ITV News also covers the Yorkshire Brontës' Garden:
Welcome to Yorkshire has scored a Chelsea hat trick and made Chelsea
Flower Show history by becoming the first exhibitor to win the People’s
Choice award three years in a row. The Brontës' Yorkshire Garden,
inspired by the literary legends and theirbwork, won the 2012 award as voted for by the public – mirroring the
success of the tourism agency’s previous two gardens. The win comes just
days after the same garden won Gold, capping off a memorable week for
the county. The garden is basedbon a particular location often visited by the Bronte sisters, where a
bridge now known as The Brontë Bridge crosses a moorland stream. This
is now a popular tourist destination, being located on the path to the
location widely believed to be a key setting for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Top Withens. Stone from a
Victorian quarry near the Bronte’s home in Haworth was also included in
the garden; it was transported from Dove Stones moor to London to give
the garden authenticity.
Tuscaloosa News reviews
The Healing by Jonathan Odell:
Becky dies and Mistress Amanda goes mad, like a character in a Brontë
novel. Addicted to laudanum, she staggers around the house with her pet
monkey, Daniel Webster, and tries to substitute the slave Yewande for
her dead daughter, dressing her up from time to time in Becky's fine
clothes. (Don Noble)
The singer Kelly Clarkson is interviewed in the
Daily Mail:
I’m an avid reader now but had to be forced to pick up a book as a child. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë was the first book that really touched me. (Alan Jackson)
The
Boston Globe interviews Kathleen Turner, not the actress but the Massachusetts teacher of the year:
When you read in English, what kind of books do you like?
TURNER: I go from mysteries by James Patterson and
Patricia Cornwell to this year rereading “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering
Heights.” I also read Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” for the
first time. I loved it. (Amy Sutherland)
A reader of the
Dallas Morning News is concerned about the absence of new classics:
There have been no recent works, in my opinion, that have been able to
rival those magnificent life-influencing characters found in the
fictional classics.
As a sophomore and junior in high school over five decades ago, my life
was greatly changed forever by the love of Eppie and her ability to
restore life and love to Silas Marner, by Jane Eyre's moral convictions
that superseded her own personal desires, by Hester Prynne's bravery and
courage to daily face a cruel society in The Scarlet Letter, and by
Sydney Carton's sacrificial life and love in A Tale of Two Cities. These
are only a few of the fictional characters who have powerfully molded
my life. (Marty Walker)
The
Danbury News Time lists some favorite sex scenes in cinema, including
Wide Sargasso Sea 1992, recommended because of Karina Lombard;
Cupcake and a Latte reviews Eve Marie Mont's
A Breath of Eyre;
My Daily Life and
My Blog post about
Wuthering Heights;
Magia... e vida (in Portuguese) devotes an entry to its author and
Doll Divas has a doll-related post;
deluminators is reading
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall;
Fascinating-History and Page Turners (in French) posts about
Jane Eyre;
Seongyong's Private Place reviews
Wuthering Heights 2011.
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