The New Victorian Manifesto.And now several Haworth-related news:
Last year, there was a mash-up between Bach and Bukowski. This year, the French company New Victorian Set performs songs inspired by Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte with the aid of a synth, baroque harpsichord and eclectic (sic) guitar. Vocalist/keyboardist Nick Pagan has worked with the Velvet Underground and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Kavárna 3+1, May 28-30 (Steffen Silvis)
RAILWAY enthusiasts can experience film history, vintage trains and even a butler serving cream teas this bank holiday weekend at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
Hosted in the UK's oldest working railway carriage – famously used in the 1970 film The Railway Children – passengers will travel on the fabulous Victorian 'Old Gentleman's Saloon', which dates back to 1871 with prices from £12 per person.
The classic locomotive will take passengers on a 70-minute tour of Brontë Country, whilst enjoying complimentary cream teas served by an onboard butler. In addition, the train's resident 'Old Gentleman' will give running commentary throughout as it visits all six stations on the railway's route.
Starting at Oxenhope station, passengers will be treated to a brass band on the platform before also stopping at Haworth (for the Brontë Parsonage Museum), Damems, Oakworth, Ingrow and Keighley stations.
The Haworth Village Website has uploaded pictures of the Historical Enactment from the lives of the Brontë Sisters by Park Lane College from last 9th May 2009, like the one on the right (Source, Credits: Ian Palmer) and many others. The same website has also uploaded lots of pictures of the recent Haworth 1940s Weekend. Precisely, a reader of the Telegraph & Argus has a curious remark about it:I know it makes me look sad but I was upset at the number of women wearing stockings whose seams looked like the path out to Brontë falls, ie, up the side of their legs and everywhere. (Bram Leitch)The Telegraph & Argus announces several upcoming activities on the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
Two discussions in Haworth early next month explore the work of the Bronte sisters and their brother Branwell.And finally, it seems that Haworth will soon be included in the Google Street View initiative (source):
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë brings together leading Brontë historian Juliet Barker and Brontë-inspired novelist Justine Picardie.They will discuss the life and creative legacy of the reprobate Brontë brother, at West Lane Baptist Centre on June 5 at 3.30pm.
The event coincides with the Bronte Parsonage Museum's new special exhibition on Branwell.
The Brontes and Romance, chaired by Justine Picardie, is at the same venue on June 6 at 8pm.
The discussion examines the influence of the Brontes' works on the romance genre.
Taking part are Joanne Harris, author of novels including Chocolat, novelists Jude Morgan and Amanda Craig, and Mills & Boon writer Kate Walker. (David Knights)
24th April 2009; A car was seen around Haworth this afternoon with the same set up Google use to take their Street View photographs.Freaky Tigger describes Bonnie Tyler's 1983 videoclip of Total Eclipse of the Heart like this:
[A] big budget remake of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”. Pianos, crescendos, abstraction, abjection. But bigger isn’t always better.Today's survey of the blogosphere brings the following: Forgetting to Forget to Forget is reading Daphne du Maurier's The Infernal world of Branwell Brontë, The 999 Challenge and Bettina's Book Club post about Jane Eyre (a book which is recommended by In the Life of a Busy Woman), Amy Letinksy shares a C
hristian reading of Wuthering Heights. Generous Orthodoxy devotes a post to Anne Brontë on universal salvation analysing mainly The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Via Quinquabelle...ou les imperfections parfaites! we have discovered a very curious item (on the right): A suffrage banner from The Women's Library:Collection Women's Library Suffrage Banners CollectionPeople Reading features a San Francisco reader of Wuthering Heights, no other that @TheBrothers Bell who is tweeting his reading as we posted several weeks ago. And finally, the Brussels Brontë Blog posts a TV alert in Belgium:
Date 1908
Description Suffrage banner
Location Creation Site Fawcett Society, Parnell House, Wilton Street, London SW1
Location Current Repository The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University
Location Former Repository Visual Materials Collection, The Women's Library
Measurements 1230 x 870x20 x 20 millimetres
Material Green sateen and cream twill ground with green painted lettering and appliqued rose design.
Rights Owner Public domain. Right of reproduction held by London Metropolitan University
For those members living in Belgium and Holland, who haven’t had the opportunity to see the latest TV adaptation of Wuthering heights, Flemish broadcaster één will show the premiere of the ITV version, shown earlier this year in the UK, this Saturday evening.Categories: Alert, Anne Brontë, Biography, Branwell Brontë, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights
The film is split into two parts, part 1 this Saturday, 23 May ,starting 21:15, part 2 next week, Saturday 30 May.
Yes. Well. Hmm. A curio, Victorian or otherwise. The blurbs seem to promise something that was seldom seen in this evening, which was in equal parts frustrating, unique and, at times, unintentionally entertaining. What is this new Victorian manifesto? Not a clue, unless it was vocalist-keyboardist Nick Pagan's dictum that true poets and artists must continue to aspire in the face of adversity - something he banged on a bit more than his Casio. I went expecting this singular soul, who speaks in an accent somewhere between Mid-Atlantic and Liberace, and who has worked with Siouxsie and the Banshees, to meld contemporary music with the verse of Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, et al. And, while there were two examples of this at the top of the program, the rest of the hour was spent being forced to acknowledge Pagan's own versifying (a song about Prozac was particularly forgettable) or find him creatively trying to shoe-horn the Beatles and John Cale into this vague Victorian manifesto. The oddity of the evening was enhanced by a startling time-warp in the room. There was Pagan, mop-topped and passionately attacking his keyboard, as if still auditioning three decades ago for a chance to open for Spandau Ballet. But to his left were two sleek, elegant French musicians (Catherine Lubatti on electric violin and Damien Soupizet on eclectic [sic] guitar), both brilliant, and both seemingly visitors from a more promising future. Under what circumstances did these people meet? It's one of the hour's greatest questions. Still, STILL, Pagan is unlike anyone else. He is his own man, complete with his own loves and manias, and more power to him. He's a true original, and, in this dull age of stifling conformity, I salute him. (Steffen Silvis)The Provincetown Banner reviews a local production of The Mystery of Irma Vep (at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater):
The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater jumps into its 25th season with this Charles Ludlam play, subtitled “A Penny Dreadful.” It is, and is intended to be, an over-the-top send-up of everything from “Jane Eyre” and especially “Rebecca” to Edgar Allen Poe and every other book, poem and movie of the genre. (Sue Harrison)Broadway World presents yet another production of the Charles Ludlam's play by The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. And The Arizona Daily Star talks about another one by the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson:
"It's a wonderful spoof of movies like 'Rebecca' and 'Wuthering Heights,' " said [Leslie J. ] Miller, adding that puns are plentiful, too. (Kathleen Allen)Amanda Ash in The Times-Colonist gets a nomination for this most unBrontëite of references. Reviewing Jumpin' Jack by Lyle Victor:
The play is filled with witty one-liners and laugh-worthy expressions, but as a whole, it feels like reading Jane Eyre. An 80 minute one-man play is simply too long.The Chicago Tribune reviews Lilian Pizzichini's biography of Jean Rhys: The Blue Hour:
Yet she was holed up in a bungalow in Cornwall working for decades on what would be considered her masterpiece, "Wide Sargasso Sea," which evokes Rhys' childhood and rewrites one of the most famous screeching mutes in literary history, Charlotte Bronte's lunatic Bertha Mason in "Jane Eyre."A local musician competing in the Edmonton Provincial Music Festival (Canada):
"I wanted to write her a life," Rhys said of Antoinette Cosway, her tragic Creole heiress. Lilian Pizzichini's goal in her new biography, "The Blue Hour," is also to rescue Rhys from the caricature of a life of ill repute and drunken dissolution. (Kate Zambreno)
Jordyn Appleby is competing in the musical theatre category, which includes singing and dancing in costume from a stage production. Her piece is a song called Forgiveness from the musical Jane Eyre. (Crowsnest Pass Promoter)And in Xalapa, México at the Festival de la Lectura:
Hoy, los estudiantes volverán a estar en el Festival de la Lectura, de 12:00 a 14:00 horas en la Casa del Lago, mostrando está técnica de grabado y regalando a los asistentes grabados de las portadas de la Biblioteca del Universitario.And even more students with Brontë leanings. In Volgograd, Russia, the winner of the regional competition Герой нашего времени (The hero of our time) is Надежда Дружинина which devoted her work to Jane Eyre according to Volgograd.ru.
Algunos de los autores de los grabados de la colección son los siguientes: (...)Cumbres borrascosas de Emily Brontë. (Juan Carlos Plata in Diario de Xalapa) (Google translation)
Die Schwestern Anne, Charlotte und Emily Bronte faszinieren ihre Leser seit anderthalb Jahrhunderten und bereits seit 1850 interessieren sich Literaturtouristen für die Orte, an denen die Familie lebte und die in ihren Romanwelten beschrieben wird. Der Bildband „Die Welt der Brontes“ zeigt auf wunderschönen Fotos Häuser und Orte, die mit der Familie verknüpft sind. Das Pfarrhaus in Haworth, in dem die Brontes den größten Teil ihres Lebens verbrachten, ist selbstverständlich zu sehen, aber auch die Apotheke, in der sich ihr Bruder Branwell mit Opium versorgte, ist noch erhalten und die von ihrem Vater, dem Reverend, erbaute Sonntagsschule. Hinzu kommen Orte, die in den Texten beschrieben werden, und für die es – mal gesichert, mal wahrscheinlich - ein Pendant in der Realität gibt. Charlotte beschreibt in Jane Eyre das Dorf Morton, und man darf annehmen, dass sie dabei den Ort Hathersage vor Orten hatte. Wo Wuthering Heights liegt, das bleibt allerdings weiter ungeklärt.And hearing aids and Jane Eyre in the Bemidji Pioneer, Cornucopia of Books reviews Wuthering Heights, Concursori (Romania) invites you to win a copy of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor in Romanian just by answering a very easy question.
Nun kann man sich fragen, warum man einen Bildband braucht, wenn in den Romanen doch alles dargestellt wird - reicht das nicht? Schon. Aber irgendwann möchte man eben genauer wissen, wie ein Herrenhaus beschaffen ist, das „nicht gerade riesig, aber doch von stattlichem Ausmaß“ ist, wie die karge Heidelandschaft aussieht und die Bilder von den engen Dorfgässchen geben sowieso vor, die Zeit sei stehen geblieben. (Pia Helfferich) (Google translation)
Beth Pattillo's THE TRUTH ABOUT JANE EYRE, in which a contemporary would-be governess discovers she may have far more in common with Charlotte Bronte herself than she does with the author's fictional heroine, to Beth Adams at Guideposts, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world). (Publishers Marketplace)It looks like fiction and the Brontës are really 'the thing' these days.
* The New Victorian Manifesto by The New Victorian Set of France mixes Baroque Harpsichord, sequenced orchestra, synthesizer, drum machine, electric violin and guitar with the words of 19th-century British authors like Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. (Dinah Spritzer)The Bookseller comments on Kate Mosse's forty titles of choice, which she chose for influencing and inspiring her writing at Waterstone's Writers Table campaign.
Mosse's choices span classics (Emily Brontë, Guy de Maupassant, Joseph Conrad), biography (Claire Tomalin, Arthur Koestler, Jung Chang), crime (Ian Rankin, Agatha Christie) and history (Karen Armstrong, Zoé Oldenbourg) to adventure (Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard), modern fiction (Margaret Atwood, Louis de Bernières, Marilyn French, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) and poetry(T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson). Each book features handwritten notes from Mosse explaining her choices. (Graeme Neill)As you can see there are those who can appreciate a good thing when they see it. Others not so much, such as the reviewer of TiVo's digital recorder in WA Today:
I am also hoping to store a bank of gender neutral TV programs for combined viewing (this category excludes MythBusters, TopGear or anything by the Bronte sisters). (Louisa Hearn)The blogosphere knows better too and is in love with Wuthering Heights today. Oxymores (in French) and Bienve's Welt (in Spanish) review the novel and The Back and Visible Things reviews the 1970 film adaptation. YouTube user TheodoraCLange reads Emily Brontë's No Coward Soul Is Mine. And avpeter - poet Peter Coles - has uploaded an original, informative video on Branwell Brontë, described like this:
Branwell Bronte had three jobs: in Broughton, Luddendenfoot and Thorp Green. He didn't last long in any of them. Too many drugs in too short a time killed him. This Sequence uses three original sonnets by Peter Coles together with music from our own era to try to give some impression of how Branwell may have felt during this brief period of his life.Categories: Books, Branwell Brontë, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Music, Poetry, Victorian Era, Wuthering Heights
A couple of alerts for today, May 28:The New Victorian Manifesto by The New Victorian Set2. In Warrington, Cheshire, UK
28.05.2009 16:30; 21:00
29.05.2009 16:30; 21:00
30.05.2009 16:30; 21:00
Where the 18th Century meets the 21st: Baroque Harpsichord, sequenced orchestra, synthesizer, drum machine, electric violin and guitar with lyrics inspired by Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte and others all combine for a unique listening experience. Vocalist/ Keyboardist Nick Pagan has collaborated with members of The Swans, Siouxsie and The Banshees and The Velvet Underground. He is joined by Catherine Lubatti on violin and Damien Soupizet on eclectic (sic) guitar.
Borders Warrington storeCategories: Alert, Jane Eyre, Music
Fiction Book Group
7:00 pm, Thu 28th May 2009
This month the group will be meeting to discuss 'December' by Elizabeth H Winthrop & 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. New members are always welcome.
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