Jane's evil brother, Ryan

Keighley News talks about Simon Warner's current project which, as we have posted before, focuses on Top Withins:

Local people will work with Worth Valley filmmaker and artist Simon Warner on an exhibition showcasing the South Pennines moorland.
The renowned photographer is the latest artist in residence on the Watershed Landscape project.
He will spend several months exploring people’s attitudes towards the landscape, particularly the literary connections of the area.
Simon is focusing on Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse near Stanbury that is thought to be the inspiration for the setting of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
The result will be a three-part exhibition combining Simon’s landscape video films on miniature screens and work in collaboration with community groups.
There will also be a photographic history showing the progressive ruination of Top Withens, showcasing iconic images by landscape photographers including Bill Brandt, Fay Godwin and Alexander Keighley.
Simon said Top Withens had a resonance of its own, not necessarily linked to the Brontës.
He said: “The more people know I’m interested in Top Withens the more they want to tell me their stories.
“It’s a special place to so many people; ashes have been scattered there and I know of at least one person who has proposed to his girlfriend at Top Withens.
“Obviously it has the Brontës link, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath both wrote poems about the site and many photographers have captured the scene over the years.(...)
The exhibition will be at the Brontë Parsonage Museum from September 28 to December 3, coinciding with a symposium at nearby West Lane Baptist Church on October 6.
Mr Warner said: “The symposium will be an exploration of how we understand landscape.
“I have invited a diverse range of presenters to the event including a local historian, geography professor, writer, landscape artist and performer.
“There will be some people there for the intellectual ideas, some there for the art and some for the landscape.
“I’m bringing them all together and then hopefully they will make connections and share their inspirations.”
Simon is the fifth artist in residence for the Watershed Landscape Project, which is funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund and managed by Pennine Prospects. (David Knights)

And also about the latest initiative of Brontë Spirit for restoring and safeguarding the Old School Rooms in Haworth:

The voluntary group leading a project to restore one of Haworth’s most historic buildings wants to develop links with the business world.
Brontë Spirit is working to safeguard the future of the Old School Room, in Church Street, which was built by the Rev Patrick Brontë.
The group is staging open days at the premises Friday and on Saturday. It has invited many members of the district’s business sector along with community leaders to see what potential the building offers.
Averil Kenyon, chairman of Brontë Spirit, said: “While we are currently discussing with English Heritage how we can restore the building to its former glory we have to consider what kind of sustainable future the building has.
“For the two open days we have invited representatives from the commercial estate agency world to come and talk to us about what kind of business or community use might most easily fit into what the building can offer.
“We have also invited companies from many sectors which could easily find a use for the building and community organisations looking to expand their operations now that the Government is asking us to embrace localism, or need extra space to house their current operations.
“We’re very optimistic that this building will adapt to a modern use and that will ensure this key structure within the Haworth historical footprint will be saved for future generations to appreciate.”
The Old School Room currently has serious problems with its roof and needs major external refurbishments.
Mrs Kenyon added: “Our discussions with English Heritage are at an advanced stage and they have been very helpful. (Miran Rahman)

John Mullan chooses then ten best literary thunderstorms in The Guardian:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
There is a thunderstorm on the night Heathcliff overhears Cathy telling Nelly Dean she is planning to marry Edgar Linton. In despair, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights, and the elements supply their descant. "About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury."

The Liverpool Echo remembers how Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights was number one on the lists on a week like this 34 years ago:

Written by Kate Bush when she was 18, the song is based on the last 10 minutes of the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights. She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with Emily Brontë. It took just a few hours to compose but she released it as her debut single.
Record company, EMI had originally chosen another track, James and the Cold Gun as the lead single, but Bush was determined that Wuthering Heights would be the first release from the album. She won out eventually in a surprising show of determination for a young female vocalist against a major record company.
Two music videos were created to accompany Wuthering Heights. In one version, she can be seen performing the song in a dark room filled with white mist while wearing a white dress (which was the UK release); in the other, the singer dances in an outdoor environment while wearing a red dress (which was done for the American release).
The release of the single was doubly delayed as Bush changed details on the sleeve photographs and the design.
Wuthering Heights was finally released on January 6, 1978 and eventually crept into the charts on February 11 at number 42.
The following week it rose to number 27 and Bush made her first appearance on Top of the Pops – and the song became one of the most played records on radio. (Jade Wright)

And the same newspaper mentions The Sarah Millican Television Programme where the comedian said:

Millican, pictured, is cheeky, charming and deliciously daft: “I liked the BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre, but there was no mention of her evil brother, Ryan.” (Paddy Shennan)

Spiked talks about Michael Winterbottom's tranposition of Tess of de D'Urbervilles to India in Krishna and says:

Filmmakers never have been able to resist indulging their love for the good ol’ English canon by churning out their own rendering of classic novels. Last year was no exception, with the likes of Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights hitting our screens. But while these were both pretty decent efforts, overall they provided little more than an opportunity for the well-versed viewer to compare them to previous outings and mull over their treatment of the source material.  (Tom Slater)

Erm... we have to disagree with that. At least Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights version was as radical as to set Tess in India.

The Daily Record talks precisely about Jane Eyre 2011's DVD:

An elegant adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s timeless romance. Jane (Mia Wasikowska) flees Thornfield Hall in tears, where she has been employed as governess for the young ward of Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). (****) (Rick Fulton)

And DI-VE (Malta) presents Wuthering Heights (2011) which has been premiered in Malta.

The Herald publishes an intriguing article that seems to be about the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup:

A year in the life. When Jordan Coghlan reflects, he does so with a smile. In the corresponding weekend a year ago he was busily preparing for a long weekend of study alongside his fellow boarders in Clane.
Wuthering Heights, Pythagoras' Theorem or Hamlet? Take your pick. (...)
Now when you talk about big sporting occasions and ask the question to a mere 19-year-old, a sense of over-statement can set in.
So with the pressures of the Leaving Certificate looming, Coghlan might have physically settled into the study hall, but mentally his mind was elsewhere as his Clongowes Wood College SJ side were shaping up to face Cistercian College Roscrea in the final of the Schools Senior Cup in the RDS.
I think it's fair to say that Brontë and Shakespeare took a back seat that weekend. (Peter Breen)

The Globe and Mail gives reasons why 'teens should read 'adult' fiction and vice-versa':

Wayne Koestenbaum (cultural critic; 13 books, including Humiliation)
Two books that “blew my mind” in seventh grade: Richard Wright's Black Boy, and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Both taught me that identity germinated from ordeal, punishment, abjection. I was moved by the plights of the first-person narrators – and by their wily, self-reliant, imaginative rebellion against the experiences of what Giorgio Agamben has called “desubjectification” – the horror of being turned into a naught, a cipher. (Sheila Heti)

Trashionista interviews the writer Elizabeth Buchan:

What is your favourite book?
What an agonizing question. Jane Eyre? Persuasion? I think I will plump for Ian McEwan's Atonement.   (...)
Who is your favourite heroine?
You would be hard pressed to match Jane Eyre - so tough and brave and impassioned. A real role model. (Elle Symonds)

The Orlando Books Examiner has gone from Jane Eyre to The Hunger Games:

Trying to not get caught up in the latest literary phenomenon is like trying to avoid laughing at something funny for me. I just can't help myself. So naturally, I have gotten caught up in The Hunger Games. Not since I read Jane Eyre last year have I been so engrossed in a book. As soon as I opened it, I became obsessed with the characters, the action, the world, and the surprises. (Catie Bloomfield)

Il Recensore interviews Juliet Gael, author of Romancing Miss Brontë, recently released in Italy:

Signora Gael, quando è nato il suo interesse per le sorelle Brontë?
Il mio interesse per le Brontë iniziò molti anni addietro, quando studiai i loro romanzi all’Università. Rimasi affascinata dalla complessa dinamica familiare e dall’atteggiamento vittoriano verso le donne, in particolare la segretezza della vita delle donne e la battaglia delle figlie per il riconoscimento in una società in cui mostrarsi pubblicamente era considerato non femminile. Dapprincipio iniziai a scrivere la loro storia come sceneggiatura, in seguito, anni dopo, vi ritornai con un romanzo.  (Read more) (Alessandra Stoppini) (Translation)

Causeur (France) talks about the Deborah Mitford:

Que serait Jules sans Edmond (Goncourt) ? Qui se souviendrait de Averell Dalton s’il n’était flanqué de ses trois épouvantables frangins ? Des sœurs Brontë si elles n’avaient été que voisines ? L’appartenance à une fratrie extraordinaire suffit à en faire entrer chacun de ses membres dans la légende. (Frédéric Rouvillois) (Translation)

Der Freitag (Germany) reviews Béla Tarr's film A Torinói ló (The Turin Horse):

Das Richtmaß für eine gut erzählte Geschichte ist die Menge weiterer Geschichten, die hinter ihr noch sichtbar werden. Das Kino und die Literatur kennen indes wenige Werke, die derart als Ableger konzipiert sind und Nebenfiguren zu Protagonisten befördern. Im Zentrum von Jean Rhys‘ Roman Saragassomeer steht die erste Ehefrau von Rochester aus Jane Eyre; Billy Wilder kam die Idee zu Das Apartment, nachdem er gründlich über David Leans Melo Begegnung nachgedacht hatte: Wie sähe das Ganze aus der Sicht des Mannes aus, der den anderweitig verheirateten Liebenden seine Wohnung überlässt? (Gerhardt Midding) (Translation)

Berliner Morgenpost (Germany) presents the novel Als die Liebe zu Elise kam by Natasha Solomon like this:

Natasha Solomons' Roman ist beeindruckend: romantisch und hochdramatisch. Solomons ist eine moderne Emily Brontë.  (Translation)

Finally some more (mainly positive) Russian reviews of Wuthering Heights 2011: НГС Relax, Фонтанка, Коммерсантъ and Газета.

Capricorn Annoymous reviews Jane Eyre; Heroes and Heartbreakers discusses the appeal of the abusive hero (like Heathcliff); henribneto reviews (on YouTube and in Portuguese) Wuthering Heights and a new update of the Brontë Weather Project.