An 'absurd, Monty Python-ish' exploration of Charlotte's life and times

It seems that the Brontës are present in many of the Fringe Festivals this summer. A few weeks ago at the Washington Fringe, in a few days at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun and Gig City present A Brontë Burlesque which will be performed at the Edmonton Fringe next week (August 16-25):

Absurd Monty Python-ish piece exploring the life and times of novelist Charlotte Brontë, or so it seems. (Mike Ross)

The Springfield State-Journal is eager but fearful of Wuthering Heights 2011 which opens in the US in October:

One of my favorite novels is Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The story of the orphan Heathcliff, whom Mr. Earnshaw brings home in an inexplicable act of charity, and the subsequent primal attraction that occurs between the boy and Earnshaw’s young daughter Cathy, has haunted me since I first read it in college. Since then, I have read it about seven times. (...)
While no film adaptation quite captures the power of the story (the 1939 version with Laurence Olivier was awful—he made an insufferable Heathcliff), my favorite was the 1970 version with Anne Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton. The scene in which Heathcliff learns that Cathy has died giving birth and bashes his head against a tree is truly powerful; Dalton was Heathcliff.
So, I will go to the new adaptation when it comes out in the hopes that maybe–just maybe–a film might finally capture the spirit and the power of Bronte’s story of love on the moors.
Somehow, though, I fear I will be disappointed. (Marty Morris)

The Yorkshire Evening Post talks about Guiseley's charms:

We have a lot to thank Guiseley for - apart from being the spiritual home of fish and chips, it was also home to Silver Cross prams and the place where Patrick Brontë, father of the famous Brontë sisters, got married.
The town itself was given by St Oswald, King of Northumbria to the Archbishop of York in the 7th Century, with the first church being built about 1150. (...)
This December will mark the 200th anniversary of the wedding of Patrick Brontë to Maria Branwell - if the wedding had never taken place, there would have been no Jayne Eyre (sic) and no Wuthering Heights.

The Arizona Republic traces the personal biography of a new teacher at Creighton Elementary School:

At 12, she read Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and everything by Jane Austen. At 13, she volunteered to work in the school library, surrounded by the books she loved. (Karina Bland)

Andrew Motion writes in The Huffington Post the reason why he has written a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island:

But natural or not, the would-be writers of sequels and prequels do well to remember the business is still fraught with dangers. Especially, I'd say, if they pitch their own works too close to the original - which the heat and flare is likely to burn them up. Better, in fact, to take a big step away, then come at the original from a surprising angel. Like Tom Stoppard does in his treatment of the Hamlet story in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Or Jean Rhys in her brilliant novel Wide Sargasso Sea, about the first Mrs. Rochester, "the mad woman in the attic" in Jane Eyre.

Kristelight Dagblad (Denmark) interviews the singer and songwriter Anne Dorte Michelsen:

Hvilken bog om kristendom eller med kristne temaer vil du anbefale andre at læse?
"Tanken om særligt kristne bøger huer mig i grunden ikke. Jeg kan ikke huske, at jeg har læst en bog, som jeg ville kalde for kristen i egentlig forstand. Og slet ikke en nyere bog. Jeg erkender, at det nok er et behov, som jeg ikke har. Men når det er sagt, så er jeg dog meget glad for både Jane Austen og søstrene Brontë, som begge har en stærk religiøs dimension. Især søstrene Brontë. I en bog som Jane Eyre beskrives forholdet til det religiøse på en stærk og usentimental måde.” (Dorte J. Thorsen) (Translation)

The infamous article on The Telegraph about motherhood and authorship that has given way to such controversy on the net, reappears on Xojane Issues:

But to project what-ifs onto women like Jane Austen -- or Virginia Woolf, or Charlotte or Emily Brontë, or any number of women authors from history who dared sacrifice motherhood for writing -- and then to suggest that the experience of biological reproduction might have improved their writing is ghastly and dismissive and antifeminist in the extreme. (It is also worth mentioning that Charlotte Brontë was pregnant at the time of her death, possibly as a result of hyperemesis , at 38 years of age, making her inclusion here in dubious taste.) (Lesley)

Daily Candy mentions the fashion label Currer Bell (check this previous post):

The co-founders, L.A.-based designer Geren Lockhart (of silky dress fame) and UK textile queen Nancy Parker, named the line for Charlotte Brontë’s pseudonym, and pieces (quite fittingly) rep the best of both worlds.

The Portland Book Review reviews Emily and Carlo by Marty Rhodes Figley:

Emily and Carlo is a sweet and classically written children’s book about the relationship between the poet Emily Dickinson and her dog that is sure to warm the hearts of all who read it. (...)
Emily is very lonely in the empty home, and her father buys her a puppy. Emily names him Carlo after the dog in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, one of Dickinson’s favorite books. (Emily Davis)

Carlo was St John's old pointer.
BookPage posts about Joanna Campbell Slan's Death of a Schoolgirl and Killer Fiction interviews the author; Anyway (in Spanish) posts about Wuthering Heights; BottomLineFun talks about a couple of Jane Eyre film adaptations;  Books, Yarn, Ink and Other Pursuits reviews an ARC copy of Tina Connolly's Ironskin (due to appear in October); Ciné 2909 and Emmanuel Chaussade (all in French) review Jane Eyre 2011; Salima Korri reviews Clare Boylan & Charlotte Brontë's Emma Brown; Axasteoquê?!? posts about Wuthering Heights 2011.

And Eve Sinclair's Jane Eyre Laid Bare has her own book trailer as posted on WHSmithDirect.