The
Daily Record asks a few writers about their favourite childhood reads.
Carole Matthews, author of Summer Daydreams
I was always an avid reader as a child and worked my way through the classics such as Black Beauty, Jane Eyre and Little Women. It was when I was about 13 and read Catcher in the Rye that I first felt that a book really moved me.
More writers, as Michael Williams presents his book The Three du Maurier Sisters: Daphne, Angela And Jeanne in the
Western Morning News.
In researching The Three du Maurier Sisters: Daphne, Angela And Jeanne, I revisited My Cousin Rachel, her last historical novel set in Cornwall with its Jane Eyre atmosphere and Rachel coming across as a truly mysterious character. It must be one of the best fictional volumes to have grown in the rich landscape of Cornish literature – a classic study in jealousy.
Kits Browning told me that his mother liked to "tease her readers" and there may be something of that in this 1951 novel. We could argue all day and all night about Rachel's motives. One thing is beyond debate, that Dame Daphne will never die. She lives on in her stories and in our imagination.
Yahoo! News discusses the storytelling in Wuthering Heights in a review of the season 4 finale of Castle.
Storytelling has held an ideal of a death being needed to progress a new life for a character. In "Wuthering Heights," for example, Mr. Lockwood would not have gained his new life without learning the story of the departed Catherine and how Heathcliff died inside when she passed. (L. Vincent Poupard)
And Jane Eyre Laid Bare keeps on cropping up, such as in this article in
The Hindu.
Yesterday,
Tom Winnifrith (son of Brontë scholar Tom Winnifrith) and
The Brontë Sisters celebrated Branwell's birthday.
Reader's Reach posts about Jane Eyre and
Heroines with Hearts picks it as one of her favourite books.
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