Frances O’Connor’s Emily, a biopic based on the classic author Emily Brontë, will be the first film shown at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform program this year. The festival will run from September 8 through September 18 and Emily will later have a regular release by Warner Bros. in 2023 in the United Kingdom, with Bleecker Street releasing it in the United States. (Lacy Long in Collider)
“Emily,” a biopic starring Emma Mackey as “Wuthering Heights” writer Emily Brontë, will have its world premiere through Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform program, the festival announced Wednesday.
Platform, which was established in 2015 and is named after the 2000 film by Jia Zhang-ke, screens eight to 12 films from a diverse range of global filmmakers with rising careers. After the screenings, the Platform Prize, an award of $20,000 CAD, is given to one film selected by an international jury. (Wilson Chapman in Variety)
Emily is Brontë’s origin story, with TIFF describing the film as a “boldly atmospheric portrait” and “a tale of creativity, secret desire, and a woman’s arduous journey toward self-actualisation in 19th-century England.” (Jackie Keast in If)
In Canada, the film is distributed by Sphère Films, according to L'Initiative.
Wotk produced by a group of students has gone on display at Haworth's Brontë Parsonage Museum.The intricate piece of textile artwork is sitting alongside an exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe, which features more than 20 items of clothing and accessories that belonged to the writer of Jane Eyre.Textile artist and author Hannah Lamb was approached by the museum to produce the interactive artwork. (...)As part of the project, called Fragment of a Dress, visitors to the museum were invited to write a few words about an item of clothing that was significant to them.Over two weeks, the students rendered the handwritten stories in embroidery, building up the words stitch by stitch. Each piece was worked on transparent silk organza and they were then put together in the style of a dress that Charlotte Brontë might have recognised.Sassy Holmes, programme officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: "Hannah has created a nostalgic and moving piece of art, that tells the story of how important clothes are to us. (Alistain Shand)
Delve into the dark, evocative allure of the Caribbean islands with Jean Rhys' The Wide Sargasso Sea.A prequel to Charlotte Bronte's seminal Jane Eyre, Rhys' rich and sensual novel puts the spotlight on the "madwoman in the attic"—that is, before she went mad.Set in Jamaica and Dominica, the mysterious thriller is laced with the scent of smoke and spice and filled with luscious, tropical locations that practically explode off the page. (Meg Walters)
Practitioners of blackout poetry often use text at random, specifically to get a desired result. While Bhola has used newspapers to create her poems, Mishra refers to literary texts from the nineteenth century such as the works by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë that, in her opinion, eases the process and helps her create something out of the ordinary owing to the vocabulary prevalent in said texts. (Anjani Chadha)
Catherine Earnsahw and Heathcliff from Wuthering HeightsThis is one of my all-time favorite novels for many reasons, not the least of which is the absurdly dysfunctional relationships between pretty much all the characters. With perhaps two exceptions, if a character in this book interacts with another, the odds are good that it will not lead to a healthy outcome for anyone. But Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s relationship is, by and far, the most dysfunctional of the lot: not only are they the epitome of co-dependent and self-destructive, but they manage to drag everyone else within a 50 foot radius into their drama. (Carolina Ciucci)
2. Windward Heights by Maryse CondéIn How to Read Now, I talk about some of my experiences in a pretty terrible writing program I attended while living in London. But I regretted that I wasn’t able to fit in a section about one of the few true joys of my time at that institution, which was the Caribbean Women’s Writing class I audited, along with two other women of color. Taught by Prof. Joan Anim-Addo, it’s where I first read and loved the work of writers like Maryse Condé, Velma Pollard, Olive Senior, and Beryl Gilroy. Of course, writers like Césaire, Senghor, Glissant, and Walcott are some of the best-known luminaries of Caribbean literature. Condé, a writer from Guadeloupe, is perhaps lesser known in the States than her male peers, a point she doesn’t shy away from discussing in her interviews. Windward Heights is a bravura reimagining of Wuthering Heights, written in a blend of French and Guadeloup creole; in an interview, Condé said: "There is no French. There is the French of Proust, of Chateaubriand, of Maryse Condé… I write neither in French nor in Creole, I write in Maryse Condé.” (Elaine Castillo)
Aunque también hay mujeres que se engloban en el monomito, y no hace falta que sean princesas Disney. Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë, por ejemplo, está considerada unánimemente como parte del viaje del héroe: una mujer victoriana de clase media que se debe enfrentar a obstáculos y conflictos, diferentes a los de sus contrapartes masculinos, y que finalmente sale victoriosa de los mismos. Es, además, un claro ejemplo del llamado 'Bildungsroman': historias comunes en la ficción victoriana, sobre el aprendizaje, que muestran el desarrollo moral y psicológico de los protagonistas a medida que se convierten en adultos. (Ada Nuño) (Translation)
Welcome to our Brontë -themed 15 minute accessible yoga class.Emma Conally-Barklem will lead the session, which has both chair and mat-based options. It is suitable for all and led with a focus on kindness and respect whatever body you are in.The class is infused with the lives and work of the Brontë’ s as we connect body, mind and breath to encourage peaceful release and easing of everyday tensions. It closes with an extract from Emma’s poem, ‘The Meeting of the Waters’.This class is part of a special suite of wellbeing resources which centralises the Brontë’s, their writing and their landscape, curated by Emma Conally-Barklem.
From poetry workshops and Q&A’s to live music and more, this year’s festival is HYBRID, so you can join in Haworth or online.Check out http://bronte.org.uk/whats-on to find out about the festival, running Friday 23 September - Sunday 25 September.
At first the Brontë sisters tried being governesses — a miserable job, but good for mining material for the novels they would write as “brothers,” using masculine-sounding pseudonyms: Currer Bell for Charlotte (Finn Atkins), who wrote “Jane Eyre”; Ellis Bell for Emily (Chloe Pirrie), the author of “Wuthering Heights”; and Acton Bell for Anne (Charlie Murphy), who wrote “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.” Sally Wainwright (“Last Tango in Halifax,” “Happy Valley”) is the force behind this movie about the dutiful daughters of an ailing Yorkshire clergyman (Jonathan Pryce) and the ne’er-do-well sibling, Branwell (Adam Nagaitis), who inspired vivid characters in his sisters’ novels. (Kathryn Shattuck)Northwest Arkansas Democratic Gazette:
Masterpiece presents To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters at 8 p.m. today on AETN. The two-hour film highlights the famous literary siblings who, against all odds, "had their genius for writing romantic novels recognized in a male-dominated 19th-century world."The Times Herald-Record clearly has not done a proper research (check the final paragraph):
The film was written and directed by Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax) and tells the tale of Charlotte, Emily and Anne, the dutiful clergyman's daughters who became the authors of "the most controversial fiction of the 1840s." (...)
Wainwright based the film largely on Charlotte's letters and concentrates on the three-year period "that saw them rise from ordinary, unmarried women, taking care of the household and their widowed father, to the secret authors of the world's most sensational literature."
"I hope people will be entertained and go away wanting to know more about the Brontës," Wainwright added. (Michael Storey)
"Invisible" is a must for Brontë buffs and "Masterpiece" completists, but even they may find some of the dialogue hard to understand.Neal Justin in the Kansas Star-Tribune is no lover of the new production:
At first I thought this was a matter of local dialects falling deaf on American ears, but apparently many British viewers went on social media to complain about muffled audio.
The film includes a peculiar, unfortunate and blessedly short bookending gimmick, depicting the young Brontë children flush with imagination and playing some fantastic board game of their own devising.
It comes off as a desperate effort to attract "Harry Potter" readers. Equally jarring, the film concludes with a contemporary trip to a Brontë museum, where we all end up in the gift shop.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne may have been the most successful sister act in literary history, but their real-life tale isn’t exactly a page turner. It’s hard to come to any other conclusion after watching “To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters,” a well-meaning but tedious biopic that does little to capture the brilliance and personalities of the women behind “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.” Perhaps director/writer Sally Wainwright purposely churned out a yawner in hopes that viewers would switch off their sets and crack open a classic novel.Also in The Vindicator, Detroit Free Press, East Bay Times, ...
Although their names are largely forgotten, many American writers drew from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” in the 1850s. And some were successful — very successful.Critic (New Zealand) reviews Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea:
One million copies sold for one novel, “The Wide Wide World” by Susan Warner. Warner had, in fact, started writing her book before “Jane” took the English-reading world by storm. Her sister, Anna, also wrote popular novels and likened the American pair to the Brontë sisters. Between them, they published 21 titles — with most of the money going to pay their father’s debts, writes Elaine Showalter in “A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.” (...)
Although “Ruth Hall” was apparently no “Jane Eyre” or “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Fern’s feminism and professionalism, Showalter writes, “cleared the path for Stowe and the new order of women to come.” (Jane Henderson)
This book lives on my bookshelf, in a case, with a plaque underneath: ‘A Modernist Triumph of Femme Freedom’. In 1969, Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel and intervention to Jane Eyre, much like the prequel and intervention of my flatmate telling me I am cunty vomitty person the day after a party. However, where my flatmate sets a house on fire, Rhys burns it to the ground. This novel deconstructs the hysterical woman, especially as portrayed in the ‘feminist’ gothic text Jane Eyre.The Sunday Times reviews the biography Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World by Kathy Chamberlain:
Where Bertha in Jane Eyre is an elusive creature, so too is the tumbling narrative of Wide Sargasso Sea. The way the protagonist’s focus sways from the heave and seethe of the Caribbean jungle to her decomposing marriage lends itself to post-post-colonial dialogue. (...)
This is a baffling read and for such a short novel, it is surprisingly dense. Not because of the content, but because of the space that the narrative is meant to occupy. Wide Sargasso Sea alleviates the limitations of Jane Eyre, and celebrates the existence of a) humans and b) women, no matter their mental state, background or role within society. Like a Lana Del Rey song, Wide Sargasso Sea works to validate and celebrate self-indulgent sadness; it is a love letter to the tides of hedonistic apathy, commiserating the vilification of those who suffer loss without need for redemption or forgiveness. Most importantly, Rhys drives for the continuation of the human voice through dissolution to insanity. In short: it’s a good time. (Zoe Taptiklis)
She herself was rumoured to be the author of the pseudonymously published Jane Eyre. She admired Charlotte Brontë, but disliked Jane Austen (“too washy — watergruel”) and said of George Eliot: “She looks Propriety personified. Oh, so slow!” (Paula Byrne)Also in The Sunday Times, an interview with Reed Hastings founder and CEO of Netflix:
As I wait to meet the CEO and founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, two PRs are talking about how as children they were obsessed with books. “I used to read under the covers so my mum didn’t know,” says one. “Yes, I set fire to a T-shirt using it to dim my bedside light,” says the other. This, they agree, is how people feel about Netflix. A new episode is like the next chapter: gobbling down the Gilmore Girls is the same as piling through Jane Eyre. I’m not sure whether this conversation is for my benefit. (I wouldn’t be surprised.) (Janice Turner)BuzzFeed lists several classical films 'every woman should see'. Including Jane Eyre 1944 where Orson Welles plays one Mr Rotchester, apparently:
Joan Fontaine plays Jane Eyre who works as governess at Mr. Rotchester's home. She falls in love but struggles under numerous circumstances that keep her apart from Mr. Rotchester. (juldarps)Reading is my Superpower interviews the author Barbara Cameron:
Who is your favorite book character from childhood?El Día de Córdoba (Spain) interviews the writer Rodrigo Fresán who thinks that David Lynch could be a perfect director for a Wuthering Heights film:
Barbara: It’s got to be Jane Eyre. I first read the book when I was about twelve and fell in love with her spirit and her loving kindness. I wore out several copies of that book and loved being able to teach it when I later became a college English instructor.
-En la segunda parte tiene gran importancia la familia Brontë y especialmente Cumbres borrascosas, "un libro tóxico y con alto poder de contagio". (Braulio Ortiz)Vivere Pesaro (Italy) vindicates the work of the writer Grazia Deledda:
-Lynch podría hacer una adaptación maravillosa de ese libro. Estamos ante una novela que, es curioso, por el tema y el tono ya resultaba antigua en la fecha en la que aparece, y sin embargo anticipa muchas de las cosas que vendrán después. Todo lo que hicieron las hermanas Brontë es fascinante. A mí me gusta mucho Jane Eyre, pero también otro libro de Charlotte que se llama Villette, y las dos novelas protofeministas de Anne [La inquilina de Wildfell y Agnes Grey]. Lo interesante de Cumbres borrascosas es que puede verse no tanto como una novela de vampiros como de vampirizados: el vampiro pasó, los mordió a todos y los dejó allí. (Translation)
Le sue tematiche hanno un'impronta verista, tenendo conto che la Deledda è una profonda osservatrice della Sardegna antica, dell'interiorizzazione della sua terra. Ne La Madre, la Deledda recupera il significato dell'Isola del mito, di una certa impronta anglosassone come Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë. Ma la Deledda viene definita anche una scrittrice, anche superficiale, estimatrice di Carolina Invernizio. (Paolo Montanari) (Translation)The Readiness is All reviews Wuthering Heights.
Originally exhibited at London's prestigious White Cube, Sam Taylor-Wood's Ghosts photographic series is here resized to find its remote cultural home amid the Brontë paraphernalia of west Yorkshire's Haworth. Shot on the bleak moorlands near Top Withens, the setting for Emily Brontë's wonderfully moody novel Wuthering Heights, Taylor-Wood's landscapes are deceptively simple and direct. While avoiding over-emphasising the moody romanticism, they achieve a rare atmospheric resonance. There are few artworks in any medium that are as grounded in a particular landscape as Wuthering Heights, and Taylor-Wood's series here pays fitting on-site homage to the fact. (Robert Clark)The Globe and Mail recommends summer reads. Aislinn Hunter has a very original and Brontëite proposal:
My favourite books of letters are Letters: Summer 1926, by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva and Rainer Maria Rilke; Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Letters and Journals, by German Expressionist Modersohn-Becker, edited by Günter Busch and Liselotte Von Reinken; The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938, by Maud Gonne and William Butler Yeats, edited by Anna MacBride White; and the three-volume (epic) set of Charlotte Brontë's correspondence, which brings Haworth and the family's day-to-day habits to life.Heather Vogel Frederick writes in The Christian Science Monitor about her literary trip searching for Jane Austen. It mentions Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest Hemingway’s Key West by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon
a “book-lover’s Baedeker,” full of detailed travel advice, commentary, and anecdotes about the authors profiled.The New York Times revies Lilian Pizzichini's The Blue Hour:
Co-author Schmidt clued me on the fact that that what I was doing – a writer tailing another writer – was actually nothing new.
“A lot of writers were literary travelers,” she informed me. “Nathaniel Hawthorne visited Sir Walter Scott’s castle in Scotland, and Louisa May Alcott toured Dickensian sites when she went to London.” Edith Wharton and Henry James toured literary landmarks as well and once “visited George Sand’s chateau together.”
An avid aficionado of this brand of travel herself, Schmidt’s favorite destination is Bronte country. “I loved Wuthering Heights, and for me, the moors were as much a part of the story as the characters,” she says.
“Wide Sargasso Sea,” a prequel to “Jane Eyre” that brought Jean Rhys fame in her late 70s, was the product of hard-won wisdom about how a fragile psyche can be crushed by the habits of dominance and submission between men and women, and between Europe and its colonies. As with Rhys’s four other novels, it was written during snatches of diligence amid episodes of paralyzing depression and alcoholic rage. (Mick Sussman)The Times reviews the TV series True Blood:
Obviously and understandably, at this point, many people will be having an automatic embarrassment-reaction to the subject of vampires. Even the superlative work done on Buffy the Vampire Slayer has failed to quell many people’s default Vampire Alarm. “Vampires are strictly for overweight teenage girls, into gallimaufry with capes,” they will tut. “It’s all just Wuthering Heights with silly teeth. It’s not proper drama. Proper drama is about corrupt cops shouting at each other in parked cars, or divorcing couples shouting at each other in hallways. Vampires are just the default metaphor of the over-excited.” (Caitlin Moran)The Elk River Star News revies a local production of the musical The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon:
“The Secret Garden” is a daunting musical, one few community theaters are willing to tackle.The Guardian explores some of the activities that the National Trust offers. Including visiting Belton House which was Gateshead Hall in Jane Eyre 2006:
Elk River Community Theatre (ERCT) loves a challenge, and will present this tale of mystery, misery, dreams, lost love and redemption, set in a spooky mansion on the Yorkshire moors in the early 1900s, beginning Friday at Zabee Theater.
“This play does not get done often. The vocals and theatrics are demanding and the sets are complex,” said Eileen Bowersox, who’s both directing and playing a role,
Bowersox and fellow actors viewed this play in another metro area theater and left “totally confused,” but she is confident the ERCT can pull it together.
“This play has some light moments but also some very intense scenes,” she said. “This is not fluff. We want to showcase our acting and singing talents.”
Noting the ghostly figures and moving sets, she quips: “This is like Harry Potter meets Wuthering Heights.” (Bruce Strand)
At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal in North Yorkshire, the It's a Monk's Life guided tour invites you to dress up in robes and learn about the daily life of a monk, while at Belton House in Lincolnshire children and parents can dress up like Victorians to explore the house, which has seen filming for Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Tom Jones within its walls.The couple Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams is qualified by the National Post as
Canada's answer to Heathcliff and Catherine swooshed off to differing orbits. (Shinan Govani)The Book Reporter interviews author Stephen L. Carter, whose latest book is Jericho's Fall:
Q: Jericho's house, Stone Heights, is itself a character in this novel, one with its own secrets and surprises. It harks back to such stories as WUTHERING HEIGHTS or REBECCA or an Agatha Christie mystery where the physical setting is as much a character as the people. Did you have any of those stories in mind as you wrote this?Pakistan Views interviews actress and director Savera Nadeem:
SLC: Oh, yes. I remember reading Thomas Hardy as a teenager, and being fascinated by the way that the house or the pond or the moor was always brooding over the action. Here, I had in effect two "physical" characters, the house itself, and the mountains that surround both Stone Heights and the town of Bethel. By the way, the town of Bethel is fictitious, but of course bears a biblical relation to Jericho.
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are my favourite books of all time. They are works of the highest order,” Savera fondly reveals.ClicRBS (Brazil) selects Wuthering Heights 1939 as a 'crying' film:
O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes (Wuthering Heighs) – o magnífico William Wyler dirige com maestria esta história de amor, ódio e vingança, baseado no romance de Emily Brontë. Clássico obrigatório para os amantes de cinema. O filme conta a trágica histórica de Heathclif, um jovem pobre que enriquece e decide se vingar de todos os que o humilharam. Será que sua sede de vingança é tanta que nem mesmo o amor pela bela donzela Cathy será capaz de apagar seu ódio? O final....? Quem anda não sabe, que vá assistir. Mas por favor, o clássico de 39. (Ju Lessa) (Google translation)El Diario Vasco (Spain) interviews author Claudia Casanova:
Ella se crió leyendo a «Walter Scott, Dumas, Flaubert, las Brontë. Los clásicos y los románticos. Más que por mi trabajo de editora, que ayuda, escribo como lo hago por mis lecturas de siempre», asegura. (Elena Sierra) (Google translation)Lourdes Ortiz talks in El Diario Montañés (Spain) about Simone de Beauvoir and her Brontëiteness:
La escritora también recordó lo dura que fue la parisina con sus contemporáneas, a las que acusaba de seguir siendo «dependientes» aunque escribieran o pintaran. «No le interesaban sus colegas, a las que en general despreciaba. Sólo salvaba a Virginia Wolf y a Brönte (sic)». (Violeta Santiago) (Google translation)A couple more of German papers contain articles about the Annelies Štrba exhibition at the Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem in Troisdorf, Germany:
Das Licht ist diffus, die Farben entstammen einem Reich, das nicht von dieser Welt zu sein scheint, das irgendwo unter Wasser oder mitten in einem wunderlichen Dschungel liegt.
Die Stimmung lässt sich am ehesten als märchenhaft bis schaurig beschreiben. So wie die Schweizer Fotografin Annelies ?trba ihre ätherischen Mädchen im Märchenwald inszeniert, so stellt man sich die Fantasiewelt der Brontë-Schwestern im Heidemoor von Yorkshire vor. Erst recht die zwischen Idylle und Albtraum oszillierende Stimmung in Emily Brontës Klassiker "Wuthering Heights" ("Sturmhöhe", 1847) findet in trbas opulenten Farbfotografien ihren kongenialen Gegenpart.
Service Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf; bis 6. September. Di-So 11-17 Uhr.
Mit dem Foto-Projekt "My Life Dreams" ist die Schweizerin im Bilderbuchmuseum Burg Wissem zu Gast, das beim Komplex "Rotkäppchen und der böse Wolf" um die Ecke die wundersame Welt der Brontës zelebriert. Den Anfang machen Fotos und Dokumente aus der Sammlung des Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Porträts zeigen die zarten Gesichter von Charlotte und Emily, die mit geschicktem Strich 1829 eine Ringdrossel zeichnete oder den Hund "Keeper" im Aquarell verewigte.
Eine hübsche Landschaft mit Kirche erscheint auf einem Blatt der jüngsten Brontë-Schwester Anne, ein winziges Büchlein, über dessen Inhalt nur Spekulationen möglich sind, war einst im Besitz von Charlotte. Und wenn es um die Interpretation geht, muss der Name Balthus fallen, der mit einem Schuss Lolita-Erotik 1933 "Wuthering Heights" illustrierte. Tatsächlich findet sich in der Ausstellung ein Druck des großen Balthus.
So ganz unberührt von einer latent erotischen Aufladung sind auch Annelies ?trbas Bilder nicht, auch die Darstellung der jungen Mädchen als somnambule, in einem Zwischenzustand zwischen Traum und Tod treibende Wesen erinnert an Balthus. Den Plot zu ?trbas Bildessays aber hat Emily Brontë selbst in ihrem Roman geschrieben: "Ich habe in meinem Leben schon Träume gehabt, die mich immer wieder verfolgt und meine Ansichten verändert haben. Sie haben mich durchdrungen, wie man Wasser mit Wein mischt, und meinem Denken eine andere Farbe gegeben."
Annelies trba setzt solche Texte in fließende, atmosphärische Bilder um, ähnlich wie bei den Studien aus ihrem engsten Familienkreis, den Porträts und Städtebildern, die sie schon auf der ganzen Welt ausgestellt hat, und die eine Autorin einmal als "Innenaugenbilder" bezeichnete. "My Life Dreams" verwischt die Grenzen zwischen Fotografie und Malerei im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes und reizt sämtliche Möglichkeiten und Tricks digitaler Bildbearbeitung aus. Ein schaurig-schönes Fantasy-Abenteuer. (Thomas Kliemann in General-Anzeiger) (Google translation)
Winzig wie eine Babyhand ist das Buch, das in einer Vitrine liegt. Die kleine Häkelschrift ist nicht zu entziffern. Wird hier vielleicht von den Königreichen Angria und Gondal erzählt? In diesen imaginierten Rückzugsort nämlich flüchteten die Geschwister Brontë als Kinder. Ihre Erzählungen hielten sie in selbst gemachten „Zeitungen“ fest; vielleicht auch in jenem Büchlein, das sie aus Zuckerpapier bastelten.Martin Stannard, who has spent 15 years researching Muriel Spark's authorised biography, publishes an interesting article in The Guardian. A couple of passing mentions to Muriel Spark's book about Emily Brontë (Emily Brontë. Her Life and Work, published in 1953 with Derek Stanford) appear. Vandalism in St Mary's churchyard (Scarborough), home to Anne Bronte's grave, is reported in Scarborough Evening News. Fortunately, Anne's tomb has not been affected, The Weekly Standard reviews Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers. American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. DotGolf (in Italy) traces bizarre comparisons between Wuthering Heights and Tom Watson 1977 Open Championship victory.
Heute ist es eine bibliophile Kostbarkeit, zu bewundern in der Schau „My Life Dreams“ im Bilderbuchmuseum auf Burg Wissem - mit Zeichnungen und literarischen Zeugnissen von Anne, Charlotte und Emily. Direktorin Maria Linsmann konnte diese kleine Auswahl aus dem Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth ausleihen. Und musste dafür eine Pilgerreise nach Yorkshire antreten. Denn das Institut verleiht seine Schätze nur ungern, gilt es doch, die Aura des Brontë-Pfarrhauses zu hüten, die Fans aus aller Welt heilig ist.
Alles ist an seinem Platz: die Möbel, der Stickrahmen und auch die Peitsche, mit der die Kinder von ihrem Vater geschlagen worden sind. Landschaftsskizzen, eine Zeichnung des Haushundes, Manuskripte und Porträts der Geschwister gewähren einen intimen Einblick in das Drama der begabten Kinder, mit dem sich vor allem ein Name verbindet: „Wuthering Heights“, Emilys düsteres Werk um Liebe, Demütigung, Eifersucht und Rache.
In den Bann dieses viktorianischen Seelenromans ließ sich auch die Fotografin Annelies "trba (Jg. 1947) ziehen, die den größten Teil der Schau bestreitet. Ätherische Frauen- und vor allem Mädchenfiguren inszeniert sie in Landschaften von tranceartiger, surrealer Farbigkeit. Türkisblau wallt der Nebel einer Alice im Wunderland entgegen, die im weißen Rüschenkleid durch einen violetten Tannenwald wandelt. Doch oft liegen die Heldinnen mit geschlossenen Augen da, eingebettet ins Moos der nordenglischen Nebellandschaft oder wie Schneewittchen eingesargt in die Gletscher von Annelies "trbas Schweizer Heimat. Ihre eigenen Töchter und Enkelinnen haben vor der Kamera posiert. Durch Vergrößerung, malerische Unschärfe und handwerkliche Manipulation werden die Lichtbilder in eine Sphäre jenseits des Privaten gerückt, die zwischen bedrohtem Idyll und sanftem Horror changiert.
Mag zuweilen die Grenze zum arg Gefälligen gestreift werden, so fasziniert doch das Gespür Annelies "trbas für Stimmungsräume. Wie giftgelbe Fanale leuchten die Narzissen auf dem nächtlichen Friedhof von Haworth; und im geisterhaften Pfarrhaus stellen wir uns die Dichterin Emily Brontë vor: „sitzt allein an ihrem Fenster / wo der Abend sich verlor / böiger Winde böse Ahnung / flitzt durch grauen Wolkenflor“. (Annette Schroeder in Kölnische Rundschau) (Google translation)
As the Brontë Parsonage Blog reported a couple of weeks ago, today, June 15, there is a Brontë-related alert at the Courtauld Institute, London, at 7 pm.The Royal Society of LiteratureCategories: Alert, Talks
Monday 15 June: American women writers and the Brontës
Elaine Showalter
Chaired by Ion Trewin
One of the first essays that Virginia Woolf had published, in The Guardian when she was 22, was about a ‘pilgrimage’ to Haworth. She was writing 50 years after the death of the last of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, but the ‘thrill’ of the bleak Yorkshire vicarage and the sisters’ small relics was vivid and powerful. Haworth had already become a place for pilgrimage not just for British admirers, but also for Americans, many of them writers.
Elaine Showalter discusses the enormous impact of the Brontës – through Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Villette and Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë – on American women’s writing in the 19th century: writers black and white, novelists and poets, from Emily Dickinson to Sarah Orne Jewett, who used the lives and novels of the Brontës as inspirations for American stories. A professor emerita at Princeton and former chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize, Elaine Showalter has just completed a new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, published by Virago Press in May. Her previous books include A Literature of Their Own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing.
The talk will be held, as usual, in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre at the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, WC2, and will begin at 7pm, with doors opening at 6pm. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Free for Fellows and members of the RSL; £8 for non-members; £5 concs.
Had Jane Eyre still been in copyright when Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea, Charlotte Brontë could presumably have prevented publication. But would readers have really wanted her to?The Guardian also mentions sequels and prequels of Jane Eyre in an article about the same subject:
Once well-known figures are out of copyright, they fall very rapidly into other hands. By now, the minority of Sherlock Holmes's appearances are in stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is neatly book-ended by both a prequel (Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea) and a sequel: DS Thomas's Charlotte. Emma Tennant has been the most active heroine smuggler, transplanting heroines from Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy into her own fiction. (Mark Lawson)The Film Music Society reports about the recent Motion Picture Academy Tribute to the legendary lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman:
Michel Legrand flew in from Paris for the event, playing the piano and singing "I Was Born in Love With You" from Wuthering Heights (1970). The evening's highlight for many, however, was the stunning duet of Legrand and Alan Bergman on one of their most famous songs, "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair that also included footage of Steve McQueen's glider sequence that inspired it. (Jon Burlingname)The New Statesman reviews the latest book by Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger and talks about country-house novels:
There are two main traditions of country-house novel. One of them, the one these novels have in mind, is the Gothic tradition, which extends back to what is usually thought of as the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s preposterous The Castle of Otranto, and takes in Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher, Bartram-Haugh in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas, Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre, Bly House in The Turn of the Screw, Manderley in Rebecca, et al. (John O'Connell)Now, a gem of random thinking. In the Indian Financial Chronicle we find a paragraph which is able to link together running naked (among wolves, sic), Titanic and Wuthering Heights:
For some, passion is running naked with the wolves… it’s so extreme! I remember this one scene from the movie Titanic, when Kate Winslet jumps out of her lifeboat, just as happy to sink or swim with Leonardo Di Caprio. In that moment any woman would have traded places with her. Remember the movie Wuthering heights? Certainly passion gripped the audience hearts as much as the actors. (Bubbles Shabharwal)Also in The Independent Elaine Showalter's latest book (A Jury of Her Peers) is reviewed, The Portsmouth News and The Leamington Spa Courier have a reminder of the current Tamasha Theatre's performances of Wuthering Heights (with a wrong picture, though).
One of those cads, writer Ford Madox Ford, encouraged her to write. And in her writing Jean found the outlet for her pain. Her novels and short stories distilled her life-long, and growing, sense of alienation. She was 76 when her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, was published. Writing it took her nine years, during which time she was in and out of hospitals and prisons; she often subsisted on a bottle of whisky a day. The novel, in turn, brims with what Pizzichini calls the “triumphant poetry of despair”. (Ángel Gurría-Quintana)Appropriately enough, The Boston Globe has an article on 'Why movie-goers love a good back-story' (and perhaps not just movie-goers as readers also like their back-stories).
Jean Rhys' 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" (and the fine 1993 movie adapted from it) envisions what Rochester and the missus were up to before "Jane Eyre." (Ty Burr)And a passing comment on PopMatters in a review of the novel The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed goes along those lines as well.
There are no new stories under the sun, only creative reworkings of a few plotlines: love, loss, revenge, redemption. That’s four. The fifth may be classified as variations on Victoriana, in this case, Jane Eyre. [...]Sandra Howard mourns the loss of her sister in the Daily Mail and reminisces about other famous sisters in history:
The Servant’s Quarters is clearly the work of a seasoned writer, elegantly written, compact, flowing. Yet it is utterly predictable—Brontë combined with Beauty and the Beast, leavened with Cinderella’s witless, nasty relatives. (Diane Leach)
The Bronte sisters, too, were in competition, all writing powerful stories about doomed passionate love, yet remained intensely loyal and tight-knit. Jane Austen similarly revered sisterhood in Pride And Prejudice and in her own life.The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on music band the Avetts where one of their tracks is described as follows:
"Salina," off the band's 2007 album Emotionalism, became a winding suite that evolved from slow waltz to jiving jig to melancholic cello showcase, with a cinematic tone worthy of Wuthering Heights. (A.D. Amorosi)A couple of things from the blogosphere: Normblog has rererad Jane Eyre and A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore has been reading an advanced review copy of the forthcoming novel by Denise Giardina, Emily's Ghost.
A little late for a reminder, but you might catch it: on Radio 4 this evening (19.45) - in the Writing the Century programme - Linton Andrews holds forth. He was Editor of the Yorkshire Post - and Chairman of the Brontë Society half a century ago. 1954 is the year for today.... (Richard Wilcocks)
Elaine Showalter discusses the enormous impact of the Brontës – through Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Villette and Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë – on American women’s writing in the 19th century: writers black and white, novelists and poets, from Emily Dickinson to Sarah Orne Jewett, who used the lives and novels of the Brontës as inspirations for American stories. A professor emerita at Princeton and former chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize, Elaine Showalter has just completed a new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, published by Virago Press in May. Her previous books include A Literature of Their Own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing.Categories: Alert, Audio-Radio, Books, Jane Eyre, Music, Wide Sargasso Sea
The talk will be held, as usual, in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre at the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, WC2, and will begin at 7pm, with doors opening at 6pm. (Rachel Page)
The bonds issued by British governments are called gilts by investors not because they were once printed on gilt-edged paper – that is a myth – but because they have a reputation for being secure and trustworthy. Gilts were originally called Consolidated Funds, or consols. They paid a coupon of 3 or 5 per cent and you will find references to them throughout Victorian literature. In Vanity Fair, for instance, Becky Sharpe is envious of the £50,000 the “great, rich Miss Crawley” has in the funds. In Jane Eyre, when the heroine finally inherits her fortune from her uncle, her cousin reassures her that “your money is invested in the English funds”. (George Trefgarne)The Times publishes a brief review of the latest CD by Kate Royal: Midsummer Night which includes a track from Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights opera:
The fast-rising British soprano makes adventurous choices for her second EMI album. (...) Solos from Britten’s Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes and The Turn of the Screw are dotted among extracts from Alwyn’s Miss Julie, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Walton’s Troilus and Bernard Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights. If Royal’s voice sounds squeezed at the top of her range, she revels in this lush music. (Hugh Canning)A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter is also reviewed in The Times.
Authorial insecurity was reinforced by comparisons with British cousins such as Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, who benefited from working in a nation that did not so greatly favour “outdoor” male virtues. In fact, so great was Eliot’s sway over American female writers that several saw her death “as the exorcism of an oppressive ghost”. (Stephen Amidon)The Boston Globe reviews The Family Man by Elinor Lipman. The presence of an orphan girl in the story is a perfect excuse to mention Jane Eyre:
And like Jane Eyre or any other favorite orphan, our girl seems both intact and self created, so this story is actually that of Henry charting his transformation from solitaire to bustling family man. (Jane Vandenburgh)A couple of reviews mention Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Obviously, The Washington Post's on The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini but also The Chronicle Herald on Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End:
Athill quickly disabuses any reader of the notion that the memoir might be a sympathy saga. Authors Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea), and Nobel laureate, Elias Canetti (Auto-da-Fé ), both of whom Athill knew for a number of years, were models "demonstrating how not to think about getting old." (Mary Jo Anderson)The high-school graduation season is just started and The Goldsboro News-Argus quotes a part of the commencement speech at the Wayne Country Day School:
"Reading makes you smarter -- you have more brain cells right now than before taking that journey with Jane Eyre or running along the fence with Benji," she said. "Reading increases the capacity of the brain. Think of all the characters you have met in books." (Diane Price, quoted by Phyllis Moore)AnoisNI has uploaded a couple of videos to YouTube with two of their song adaptations of Emily Brontë's poems included in their new CD 'Emily Brontë': The Wanderer, How Clear She Shines, Song and Stars.
e pseudonyms of Janet Louise Roberts), a satanic gothic retelling of Jane Eyre published in 1972: Published by Avon press in 1972, Lord Satan does little to disguise its relationship to Jane Eyre, even attributing the manuscript to a "Louisa Bronte," who one assumes the reader is supposed to take as a distant relative of some kind, perhaps even a long-lost fourth sister. All the elements are here for the titillation that comes with fantasizing about courting a mysteriously threatening (and possibily half-goat) man: the 17-year-old Adrienne, "Lord Satan" himself, and the apparent ghost of Lord Satan's mother wandering the halls of "Castle Caudill." As in the original, much of the book would appear to involve Adrienne attempting to understand the mysterious personal and domestic relationships around her. Despite her marriage to a man known as LORD SATAN, Adrienne is unsure if her vivid memories of satanic rituals and black masses are real or only dreams. Eventually she begins to suspect her husband (again, LORD SATAN) might be a witch. Plucky Jane she is not, it would seem. (Jeffrey Sconce)Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, Poetry, References, Sequels, Weirdo, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights
Pensez-vous que si Keats n'avait pas rencontré Fanny, son œuvre en aurait été changée ?The film itself is described on Écranlarge as:
Quand on aime, on baisse les armes, on est complètement vulnérable. C'est une sorte de rite de passage. Il faut être ouvert à la souffrance comme à la grâce. Quand Keats rencontre Fanny, il est assez sarcastique à propos de l'amour. Il pense d'abord que Fanny, à cause de son obsession pour la couture et pour la mode, est frivole et ridicule. Mais il apprécie son esprit vif, frondeur. Lorsque Tom, le jeune frère de Keats, meurt, Fanny lui ouvrira alors vraiment son cœur. Fanny, à mes yeux, est un personnage qui se situe plutôt du côté des héroïnes d'Emily Brontë que de celles de Jane Austen. Les personnages de Jane Austen travaillent pour gagner leur vie et trouver de l'affection alors que ceux d'Emily Brontë font preuve, comme Fanny, de beaucoup plus de volonté et de caractère. Fanny, qui n'avait pas un sens pratique, avait une pensée plus magique. Elle était incapable d'embrasser la réalité. On se trompait sur son compte, dans son entourage, tout le monde pensait qu'elle était destinée à faire un riche mariage. Elle a préféré Keats qui était d'une pauvreté absolue. (Emmanuèle Frois) (cut and paste on Google translation )
[F]ilm au romantisme exacerbé que l'on dirait tout droit sortie d'une adaptation d'un des romans des Sœurs Brontë mais aussi et surtout dans la lignée de La leçon de piano Palme d'or ici en 1993. (Jean-Noël Nicolau) (Google translation)Parutions reviews Édith & Yann's Les Hauts de Hurlevent comic:
La société victorienne, ses hiérarchies rigides, ses rudesses… Tout un monde, cruel pour les pauvres et les délaissés. L’histoire des Hauts de Hurlevent est un classique, le récit d’un enfant Heathcliff, adopté par un brave homme, Mr Earnshaw, qui l’a trouvé dans un caniveau et le ramène chez lui. Mais l’enfant de la rue, bohémien à la peau sombre, regard noir et caractère un peu sauvage à apprivoiser, se heurte à la haine d’une partie de sa nouvelle famille et des proches, à commencer par Hindley, le fils de Mr Earnshaw, peu enclin à le considérer comme un frère, et à peine comme un être humain. Entre les deux enfants, le duel ne fait que commencer, alors que Catherine, la soeur d’Hindley, s’amourache peu à peu du petit sauvageon, devenu un beau jeune homme. Mais la vie est cruelle et se charge d’éloigner, un temps, les deux jeunes gens. Catherine se marie “dans son monde” et Heathcliff, à bout d’humiliations, s’enfuit. La vie reprend sur la lande… jusqu’au retour de Heathcliff, assoiffé de justice…The Guardian reviews Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx mentioning of course the previous scholar milestone in her author's career:
Les Hauts de Hurlevent relèvent quasiment du huis clos : une demeure sombre perdue dans une lande, un face-à-face entre deux enfants que tout oppose, une “bonne” (sic.) société hostile à Heathcliff, perclue de préjugés, plus bête que méchante… mais si idiote ! L’adaptation de Yann est édulcorée, mais efficace : en quelques paroles et quelques images, il a su mettre en scène une ambiance, une atmosphère, une époque même. Le graphisme d’Edith peut, dans un premier temps, surprendre, plus enfantin qu’adulte… On se dit que l’ouvrage est quand même un classique, que c’est une histoire sérieuse… une réaction victorienne ? Puis, très vite, le graphisme convainc, par son attention aux détails, aux personnages, aux allures, aux regards échangés. Le style d’Edith ne dénature pas l’histoire, au contraire, il va à l’essentiel, à savoir l’égarement d’un enfant dans un monde brutal de grandes personnes, et confronté à d’autres petits adultes en réduction, déjà imbus de préjugés. Exploitant les aspects psychologiques du roman, Edith a su individualiser chaque personnage, conférer à chacun une épaisseur. Une belle adaptation, fidèle à l’esprit de la collection Ex-Libris. (Gilles Ferragu) (Google translation)
In other words, the women Showalter surveys were all in need of a room of their own. In one sense, this is a familiar story, told not only by Virginia Woolf, but by Showalter herself 30 years ago, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing, her pioneering genealogy of British women's fiction within its social, cultural and political contexts. One of the founders of feminist literary theory, Showalter has long insisted that women writers should be taken on their own terms, and joined the chorus of her peers in the 1970s and 80s arguing that many had been unjustly neglected on the basis of their sex. Rebuttals soon followed that these writers had been justly neglected on the basis of merit, and should continue to be neglected. (Sarah Churchwell)A.V. Club reviews the latest installment of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger: Child of Darkness, Child of Light:
They’re odd but resonant characters, locked into a relationship with Catherine-and-Heathcliff levels of angst and determined to save other kids from grim fates, even if they aren’t sure how to go about it without simply killing every criminal they see. (Keith Phipps, Leonard Pierce, Tasha Robinson and Zack Handlen)Another Brontëite: writer Lisa Jackson, who is interviewed in Bookreporter:
Jodie from Commerce City, CO: What are your favorite things to read? Who are some of your favorite authors?Acta Fabula reviews Alain Lescarts's scholar book Splendeurs et misères de la grisette. Évolution d’une figure emblématique:
Lisa Jackson: I read whatever's current and popular. If a book is continually on the bestseller lists, I want to know why. I also read by recommendation. Oh, I have tons of favorite authors. I like Sue Grafton, William Lashner, Harlan Coben, Charlotte Brontë, Steve Martini, Stephen King, Dan Brown, John Grogan, Chris Bohjalian, Sue Monk Kidd, Daphne DuMaurier, Khaled Hosseini, Nelson DeMille, Tami Hoag, Greg Iles, and Dennis Lehane, to name a few.
L’appropriation anglophone de la grisette témoigne de son succès populaire. S’appuyant sur les œuvres de Sterne, de Charlotte Brontë et d’Elizabeth Gaskell, mais aussi sur les comptes-rendus des journaux américains, Alain Lescart montre dans les dernières pages de son livre combien ces écrits contribuent au portrait de la Parisienne en femme romantique, passionnée, aimante, tragique, coquette, futile, superficielle, facile. Mais le personnage permet aussi, comme chez Brontë, de défier la vision classique du mariage et du rôle social des femmes. (Olivier Penot-Lacassagne) (Google translation)Clave digital discusses El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez:
Me recuerda otras grandes y absurdas historias de amor, como la de King Kong, que es quizás la más absurda y tierna de todas, y una de las más trágicas, tan trágica como la del Conde Drácula que persigue y es perseguido por su obsesión más allá de la muerte y de la sangre, algo parecido a lo que ocurre en “Cumbres borrascosas”. (Pedro Conde Sturla) (Google translation)A Wuthering Heights in Rangoon in Foreign Policy Journal, a member of the international jewel thief network Pink Panthers reminds the New York Times of Heathcliff, Fairaudio insists on comparing Soap & Skin and Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights (in German) and an absurd liking of melancholia and (female) readers of Wutheing Heights in El Manifiesto (in Spanish).
THE governess is back. More than 160 years after Jane Eyre fell in love with her boss, Mr Rochester, parents are welcoming bright young women into their homes to help with their children’s education.We have two writers who like (or not) the Brontës. In the positive side the South African Finuala Dowling who talks with the poet Michelle McGrane at the Franschhoek Literary Festival:
But far from the travails Jane faced, today’s governesses enjoy high pay and even holidays with their charges. (Sian Griffiths and Roger Waite)
Tell me about a few of your favourite books and why they are important to you.On the negative side, Newsweek interviews Antonya Nelson:
I have a special affinity for the confiding tone of first-person narration, the “I” of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. (kagablog)
A classic you revisited with disappointment: "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë: What I thought was naughty and necessary romance and drama turns out to be more like melodrama.The vampire-Heathcliff connection is once again mentioned in a Sunday Star Times article about the TV show True Blood. Talking about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy had it all: great scriptwriting, a female role model and a brooding honey of a boyfriend (played by Bones' David Boreanaz) who was the Heathcliff of the vampire world he eventually left to star in Angel. (Karen Tay)Elaine Showalter will present her new book A Jury of Her Peers (which is also reviewed in The Boston Globe) at the The New York State Writers Institute on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Campus Center 375 on the State University of New York at Albany’s uptown campus.
One of them is the hostel at Haworth, a large Victorian mansion that evokes the era of the Brontë novels. It is among the most popular hostels in Britain with overseas visitors, and after a winter of refurbishment has just reopened.Keighley News also has more information about the new tourist campaign to promote the Pennine areas of West Yorkshire (by the West Yorkshire Tourism Partnership):
Haworth is heavily involved in a new campaign designed to attract visitors to Pennine areas of West Yorkshire.If Novels Could Read is a literary game being played on The Guardian's Book Blog:
Five local authorities – including Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale – have combined to boost short breaks and increase visitor spending in the area.
Pennine Yorkshire, the rural areas of West Yorkshire, will be promoted via a new website, brochure and marketing campaign.
Two pages of the 20-page guide are dedicated to Haworth and Bronte Country, with the guide picking out the Bronte Parsonage as the first destination for many visitors.
Haworth’s cobbled main street, lined with small independent shops, pubs and tearooms, is also brought to the reader’s attention.
The guide goes on to conjure up inspiring images of puffs of white steam rising over the Worth Valley – the first indication of an approaching train on the Keighley and Worth Valley line.
For a special meal out, the Weavers restaurant in Haworth is recommended as a “popular choice”.
And it adds that Haworth’s Cheese Shop offers a choice of a dozen Yorkshire cheeses.
Under the section labelled ‘attractions for all the family’, the guide picks out East Riddlesden Hall, which has been described as a “brooding mansion” by the National Trust.
Liz Tattersley, manager of West Yorkshire Tourism Partnership, said the economic climate could mean more domestic trips being taken, giving the area a “genuine opportunity” to attract more visitors.
She said: “The new website and marketing campaign will capitalise on this, raising the profile of the Pennine Yorkshire region which is personified by open moorland, wooded valleys and a strong industrial heritage.
“Pennine Yorkshire is renowned for attractions, including the World Heritage Site in Saltaire, Haworth and its Bronte associations, Holmfirth and Last of the Summer Wine, plus Hebden Bridge, voted the fourth funkiest place in the world.”
I'd personally love to give Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to the likes of Ms Bennet – and I bet Becky Sharp would have had a copy to hand, she knew what was what when it came to men. Perhaps the Kama Sutra might help out poor, repressed Jane Eyre, and she'd realise there's more to life than Mr Rochester. And if Juliet had been following The Rules (wait at least three dates before you sleep with him) would it all have gone so wrong? (Alison Flood)A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter is reviewed in the Washington Post. A couple of Brontë mentions can be spotted:
As a literature professor at Princeton, she helped pioneer feminist criticism in the 1970s with works like "Toward a Feminist Poetics" and "A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing." (...)The Age takes for granted that Stephenie Meyer's Twilight marks the way to discover the Brontës:
Along the way, Showalter raises complicated questions about how art and social circumstances intersect. Crucially, she shows how many talented female writers were discouraged from developing their abilities or died in childbirth before coming to maturity. The demands of housework were a particular trouble. Fanny Fern -- a flowery novelist and columnist -- put it succinctly when she wrote in the mid-19th century, "I am sick, in an age which produced a Brontë . . . of the prate of men who assert that every woman should be a perfect housekeeper." (In fact, "A Jury of Her Peers" is not only a history of women who wrote books but also of women who hated sewing -- "that interminable thing," as Elizabeth Stoddard called it.) (Meghan O'Rourke)
All of which may not be much help to concerned parents who want to guide their daughters in the direction of Great Literature. But take heart. Dark hero? Demon lover? Impossible, dangerous, even lethal liaison? Across the windswept moors lies the throbbing heart of Bronte territory. Before too long, it might be Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights clutched to your daughter's bosom. (Jane Sullivan)WEBReporter (Czech Republic) announces the upcoming premiere of a new production of Jane Eyre (Jana Eyrová) adapted by Věra Mašková and directed by Peter Gábor at the Divadlo ABC in Prague (April 18):
Městská divadla pražská uvedou další českou premiéru. Tentokrát divákům nabídnou jevištní adaptaci světového bestselleru Jana Eyrová. Známý příběh o zapovězené lásce a děsivém tajemství v režii Petera Gábora bude mít premiéru v Divadle ABC 18. dubna. Příběh hlavní hrdinky je nabitý událostmi, překvapivými dějovými zvraty, silnými emocemi, tedy vším, co má dobrý divadelní titul mít.We can include the Spanish writer Laura Freixas to the Brontëite ranks according to El P
Slavná viktoriánská novela Charlotty Brontëové vypráví pět kapitol ze života Jany – její dětství v Gatesheadu, kde je tyranizována svou tetou, nesnadná léta v Lowoodské škole, její první zkušenost guvernantky na zámku Thornfield, kde se seznamuje s mužem svého srdce – záhadným Edwardem Rochesterem, pobyt v rodině faráře Johna Riverse a konečně happy-end, kdy se znovu setkává s milovaným mužem. Román je částečně autobiografický. Už ve své době si získal velkou oblibu, a neztratil ji ani v dalších staletích.
Jana Eyrová je především příběhem o setkání dvou mimořádných jedinců, dvou lidí, které rozděluje původ, věk, prostředí, lidí, kteří naprosto neodpovídají standardní představě mileneckého páru, a přesto je spojí hluboká náklonnost. Není to prchavá touha, ale skutečné souznění duší, o to tragičtější, že děsivé tajemství z minulosti maří jakoukoli naději na naplnění tohoto vztahu. "Jana Eyrová je ale také příběhem o tom, že každý náš skutek má své důsledky, a že všechny dlouhé stíny našich hříchů padají na naše životy ve chvílích, kdy to nejméně čekáme," řekla autorka scénáře, dramaturgyně Věra Mašková a dodala: "Před vlastní vinou, před vlastním špatným svědomím se nemůžeme schovat, život ve lži nám jednoho dne zhořkne, a tento den nás přinutí zaplatit. Ale Jana Eyrová je i příběhem o tom, že přijmeme-li svoje břemeno, a pokusíme se odčinit svou vinu, máme naději na milosrdný soud."
A čím podle představitelky titulní role Evellyn Pacolákové nejvíc přitahuje příběh Jany Eyrové? "Jednak je to samozřejmě působivý příběh lásky, který se tu odehrává. Ale hodně přitahuje i samotná postava Jany Eyrové – její osobní svoboda, její hledání. V době, kdy se příběh odehrává, byla společnost výrazně rozdělená, byly tu velké kastovní rozdíly mezi vládnoucí vrstvou a služebnictvem. Jana, která pocházela z nedobrých poměrů, odmítá tyto rozdíly brát v úvahu. A z toho vlastně vzniká její – možná nevědomá – vzpoura a její cesta ke svobodě."
Jevištní adaptace Jany Eyrové v Divadle ABC nabídne divákům pohled očima Janiných vzpomínek, což dává možnost nerealistického ztvárnění příběhu, v němž se akcentuje, stejně jako ve vzpomínkách určitý výrazný detail.
V roli Jany se představí nová posila Městských divadel pražských Evellyn Pacoláková. Po studiích na JAMU v Brně nastoupila do angažmá v olomoucké činohře, kde se brzy stala výraznou členkou souboru. O jejím výrazném hereckém talentu svědčí Ceny za nejlepší výkon sezony 2000/2001 (Larisa v inscenaci Bez věna), sezony 2003/2004 (Beatrice v Mnoho povyku pro nic) a především Cena Thalie 2005 pro mladého činoherce do 33 let.
Edward Rochester - Hynek Čermák se kromě divadla se objevuje v nejrůznějších filmových a televizních produkcích, zahrál si například v seriálech Zdivočelá země, Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech, Rodinná pouta, Poslední sezóna, Agentura Puzzle, Četnické humoresky či Eden. Natočil americký film Wrong Mr. Johnson, kde hrál jednu z hlavních rolí. Je autorem asi padesáti písní, které si sám interpretuje s hudební skupinou Provas. Od puberty se aktivně věnuje sportovnímu létání a dalším adrenalinovým aktivitám. (Barbora Bělinová) (Google translation)
aís:Su proceso de vampirización fue un viaje continuo. Siguió en Inglaterra, donde fue lectora de español, y donde se sumió en la lectura de autores especialmente suculentos para un buen festín que deja poso: las hermanas Brontë, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf... El amor por la Woolf en cierto modo ha transustanciado a la escritora de Al faro en su propia personalidad, pues es la traductora de sus diarios. Y otra mujer, la brasileña Clarice Lispector, es otro de sus alimentos literarios; Freixas escribe ahora su biografía, una manera de vampirizar, también, la vida. (Juan Cruz) (Google translation)A review on Panorama.it of the Italian translation of Fabrice Gaignault's Dictionnaire de littérature à l'usage des snobs : Et (surtout) de ceux qui ne le sont pas (published in 2007) reveals that Branwell Brontë is one of its entries:
Nel dizionario spunta il sempre taciuto Patrick Branwell Bronte, fratello delle ben più note Charlotte, Emily e Anne. (Antonio Carnevale) (Google translation)On the blogosphere, The World of Cheese reviews Wuthering Heights and Jyusan, Nijyusan, Yonjyuni talks about Jane Eyre 2006. Les soeurs Brontë has uploaded robot portraits of Charlotte, Emily and Anne and a post on Lord Byron, the Gondal Lord of Elbë and Heathcliff. SueWeasley has uploaded a Haworth trip video to youtube.
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