A current debate with a Brontë simile on
The Heritage Foundation:
America was in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. For about 19 of those years, American presidents never talked much to the American people, treating an operation protecting 38 million Afghans and America’s interests like the mad wife hidden away in Jane Eyre—a responsibility best left unseen. (James Jay Carafano)
WTTW looks back on 50 years of
Masterpiece adaptations.
The Brontë Sisters – Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
Published under the gender-ambiguous pennames Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell during their heartbreakingly brief lifetimes, the works of Victorian sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have been adapted for television and film many times. As part of Masterpiece, Anne’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1994; an adaptation of Emily’s Wuthering Heights followed in 1998; and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre made its debut in 2006 with Ruth Wilson in the title role. A poignant biopic about the family, To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters, premiered in 2016.
Fun casting trivia: Toby Stephens, who starred in both The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre, is the son of another Masterpiece mainstay, Dame Maggie Smith. (Julia Maish)
Shemazing recommends classics less than 200 pages long such as
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (176 pages)
This is one that will only make sense if you’ve already read Jane Eyre, but it’s honestly one of my favourite modern classics, purely for the interesting angle and social commentary. The story follows Antoinette ‘Bertha’ Mason, the woman who eventually becomes Mr. Rochester’s ‘crazy’ wife that he locks up in the attic in Jane Eyre. But this time, the story is told from her perspective and we take the journey with her as she struggles through life in the colonies before being transported to a strange land in Britain where no one understands her and her new husband is cruel. Although we know her ending we hope for more for her, and this retelling delivers. (Fiona Murphy)
In the video for the title track of her fifth album, Martha Wainwright sashays around a fog-bound forest in a red cape. The comparisons to Kate Bush in the iconic Wuthering Heights video are unmistakeable, and it proves to be a harbinger for the stylistic shifts and vocal gymnastics of Love Will Be Reborn. (Barry Divola, Kish Lal, John Shand and Barnaby Smith)
Este verano le robó el sueño Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, «que atrapa por el misterio inquietante que tiene» (Ana Abelenda) (Translation)
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