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Monday, October 31, 2022

First Things has an article against modern Halloween:
Anti-Catholic fervor continued into the nineteenth century as a prejudiced conglomeration of myths, legends, and hyperactive suspicions, expressed in mob riots and political disenfranchisement. The forthright English Victorian quaked with fear at the thought of lecherous monks, sordid crimes in the confessional, villainous Jesuits, duped congregations, and over-sexed women—all devotees of impious idolatry toward the demon Rome. “Blood-cemented Babylon” was synonymous with evil, debauchery, autocracy, and corruption. At the same time, the English literary tradition, especially but not exclusively in the Gothic genre, aesthetically appropriated the authority, ceremony, ritual, artistic beauty, and sacramental efficacy of the Roman Church. John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Brontë all display this element. (Eleanor Bourg Nicholson)
The Face is more for Halloween rom-coms: 
You might be thinking: ​“Halloween should be creepy, not cute! How can people fall in love on the most frightening night of the year?” Well, you’re forgetting that storytellers have long used the paranormal as a romantic device, from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to Patrick Swayze in Ghost. Admittedly, the tone of those tales is a little more sombre, but that’s not because spooky stuff can’t be funny. (Sam Sims)
Dr Chris Koenig-Woodyard is featured in this piece of The Medium:
These lessons translate directly into his classrooms, where Dr. Koenig-Woodyard is known both for his “pedagogy of care,” and his ability to weave past with present, drawing comparisons between classic novels like Jane Eyre and more current film franchises like Twilight (2008). His classes reflect the varying nature of English literature, while demonstrating his willingness to modify his course content to match current trends, and even the interests of his students. (Juliana Stacey)
 Observatoire du journalisme (France) traces a profile of Auguste Trapenard:
En 2004, il com­mence à rédi­ger une thèse sur Emi­ly Bron­të qu’il n’a jamais ter­minée « prob­a­ble­ment par roman­tisme, peut-être, fan­tasme-t-on, à cause du suc­cès, du sexe et de la drogue ». (Translation)
Leelanau Ticker quotes Sarah Shoemaker's author origin story: 
Shoemaker has traveled extensively, including prolonged stints in Turkey and Greece (as well as penning a few books, none of which were ever published), prior to studying library science. It wasn’t until she moved to Michigan – and her youngest kids were finally in school - that the concept for Shoemaker’s debut novel, 2018’s Mr. Rochester, hit. “[My] book group at Leelanau Township Library was discussing Jane Eyre, and I thought, someone should write Mr. Rochester’s story,” she says. “I said to myself, I should write that book.” (Anna Faller)

Her Canberra announces that Frances O'Connors's Emily is going to be screened at the Cunard British Film Festival 2022Blic TV (Serbia) airs Jane Eyre 2011 this week. Southward bound to Glengarriff is the new entry of the blog Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholl's Honeymoon, 1854.

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