Jane Eyre's horoscope

Pittsburgh Indie Movie Examiner writes briefly about the release of Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights on DVD:

"Wuthering Heights"- Female director Andrea Arnold, known for her handheld camera-style and kitchen-sink aestethics, takes on a grim adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel of star-crossed adolescents Catherine and Heathcliff. Arnold's drab picture of victorian England drips with atmosphere, similar to the characters' clothing with all the rainy weather depicted in this tepid version that tries to shock with a racial backstory, muddy exteriors and an anti-climatic ending. (Sam Ippolito)

And now for something we do't think we have seen before: 'quoting' from Jane Eyre in the horoscopes section! From The Coloradoan:

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). "You are loved. There's an invisible world all around you. A kingdom of spirits commissioned to guard you, do you not see it?" From "Jane Eyre," by your sign mate Charlotte Brontë, and most applicable.

Too bad the quote has been turned into horoscopes lingo, as the actual quote is as follows:

"Hush, Jane!  you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you. Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits:  that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence (if innocent we be:  as I know you are of this charge which Mr. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Reed; for I read a sincere nature in your ardent eyes and on your clear front), and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?" (ch. VIII)

We may be biased here, but the actual quote is so, so much better.

The Brontë Sisters posted a reminder that yesterday marked the anniversary of the publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Chalotte Brontë in 1857. Live and Learn-Toss and Turn reports on a book club's discussion of Jane Eyre and Love for Books writes in Hungarian about the novel too. The Free Folk is working on a Jane Eyre doll together with a suitcase. Le Mange-Livres writes in French about Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre. Bandeja de plata posts in Spanish about Wuthering Heights 1939.