Jane Eyre and Sustainable Development Goals

Broadway World features Rebecca Bernstein and her virtual theatre company Zoom Shakespeare Productions.

In a time of so much uncertainty, and so much fear, Zoom Shakespeare Productions provided an escape, entertainment, and a reigniting of passions in a low-pressure setting. This was something that live theatre wasn't able to provide as of late, even before the pandemic, but here was Bernstein, making it happen for so many people over a video chat platform. Over the next year, Zoom Shakespeare Productions went through the entire canon and has since started to explore other works in the public domain.

"What are focused on now is classic and public domain stories. We did a Cyrano de Bergerac in April of last year...Essentially the idea is to do classics and public domain stories....We did a Little Women adaptation, we did a Jane Eyre, we just finished our second A Christmas Carol. That was our first charged production for Christmas of this year." (Marissa Tomeo)

According to The Atlantic,The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante is one of eight books for indulging in a bad mood. 

At times, this story of love gone wrong rivals Wuthering Heights for sheer sadistic intensity. But Ferrante’s account of a woman sick with anger, her existence crumbling around her, is entirely her own. (Charlie Tyson)

El Español (Spain) recommends 17 novels in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals. Jane Eyre is apparently one of them.

ODS 4: Jane Eyre

En 1847, Charlotte Brontë escribió su primera novela en un momento histórico en el que la sociedad desdeñaba a las mujeres intelectuales. Con su libro hace una crítica aguda a las desigualdades del momento, reivindica el derecho de las mujeres a la educación y la necesidad de cambios sociales. (Raquel Nogueira) (Translation)

Gazette series mourns the loss of Berkeley resident Bryan Cullen.

His daughter Sally Cullen has paid tribute to him. [...]

“He's didn't hesitate to bring his pony and trap to do many jubilee carnivals and school fetes over the years, giving pony rides and leading the precession with his two daughters, Mandy and me.

“Lots of locals hired horses and carriages for their weddings, funerals as well as for in film for the original Poldark, Arthur of the Britons and the Brontë sisters, to name a few. (James Felton)

AnneBrontë.org has a post on 'The Infancy And Childhood Of Anne Brontë'. Brussels Brontë Blog pays tribute to Freddy Thielemans, former Brussels mayor, by looking back on his meetings with the Brussels Brontë Group.