Suffering and storms

The Bristol Old Vic’s director Sally Cookson speaks to The Times about her new take on Jane Eyre, which will open on February 10th.

I'm in the rehearsal room for Jane Eyre, the director Sally Cookson's new production for Bristol Old Vic. (...)
Craig Edwards (playing Lord Ingram) and Felix Hayes (Mr Rochester), both in character, engage in a long discussion or whether or not Lord Ingram would have fought at Waterloo. (...)
Hayes was the captain in Cookson's Ali Baba. He is also bot your typical Rochester (...)  'I was really keen that the Rochester I cast was not the obvious choice. The dark brooding thing becomes a bit of a cliché doesn't it?' (Marie-Claire Chappet)

The Daily Mail has asked several people about the secret of an enduring marriage. Novelist Kate Long says,

It's strange, the things we believe prove a person's level of devotion. As a teenager, drunk on writers like Daphne du Maurier and the Brontës, I thought true love was all about suffering and storms, raging drama and exquisite despair.

News.com (Australia) looks at the past of Lady Amanda Harlech, 'Karl Lagerfeld's right-hand woman'.

Before the fashion game, Harlech (then Amanda Grieve) was an English major at Oxford, where she read Dickens, the Brontë sisters and cemented a lifelong love affair with Henry James. (Alice Cavanagh)

Librotecando (in Spanish) is about to start a read-along of Jane Eyre. The Jisjournals posts about Wuthering Heights.