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Monday, May 28, 2012

BBC News reports the People's Choice Award of the Brontës' Yorkshire Garden at the recent Chelsea Flower Show:
A garden created by the tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire has won the People's Choice Award at the Chelsea Flower Show for a third year in a row.
More than 11,000 members of the public took part in poll which saw the garden inspired by the Brontë sisters win.
The artisan garden is based on Top Withens, a location which is thought to be a key setting for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
In addition, last week the garden was awarded gold in its category.
The Telegraph talks about the recent Cannes Film Festival 2012 awards:
Carlos Reygadas taking the Best Director Award for the highly experimental and enthusiastically booed Post Tenebras Lux was another left-field choice, although its awestruck lensing of nature in all its brutal glory may well have found favour with jury member Andrea Arnold, whose own (vastly superior) Wuthering Heights adaptation was cut from similar cloth. (Robbie Collin)
Austin Classics Movie Examiner takes a look at Orson Welles's filmography:
Jane Eyre: Still svelte enough to play a romantic lead, Orson starred opposite Joan Fontaine in this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel, with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley and Welles' Mercury Theater collaborator John Houseman.  (JM Dobies)
The Huffington Post describes a trip to Wales. Discussing hotels:
The Castle Hotel in Conwy: Past guests include the 18th-century author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, Victorian poet Charlotte Brontë and poet William Wordsworth.  (C.M. Rubin)
Certainly Charlotte Brontë spent her first honeymoon night in Conway (the English spelling in those days) and it probably was at the Castle Hotel.

Daily Kos's Readers and Book Lovers discusses first books read:
My father, who loved English literature, did not believe in holding children back when they exhibited signs of intellectual curiosity.  He gave me Jane Eyre to read when I was only eight. Of course, I didn't understand it all--that came later, when I reread the book from time to time when I was growing up.  Even at eight, though, I could appreciate what a horrible life Jane lived, both at Gateshead and Lowood.  (Diana in NoVa)
Wilson Exclusive Talent Productions ... Fighting Ignorance Through The Arts post some pictures of the Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte opening night; Ženskikafe (in Czech) reviews Jane Eyre 2011; The Un-book Club reviews Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë; African Angle posts about the Brontë novels; psicologadispersa (in Spanish) and The Scriptorium (in French) post about Jane EyreInvierno en 1882 (in Spanish) reviews Jane Eyre 1996 and Litteranet (in Spanish) reviews Jane Eyre 2011; Zksiazkami (in Polish) posts The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Finally The Inn at Lambton (in French) has concluded its Jane Eyre 2012 Marathon.

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