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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Recent slave narratives in The Guardian:
[Sara] Collins uses history as a way to talk about the hypocrisy of English society at that time. With an eye on Charlotte Brontë, she casts Frannie in a 19th-century gothic romance and murder mystery, asking us to imagine a world in which “Jane Eyre [now a black maid] had been given as a gift ‘to the finest mind in all of England’, and then accused of cuckolding and murdering him”. Collins’s real interest, though, lies in exposing the constraints on black characters in historical fiction, who are usually denied a love story. (Colin Grant)
The Sunday Times reviews the latest Cathy Marston choreography, Victoria:
This is Marston’s moment: Jane Eyre, her previous show for Northern Ballet, has been picked up in New York and she has just won a National Dance Award for The Suit, with Ballet Black. (David Jays)
The Mirror talks about the upcoming BBC drama Gentleman Jack:
They were written during the age of the Brontës. By a woman living in the same county.
But while the sisters’ novels would achieve literary fame, the four million words in Anne Lister’s secret diaries were so explosive many had to be written in code.
And unlike the passions unveiled in the likes of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, these writings – hidden away for more than 100 years and including ­clandestine signs for sex sessions and orgasms – were of a love that dared not speak its name in 19th century Yorkshire and beyond. (Janine Yaqoob)
The Eastern Daily Press asks why writers love Britain and quotes from Wuthering Heights:
Writers have been inspired by its mountains and moors, cities and seas. From William Wordsworth’s Lake District to Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, and from Emily Brontë’s wild moors to Charles Dickens’ seething London or Jane Austen’s sedate Bath, authors have claimed some of the most striking scenery of Britain and used it as setting, atmosphere, metaphor and more. (Rowan Mantell)
Clarín (Argentina) talks about asexual people and guess what?... Emily Brontë is hinted to be asexual (and also lesbian, incestuous, anorexic, Asperger... wow, that's an interesting personality, indeed):
Existe en la página un “AVENwiki”, donde se desarrolla una genealogía de famosos asexuales de la historia y personajes de ficción. Aunque los autores de la página aclaran que no podrían probar la falta de sexualidad de muchos, incluyen a Isaac Newton, Emily Brontë, Immanuel Kant y a... nuestro Jorge Luis Borges. (Ayelén Íñigo) (Translation)
Sempione News (Italy)  talks about a recent exhibition in Milan devote to Romanticism. One of the exhibition rooms had a Brontë name:
Tra le tappe più suggestive di “Romanticismo” meritano una menzione le stanze: “Una finestra sull’infinito” e “Cime tempestose, emozione del sublime”.(...)
La nuova sensibilità romantica fa la sua comparsa nella pittura di paesaggio agli inizi del secolo ‘800, vent’anni prima rispetto alla pittura con soggetto storico. In questa fase che viene definita “preromantica” protagonisti sono i paesaggi incontaminati “dove la voce del vento, come nel famoso romanzo di Emily Brontë, mette in sintonia l’uomo con la natura”.
Artisti che hanno saputo interpretare questo sentimento sono stati i paesaggisti piemontesi: Giovanni Battista De Gubernatis e Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, i primi ad accorgersi della bellezza sublime e terribile delle Alpi. (Agnese Giardini) (Translation)
Pseudonyms in literature in El Universal (Colombia):
"La historia occidental es principalmente de autoridad masculina, por lo que las mujeres empezaron a usar nombres ambiguos o directamente masculinos. Eso hicieron las hermanas británicas Charlotte, Emily y Anne Brontë (Emily es la autora de "Cumbres borrascosas" y Charlotte, de "Jane Eyre"), quienes publicaron sus libros con los nombres de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell, respectivamente”. (C.J. Torres) (Translation)
The Ponden Hall selling is also discussed on Die Welt and Süddedeutsche Zeitung (Germany).

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