesda Magazine columnist had a dream:

In the summer of 2010, I moved into the parsonage at Brookmont Church in Bethesda. The church had been looking for a long-term renter who would treat the house as her own; I’d been looking for a place in Brookmont and had always wanted to live in a parsonage as the Brontë sisters had. (Louisa Jaggar)

Laura Miller reviews Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? on Salon:

When Jeanette Winterson was a child — a redheaded scrap of a thing, as fierce and self-willed as Jane Eyre but readier with her fists — she went to a school concert at Christmastime with her parents. “Is that your mum?” someone asked her. “Mostly,” was her reply. 

I'm Coming Out! posts about Jane Eyre 2011. Wuthering Heights is discussed by A Book Crazy, Jane Austen Lovin' Gal and Meredith Kendall. I'd So Rather Be Reading posts about the 2009 adaptation of the novel. Jane Eyre's Daughter is reviewed in Italian by La collezionista di dettagli.