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Friday, June 08, 2012

Friday, June 08, 2012 10:03 am by Cristina in , , , ,    No comments
This is how Film School Rejects describes Jane Eyre 2011 in passing:
[Cary Fukunaga] followed that up with a beautiful (but ultimately underwhelming) adaptation of Jane Eyre. (Rob Hunter)
And reviews of Fifty Shades of Grey continue mentioning Jane Eyre, such as this one in the Petoskey News:
Throughout the book, Anastasia, the book's heroine, compares herself to Thomas Hardy's Tess, in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." References to classic women's literature throughout the story are just a reminder that "Fifty Shades of Grey" isn't anything new — it's just an updated tale of a vulnerable young woman in search of love, with obstacles to overcome. At one point, she even walks away, just as Jane Eyre did. (Rachel Brougham)
According to the Guardian, the New York Police Department is watching a Jane Eyre fan:
Nazifa Rahman is a 19-year-old student from the Bronx. Born and raised in New York, she's majoring in neuroscience and behavior at Barnard College, and her favorite reads include The Great Gatsby and Jane Eyre. In the eyes of the NYPD, however, Nazifa is a target for surveillance, because she is a member of the Columbia Muslim Students Association. (Andrea Palatnik)
While this football fan is not quite a Brontëite:
At home, I have to read up on the finer details of Emily Brontë's love life as part of my English A2 revision. (Jack, 17, London on Football365)
Good then as it's practically non-existing.

Someone else should do some homework concerning the Brontës. Judith Samuelson writes in The Huffington Post:
Most important: you are not likely to receive a reward for your effort. If your ideas and prototypes go viral, it will be because someone else adopted them as their own. This from novelist and poet, Emily Brontë, writing mid 19th century: "If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
It actually comes from a letter written by Charlotte Brontë in November 1841.

Carol Midgley from The Times knows her Brontës a bit better:
When as a child I visited the Brontë parsonage in Howarth [sic], what punched me in the guts and remained scorched on the memory was not Emily’s tragic death from TB but the fact that her mastiff, Keeper, joined her funeral cortège and then slept outside her bedroom door for the rest of his life.
The Awl features comedian Victoria Wood.
The Brontë sisters, The Female Eunuch, Jane Austen also show up in various monologues. (Lydia Perović)
Know Your Books posts about Wuthering Heights. Finally, Wetherby News reports a new chance to see Lip Service's Withering Looks in Harrogate, UK:
LipService brings its cult classic Withering Looks set on the bleak Yorkshire moors to Harrogate Theatre on Friday, June 8.
One of the most firmly established touring companies in the UK, the new show presents a not-so-authentic look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters - well, two of them actually, as Anne’s popped out for a cup of sugar.

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