Tea and Wuthering Heights

The Philadelphia Enquirer talks about the The Graphic Canon, a three volume project which intends to present graphic adaptations of the classical Western canon. The first volume appeared in Spring and contained works up through the 18th century:

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From Kublai Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray, featuring works from the 18th and 19th centuries, is due Oct. 2. And The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest brings us up to the 21st century. It's due March 5. (Tirdad Derakhshani)

The Brontë Sisters are represented by Jane Eyre, illustrated by Elizabeth Watasin (on the right, Source) and Wuthering Heights, illustrated by Tim Fish (check this previous post of ours).

The Age talks with the Australian author Kate Forster:

Still, she's not entirely sure why the bulk of her readers are in Britain. ''Perhaps it's because they have so many successful female novelists already,'' she muses. ''In England, I don't think women are embarrassed by reading commercial novels. They can read Marian Keyes or Anna Funder and it doesn't matter. And England has always had great female novelists, from the Brontë sisters to Jane Austen. They totally own that realm.'' (Michael Lallo)

The Columbus Dispatch on Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy:

The lavish, gorgeous novel pays tribute, in part, to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, but it is far more than literary homage. Livesey brings her feisty heroine to bright life, and her world of 1950s and ’60s Scotland emerges on the page with startling clarity. (Erin McGraw)

The Sunday Times talks about going viral and remembers the case of Late Fragment's cover of Albert Niland's cover (yes) of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:

When Dublin soft-rock band Late Fragments uploaded a grainily shot cover of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights last year, they were astonished to see the clip win a cult audience. Fans were so smitten by their rendering of the song, they offered to pitch in to help the foursome pay for their debut EP. “We didn’t see the potential in YouTube,” says Richie Kennedy, the band’s drummer. “At the time we put that cover up, we hadn’t been pushing a lot of our own material.

And also in the Sunday Times a brief comment in this other article:

How many laughs are there in Wuthering Heights or The Return of the Native? Not many. We were known in Victorian times for many things. But being funny wasn’t one of them. (Jeremy Clarkson)

A new bridal salon in Southfeld, Detroit is described by the Observer & Eccentric local paper. We are not sure what this reference truly means:

Ranging in price from $1,000 to $6,000, some gowns are all silk, some have antique lace reminiscent of “tea and Wuthering Heights,” she says.  (sarmbruster)

Lace, tea and Wuthering Heights are not three things that usually come together.

Le Journal de Québec talks with another writer, Nora Roberts:

L’écrivaine est aussi… une grande lectrice. Elle dévore les auteurs classiques autant que les contemporains et appréciée énormément le travail de Michael Connelly, Stephen King, John Sandford, Patricia Gaffney, pour ne citer que ceux-là. « Jane Eyre est un des livres préférés et celui que j’aime le plus est Ne tirez pas sur l’oiseau moqueur, qui est un livre parfait. » Elle adore Orgueil et préjugés, de Jane Austen, et admire l’œuvre de Shakespeare.  (Marie-France Bornais) (Translation)

Another example of the GIP (Grey International Pandemia). In La Gaceta (Argentina):

El argumento de la novela recuerda a Jane Eyre y Ann cita continuamente a Tess of the D'Urbervilles, de Thomas Hardy.  (Carmen Perilli) (Translation)

And Estadão (Brazil):

By now, dozens of commentators have pointed out the similarities between "Fifty Shades of Grey"-written by a former television executive named E L James, who is British-and Gothic romances like "Jane Eyre," as well as the popular "Twilight" series of vampire novels.  (Lee Siegel)

Listín Diario (Dominican Republic) reviews Wuthering Heights 2011:

Andrea Arnold se ha atrevido a crear la niebla más profunda y cortante, sabiendo que detrás de ella puede estar el más peligroso de los acantilados.
Esta versión de “Cumbres borrascosas” no pasará inadvertida por sus osadías formales y sus cambios estructurales. Algunos espectadores no entenderán todo este manierismo visual de ritmo lento y pasión contenida. Sin embargo, la directora hizo cine de una obra inmortal porque la supo dotar de metáforas creíbles como complementos de una tragedia llena de barro, escondida dentro de páramos salvajes, donde viven gentes que visten sin opulencias, con rostros y manos marcados por la crudeza del trabajo y viviendas lúgubres y humildes por donde pocas veces ha entrado el sol. (Luis Beiro) (Translation) 

The film will be screened next August 29 at the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA.


Jane Eyre 2011 will be screened at the Cinemania Estate 2012 in Macerata (Italy) and is reviewed on Même Esprit ; Lesa's Book Critiques reviews Joanna Campbell Slan's Death of a Schoolgirl;  Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two posts about Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth; Elliot's Reading and Peter, Leslie, John and Isla post about Wuthering Heights; King's Live and Musings of Randomness talk about Jane Eyre; książki sardegny (in Polish) reviews Agnes Grey; La Amena Biblioteca de Redfield Hall (in Spanish) posts about Brontë country. Finally, you can follow the rehearsals and read interviews with the members of the Act One company which will perform a production of Wuthering Heights in the Edinburgh's Fringe later this month.