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Sunday, April 12, 2020

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Linkedin's The Core File puts the Brontës as an example for these challenging times:
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, lived lives of relative isolation at a parsonage, yet managed to create some of the most engaging stories in literature (Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights to mention two). Their lives were difficult, as was common in their time, losing their mother and two older sisters to tuberculosis early on. As grown women, the sisters also struggled to find a publishing channel to share their work. Eventually they were all published under male pseudonyms; Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell.
While they were tenacious in the quest to become published authors — it was their gift of imagination that would set them apart. They utilized every experience, every observation, every crumb of nuance as fuel to create brilliant, layered, psychologically-complex characters. The fabric of their lives and the dire experiences they faced, were woven into their books.
In some instances, resource constraints can bring both creativity and innovation. Our imaginations can be triggered by even the most mundane of details. Anything can serve as that fuel. A conversation, a tweet, a walk around the block. Combined with knowledge & experience, the results can be both formidable and enduring.
I can't help but wonder, if we can somehow utilize the shift in our daily experience as an opportunity. To look deeper and create perspectives, products and services that would enrich the lives of others. Just as the Brontë sisters managed to do. (Marla Gottschalk)
Travel+Leisure compiles links to travel virtually across the United Kingdom:
Brontë Sisters’ Homes — Yorkshire and Derbyshire, England
Fans of English literature would jump at the chance of seeing the homes of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Luckily, you don’t have to take a plane across the Atlantic to see them. Google Arts & Culture offers a virtual tour of the all places that inspired the Brontë Sisters. (Andrea Romano)
Lancashire Live lists several local historic buildings:
Gawthorpe Hall
Burnley
The Shuttleworths built the original Peele Tower as part of a defensive barricade against invading Scots during the 14th Century.
But later the need for such a fortification was obsolete and Peele was accompanied by a beautiful Elizabethan house which dovetailed around the tower.
The foundation stone was laid on 26 August 1600 and likely designed by the famous architect Robert Smythson.
 Home to numerous high sheriffs in Lancaster as well Preston MPs, the home was eventually sold to the National Trust.
It is believed that the novelist Charlotte Brontë visited the home, as a friend of the Shuttleworths, several times during the 19th century. (Dominic Moffitt)
Firstpost discusses the 80th anniversary of Rebecca 1940:
When Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca hit cinemas in the US on 12 April 1940, large sections of the audience were already familiar with its source material. The Daphne du Maurier novel had become an instant bestseller on publication just two years ago, despite critics dismissing, even disparaging, it for being a Jane Eyre knock-off. A naive young girl struggles with some of the same insecurities as Charlotte Brontë's heroine, after marrying above her station to a Byronic older man haunted by the shadow of his past wife. Both novels end in a similar way — with country houses burning. But these parallels don't do justice to du Maurier's unique story, which pulls us into an atmosphere of unbearable tension, akin to a Henry James novella. (Prahlad Srihari)
The Morning Bulletin recommends Louisa May Alcott's Little Women:
So it’s time to brush off the tired old objections about novels by Alcott, the Brontës, Austen and co being irrelevant to the privileged people who don’t have to sit around the house all day, scrimping for every last scrap of food, afraid how society will judge them if they go outside or whether they’ll get sick. (Jann Houley)
The Philippines Enquirer recommends some Pinoy TV dramas:
Walang Hanggan’ (ABS-CBN, 2012)
Weekdays, 2:30 p.m.
If you want to remember Coco Martin before he was Cardo, this is the show for you. It was based on the 1991 movie “Hihintayin Kita sa Langit” (which was in turn based on the Emily Brontë classic “Wuthering Heights”), and thus, in a nod to the movie, had Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta in the cast.
The Independent (Ireland) interviews the writer Naoise Dolan:
As a child, Dolan drew and painted rather than wrote stories. "I think because I found it more escapist, but I read a lot, and I think that when you're reading and thinking about what you're reading, you're building up your ideas of what a novel looks like." She read: "Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot. In my late teens, I realised I was queer and I really connected to Oscar Wilde around that time. I loved the statue [in Merrion Square], I love his cultural image, the writing itself.
Bette Ann Moskowitz shares her poignant story in the New York Times:
I was a Bronx girl with literary pretensions, and I read everything I could get my hands on, good and bad, high and low, about love. I wrote poems and fantasized endlessly about those strict, strong, brooding men, like Heathcliff, Mr. Rochester or Rhett Butler.
Wired posts pictures of the Super Pink Moon and quotes Emily Brontë's poem Moonlight, Summer Moonlight.

Several websites remind us of the chance to watch the National Theatre's Jane Eyre adaptation this week: New Zealand HeraldCheshire Live, ABC Paraguay, The Bolton News, The Pilot, The Winchester Sun, The Guardian, The Blackpool Gazette, ShortList, iNews, Art Daily...

North West End reviews it:
This is an original interpretation of an old story, which removes the romantic elements, often performed, but unlikely to ever have been intended by the original author, and replaces them with a detailed exploration of Jane’s all-encompassing need to both find the freedom she craves and the secure home she desires, the flawed, controlling and potentially violent character of Rochester, and the desperateness of Bertha and the effect her illness has had on her. These are three characters who are inextricably and tragically entwined and this visit to their world will change how you view their tale forever. (Donna M. Day)
Radio Mitre (Argentina) quotes again from Florencia Kirchner's Instagram:
Yo le dije que su paraíso sólo estaría vivo a medias y él dijo que el mío sería un paraíso ebrio. Le contesté que en el suyo me dormiría, y él repuso que en el mío no podría respirar. (Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë) Para mí de las mejores novelas que jamás se hayan escrito, para otrxs, una especie de infierno que les sofoca el cuerpo hasta llegarles al odio. (Translation)
télé7jours (France) interviews the actress Annelise Hesme:
Hacène Chouchaoui:Avec vos soeurs, Clotilde et Élodie, vous apparaissez comme les soeurs Brontë du cinéma français. Je crois même que vous avez un projet en commun…
Élodie, ma soeur aînée, écrit un téléfilm pour une plate-forme SVOD, sur la première révolte féministe, dans lequel Clotilde et moi allons jouer. C’était #Meetoo avant l’heure.  (Translation)
Reverb (Brazil) lists heavy metal discs that are not on Spotify:
Celtic Frost, 'Cold Lake' (1988)
Esse grupo suíço foi ponta de lança do metal extremo nos anos 80, misturando orquestrações sombrias e elementos de experimentação em seus som. Eles citavam o poeta francês Charles Baudelaire e a romancista inglesa Emily Brontë em suas letras. E então veio "Cold Lake", um álbum lançado pouco tempo depois da primeira separação, seguida de uma reformulação na banda, em 1987. O trabalho foi na onda do glam metal, provocando desprezo de fãs e críticos. (Translation)
El Día (Spain) briefly reviews Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg:
Cristal. Antes de que las hermanas Brontë se convirtieran en hitos literarios ya eran creadoras de La Ciudad de Cristal, un mundo fantástico y estructurado al detalle en el que se alienaron en unión de su hermano, Branwell. La ciudad quedaría escindida en dos: Gondal, reino de Emily ( Cumbres borrascosas) y de Anne ( La inquilina de Wildfell Hall), y Angria, feudo de Charlotte (Jane Eyre) y Branwell. Sobre esta base, la británica Isabel Greenberg ha fabulado su propio espacio, solo en parte brontiano. El resultado, plasmado con su peculiar estilo, es un derroche de imaginación épica en un mundo de luces y sombras, de realidades y fantasías. (Eugenio Fuentes) (Translation)
El Diario Montañés (Spain) interviews the illustrator Sara Morante:
Guillermo Balbona: La he escuchado decir que le apasiona Irène Némirovsky porque no desprende halo femenino. Pero, ¿cual es la textura de las palabras?
S.M.: Cuando hice esa afirmación el 90% de mis lecturas habían sido libros escritos por hombres. Todavía no había descubierto a las implacables e impactantes Agota Kristof, Unica Zürn, Jelinek, Jaeggy, o, en nuestra lengua, a Fernanda Trías y María Fernanda Ampuero. (...) También tuve ese prejuicio antes de ilustrar Cumbres borrascosas. «Otra novela romántica del XIX», pensé, y cuál fue mi sorpresa al descubrir esa voz sin concesiones ni autocensura de Emily Brönte (sic), esa historia salvaje de rencor que la Historia ha tratado como «romántica» (que no romanticista), tal vez por haberla escrito una mujer. (Translation)
Corriere Vicentino (Italy) lists 'love stories':
Cime Tempestose
Questo famosissimo romanzo di Emily Brontë narra la storia di Heathcliff e del suo amore per Catherine. In questo romanzo vengono trattati temi fondamentali del Romanticismo.
Il romanzo inizia col nuovo inquilino del casale di Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood, che s’informa presso la governante sul suo padrone di casa, Heathcliff. Questi vive a Cime tempestose, un antico maniero nella brughiera inglese. (Translation)
Bookishloom posts about some Jane Eyre book covers. Naija News Olofofo reviews Wuthering Heights.

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