Thanks to his ability to date paper and pigments, he is also able to verify authenticity. It’s mostly bad news, especially when it comes to Lowrys and Ben Nicholson pictures, which are easy to forge, though he delivered good news for one owner who asked him to clean what he thought was a print of an Anne Brontë drawing. Richard informed him that it was an original. “That was a lovely feeling and very poignant as the drawing is of an idealised family with three daughters and a son by a lake. It was almost as if that is what she wished for.”Los Angeles Review of Books interviews Robert Sikoryak, author of the Masterpiece Comics version of Wuthering Heights:
Making Wuthering Heights into a 1950s horror comic was hardly a stretch, and I don’t know if it was enough of a stretch to get the kind of jolt that I am usually looking for. But the way that novel is generally treated and thought of is much milder than the novel actually is, so I had to think of a really brutal comic to combine the novel with. I think about how things might connect and I make notes. Sometimes nothing comes of them, but sometimes something really seems like the right idea and I pursue it. What’s fun about doing these, and what has become important sometimes, is thinking about how the stories are told. (Interview by Brad Prager)Forbes talks about Tosca Musk, CEO of Passionflix, filmaker... and sister of Elon Musk:
Her choices for romantic fare on Passionflix is often informed by her love of places like Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters' England, ("London is one of the most romantic places in the world!") Paris, ("Paris is always a good idea" is her favorite line from Sabrina, one of the films currently on the network) Rome, and other locales where the BON (Passionflix's rating system of "Barometer of Naughtiness") is inclined to be high. (Michael Alpiner)Enid News mentions great American novels:
These great American authors are every bit as powerful as were the other greats of other countries — Jane Austen, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Kafka, Brontë, Jonathan Swift or Lewis Carroll … and on and on. (David Christy)The Telegraph (India) on Pride and Prejudice:
Reading Pride and Prejudice is so immensely pleasurable; there is nothing better than watching the crackling of suppressed passion. Come to think of it, the novel is quite a strange, explosive thing for an ageing "spinster" - a clergyman's daughter, Austen was 38 when she wrote it - to write. But the Brontë sisters would do it too, soon. (Upala Sen)Hannah Jane Parkinson publishes a response to the list of 100 best nonfiction books published by The Guardian:
It was pleasing to see Robert’s inclusion of writers of colour and women who for so long were obscured by white men. I remember sitting in an English class and being outraged when I learned that Charlotte Brontë’s first book was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Then a year later, the first of “JK Rowling’s” Harry Potter books came out. Not quite for the same reasons, but still.Blasting News reviews the new season of Black Mirror:
Much like the character of Heathcliff was in Emily Bruntë's (sic) classic novel, "Wuthering Heights," these characters would fit the bill better as anti-heroes of the episode. Nonetheless, we root for the crew of the USS Callister to escape their encapture from their tyrant captain, Robert Daly. (Hip Hip Hooray). (J. Hirsch)Entertainment Ireland chooses the best films of the year:
God's Own Country. Although some may draw comparisons between God's Own Country and Brokeback Mountain, there's actually more in common with Wuthering Heights than anything else. (Brian Lloyd)Some tidbits around. Country Life makes a summary of UK theatre this year and says:
If one good thing came out of The Divide, it was the emergence of Erin Doherty. It fell to her to convey the sweetness and sadness of a woman who saw herself as a reborn Jane Eyre. (Michael Billington)Cap Times makes a similar thing in the Madison area:
Out of town, I saw some excellent performances in Milwaukee, among them a moving spring production of “Jane Eyre” at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. (Lindsay Christians)Moira MacDonald in Seattle Times describes Jane Eyre 2006 as 'awfully good'.
Es obvio que esta escritora tiene una deuda con otras escritoras que destacaron dentro del género gótico, como Ann Radcliffe, Mary Wollstonecraft o las hermanas Brontë:«Estas autoras eran para ella muy importantes, las admiraba como artistas y como mujeres que habían conquistado su independencia a través de su literatura. Para Alcott fueron un modelo literario y personal». (Andrés González-Barba) (Translation)Cassino Informa (Italy) considers Wuthering Heights an autumn read:
Ma l’amore spesso sa essere crudele e spietato, quella che vogliamo presentarvi attraverso le sue stesse parole è Catherine Earnshaw di Emily Brontë, protagonista del celeberrimo Cime tempestose. La bella, orgogliosa e determinata Catherine, si innamorerà del fratello adottivo Heathcliff e quest’amore porterà entrambi alla rovina. Ma conosciamola meglio attraverso le sue parole in una conversazione con la bambinaia Nelly: “[…] Se fossi in paradiso, Nelly, sarei infinitamente infelice”. “Perché non sei degna di andarvi”- le risposi. «Tutti i peccatori sarebbero infelici in cielo”. “Ma non è per questo. Una volta ho sognato d’esser già lassù”, “Ti ho già detto che non voglio sentire i tuoi sogni, Caterina! Me ne andrò a letto” la interruppi di nuovo. Ella rise e mi costrinse a star seduta poiché avevo fatto l’atto di alzarmi. “Questo è nulla” gridò. “Stavo solo per dirti che il paradiso non mi sembrava fatto per me; ed io piangevo fino a farmi spezzare il cuore, perché volevo ritornare sulla terra e gli angeli erano tanto adirati che mi hanno buttato fuori, giù, in mezzo all’erica, sullacima di Wuthering Heights, dove mi sono svegliata singhiozzando di gioia. Questo basterà a spiegarti il mio segreto. Non è cosa per me sposare Edgard Linton, come non lo sarebbe il paradiso: e, se quell’infame, che ora è rinchiuso là dentro, non avesse ridotto Heathcliff tanto in basso, non avrei mai pensato di farlo. Ora, se sposassi Heathcliff, ne sarei degradata; così lui non saprà mai quanto io lo ami: e questo non perché è bello Nelly, ma perché lui è più me di me stessa. Di qualsiasi cosa siano fatte le nostre anime, la sua e la mia sono simili; e l’anima di Linton è differente come un raggio di luna dal lampo, o il gelo dal fuoco”. (Martina Salvatore) (Translation)the Brontë Sisters wishes all Brontëites a happy new year.
A packed programme of activities for the 200th anniversary will centre on Haworth and in particular the Brontë Parsonage Museum.The crusade against Lily Cole's involvement in the Emily 200th celebrations (anathema!) goes steadily into surrealism. Meet Brontë biographers' version of Celebrity Death Match:
Several will involve the personalities chosen to champion Jane Eyre writer Emily (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) during 2018: actress and former model Lily Cole, folk group The Unthanks, poet Patience Agbabi, artist Kate Whiteford and teen blogger Lucy Powrie.
Special events over the next 12 months are part of the five-year Brontë 200 Festival, and follow festivals devoted to the bicentennials of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë held in 2016 and 2017.
Brontë Society executive director Kitty Wright said: “Emily’s bicentenary is a particularly exciting chapter in our five-year bicentennial festival and we look forward to celebrating this most enigmatic of the Brontë siblings with audiences in Yorkshire and across the world.
“The year 2018 will also see us enter the Arts Council’s National Portfolio for the first time and we look forward to building on the partnerships we have developed during our celebrations of Charlotte in 2016 and Branwell in 2017.”
When the Brontë Parsonage Museum reopens on February 1 it will host a year-long exhibition entitled Making Thunder Roar: Emily Brontë.
For the exhibition, the Brontë Society has invited several well-known Emily admirers to share their own fascination with the author’s life and work.
There will be specially-commissioned contributions from Maxine Peake, Sally Wainwright, Caryl Phillips and Helen Oyeyemi, in a thought-provoking selection of Emily’s possessions, writing and artwork, as well as some of the well-loved household objects she used daily.
Visitors to the Brontë Parsonage Museum will also have the opportunity to see the iconic portrait of Emily with Charlotte and Anne, The Brontë Sisters, which was painted by her brother, Branwell Brontë.
The painting will return to Haworth for a special three-month loan from the National Portrait Gallery, London. (David Mason)
One leading expert has threatened to resign from the Brontë Society following the announcement that Lily, an actress and social entrepreneur, will be its creative partner for 2018.Yorkshire Post reviews a new Haworth restaurant, The Hawthorne with no Brontë references in an article full of Brontë references:
But Nick Holland’s strongly-worded criticism of the world’s oldest literary society for its modern outlook has been branded “tedious killjoy carping” by fellow Brontë writer Samantha Ellis.
Both are experts on Wuthering Heights author Emily’s less-renowned younger sister – Holland wrote In Search Of Anne Brontë and pens a blog at annebronte.org, while Ellis wrote Take Courage: Anne Brontë And The Art Of Life and headlined events during the Brontë Society’s anniversary celebrations for Branwell Brontë in 2017. (...)
In a Twitter response to Mr Holland’s blog, Samantha Ellis wrote: “What tedious killjoy carping. @BronteParsonage brilliantly balance intellectual rigour, integrity & FUN, in general & esp for #Bronte200.” (Keighley News)
The Hawthorn is Haworth’s newest eatery and, says Amanda Wragg, ‘Dear reader, relax there’s not a single reference to the Brontës’. There’s not much in Haworth that’s not been fully Brontë-d. There’s the Villette Coffee House, Emily’s Café, Ye Olde Brontë Tea Rooms – so it’s a relief that a spanking new restaurant and bar on the High Street has resisted the urge to market itself as a place Branwell might have been thrown out of. (...)The Canberra Times is undecided:
Back in the day, carpenter William Wood, who made much of the furniture in the Parsonage, also made all the Brontës’ coffins, along with the cases for Barraclough clocks, one of which stands in the Parsonage and one of Charlotte’s friends, wrote how, after the death of her siblings, Charlotte would sit alone in the parlour with just the sound of the clock ticking. The vibe in the Hawthorn is jollier. (...)
Kitchen has hit the ground running; The Hawthorn is a long-held dream for him and he’s started in fine style. Service is super-friendly and the menu shows promise, particularly the Josper offerings. Oh and did I mention the bar? Small, wood panelled and cosy with a couple of local cask ales and a jar of homemade treats for your canine chum. After the Withins hike enjoy a pint of Saltaire Blonde and a read of the paper. Branwell would have loved it. (Amanda Wragg)
If you're paying for cable or any TV subscription service, it's there to be used! My dad used to say (when he wanted my sister and me to avoid shoe stores and steer clear of his bank account), "Stay in and read the classics."The Argus lists the best shows in 2017. Including the National Theatre's production of Jane Eyre:
Much as it might be nice to reach for some Emily Brontë or Charles Dickens on a Sunday morning (and by all means, do!), we're much more likely to reach for the remote. And the best thing about that? Both are free! Can't argue with that. (Susie Moore)
One show that absolutely delivered that was the National Theatre’s version of Jane Eyre, which played at Theatre Royal Brighton in July.The New Jersey Daily Record talks about Soundings an annual program of readings sponsored by Writers Theatre of New Jersey (WTNJ) in Madison.
Innovative features were at the heart of this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel; from the appearance of a live band to the skeletal, three-deck framework of a set, which enabled delightful choreography. Most impressive of all, though, was the haunting sight of Melanie Marshall’s Bertha.
A permanent fixture on the stage, she frequently chimed in with enchanting, foreboding songs to heighten the already tense atmosphere. A brilliant twist on what is, let’s be honest, an overdone story. (Edwin Wilson)
Stephen Kaplan, who is represented with a play about the Brontë family of authors, agreed. “One of the things I love about ‘Soundings’ is the quality of the audiences,” he said. “They’re intelligent, and they’re fierce advocates for theater.” (...)Daily Breeze loves Edinburgh:
Monday, January 15 – “Branwell (and the other Brontës): An autobiography edited by Charlotte Brontë” by Stephen Kaplan. (Bill Nutt)
For centuries, Edinburgh, Scotland’s elegant and lively seat of power, has been admired by native sons and foreigners alike. “Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence,” Robert Louis Stevenson remarked.The New York Times reviews Catching Breath. The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis by Kathryn Lougheed:
Visitors of all stripes imagined themselves living there. Charlotte Brontë loved it. So did Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, who wrote in 1938 that the city “will make a delightful summer capital when we invade Britain.”
Lougheed’s history of tuberculosis dates it back to ancient mummies and medieval bones. She touches on New England folklore that links the disease to vampirism, as well as TB’s 19th-century associations with creativity (think: Frédéric Chopin, Keats and the Brontës). (Amanda Schaffer)The Daily Star reviews the book Church Bell and Darjeeling Tea by Zeena Choudhury:
They made her conscious of her cultural roots. She was already well read in English Literature, having read Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the poems of Keats, Shelly and Byron and lighter works by Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by then. Now it was time for her to read Rabindranath Tagore, the works of poet Nazrul Islam, Sarat Chandra Chattapaddhay and other Bengali writers. (Nusrat Huq)Birth.Movies.Death and the best movies of 2017:
Set in 1950s London, Phantom Thread is sexy, pretty, and perverse, a love story that is somehow both buttoned-up and completely unmoored, at times reminding me of Rebecca, Jane Eyre, The Duke of Burgundy, and the films of David Lean, Hitchcock, and Powell & Pressburger. (Priscilla Page)Being on autopilot, according to InStyle:
If you wanted to live your live as a recluse, perhaps channeling your inner Emily Brontë, but still with access to the endless entertainment and resources of the 21st century, there really has never been a better time. (Victoria Moorhouse)The New Potato interviews Debra Messing:
Laura Kosann: If you could have a dinner party with any five people, living or dead, who would you have over and what would you serve?El Telégrafo (Ecuador) announces the upcoming publication of a new translation of Emily Brontë's complete poetry:
DM: Christiane Amanpour, Charlotte Brontë, Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem, and Grace Paley. I would cater it, like a feast for kings, like for Henry VIII, just tons of food and lots of wine. I’d put extra pillows on the chairs so people could just really chill out.
Alba inaugurará una nueva colección de poesía, dirigida por Gonzalo Torné, con un volumen de Poesía completa de Emily Brontë y una antología de poetas españolas; y también en poesía se publicará en este primer trimestre una antología de Sylvia Plath. (Translation)Planet Hugill lists the best classical recordings of 2017:
A wonderful 90th birthday present: John Joubert's Jane Eyre finally reaches CD. John Joubert Jane Eyre; April Fredrick, David Stout, Clare McCaldin, Mark Milhofer, Gwion Thomas, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods; SOMM. A labour of love, a terrific performance of Joubert's romantic opera. (Robert Hugill)
Vision and CharacterChapter 2 is "By the Sweat of One’s Brow": Charlotte Brontë (The Professor & Villette)
Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel
by Eike Kronshage
Routledge
ISBN: 9781138710252
As readers, we develop an impression of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author’s description of their physical characteristics and surroundings. This process, known as physiognomy, can be seen throughout history including in the English Realist novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics as presented by some of the best known authors in this genre, like Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. In this highly original approach to the issues of representation, visuality and aesthetics in the nineteenth-century realist novel, and even the question of literary interpretation, Eike Kronshage argues that physiognomics has enabled writers to access their characters’ inner lives without interfering in an authoritative way.
As the Introduction to my paperback copy points out, “Agnes Grey is undoubtedly in many ways a deeply personal novel’ (xii). “Charlotte Brontë described the work as ‘the mirror of the mind of the writer” (xii-xiii). One of the things that Anne emphasized in her novels, comes right out of her experiences as a governess. The treatment of these young women was nothing less than atrocious. Agnes Grey speaks with the authority of experience. In addition, her moral and religious sensibilities are evident throughout the novel.Daily Mail lists some must-read books:
I hope this taste of a fantastically talented young writer will inspire you to snuggle up with Anne Brontë and delve into Agnes Grey. All you need is a cup of tea, some patience, and the reward is a thoroughly satisfying icture of young women in England of the 1840s. 5 stars! (Jim McKeown)
Take Courage by Samantha EllisA reader of the Minnesota Star-Tribune wants to change Brontës on a list of best novels:
The novelist George Moore described Anne Brontë as ‘a literary Cinderella’.
Anne was the youngest and least famous of the three Brontë sisters, and in this account of her life Samantha Ellis determines to rescue the writer from undeserved obscurity.
‘She wasn’t hungry for fame like Charlotte, who carefully managed her public image. She wasn’t unconventional like Emily, who tramped the moors in odd clothes.’ When she was 20, Anne wrote on the flyleaf of her Bible, ‘What, Where and How Shall I Be When I Have Got Through?’
In this idiosyncratic book — half biography, half memoir — Ellis explores that question not just on Anne’s behalf, but also her own, as she takes stock of her life at 40. Comparing the trajectories of their lives, she ends a long list of opportunities she has enjoyed and which Anne never had with: ‘I’ve seen Kate Bush live.’
Cinderella indeed. (Jane Shilling)
“Jane Eyre”: Replace Charlotte Brontë’s book with her sister Emily’s “Wuthering Heights,” structurally the best novel ever written. And I can prove it. (Kurt Partridge)Sonoma Index-Tribune lists the best films of the year:
Skillfully directed by William Oldroyd from a screenplay by Alice Birch, “Lady Macbeth” is reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s recent version of “Wuthering Heights,” with a trapped woman at the center and cloud-choked English moors all around. In this withering but gorgeous isolation, Florence Pugh delivers a face-melting performance as a woman who responds to her bondage by burning through a husband, a father-in-law and a lover. Playing a mute servant, Naomi Ackie is tremendous as our co-witness to the dark goings-on.Discover Northern Ireland lists some literary places to visit:
Brontë HomelandBut Jane Eyre is precisely one of the books that My República things has to be read and re-read:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." So begins Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. However, the Brontë sisters own story starts in Northern Ireland, and there is every possibility of enjoying a tour of the Brontë Homeland. It starts at the village of Drumballyroney, County Down, and the school where the sisters’ father, Patrick Brunty – he changed his name later – taught. It has been restored as a small museum.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëEl Economista (México) has the same recommendation:
Brontë’s classic novel tells the tale of a young girl’s struggle to make something of herself in the world, from the tyranny she endures as a poor orphan under her Aunt’s roof and the deplorable conditions she lives in at Lowood school to the dark secrets she encounters in her role as Governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of the enigmatic and alluring Mr. Rochester. Strong-willed and resilient, Jane longs for the independence that Victorian England denied women, and her story stands as a timeless example of a woman’s determination to choose her own path in life in the face of hardship and ridicule.
Otro gran clásico de la literatura con una nueva traducción. Alianza ha hecho un gran trabajo de varios años para acá reeditando clásicos y haciéndolos sumamente accesible.El País (in Spanish) interviews singer and author Charlotte Gainsbourg:
Jane Eyre es la historia de Jane, una huérfana desposeída que se convierte en institutriz en una gran casa en la campiña inglesa. Es una historia de amor, pero sobre todo es un relato sobre una mujer que toma ella misma las decisiones sobre su bien. (Concepción Moreno) (Translation)
Sonríe con esmero, pero no logra disimular la negritud de su ser, como un personaje de las hermanas Brontë trasplantado al corazón de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. (Álex Vicente) (Translation)
Ganas y letras, de Amir Hamed (H Editores), y Otras vidas, de Marosa di Giorgio (Adriana Hidalgo). En Otras vidas se reúnen numerosos y diversos textos de una de las poetas más importantes de la lengua, que eligió escribir desde el borde piezas que comentan obras ajenas (de Emily Brontë a Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, de André Breton a Armonía Somers), desde un lugar personalísimo, que las vuelve propias y las integra al todo de su escritura. (Translation)Naiz (in Spanish) contains an enigmatic (a portmanteau for saying basically wrong) Wuthering Heights mention:
Al disertar sobre este tema como ácratas, somos perfectamente conscientes que entramos en arenas movedizas, en terrenos pantanosos, cual los que rodeaban el castillo del malvado Heathcliff, en la tierna obra, joya de la literatura romántica inglesa "Wuthering Heighs"(sic) de E. Brontë. (Isidoro Berdié Bueno) (Translation)The Heroine's Journey interviews the writer Catherine Cavendish:
What books influenced my life and how? Wuthering Heights influenced my adolescent years. I grew up not far from Haworth, in Halifax and the moors there are similar. Curlews calling, wind whipping through the heather and whistling across the heath. It inspired me to write. Wuthering Heights awakened a love of the gothic in me that has never left me.
Blindness and WritingFrom Wordsworth to Gissingby Heather TilleyChapter 5 is 'Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë'.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781107194212
November 2017
In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used textual means to shape their own identities, the book argues that blindness was also a significant trope through which writers reflected on the act of crafting literary form. Supported by an illuminating range of archival material (including unpublished letters from Wordsworth's circle, early ophthalmologic texts, embossed books, and autobiographies) this is a rich account of blind people's experience, and reveals the close, and often surprising personal engagement that canonical writers had with visual impairment. Drawing on the insights of disability studies and cultural phenomenology, Tilley highlights the importance of attending to embodied experience in the production and consumption of texts.
Closure of the Brontë Parsonage Museum to the public throughout January is not stopping the Haworth attraction holding events.The Mirror is publishing the entries in George Orwell's diary in March 1936:
Staff will take turns to head out into the Parsonage garden at noon each day to share their knowledge of the famous family.
The talks, entitled An Introduction To The Brontës, will each last 15 minutes, are free, and do not need to be booked in advance. People should assemble outside the museum admissions area.
Parsonage Wrapped is a special event on Saturday, January 6 which will take a small group of people behind the scenes at the museum.
There will be two sessions, at 11am and 2pm, to follow on from a similar sell-out event in January last year.
A member of the curatorial team will take people through the delicate and painstaking process of ‘putting the house to bed’, carrying out vital conservation and cleaning work, and updating displays and activities.
The nearby West Lane Baptist Centre will host a screening of the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights on Monday, January 8 at 1pm.
Hollywood glamour is promised in a film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon that aims to whet people’s appetites for a new exhibition at the Parsonage Museum to mark the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth.
A member of the museum team will introduce the film and stay for a chat over a cup of coffee. Admission is free and advance booking is not required. (David Mason)
Yesterday with H and M to Haworth Parsonage, home of the Brontës and now a museum. Was chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Bronte's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up the sides.
He also increasingly wrote for television. By the 1960s he had become a regular writer on BBC's Play for Today, well known for drama serials like Poldark and A Horseman Riding By, and BBC classic adaptions including Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility and Oliver Twist. (David Herman)My Horry News talks about a local teacher of the year:
Brantay Cohens’ mother was reading Emily Brontë’s work when she was pregnant with him, so she changed the spelling a bit, and named her son after one of her favorite authors.Il Piccolo (Italy) talks about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
The Ocean Bay Middle School teacher of the year became an avid reader, like his mother, and was read- ing before he started first grade. (Ettie Newlands)
Sotto il profilo letterario fu autrice geniale e di profonda cultura. All’origine di Frankenstein, il primo romanzo nero fantascientifico della letteratura moderna, c’è Milton e la sua produzione getta le basi della narrativa romantica al femminile alle quali attinsero in seguito le sorelle Brontë. Lo conferma Franco Pezzini nel recentissimo “Fuoco e carne di Prometeo” (Odoya, 400 pagine, 22 euro) dove rileva che la scrittura di Mary si addentra nei territori del macabro e del soprannaturale con risultati straordinari, che ne mostrano il naturale talento di cui aveva già dato prova nel suo capolavoro più noto e al quale il suo nome resterà per sempre legato. (Roberto Bertinotti) (Translation)Neues Deutschland (Germany) explores the life of Berta Tucholksy:
So verffentlichte sie etwa einige Feuilletonartikel im Pester Lloyd. Ihre gelungene bersetzung des englischsprachigen Romans Jane Eyre erschien 1927. Die nordenglische Pfarrerstochter Charlotte Brontë hatte ihn im Jahr 1847 unter dem Pseudonym Currer Bell verffentlicht, wohl in der vorausschauenden Angst vor Ablehnung des Romans aufgrund ihres Geschlechts. Es sollte noch eine lange Zeit vergehen, bevor auch weibliche Autoren in der Gesellschaft akzeptiert werden wurden, eine Erfahrung, die Berta vermutlich als alleinstehende Frau auch nicht unbekannt war. (Bettina Müller) (Translation)The Sisters' Room interviews Julie Akhurst, owner of the Ponden Hall B&B. The Black Barouche reviews Jane Eyre 2006. A true piece of weird fandom: Jane Eyre meets the South Korean Seventeen boy group in Thornfield by woozifi.
This is a photograpy book singing the beauty of Yorkshire landscapes:Yorkshire Landscapes: A photographic tour of England's largest and most varied county
by Doug Kennedy
Windgather Press, 2016
ISBN: 9781909686984
Yorkshire is by far the largest county in England, taking up most of the land area from Sheffield in the south to Cleveland in the north. Covering such a large area between the North Sea and the Pennine watershed, the variety of landscapes is astonishing, and in this book you will get a taste of much of it. Our tour starts in the rolling, highly urbanised south, then climbs into the Pennines where high heather-clad moorland is bisected by valleys full of industrial heritage. Heading north, the landscape transforms into the limestone pavements and glacial valleys of the Dales where sheep graze peacefully on high grassland. The central Plain of York is the next area with its ancient castles and fertile farmland under a huge sky. To the east rises the scarp of the North Yorkshire Moors where high moorland and remote valleys stretch all the way to the gull-strewn North Sea cliffs. Turning south, we explore the gentle countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds. The final destination is the banks of the River Humber from the industrial plain to Yorkshire's furthest outpost at Spurn Head. Doug Kennedy has roamed Yorkshire's lanes, byways and footpaths, seeking out what makes each place special and applying his photographer’s eye to capture the scene perfectly in sumptuous photographic images. These are complemented by informative text that gets underneath the surface of why things look like they do. It is a book for everyone who loves the Yorkshire to treasure, and a splendid introduction to its landscape for those less familiar with 'God's Own County'.
In Haworth, St Michael and All Angels Church looks serene, with dappled sunshine on its clock tower.
Doug visits the Brontë’s home village, where Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived in the 19th century. He draws on descriptions used by the Brontë Society to depict the community at that time - ‘a crowded industrial town, polluted, smelly and wretchedly unhygienic. Although perched on the edge of open country, high up on the edge of Haworth Moor, the death rate was as high as anything in London or Bradford, with 41 per cent of children failing even to reach their sixth birthday.’
Clearly taken with the present-day village, he writes of it as ‘odour free and delightful to explore with trails that visit the church and the museum, and which climb through the lanes onto the open moors.’
He captures bustling Main Street, the much-photographed tourist hub with its gift shops and cafes.
Charlotte Brontë
The Brontës were famously from Yorkshire.
But if you walk down Boundary Street West in Hulme , you’ll see a blue plaque that proclaims Charlotte Brontë began writing Jane Eyre right here in Manchester.
Charlotte stayed in Hulme with her father in 1846.
But it was a tough time in her life.
Alongside caring for her dad, whose sight was failing, while in Manchester her publishers also rejected the draft of her first novel The Professor.
That perhaps influenced her view of Manchester - and Mancs.
Writing in her biography of Charlotte’s life, published after her death in 1855, Manchester’s renowned Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell described her friend’s time in the city.
“She had the heart of Robert Bruce within her, and failure upon failure daunted her no more than him,” wrote Gaskell.
“Not only did The Professor return again to try his chance among the London publishers, but she began, in this time of care and depressing inquietude, in those grey, weary, uniform streets; where all faces, save that of her kind doctor, were strange and untouched with sunlight to her - there and then, did the brave genius begin Jane Eyre.”
Not the nicest way to describe Hulme. (Damon Wilkinson)
The next set of clues include two four-letter bubble runs. On the left is one of the actresses, “Leigh of ‘Psycho,’” or JANET; on the right, “Ann Bronte’s first novel,” which I didn’t know and solved on crosses, AGNES GREY. So now we have JANE GREY. Hm … moving on.
The German/Swiss news outlets are full of the chronicle of a collision of a hotel ship in the Rhine: the Swiss Crystal. Apparently, her sister ship came to the rescue and it is no other than the Emily Brontë.Das Schwesterschiff Emily Brontë ist dem havarierten Swiss Crystal zu Hilfe gekommen und nahm Passagiere auf. Bereits nach kurzer Zeit konnten die nicht hospitalisierten Passagiere mit Bussen nach Hause gebracht werden. Die Heimreise der Verletzten soll in Kürze folgen, alle können die Spitäler bereits wieder verlassen. Es befanden sich keine Kinder an Bord. Das Alter der Insassen sei im Durchschnitt über sechzig Jahre zu schätzen, so Zelst. (Basler Zeitung) (Translation)EDIT: Seatrade Cruise News explains it in plain English:
Soon after the incident another Scylla vessel, Emily Brontë, was called to the accident site. Some Swiss Crystal passengers were transferred to the vessel, while others were taken ashore and transported back to the Netherlands by bus. The situation was reported quickly under control and the emergency procedures worked without a hitch. (Frederik Erdmann)The Times publishes the obituary of the choreographer Adam Darius (1930-2017) who crossed the Brontë bridge in one occasion:
It frustrated Darius that the first question many people wanted to ask him was what it was like to work with Kate Bush. As a choreographer, he had devised the open- ing movements of Bush’s memorable dance for her No 1 single Wuthering Heights in 1978. No lover of pop music, Darius had only recently watched the video of Bush in a flowing red dress employing the expressive hand movements he had taught her. “Oh, those are my moves,” he mused, and smiled.The Sydney Morning Herald lists the best movies of 2017:
Lady MacBethThe Press-Telegram discusses new year's resolutions:
It starts off like Wuthering Heights and ends like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, as the lady of the title morphs from victim to valiant proto-feminist to outright villain. It's a period drama like none you've seen before, a Gothic thriller that manages to be both spare and lush at the same time. (Karl Quinn)
Finally, your chances of success improve measurably if you go public with your resolutions. Tell people who you love and respect that you’re going to lose weight, quit smoking and read “Finnegans Wake,” “Lord Jim” and “The Wide Sargasso Sea” in 2018. (Tim Grobaty)Trendencias (in Spanish) lists book gifts to the women of your life:
Jane Eyre, de Charlotte BrontëDo you fancy Jane Eyre 1997? ITV3 will broadcast the film tomorrow at 03:30 AM and next Tuesday, January 2, at 03.55AM. Afternoon Literature posts about Wuthering Heights. forthenovellovers and NetGalley review the Manga Classics edition of Jane Eyre. Adivina Quién Lee (in Spanish) reviews Agnes Grey.
Un poco de ficción victoriana siempre es un buen regalo para las amantes de la lectura. Y la historia de la aparentemente simple Jane Eyre y el ya mítico Mr Rocherster es quizá el mejor ejemplo del género. (Abril Camino) (Translation)
Victorian EcocriticismChapter 3 is 'Wending Homeward: The Material Turn in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre' by Adrian Tait
The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice
Edited by Dewey W. Hall
Lexington Books, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4985-5106-9
Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental rethinking and reworking of the field as a whole’”. While discussions about nature conservation and preservation have been important within the context of ecocriticism, Buell asserts that the holy grail for the field is actually how literary critics engage in discourse about questions of place as space humanized for the purpose of tracing, disclosing, and advancing the important issue of environmental justice—as it applies to human beings, animals, and plants. The “fundamental reworking” or shift in the field of Victorian Studies really has to do with the dearth of ecocritical publishing about seminal authors and literary texts. Victorian Ecocriticism aims to participate in filling that vacuum, lack, or lacuna by featuring current research about the Victorian era from an ecocritical perspective.
Victorian Ecocriticism hopes to identify, establish, and organize its content based on six themes: Ecocrisis, Ecofeminism, Ecogothicism, Ecohistoricism, Ecotheology, and Ecological Interdependence. The edited collection, thus, has two aims. First, selected places among others featured in the edition will provide environmental contexts, often with political implications: American rural landscape (e.g., Walden Pond), Australian mines, British hill-country, metropolis, mill towns, the sea, and the woods. Second, the edition includes discussions about various instances of early environmental justice evident during the mid-nineteenth century such as, but not limited to: anti-railway campaigns, biological egalitarianism, labor disputes due to adverse working conditions, patterns of displacement, reactions to Victorian scientism, resistance to enclosure, and working class education.
Victorian Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary edition. It focuses on Victorian literature as the foundational discipline linked to various disciplines such as ecology, evolutionary biology, natural history, and soil science. The topics are wide-ranging, significant, and contemporary discussing the politics of place as well as early environmental justice.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Octagon, BoltonVogue talks about doll's houses and mentions that
“Elizabeth Newman’s evocative production brought Anne Brontë’s proto-feminist story of flawed menfolk and the women left bobbing in their wake vividly to life. Thanks to some stellar design work from the creative team, the play’s haunting Yorkshire moorland setting almost became a character in its own right.” (Chris Bartlett)
In 2009, for example, a house decorated by Charlotte Brontë – and to which Walt Disney, the Mitfords and Bruce Chatwin had all undertaken pilgrimages to see – fetched £15,000 at Christie’s. (Jessie Burton)Allegedly decorated by Charlotte Brontë would be more accurate. If you are interested in the story, check these old posts: this and this one.
It was either Charlotte or Emily Brontë – no one knows which – who said, “I’ll walk where my own nature will be leading”. When we walk, we are fashioning a self. At once similar to and very different from our other, workaday selves. The rest of your life has no tension on the track, it can’t get you. You are encapsulated, apart, orbiting yourself. You fall back on whatever resources you have. (Kristina Olsson)The verses belong to the poem Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning which has been attributed to Emily or Charlotte depending on the authors. More information again in this old post or in this article by Ian M. Emberson in Brontë Studies.
Cumbres Borrascosas – Emily Brontë Esta novela es considerada un clásico de la literatura inglesa y su autora una de las mejores poetisas de Inglaterra. Es un drama trágico con los picos de amor, odio, venganza y locura que caracterizan a las relaciones de dependencia como la que protagonizan sus personajes Heathcliff y Catherine, quienes llevan al lector a vivir una apasionante y desgarradora experiencia. (Translation)Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden) talks about the use and mostly abuse of political correctness in language. Sexism or blatant stupidity?
Branschorganisationen Svenska Tecknare tyckte det var dags att uppdatera till något lite mindre stötande. Som redigerare var jag då mot, av den huvudsakliga anledningen att det passar min kärlek till allt som doftar bahytt, Dickens och Jane Eyre att dagligen få användning för ett så daterat begrepp. Som skörlevande kvinna tycker jag också jag hade visst tolkningsföreträde. (Kajsa Bergström Feiff) (Translation)
Epigenetic emergence: reading for growth in Jane EyreA recent Ph.D. dissertation:
Anna Neill
Textual Practice, Pages 1-16 | Received 05 Mar 2017, Accepted 26 Jul 2017, Published online: 21 Dec 2017
DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2017.1417897
Abstract
The potential for an intervention by epigenetics into cultural theory and literary analysis has been a topic of recent inquiry from several directions. However, these approaches sometimes too easily align epigenetics with the Lamarckian ‘inheritance of acquired characteristics’, which presumes the direct influence of environment on the existence of particular traits across generations. This emphasis on environment in turn looks back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century racial science that attributed degrees of civilisation or savagery to the combined influence of heredity and climate. By instead tracing epigenetics in the older concept of ‘epigenesis’ from Romantic biology, we can identify the interpretive role of the organism itself in the expression of inherited traits and in the mediation of environmental stimuli. An epigenetic reading of Jane Eyre identifies how Brontë uses the creative agency of the developing body to challenge the ‘genetic’ and environmental coordinates of racial anthropology. In so doing, she links imperial violence to domestic tyranny and protests against the injustice of both.
"The Violent Take It by Force": Heathcliff and the Vitalizing Power of Mayhem in Wuthering Heights
Jeff LeJeune
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017
In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë employs the character Heathcliff as both a real and mythic being in order to challenge class conventions in Victorian society. She shares this societal contention with other Victorian novelists, but where her contemporaries are typically realistic in their works, Brontë creates a concurrent mythic realm alongside the real in order to allow Heathcliff the space and license to be a Revenant, a symbol used in the folk tradition of the Scots, which I contend was a likely influence on Brontë’s work. Heathcliff’s real nature clashes with this symbolic one, especially when reality will not allow him to be with Catherine, the woman he loves. Her rejection of him serves two central purposes: 1) for the author to spotlight the arbitrary nature of the class system and the decisions individuals make inside it; and 2) for the author to provide a pivot point in the story at which she transforms Heathcliff from a real character to a mythic one. Heathcliff spends the latter half of the novel exacting redemptive punishment on all who have wronged him (and the marginalized he represents), including Catherine herself, a reality he struggles with because he still loves her despite her class-motivated marriage to the hated Edgar Linton. In the end, Heathcliff transgresses his symbolic purpose by going too far in punishing the innocent Hareton, at which point Bronte has him die as unceremoniously as she did Catherine earlier in the novel. Young Hareton and Cathy’s relationship is the fruit of the Revenant Heathcliff’s redeeming work, an ending that, for Bronte, seems to merge more than just the two houses; it seems to also reconcile divergent and conflicting ways of thinking inside the class system.
Face it, everyone loves a Bildungsroman TV adaptation whether they even know what the word means or not. An array of 19th century novels from Jane Eyre through to Great Expectations are consistently romanticised on our TV screens. But why do we love them so much? Is it good old-fashioned courtship, ostentatious period drama costumes, or the fetishisation of a time without technology? (Violet Conroy)A heartbreaking story in The Times of India:
I will remember the books we read (all that were in my bucket list) and will forever disagree with you that Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights is the biggest literary villain. I know you say that only to tease me. But think about it: You won't have to worry about me doing something wrong if I have an affair with a literary character!Thought Catalog has a list of funny(?) jokes on film titles:
18. Wuthering we should have hired actors who weren’t deathly afraid of heights or at least made the Heights less wuthering. (Tommy Paley)La Vanguardia (Spain) lists some of the 2018 anniversaries:
30 de julio 1818 (200 años). Nacimiento de Emily BrontëColours in literature in Sin Chew Daily (Malaysia):
La escritora inglesa nace en Thornton, en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. Era la quinta de seis hermanos de un párroco anglicano de origen irlandés. Poetisa y narradora británica, autora de una única y extraordinaria novela que le dio celebridad: Cumbres borrascosas (1847), considerada una de las mejores narraciones en lengua inglesa y la obra maestra de la narrativa romántica victoriana. Murió el 19 de diciembre de 1848, de tuberculosis a los 30 años. (Translation)
虽然英语中的red也有喜庆的意思，如“red carpet”（红毯）、“red-letter days”（纪念日及喜庆日）；但很多的red则有专横、杀戮、血腥、暴力、罪恶等消极涵义。比如夏绿蒂．勃朗特小说《简．爱》（Jane Eyre）里的“红屋”，是女主角目睹舅舅死亡及她受惩罚的地方。在此作品的认知域里，“红”与恐怖、死亡联系在一起。而霍桑的长篇小说《红字》（The Scarlet Letter）里的“红”，则象征通奸及罪恶等。因此霍克斯对于“红”，多数是：No！(孙彦庄) (Translation)Season greetings from AnneBronte.org, the Sezione Italiana della Brontë Society. Jane Eyre's Library, Christmas in Haworth on I love Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage ...
The Bronte Society faces new criticism after giving supermodel Lily Cole a prominent role in the bicentenary celebrations for Emily Brontë.Later on, the article repeats verbatim what The Times already published. Apparently, literary 'experts' are essentially reduced to Nick Holland (let's-burn-these-heretics-now!) as Juliet Barker doesn't seem to feel that way.
It comes amid years of bitter internal feuding at one of the world's oldest literary societies between modernists and traditionalists.
The Society has been accused of “putting celebrity over the Brontë sisters themselves” after appointing Cole as a creative partner this week.
Literary experts claim her appointment is an insult to the author's memory. (Nicola Harley)
Thomas has not ruled out future adaptations of classics – “I’d love to do a Dickens and I’m a huge fan of George Eliot … I’ve never done a Brontë” – but she is currently working on two original projects. (Sarah Hughes)An interesting article about teaching literature in The Guardian:
What have our students been reading before they come to our class? Some – a very few, and almost always women – have read 19th century classics: the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens. Some – a very few, and almost always men – have read 20th century science fiction (Asimov and his ilk), and some of the Beats and their offspring: Kerouac, Bukowski, Burroughs. (Tegan Bennett Daylight)The Independent (Ireland) lists the best movies of 2017:
God's Own CountryCulturamas (Spain) is quite wrong when it claims:
Part Ken Loach film, part Brontë novel, Francis Lee's atmospheric, bruising drama is set high in the Yorkshire moors and stars Josh O'Connor as Johnny, a terse, hard-drinking young man who bitterly resents having to run his disabled father's sheep farm, and feels like he's been left behind. He's gay, a fact he feels compelled to keep secret from his family until a handsome Romanian worker arrives at the farm to help. (Paul Whitington)
A diferencia de muchos escritores ingleses del siglo XIX, como Jane Austen o las hermanas Brontë, que disfrutaban disfrutaban de una clase social alta simplemente por haber nacido en una familia acomodada, Charles Dickens no tuvo una infancia precisamente fácil[.] (Alejandro Gamero) (Translation)La Gaceta Salta (Argentina) reviews Jane, le renard et moi:
En la lectura encuentra una vía de escape. Lee Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë. Hélene se ve reflejada. Escribe: “Es huérfana y una tía suya, rica y malísima, la toma a su cargo y la encierra en un cuarto encantado para castigarla por mentir, aunque ella no lo ha hecho”. (Alejandro Duchini) (Translation)A contestant on the Spanish TV show Tu cara me suena sang Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) wishes a very happy (Brontë) Christmas to all.
Agnes Grey, retold for English learners:Macmillan Readers: Agnes Grey PackThis adaptation was nominated as best Adolescent and Adult: Upper-intermediate and Advanced Adaptation in the Language Learner Literature Awards 2017.
by Anne Brontë
Retold by Helen Holwill
Macmillan Education
ISBN: 9780230470279
English Type: British English
Level: Upper Intermediate
Agnes Grey is a classic story written by Anne Brontë. The story is about Agnes, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a poor clergyman. When her family loses a lot of money, Agnes decides to help by finding a job as a governess. But it proves to be a lot more difficult than Agnes imagined…
This pack comes with an audio CD.
The appointment of a top model to a prominent role in the bicentenary celebrations for Emily Brontë has been criticised by literary experts as an insult to the author’s memory.The Westmoreland Gazette gives more details of the visit of MP Tim Farron to the Casterton School exhibition at The Archive and Heritage Centre, Back Lane, Sedbergh:
Lily Cole, who first graced the cover of Vogue at 16 and starred in a Hollywood film opposite Johnny Depp, was chosen this week to be a creative partner to the Brontë Society in a move criticised as “putting celebrity over the Brontë sisters themselves”.
Some members of the Brontë Society are threatening to quit in a row that has once again opened up a rift between traditionalist and modernising fans.
Nick Holland, 46, has written three books on Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë, as well as their brother Branwell. In a blog article this week entitled Emily Brontë, Lily Cole and the Shame of the Brontë Society, he wrote: “The central question should be, What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organiser in her celebratory year was a supermodel? We all know the answer to that, and anyone who doesn’t isn’t fit to make the decision or have any role in the governance of the Brontë Society. The very basic rule should have been that the person chosen for such an important role as creative partner is a writer.”
He told The Times that despite being a member of the Brontë Society since he was 18, he would not renew his membership. He had “nothing personal” against Cole as a creative partner, “except I don’t think she’s at all suitable. Increasingly over the last couple of years, they [the society] are putting celebrity over the Brontë sisters themselves.” (...)
[Bonnie] Greer insisted that creative partners like Cole would help to make the society more diverse. “I don’t know what Lily Cole has to do with the Brontës but what did I have to do with them, other than love Wuthering Heights,” she said. “There has to be a balance and a mix. So if Lily Cole can open the museum, Emily Brontë etc to a new generation who can keep the whole show on the road, what’s wrong with that?” (Gabriella Swerling)
The collection includes original documents recording the education of the Bronte sisters who were educated at the school in 1824 as well more recent items donated by former staff and pupils.The Guardian's Christmas quiz includes:
"It was fascinating to see the history of this school, whose forward-looking approach gave girls, including the Brontë sisters, a greater opportunity to reach their potential at a time when they would be treated as second-class citizens," said Mr Farron. "This exhibition plays an important role in keeping the school’s history alive and I’d encourage local people to pay a visit to explore how the school transformed the lives of young women in our area.” (Mike Addison)
In Jane Eyre, what is the breed of Mr Rochester’s dog, Pilot?Owlcation talks about Jane Eyre as feminist canon:
- Irish wolfhound
- Newfoundland
- Yorkshire terrier (Questions set by Kathryn Hughes, Lynne Truss, Robert Macfarlane, Philip Hensher, Jonathan Jones, Linda Grant, Lucy Mangan, DJ Taylor and Charlotte Higgins)
Jane Eyre’s message of gender equality, individuality, and female empowerment is the foundation of why the text is considered central to the feminist canon. Charlotte Bronte broke conventional stereotypes to create a work that empowers women. The characterisation of Eyre rejects the contextual norms of women being subservient and dependent on male control.The New York Times spent 36 hours in Manchester and recommends a visit to Elizabeth Gaskell's House:
Eyre’s characterisation highlighted the value of independent thinking and equality while challenging the subordinate depiction of women within literature. Thus, the values of equality, female empowerment, and independent identities that the text embraces demonstrate why it is central to the feminist canon. (Asteriaa)
A 10-minute walk from the Whitworth is Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. Mrs. Gaskell was a Victorian-era author whose books formed the basis for the BBC television mini-series “Cranford” in 2007, starring Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton; and “North and South” in 2004, featuring Richard Armitage. Visitors are guided by volunteers who describe life in the years that fellow writers Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Beecher Stowe were dropping by to visit Mrs. Gaskell and her Unitarian minister husband, William. End your tour of the restored Regency-style home with a slice of homemade cake and a pot of steaming tea in the downstairs gift shop where Mrs. Gaskell’s works are sold at bargain prices. (Susanne Fowler)We laugh at this piece of research as published on PR Newswire:
New research out today from Deezer, the world's most personal music streaming service, reveals that 'drunken passengers singing out of tune' is the biggest woe for over a fifth of designated drivers this festive season.The Casper StarTribune publishes the obituary of Lucy Ann Liddle Woodward:
In an attempt to provide peace to all men and women who take one for the team and turn taxi driver for their party-going pals, Deezer have created the anti-singalong playlist, featuring songs that the UK has voted the hardest to singalong to.
The top five most difficult songs to singalong to, according to Brits are:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (19%)
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (18%)
Adele - Hello (11%)
The Darkness - Christmas Time (10%)
Motorhead - Ace of Spades (9%)
A lifelong writer, Lucy wrote and published poems, articles, short stories, plays and books. She loved to research and write about the lives of people from history. One of her favorite plays was one she wrote about the Brontë sisters, well-known authors of the classics, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.El Día (Argentina) discusses the influences of Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak:
El relato es una expresión de las influencias que el decimonónico género gótico ha tenido en Del Toro, obras como “Rebecca” de Daphne du Maurier, “Cumbres Borrascosas” de Emily Brontë y “Jane Eyre” de Charlotte Brontë, entre otras.Télam (Argentina) reviews the novel Los mejores días by Magalí Etchebarne:
Del Toro comentó además que “Rebecca” de Hitchcock, producida por David O. Selznick, o “Jane Eyre” de Robert Stevenson son ejemplos de “ese cine de romance gótico que hace casi cuarenta años que no se hace y la última vez que se trató en el cine fue como serie B”. El director de “Hellboy” añade que de aquellas películas clásicas le atraía su “manera opulenta y lujosa” y ahora ha tratado de “recuperar ese mismo tono, pero actualizado en cuanto a sensualidad y violencia”. (Translation)
¿Libro de amor? Sin duda, a condición de entender amor como lo entendía la hermana Brontë de "Cumbres borrascosas": como una forma fuerte, combustible, de articulación entre el deseo y lo social. (La forma más acabada de esa articulación, la más Brontë, por supuesto, es el incesto, como queda claro en el relato “Como animales”). (Alan Pauls) (Translation)
