The literary education establishment I would least like to send my children to is the purportedly Christian Lowood School in Jane Eyre, presided over by the miserly Mr Brocklehurst.There, Jane undergoes real hardship. But she also makes her first friend, the tragically consumptive Helen Burns, and finds her kindly mentor, Maria Temple.
5. The basics of a Salts Mill school tripYou could probably lead a bang average school trip to Salts Mill blindfolded; this is what they wore, that's a dangerous machine (you'd be sent crawling underneath it), packed lunch, Titus Salt bought these houses, gift shop, coach.Other places with which you'll have an uncultured familiarity include the Brontë Parsonage and Malham Cove. (Ben Abbiss)
In a Google search for “classic literature,” however, most books listed are written by white, male authors such as Herman Melville, Charles Dickens and William Faulkner. These names are familiar to almost anyone who has taken a high school English course in which the “classics” are often staples. A couple white, female authors are among them — Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, for example — and very few BIPOC authors. This lack of diversity brings up the question: In today’s society, what should the place and value of the classics be?From Wang’s and Gao’s perspectives, the classics still need to be taught and read because of their content, even though their authors are not a very diverse group.“Texts like ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ have enduring value and contain deep insights into the human experience,” Wang said.“Some literature that falls into the ‘classics’ category is, simply put, good literature that students can learn from,” Gao said. (Joelle Chien)
Sorelle BrontëSeveral Italian blogs are presenting and promoting the publication:
I capolavori delle impareggiabili penne sororali
I Draghi Mondadori
ISBN: 9788804728504
August 25, 2020
Da Cime Tempestose, a Jane Eyre, passando per Agnes Grey, fino ai meno noti L’angelo della tempesta [which is Villette], La Signora di Wildfell Hall e Shirley, le tre sorelle Bronte ci hanno lasciato.
Maybe it’s the irresistible pull of the Gothic novel, an intoxicating cocktail of romance, suspense and danger, sometimes seductively garnished with supernatural elements. Rebecca had an illustrious ancestor — Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic classic, Jane Eyre, published in 1847, and also the subject of many films and TV series. (Paonam Saxena)The Yorkshire Post explores how Dewsbury 'has left its mark in the world':
One notable curate was Patrick Brontë, father, of course, to a famous trio of talented sisters who blazed a trail in the literary firmament. Tragically, Patrick outlived them all. He was dismayed at the way that working class children received almost no schooling, and taught youngsters for hours on end at the Dewsbury Sunday School. (Phil Penfold)The Los Angeles Review of Books talks about George Eliot's manuscript Quarry for Middlemarch:
In 2021, Harvard’s Houghton Library of rare books and manuscripts will reopen with an exhibition on women authors. At the moment, George Eliot, Phillis Wheatley, Amy Lowell, Mary Wroth, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf — the list goes on — are sitting far apart from one another in the stacks, isolated on separate shelves and surrounded by many better-known male authors. (Joani Etskovitz)Dawn (Pakistan) reviews Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree,
In a striking episode, a zealous mullah arrives in the village, confiscates the family’s entire collection of books and burns them in the village square. With broken hearts, the family watches “as the fire spread to the intertwined lovers Pierre and Natasha, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler, Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Abelard and Heloise, Tristan and Isolde, Salaman and Absal, Vis and Ramin, Vamegh and Azra, Zohreh and Manuchehr, Shirin and Farhad, Leyli and Majnun, Arthur and Gemma, the Rose and the Little Prince, before they had the chance to smell or kiss each other again, or whisper ‘I love you’ one last time.” (Anushka Hosain)The Telegraph & Argus talks about the reopening of the KVWR services:
The other walk miles is six miles, starting from Haworth station, along the valley to Oxenhope, looping round, down Haworth High Street, round the route of the short walk and back to the station. It takes in additional locations - Three Chimneys, the home of the railway children; Brontë Parsonage Museum, the doctor’s house; and shops along Main Street, where the children collected presents for Perks’ birthday. (Emma Clayton)ActuaBD (France) reviews the comic Goodbye My Rose by Dr. Pepperco:
Autant dire que les rumeurs vont bon train à son sujet : a-t-il quelque-chose à cacher ? Serait-ce une femme qui aurait pris un nom de plume à l’instar de la très célèbre Emily Brontë, autrice des Hauts de Hurlevent ? Une personne proche de la maison royale ? Difficile à dire, mais aisé pour le lecteur de deviner, surtout quand un autre personnage-clé de cette nouvelle série est sujet au commérage. (Marc Vandermeer) (Translation)According to El Sol de Tampico (México) the writer Agustina María Bazterrica is going to read Jane Eyre:
Y me compré Jane Eyre para leerla para un curso que voy a tomar sobre esta novela. (Juan Carlos Velarde) (Translation)El Comercio (Spain) interviews another writer, María Reig:
Verónica García-Peña: ¿Y a qué personaje literario mataría con toda su alma?A Certain Fondness joins the Brontë Parsonage fundraising campaign.
M.R.: A varios de 'Cumbres Borrascosas'. Aunque Emily Brönte (sic) ya lo dejó solventado bastante bien. (Translation)
Cedric Viollet for L'express Ten: Models, artists, warriors you have inspired ?
Lous: I really admire the texts of Kate Bush, including Babooshka, Wuthering Heights.
The future of the Brontë Parsonage is under threat after losing an estimated half a million pounds during lockdown.Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is one of the '7 daring movie adaptations of literary classics' recommended by Vox.
The pandemic closed the museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, but it reopened to the public earlier.
An online festival next month called #Brontë2020 hopes to raise enough money to keep the site going.
The parsonage, which was the family home of author sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë, usually attracts 70,000 visitors a year.
"The parsonage is a focal point for the global popularity of the Brontës," said Dr Claire O'Callaghan, who is one of the academics behind the fundraising event.
"It is a site of pilgrimage for literary enthusiasts worldwide - the effects of the museum potentially closing permanently would be detrimental for many.
"The knock-on effects for the local community - its business and residents - would also be manifold, especially as Haworth's economy relies chiefly on Brontë Country tourism."
Although it received emergency funding as one of a number of venues described by the culture secretary as the "crown jewels" in the arts sector, the Brontë Society said it was facing an estimated end-of-year deficit of £100,000.
"Being closed since March has resulted in a loss of expected income of over £500,000, an amount that would usually keep us going during the quieter winter months," it said.
"When we reopen, we know that recovery will be slow - a combination of the intimacy of the historic rooms and the measures required to keep staff and visitors safe will limit our ability to welcome visitors back in the numbers required to be sustainable."
The society, which runs the museum, has launched a JustGiving page which has raised £10,000 from about 300 supporters.
Funds raised by #Brontë2020 on 4 September will go towards the crowdfunding appeal, with more than 40 speakers from around the world scheduled to take part.
The 11-hour event, which Dr O'Callaghan, from Loughborough University, is organising with Dr Sarah Fanning from Mount Allison University in Canada, will take place across two time zones, catering for Brontë fans on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wuthering Heights (2012)Andrea Arnold is hardly the first filmmaker to adapt Emily Brontë’s classic novel, but she’s the first to envision Heathcliff as Black, which casts the whole story in a different light. As with David Copperfield, the social divisions of Wuthering Heights spring into even bolder relief onscreen once race enters the picture. (This is also Arnold’s only film with a male protagonist.) The movie is a wild, cold, blistering retelling of the tale, in which orphaned Heathcliff (Solomon Glave) is treated poorly by Hindley, the son of the family that took Heathcliff in, while sustaining a difficult passion for the daughter, Cathy (Shannon Beer). Years after being thrown out, Heathcliff returns (now played by James Howson) to the manor to find Cathy (Kaya Scodelario) married. And revenge is not sweet. (Alissa Wilkinson)
3. O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, InglaterraO vilarejo de Haworth, em Yorkshire, na Inglaterra, e os pântanos ao redor são famosos por serem o lar das irmãs Brontë. Para Emily Brontë a região foi fonte de inspiração para criar a abor O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, de 1847. Atualmente, a casa da família se tornou um museu, onde estão expostos itens pessoais, como a mesa onde Emily escrevia. Nas proximidades fica a Cachoeira Brontë, conhecida por ser o local favorito da família. (Translation)
Stefanie Hetze, bookseller and owner of the bookstore Dante Connection, Berlin, Germany: For Lila and Elena, the experience of reading Little Women is extremely important. What (other) literary figures fascinated and profoundly affected you as an adolescent?To answer I would have to make a long and probably boring list. Let’s say that I devoured novels in which the female characters had ill-fated lives in a fierce, unjust world. They committed adultery and other violations, they saw ghosts. Between twelve and sixteen I eagerly looked for any books that had a woman’s name in the title: Moll Flanders, Jane Eyre, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Effi Briest, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina. But the book I read and reread obsessively was Wuthering Heights. Today I still find extraordinary the way it describes love, mixing good and bad feelings without any break. Catherine is someone who should be revisited from time to time: She’s useful, when you write, for avoiding the danger of sickly-sweet female characters.
Institutrice d’origine modeste et orpheline. Elle tombe amoureuse de son employeur M. Rochester. (Translation)
A recent recording of the works of the composer John Ireland includes his song on Emily Brontë's Love and Friendship.The Complete John Ireland Songbook - Vol. 2The Times reviews the CD:
Mark Stone (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Stone Records 5060192781007
The second CD in a four-disc series that will comprise the first complete recording of the songs of John Ireland (1879-1962)
Recorded in 2012 and finally getting its first release, Stone’s survey of the songs of John Ireland reaches the halfway mark with works published between 1912 and 1928, setting words by Shakespeare, Rossetti and Emily Brontë, as well as his contemporary poets James Vila Blake, Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons. Stone and Kynoch catch the essentially English nostalgia of the haunting, wistful songs with robust humour in the folksy, rollicking numbers. (Hugh Canning)The booklet contains the following comments by Mark Stone:
We're 'Good to Go' and ready when you are! Tickets available until 30 September via https://t.co/VfumdDhsYk pic.twitter.com/rmUGfsAjea— Brontë Parsonage (@BronteParsonage) August 27, 2020
The best walks around Brontë country in The Yorkshire Post:This morning our Principal Curator @ann_dinsdale showed our world-class collection (and nifty floor stickers) to our Keighley MP @_RobbieMoore. #Haworth #YorkshireTogether #WeAreBradford pic.twitter.com/X7RQvx1cxa— Brontë Parsonage (@BronteParsonage) August 27, 2020
While the Dales and North York Moors are among the best loved walking trails, Brontë Country is another spot not to be missed. The Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty sits in the south Pennine hill, just west of Bradford, and earned its name from its association with the Brontë sisters. Taking inspiration from the landscape, the famous sisters penned some of the world’s most famous literary classics, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, while living in the area. If you are keen to head out on an outdoor adventure, here are nine of the best walks to enjoy around Brontë Country.Jane Eyre on Physics Today? This is too good to be true:
1. Brontë Waterfall and Top Withens
Starting from Haworth, just over two miles of footpaths will lead you to the Brontë Waterfall and a further 1.25 miles will see you arrive at Top Withens, the ruined farmhouse said to be the inspiration for Wuthering Heights.
2. Brontë Way
The Brontë Way is a long-distance footpath which stretches for 43 miles, starting at Oakwell Hall near Birstall and finishing at Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, Lancashire. It typically takes four days to walk and passes through Penistone Country Park and several famous Brontë landmarks. (...)
4. The Railway Children Walk
This six mile route takes in many of the locations where The Railway Children was filmed and is divided into two parts, taking in Oakworth station, Mytholmes tunnel Ebor Mill, the Three Chimneys near Oxenhope and the Brontë Parsonage.
5. Wuthering Heights Walk
Take in some of the most famous Brontë landmarks, including the Brontë Bridge, Brontë Chair and Brontë Waterfall, on this nine mile route from Top Withens to Stanbury, which follows a section of the Pennine Way. (Claire Schofield)
I don’t remember much about my first undergraduate class in classical mechanics. But I remember the unusual way the professor once defined physics: as “the study of the universe and everything in it.” Is there anything that wouldn’t be covered by that definition? The Napoleonic Wars, the composition of Jane Eyre, and the Trump administration’s attack on the US Postal Service are all things that have happened in the universe. Their study, apparently, would count as physics. (...)Drew Reports News on how one of the biggest inspirations of Alanis Morrisette was Kate Bush:
Likewise, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charlotte Brontë, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are also bunches of atoms governed by quantum mechanics. But even if their trajectories could be computed with any meaningful accuracy, the analysis couldn’t identify certain movements of atoms with the Battle of Waterloo, the character development of a romantic heroine, or the integrity of a presidential election—and if it could, it would be history, literary analysis, or political science, not physics.
Viewed that way, chemistry and physics are separate disciplines not because of which objects they study but because of how they study them: Which features of a system, on which level of complexity, are worth talking about? (Johanna L. Miller)
The 46-year-old vocalist is a big fan of Kate’s 1978 debut single ‘Wuthering Heights’, and has admitted to being motivated by her success.Which, of course, fits in nicely with the story of When Alanis Morrisette saved Jane Eyre. The Musical.
Speaking on the inaugural episode of ‘Alanis Radio’ on Apple Music Hits, she stated: ”She was 19 when this came out in 1978, she’s English, the song is called ‘Wuthering Heights’ and she became the first female to achieve a UK Number 1 with a self-written song.
”And the song title and the narrative and the content of the song is based on Emily Bronte’s book by the same name, ‘Wuthering Heights’. Emily Brontë of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Anne, Charlotte having written ‘Jane Eyre’, lots of books.
”They originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms. Oh, patriarchy.
”They had to pretend to be men to be taken seriously in the literary world, but that obviously changed, which is exciting…” (Brittany Long)
Every long-term investor’s portfolio contains at least one embarrassment like Bertha Mason; the madwoman, locked in the attic, in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. These are the shares we would rather not talk about, even if - like Edward Rochester’s first wife - they used to be close to our hearts or wallets. (Ian Cowie)Money Week's wine of the week is a Constantia wine made in South Africa:
This epic sweetie, fashioned from super-sweet muscat de frontignan grapes, and coming from one of the most dramatic properties in the Cape, uses a recipe handed down from the 1700s. Adored by Dickens, Baudelaire, Brontë and Napoleon, to name but a few luminaries, this inspirational wine is one of the only truly great sweet wines which tastes stunning from the off and then matures gracefully for an eternity. (Matthew Jukes)Nice to be on that list. But unfortunately most likely wrong too. We rather think the journalist confused Brontë with Austen who actually features Constantia wine in Sense and Sensibility.
If you love Jane Eyre as much as my family, then one can feel like a Victorian, but one cannot really go back and no Christian could wish to do so. Sufficient to us is the evil of our time without adopting the evils of the past. (John Mark N. Reynolds)The News-Gazette reviews the film Centigrade:
Rick and Ilsa had to contend with the Nazis in “Casablanca,” Heathcliff and Cathy had divisions of class to overcome in “Wuthering Heights” while Jenny and Oliver battled terminal illness in “Love Story.” (Chuck Koplinski)Western People (Ireland) talks about the upcoming film by John Patrick Shanley, Wild Mountain Thyme:
In the final installment of a three-part podcast interview Mr Shanley told presenters, David O’Hara and Ed Malone, that Jamie Dornan was one of very few if not the only actor who could play “Anthony” – the lead role in Wild Mountain Thyme – who he likened to an Irish version of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. (Orla Hearns)La Repubblica (Italy) interviews film director Ferzan Özpetek:
A undici anni leggevo Jane Eyre e Cime tempestose, poi ho scoperto nella libreria di casa James Baldwin. (Arianna Finos) (Translation)Kristianstadsbladet (Sweden) reviews the book Jag borde sagt det först by Annika Wall:
Även om, tja, pengarna försörjer familjen. Fia är dessutom den som organiserar familjeprojektet och skjutsar tonårssönerna kors och tvärs, medan Kristian allt mer drar sig tillbaka till sin musikstudio i källaren. Den moderna könskampen: om feminismen i början handlade om galna kvinnor på vinden, som i Charlotte Brontës ”Jane Eyre”, så är dagens arketypiska bild den frustrerade, onödige mannen undanstuvad i källaren. (Lotta Olsson) (Translation)Haber365 (Turkey) posts about Wuthering Heights:
Uğultulu Tepeler, Catherine Earnshaw ve Catherine'in babası tarafından sahiplenilmiş olan Heathcliff arasındaki yoğun ve neredeyse şeytani sevginin tutkulu bir hikayesidir. Bunun da ötesinde hikaye geliştikçe, ilerledikçe karakterlerde fazlaca görünen gelişimi anlatır. (Translation)According to the Agence Bretagne Presse, the Brontës are some of the favourite authors of the actress and writer Léa Chaillou. Emily Brontë is one of the favourites of the writer Monique Wine according to Gândul (Romania). Books are Brain Food reviews Wuthering Heights.
Destiny Records Music
The Bluebell
by Charlie Rauh
The Bluebell is the third solo album from guitarist and composer Charlie Rauh, following 2019’s Hiraeth, which garnered an enthusiastic response from the press as music with “a quiet intensity, each note and chord ringing with purpose. With these lullabies, Rauh gives a gentle reminder that playing soft and slow can be more impactful than loud and fast” (Acoustic Guitar Magazine). The Bluebell continues Rauh’s stylistic hallmark of spacious solo guitar composition while giving greater depth to this set by taking on the beloved poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë as its creative inspiration. Titled after a small flower familiar to the landscape of the Brontës’ homeland in Northern England, and a subject of both authors’ writing, the songs of The Bluebell emerge as thoughtful, pensive, and reverent interpretations of the poems from which they draw inspiration. Recorded in the home where Rauh spent his youth and his father taught him guitar, the nine miniature songs weave, ring, and decay as they alternate between selections of Emily and Anne’s poems of childhood, growth, persistence, and wonder. As heard on Hiraeth, Rauh’s combination of fingerstyle and flat picked guitar-playing evokes echoes of medieval modal movements intertwined with smoky Appalachian melodies that add a unique and personal layer to the music.
1 The Bluebell (Anne)
2. Careless Gifts Are Seldom Prized
3. Watch Through The Darkest Hours Of Night
4. Faith Shines Equal Arming Me From Fear
5. Though Weak Yet Longing To Believe (Anne from The Doubter's Prayer)
6. We Were Not Once So Few
7. With Purpose Pure And High
8. A Little And A Lone Green Lane
9. The Bluebell (Emily)
Towards the end of the week I am the latest guest in the Brontë Lounge, a regular online chat event run by the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, where I’m creative partner for the 200th anniversary year of the youngest Brontë sister – Anne. We’ll schedule physical events when we know we can, but in the meantime I talk about my fascination with Anne’s Christian socialism and her remarkably feminist novels. In Agnes Grey she’s whistle-blowing about the exploitative treatment of governesses based on her own experiences. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall speaks across centuries about a woman escaping an abusive marriage, and counters the enduring myth that a good woman can reform a “bad” man.I suggest that the Covid-19 months of enforced confinement – appreciating nature on our doorstep, reading, volunteering and helping our elderly neighbours – could be an opportunity to “think like a Brontë”.
When you think of 19th-century women’s literature, it’s likely you automatically think of the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, or George Eliot. You think of Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, or Middlemarch. Few people today know the names Mrs. Henry Wood, Charlotte Riddell, or Maria Edgeworth—yet these women all wrote immensely popular, best-selling Victorian novels that allowed them to command top dollar. To put their work into context, Austen had to pay to publish Mansfield Park herself, while Maria Edgeworth was paid the enormous sum of £2100 for just one of her novels. Here are some of the greatest Victorian female novelists that you’ve never heard of. (Rebecca Batley)
This latest release from New Hampshire-based cartoonist Julia Gfrörer‘s Vision hearkens back to novels of romance and darkness like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, with perhaps a bit of Rebecca mixed in, but it uses a possibly supernatural element for something more mysterious and less corporeal than the obvious, fashioning a tale of repression and desperate desire. (John Seven)El Independiente de Hidalgo (Mexico) doesn't write about Emily Brontë's life all that accurately:
Cumbres borrascosas. Emily Bronté, segunda de tres hermanas dedicadas a la literatura (1818-1848). Hija de un pastor anglicano irlandés pasó su infancia, al igual que sus hermanas, en un rígido y sombrío colegio. Su corta vida –solo alcanza los 30 años– fue muy parca en vivencias, todo lo que escribió es extraído de su propio espíritu. Su sensibilidad era fina, aguda.Personajes principales: señor Hearnshaw, quien recoge a Heathcliff; Heathcliff, gitano expósito educado junto a los hijos de Hearnshaw; Hindley, hijo de Hearnshaw que odia a Heathcliff; Catalina, hermana de Hindley de quien se ha enamorado Heathcliff; Edgar Linton, esposo de Catalina.Del siglo XIX, inglesa, fue publicada en 1847 y es la única novela escrita por Emily. Poderosa y original, la obra consagró a su autora. E Jaloux expresó que es, sin asomo de duda, “la más bella novela de amor que haya sido escrita, en la que el amor adopta su forma más devoradora y absoluta”. (Carlos Sevilla) (Translation)
9/10Wuthering Heights (2009) – 7.6This two-part British series based on the Emily Brontë novel of the same name starred Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley as lovers Heathcliff and Catherine. Lincoln played Edgar Linton, another man fighting to win Charlotte's heart who was the exact opposite of Heathcliff: well-educated, wealthy, and refined.As the story goes, Charlotte's need for social recognition leads her to marry Edgar, even though she is still in love with Heathcliff. (Christine Persaud)
One initial problem is that it’s not straightforward to find songs that represent the whole of the UK. For instance, the perennial Proms favourite, Jerusalem, has long been widely regarded as being solely about England.There are songs based on UK locations such as Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” which have already inspired participatory “flash-mob”-style events with hundreds donning red dresses and copying her choreography. It would be a joy to watch the promenaders – who are surely the proto-flashmobbers – belting out “Heathcliff, It’s me, I’m Cathy, I’ve come home” while recreating the pop star’s expressive dance routine in perfect synchronisation. (Adrian York)
Freedman illustrated many books for British and American publishers including War and Peace (1938), Oliver Twist (1939), Wuthering Heights (1941), and Anna Karenina (1951). (Alex Johnson)The Pallant House Gallery itself also mentions how
Freedman’s first major commission was to design and illustrate Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘Memoirs of an Infantry Officer’ for book publishers Faber & Faber. He went on to illustrate dozens of book covers for classic novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Leo Tolstoy. His designs for ‘War and Peace’ (1938) and ‘Anna Karenina’ (1951) are two of the finest examples of 20th century book design.We cannot be sure if the Wuthering Heights (1941) and Jane Eyre (1942) illustrations are part of the exhibition or not but the British Library offers digital copies for your enjoyment:
| Illustrations for ‘Wuthering Heights’ I-XVI | Illustrations for ‘Jane Eyre’ I-XVI |
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Beyond the women writers represented in the collection, other best-selling authors with male monikers include Louisa May Alcott, the Brontë sisters, Erika Leonard (E.L. James) and Joane [sic] (J.K.) Rowling. (Sarah Montgomery)
What exactly is an adult? Where is the line that divides our formative selves from our formed selves? The bildungsroman, the coming-of-age novel, is obsessed with this process. The great ones — “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” “Jane Eyre,”and “Mansfield Park” — slip over the line smoothly; we don’t feel the hitch. But then they double back as their characters struggle to pull on a variation of their younger selves, like a dress that fit last summer but has now crept up, exposing unseemly parts. The discomfort is the point. (Hillary Kelly)
Imagínese que tuviera la oportunidad de convocar al fantasma de un escritor para hacerle una única pregunta. ¿A quién llamaría y qué le preguntaría?A Charlotte Brontë y le preguntaría qué 'Jane Eyre' escribiría hoy. (Verónica García-Peña) (Translation)
Alanis Morissette has launched her Alanis Radio show on Apple Music Hits and for the inaugural episode, she shared a playlist and thoughts on the artists and the music that inspire her, including Tori Amos and Kate Bush. [...]Another early influence on Morissette was Kate Bush and she cited the UK artist’s classic “Wuthering Heights.” “Kate Bush was so gorgeous to me. Her voice was so beautiful to the point where I really believed that if I could sing along with her and hit the same notes as her, that I had a tiny chance to be able to be a legit singer at some point,” she said. (Althea Legaspi)
But our relationship has lasted beyond the rocky times. It’s weathered the disaster of a cascade of water when the roof leaked, and the westerly gales that make you shiver and your window panes rattle fit for the film set of Wuthering Heights. (Yvonne Williams)
Several musical news outlets talk about the new album by the songwriter Brontë Fall. Many of them talk about the origin of her pen name:It's no coincidence that Brontë Fall — the songwriting project of multi-instrumentalist Teri Bracken, whose music mixes the bright punch of indie-pop with the raw roots of Americana — shares half of its name from three history-making women. Nearly two centuries before Bracken kickstarted Brontë Fall's career with 2017's Silhouette Dances, the Brontë sisters took the literary world by storm with classic works like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Those novels helped tip the power balance of 19th century England, and their legacy remains just as strong today, with empowered artists like Bracken now carrying the torch. (Brontë Fall website)
Brontë Fall, the songwriting pen name of classically trained multi-instrumentalist Teri Bracken, embodies the spirit a centuries-old push by the Brontë sisters to have their-and all women's-voices heard.
Within her sophomore effort, Finishing School, Bracken embraces Charlotte, Emily, and Anne's fight against the ever-evolving societal restraint on women; at times with a sword and armor and at times with words and ideas. Out today, Finishing School features six songs that find Bracken growing beyond her roots in orchestral music with a broadening of influences and cross-genre songwriting. (...)
Brontë Fall is a nod to a sentiment brought to life in Emily Brontë's poem, "Fall, Leaves, Fall." In it, she welcomes autumn and the looming winter ahead. "I love how she saw poetry in the darker seasons, beauty in the shortening days," says Bracken. "With Brontë Fall I, too, aim to embrace the changing seasons of my life and express as much through my art." (Broadway World)
Songwriter and bandleader Teri Bracken is well aware of the legacy of the three Brontë sisters and how they had to use male pseudonyms to initially publish their works. Thankfully that’s not the world we live in today, although how far we’ve actually come is still subject to question. Gender inequality still exists as Bracken notes, “Women have to fight harder to get their voices heard and to hold prominent positions in the workplace. We are still fighting the same fight as Emily, Charlotte and Anne!”(Bob Fish in folk radio)
For her fiction debut, Finola Austin has opted for a more or less straightforward Hollywood story of spontaneous, mutual love. Handsome young Branwell, his hair mussed and his shirt falling open, arrives in the cold and loveless world of Thorp Green, and in short order he and Mrs. Robinson are forging emotional connections. “It was ridiculous,” narrates Lydia. “Me, with wet hair, in a gown too frivolous for a housekeeper to see me in ... and the unkempt tutor playing the eccentric poet. I laughed, and, while Mr. Brontë looked puzzled, I felt a new fragile bond forming between us.”
The bond causes trouble. Inevitably, Anne discovers it (“But it isn’t as you think,” Lydia protests to her), and the rest of Thorp Green isn’t far behind – including Reverend Robinson, a powerful man whose strange combination of stillness and rage makes him the novel’s most interesting character.
Austin can sometimes lapse - or allow Lydia to lapse - into the kind of breathless prose more endemic to old-fashioned romance novels. “The music washed over us in wave after cleansing wave. I knew – hoped – that Branwell heard in the music what I heard, that his soul was vibrating at the same frequency as mine,” we’re told at one such point.
But the bulk of the novel’s momentum builds a convincingly multifaceted picture of Lydia, a smart, passionate woman who is caught between her own thwarted desires and the gears of society’s conventions. Austin grounds her book in research, but it’s the entirely fictional letters she intersperses throughout the book that truly bring Lydia and many of her other characters to life.
And the mystery? Well, unless some new batch of records comes to light, it will no doubt continue to be a bone of contention for Brontë scholars – and a fruitful ground for novelists. Austin has written a stirring defense of the maligned Mrs. Robinson, and who can say if it isn’t also the truth? (Steve Donoghue)
Ferrante’s style is blunt—at times even careless—as if she were deliberately rejecting centuries of preciosity in women’s prose. “When I write, it’s as if I were butchering eels,” she told Io Donna. “I pay little attention to the unpleasantness of the operation.” The word “revulsion” recurs so often in her pages that it is almost a tic. She revels in descriptions of incontinence: leaking tampons and spastic ejaculations. Women novelists before her have seethed at the benevolence expected of them—the Brontë sisters are a notable example. But Ferrante is a brawler, not a seether. She co-opts the pugnacity of a male voice to express the unsayable about female dilemmas, and this belligerence feels revolutionary. (Judith Thurman)
Any staycation tips?I’d rent a house in Haworth - Wuthering Heights country — and run around on the Moors all day. (York Membery)
Your favourite book of all time...Wuthering HeightsIt would have to be Wuthering Heights, with Great Expectations a close second. I read both in my impressionable teens and turn to them often. Wuthering Heights isn’t a perfect book, and Nelly can be a bit of a drip, but it’s got so much soul and energy and atmosphere. I lived in West Yorkshire at the start of this year and reread it while I was there. I connect so much with the landscape; it’s my favourite place in the world. There’s something so horrible about the book that you can’t stop reading - how the characters act and treat one another, how they all die so young and unfulfilled, Heathcliff’s psychosis and sheer determination to make everyone around him miserable to the end of days. But its spirit and passion is what makes it so compelling. There’s also something intensely fascinating about the fact that it was Emily Brontë’s only novel, and she, too, died so young.
İlk önemli kadın yazarlar bu çağ ve sonrasında görünür olurlar, ancak birçoğu takma erkek isimleri kullanmak zorunda kalır: Mary Ann Evans “George Eliot”, Charlotte Brontë “Currer”, Emily Brontë “Ellis” ve Anne Brontë ise “Acton” adlarıyla eserlerini yayımlarlar.Dickens’ın aşkta mutsuzluğu işlediği Büyük Umutlar ve Collins’ın varlıklı bir kadının aile mirasını ele geçirmek için akıl hastanesine kapatılmasını konu alan Beyazlı Kadın romanları önemli örneklerdir.19. yüzyıl edebiyatında artık deli kadın imgesi kültürel baskıyı temsil eder. Charlotte Brontë’nin Jane Eyre romanındaki Bertha Mason karakterinde olduğu gibi, ataerkil baskıya delilikle isyan eden kadın tipine sıklıkla rastlanır.Bugün Charlotte Brontë’nin Jane Eyre romanı, kadın deliliğinin kadınca bir başkaldırı olarak ortaya çıkışını simgeleyen bir yapıt haline gelmiştir.Aynı özelliklere, 20. yüzyıl başlarında Jean Rhys’in Jane Eyre’e bir bakıma nazire olarak yazdığı Geniş, Geniş Bir Deniz romanında da rastlanır. (Handan Dedehayır) (Translation)
The story of this 1847's novel revolves around scandalous passion, love triangles, and the supernatural. It follows the lives of Catherine and Heathcliff and their fraught love. The duo marries other people, but former lover's children suffer their own fates as their lives move forward. Can you guess the title of this Emily Brontë novel?No Coward Soul Is MineWuthering HeightsTo a Wreath of SnowAgnes Grey: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [sic]This Charlotte Brontë novel follows the story of a simple girl, Jane, as she battles through various struggles in life. Her struggles include her abusive Aunt Reed, her deep-rooted emotions for Rochester and Rochester's wedding to Bertha. Can you identify this classic novel based on its plot?VilletteShirley, A TaleJane EyreGlass Town (Kashyap Vora)
Jordi Mand's theatrical text Brontë: The World Within is now available:Brontë: The World Without
by Jordi Mand
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN: 9780369101020
August 2020
What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive?
Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it’s been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is an alcoholic, they have to be the ones to support the family. They’d rather focus on their careers than settling down with suitors anyway, so writing is what could save them. But is it also what could tear them apart? Jealousy, rivalry, and the strong need for self-expression threaten not only their livelihoods and relationships but also their confidence in creativity and what could be their legacy.
Told over five days in the span of three years, the fascinating story of the Brontë sisters’ pioneering literary careers unfolds to show what it was like to be an ambitious woman in the 1800s, and how similar it looks to the struggles women still face today.
Your favourite book of all time...
Wuthering Heights
It would have to be Wuthering Heights, with Great Expectations a close second. I read both in my impressionable teens and turn to them often. Wuthering Heights isn’t a perfect book, and Nelly can be a bit of a drip, but it’s got so much soul and energy and atmosphere. I lived in West Yorkshire at the start of this year and reread it while I was there. I connect so much with the landscape; it’s my favourite place in the world. There’s something so horrible about the book that you can’t stop reading - how the characters act and treat one another, how they all die so young and unfulfilled, Heathcliff’s psychosis and sheer determination to make everyone around him miserable to the end of days. But its spirit and passion is what makes it so compelling. There’s also something intensely fascinating about the fact that it was Emily Brontë’s only novel, and she, too, died so young.
It looks at how racism in America is like a caste system. That is how [Malam Nasir] El-Rufai is looking at the folks in southern Kaduna. He is saying to the over 30 tribes to “keep to your caste,” in the words of Emile Bronte (sic) in Jane Eyre. That is his concept of who is a Nigerian. (Sam Omatseye)The quote is from Chapter XVII:
"You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him; so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised."The Daily Iowan thinks that Jane Eyre is too perfect:
I’m exhausted from reading about the perfect girl in an imperfect situation and need more characters whose flaws run rampant off the page — who are almost unlikeable — who reflect the parts of ourselves that we hate to see the most. Let’s face it, you can’t find a single unlikeable characteristic about Jane from Jane Eyre, Liesel Meminger (The Book Thief), Tatiana Metanova (The Bronze Horseman), Hazel Grace Lancaster (The Fault in Our Stars), and of course, if you subtract the whole “falling in love with a vampire thing,” Bella Swan from Twilight and Midnight Sun. (Madison Lotenschtein)Radio Europa Liberă Moldova (Moldova) reviews the Romanian/Moldovan translation of La fille qui lisait dans le métro by Christine Feret-Fleury:
Se-nţelege că Juliette se prinde în joc, astfel încât „nu mai era ea cea care, la ora cinci fără un sfert, o întâmpina pe Zaide în uşa bucătăriei; era Salammbo, era Alexandru, Sancho Panza sau baronul cu mintea rătăcită, teribila lady Macbeth, Charlotte a lui Goethe, Catherine Earnshaw – şi, când şi când, Heathcliff”. (Emilian Galaicu-Păun) (Translation)IDN Times (Indonesia) lists classic underrated novels:
Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights... underrated?
Kisahnya tentang sebuah keluarga yang cukup tragis dan aneh. Dimulai dengan keputusan pasangan Earnshaws untuk mengadopsi seorang anak yang mereka namai Heathcliff untuk menemani kedua anak mereka Hindley dan Catherine. Namun, pasca kematian istrinya, sang ayah justru memperlakukan Heathcliff dengan spesial.
Hal itu membuat Hindley, anak tertua cemburu dan membenci Heathcliff. Beda dengan Catherine yang sangat dekat dengan saudara tirinya itu. Setelah Hindley menyelesaikan studinya dan kembali ke rumah, ia membuat hidup Heathcliff tak tenang. Hingga akhirnya Heathcliff memilih untuk pergi dan mencari rezekinya sendiri.
Beda dengan kebanyakan novel klasik yang fokus pada keluarga kaya, mereka mencoba mengeksplor lebih banyak tentang Heathcliff yang saat itu dipandang rendah dan tergolong outsider. Menarik, tragis, dan penuh pesan, beda dari biasanya. (Dwi Ayu Silawati) (Translation)
After retelling Jane Eyre, Tanya Landman now goes with Wuthering Heights:Wuthering Heights A RetellingThe Letterpress Project posts a review.
by Tanya Landman
Barrington Stoke
Reading Age: 9 Interest Age: Teen
ISBN: 978-1-78112-937-1
Cover artwork by Helen Crawford-White
When Cathy’s father brings Heathcliff, a filthy beggar boy, home to Wuthering Heights, she loses her heart to him. Cathy and Heathcliff are not destined for an easy life or a happy ending. Yet theirs is a love that defies everything: pain, punishment, disaster, even death …
Powerfully retold from Cathy’s point of view in this stunning new edition from Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman, Wuthering Heights is the tragic story of a passionate, obsessive love.
4. Jane Eyre (1944) - 100%Kitv4 reviews the novel Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia:
Although she was uncredited at the time of its release, Taylor plays Helen Burns in one of the earliest adaptations of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel, Jane Eyre.
From a script co-written by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), the film follows notorious orphan Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) as she can't help but fall in love with her dashing new employer, Mr. Rochester (Orson Welles). Just when Mr. Rochester reciprocates the feelings, he begins to court the elegant visitor Blanche Ingraham (Hilary Brooke).
The novel, which I've described to friends as "Jane Eyre" meets "Crimson Peak," has some of the very things you'd want in a compelling gothic tale: an unsuspecting heroine, a ghastly estate, blurred lines between the worldly and the otherworldly. ( Leah Asmelash and Brandon Tensley)The Times of India talks about Ranjith Sankar's daughter's tastes:
Tara, who has acted in Su Sudhi Vathmeekam and Punyalan Private Limited, is a bookworm, and enjoys the works of the Brontë sisters and hasn’t thought of a future in the films, she says. (Anna Matthews)WyDaily talks about a local bookstore. We really wanted to know more about this story:
When a 14-year-old girl walks into the store in search of a 1945 copy of Wuthering Heights, Sylvia isn’t thinking about the profit.Republika (Poland) reviews the novel Głos serca by Janette Oke:
Instead he feels proud to find something special for a person that will help continue their love of reading. (Alexa Doiron and Gabrielle Rente)
Ale jest tu jeszcze jedna ujmująca rzecz. Tak jak niegdyś Jane Austen czy siostry Brontë umiały nakreślić nam postacie kobiece nie miałkie, ale silne i z charakterem, podobnie jest w przypadku bohaterki powieści Janette Oke. (Joanna Jaszczuk) (Translation)La Tercera (Chile) interviews the writer Mariana Enríquez:
Con sagacidad, alma de fan moldeada por la inteligencia y animada de voraz curiosidad intelectual, Mariana Enríquez llevó su galaxia de intereses al periodismo: El otro lado, un volumen de 700 páginas publicado por Ediciones UDP, es un testimonio elocuente. El libro es una antología de sus artículos publicados en Página 12 y otros medios, y la selección, a cargo de la periodista Leila Guerriero, dibuja una estética, un mapa de la subjetividad donde aparecen sus obsesiones y donde transitan Nick Cave y Sylvia Plath, Bruce Springsteen y Emily Brontë, Kurt Cobain y Keith Richards. (Andrés Gómez) (Translation)Espejo (México) accomplishes something only reserved to the truly blunder-committed journalist. To mix not only two sisters but all three of them. A masterpiece:
Charlotte Bronte, inglesa distinguida por su novela Cumbres borrascosas, usó el nombre de Acton Bell. (Leónidas Alfaro Bedolla) (Translation)Trouw (Netherlands) reviews the novel De Nederlandse maagd by Marente De Moor:
Liefde, geheimen, raadsels en ingewikkelde schermwedstrijden volgen, door De Moor meeslepend verteld in een stijl die bloemrijk en toch ook modern ongedwongen is. ‘De Nederlandse maagd’ laat zich lezen als een ‘Jane Eyre meets Visconti’. (Jann Ruyters) (Translation)Máxima (Brazil) recommends some novels:
O morro dos ventos uivantes: escrito por Emily Brontë e publicado originalmente em 1847, o livro conta a história de Heathcliff, um garoto de origem desconhecida que é adotado pela família Earnshaw. Com o tempo, surge uma relação intensa com Catherine, a irmã adotiva mais nova, em meio à muita dor e perversidade que os cerca. (Translation)Bookish Bits briefly reviews Tanya Landman's retelling of Wuthering Heights. The Brontë Babe Blog shares a walk in Wycoller.
Yorkshire Festival of StoryVia The Ilkley Gazette and Settle Stories.
Anne Brontë: Amid the Brave and Strong
Sunday 23rd August @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This event will take place on Crowdcast
Where does the truth lie with Anne Brontë?
She has always had her devoted fans. But the facts are that she has never approached the iconic status of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Critics have often dismissed her work for lacking the spark of genius of her sisters.
In this year of Anne’s bicentenary, the Brontë Parsonage Museum is taking a fresh look at Anne and her achievements, and the reasons for her brave and unconventional choice of subject matter.
Sue Newby from the Brontë Parsonage Museum will be live exploring these ideas with you, and exploring why now is perhaps the time for Anne’s legacy to be truly understood and appreciated.
Your questions are welcome! You will have the opportunity to ask questions of Sue Newby during this live event.
The year had begun well. The second of six matchbox-sized volumes written by the author of Jane Eyre had gone on public display for the first time, following its purchase at auction in Paris. And an exhibition marking the 200th birthday of her sister was running alongside.
But what came next – the longest closure for 92 years – was a chapter as dramatic as anything dreamed up inside the old house during the 19th century.
With the summer season lost and the Brontë Society facing an uncertain financial outlook as it prepares to let in visitors, six at a time, from next weekend, the stakes have seldom been higher.
Yet some of the staff were concerned more for the former occupants of the Parsonage than for their own future.“It was really unfair on Anne,” said Rebecca Yorke, the society’s head of communications. “As the forgotten sister, it seemed ironic that we had to close in her anniversary year.”To make amends, the Parsonage Museum has extended the exhibition devoted to her life and work, until the beginning of 2022. And her bicentenary has been marked with a digital “Brontë Lounge”, launched in July.The extent to which social distancing was practiced by the family in a village rife with disease and little sanitation, is not known. [...]In deciding to reopen, the Brontë Society, like many others, had walked a tightrope between safety and sustainability.“It’s a beautiful, intimate house where space is very limited and footfall was always going to have to be reduced,” Ms Yorke said.“At least it will mean that visitors will have more space to themselves. It will become very atmospheric.“We’re hoping that a typical group might be a household of four and another two people. But coach parties don’t work like that, and we’re not expecting international visitors or school groups any time soon.”She added: “Our biggest enemy at the moment is uncertainty. When we opened for the year in February, with Charlotte’s little book on display and with events planned for Anne’s anniversary, we had every reason to believe it would be a really good year.“But missing the summer season has given us a huge hurdle to get over and our financial future is now quite vulnerable.”Earlier in the year, the society secured emergency funding from the Arts Council and is now applying to the organisation’s cultural recovery fund.The first visitor to the reopened Parsonage next Thursday will be the local MP, Robbie Moore. Members of the Brontë Society will be allowed inside from the next day and the public the day after, with admission by pre-booking only. (David Behrens)
A way to avoid trouble is to write about a character created by another author, preferably one who is, a) dead, and, b) safely out of copyright. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys gives us the tale of the first Mrs Rochester, the "madwoman in the attic" from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, using it to examine issues of race, feminism and colonialism. (John Connolly)
Enríquez lee historia y mitología, además de literatura y periodismo. De crítica literaria, muy poco. Cuando era chica comenzó leyendo a Dickens, Brontë y a Austen. (María Paula Lizarazo) (Translation)
Title all 5 Brontë sisters. (Mr Josh)
Most of our favourite books are inspired by real-life locations all around the world. In fact, many authors spend months studying locations to find the perfect destination to base their books on.
Interested in finding out which book-inspired destination is the most popular, OnBuy analysed Instagram activity and the number of hashtags for each destination. Which one comes out on top?
The Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire (191,275 hashtags) and Top Whitens in Yorkshire (100,905 hashtags) place in fifth and sixth place, respectively, due to their features that inspired both the authors of Lord of the Rings and Wuthering Heights.
She [Nancy Kimball]’d cap off her training at the prestigious Stella Adler Studio of Acting by serving as the lead role in a play about the Victorian writer Charlotte Brontë. Her parents had bought tickets for her Yankee Stadium graduation. She was looking forward to beginning her acting career in New York, auditioning for shows during the day and working at night.Berwick Advertiser interviews the writer SG MacLean:
Of course, her 2020 has not gone how she planned. She spent the spring attempting to do virtual movement and dance classes in her cramped East Village apartment. The Charlotte Brontë play was performed for 15 people on Zoom. She watched her graduation on YouTube.
“I had the dual setting of the North York Moors because to me they had always conjured up romantic and dramatic images - blaming the Brontës this time - that to me fitted in very well with his character.” (Sue Wilkinson)The Independent (Ireland) reviews the film Chemical Hearts:
She visits Dom's grave like a widow in a Brontë novel, hanging trinkets on the headstone, muttering poems into the forest air and stubbornly refusing to move on. (Paul Whitington)How many widows are in the Brontë novels?
Picking up from the last issue. Orphan Annie has arrived at Dover and has gotten a coach to London. Meanwhile, Jane Eyre continues to document her adventures with Irene Adler as the arrival of a visitor reveals that Ayesha is still alive and at large, but before he can provide more information he is shot by Ayesha’s loyal sniper. (Ian Cullen)ABC (Australia) talks about Victorian ghost hoaxers:
Ghost hoaxers were often inspired by gothic literature like Dracula and Wuthering Heights, and 'penny dreadfuls' — sensationalised serial novels widely available at the time. (Beth Gibson)The surrealist article of the day comes from The Athletic:
Who knew Jane Eyre apparently was a baseball fan? She may even be a distant relative of Scott Eyre, although we can't confirm that. But someone needs to help Jane find where her home is. (Jayson Stark)Danny Antonelli in Counterpunch:
That is probably the origin of my urge to say something, tell somebody. And it’s been with me ever since. Then, when I was 16 and at boarding school in Nairobi (St. Mary’s), As You Like It and Wuthering Heights happened to me. Wuthering Heights dug deep into the darkness of my nascent psyche and opened my brain to complexity and the terror that could be evoked by words well-written.CUInsight is probably right when it says:
If you’re like most people, you didn’t learn how to do your taxes or build good credit in school — at least not intensely as you studied geometry or “Jane Eyre.” (Bolun Li)Entreter-se (Brazil) recommends a translation of Wuthering Heights:
“O morro dos ventos uivantes” (1847) narra a forte paixão entre Heathcliff e Catherine, que foram criados juntos numa zona rural da Inglaterra. Inseparáveis, os dois têm a relação ameaçada pela crueldade do irmão da moça, mas o golpe fatal vem quando Catherine, em busca de um matrimônio melhor, decide se casar com o nobre Edgar. Inconformado, Heathcliff abandona a propriedade e volta anos depois, rico e com sede de vingança.Com diversas adaptações para o cinema e o teatro, a obra-prima de Emily Brontë é considerada uma das maiores histórias de amor da literatura inglesa e até hoje arrebata leitores do mundo todo. Esta edição foi traduzida por David Jardim Júnior. (Kethillin Motta) (Translation)El Periódico (Spain) explores the personal history of a local librarian:
Había empezado a aficionarse a los libros precisamente con esa colección, de la que destellan dos títulos, titilantes como faros en su memoria, dos novelas de esas que no dudaría en llevarse a la dichosa isla desierta: ‘Jane Eyre’, de Charlotte Brontë, y ‘Viento del este, viento del oeste’, ambientada en una China legendaria anterior a la revolución maoísta. (Olga Merino) (Translation)ActuaLitté (France) reminds us of the fact that it is possible to download the Brontë's works as they are in the public domain. NMD (Sweden) comments on how the actress Petra Mede read the Brontës in her teens. I Libri: Il mio passato, il mio presente e il mio futuro (in Italian) reviews Jane Eyre.
@ShibdenHall: Our 'As Seen on TV' exhibition features three of the costumes designed by Tom Pye for the film. They were kindly loaned to us by our friends at the Brontë Parsonage. Tom Pye designed Charlotte Brontë's (played by Finn Atkins) dress to appear very business like, referencing masculine business attire from that period.
We've also got the fabulous 'Thackeray dress' on display in our Fashion Gallery. It is a garment worn by Charlotte Brontë to meet with writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Also a loan from the wonderful Brontë Parsonage.
