An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, TalksLisa Appignanesi – Mad, Bad & Sad
Novelist, writer and president of English PEN, Lisa Appignanesi will be visiting Haworth to speak about her book ‘Mad, Bad & Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800’. The event will take place on Wednesday 28 April at 2pm, at the West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth and forms part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme.
Mad, Bad & Sad explores the ways in which women’s mental disorders and states of mind have been understood since the 1800s, from the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. The book also explores Charlotte Brontë’s use of madness in Jane Eyre, with its famous portrayal of Bertha Mason, the ‘madwoman in the attic’, drawing on Victorian ideas of madness.
The book has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, the Warwick and the MIND prizes and has won the Medical Journalist’s Award.
Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist, writer and broadcaster, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.
A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Also on the Brontë Parsonage Blog.BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD LAUNCHES NEW SEASON OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS EVENTS AT THE BRONTË PARSONAGE MUSEUM
The Brontë Parsonage Museum launches its new Contemporary Arts Programme this month, with an evening with internationally bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford on Saturday 19 September at 7.30pm at the Old Schoolroom, Haworth. The event will see Yorkshire-born Barbara Taylor Bradford return to the UK as part of a special tour celebrating 30 years since the publication of her landmark novel A Woman of Substance and her new book Breaking The Rules. Barbara Taylor Bradford will be discussing her books, career and love of the Brontës with arts critic and journalist Danuta Kean.
This special event is the first in a new season of contemporary arts events to take place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum between September 2009 and March 2010. Other high profile events will include readings by Sarah Waters (on the left) and Tracy Chevalier (on the right), and a talk by screenwriter Peter Bowker who recently adapted Wuthering Heights for ITV1.
As well as its usual mix of visual arts exhibitions, talks and workshops, the museum is currently receiving funding from Arts Council England to develop a season of events that showcase and celebrate women’s writing. Arts Officer Jenna Holmes says:“The Brontës were pioneering women writers and we are delighted that Arts Council England is supporting us to really explore and highlight theThe full details of the new programme are listed below:Brontës’ influence on contemporary women writers today. This special strand of programming includes visits by high-profile women writers such as Sarah Waters and Barbara Taylor Bradford, but it also enables us to appoint a writer-in-residence, Katrina Naomi, to explore the museum collections and work with community groups, as well as allowing us to support emerging women writers and introduce new creative writing projects and events for everyone who comes to the museum”.
Sam Taylor-Wood: Ghosts
Until Monday 2 November
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Landscape photographs of the moors around Haworth, inspired by Wuthering Heights, by major British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Free on admission to the museum.
A Woman of Substance: An Evening with Barbara Taylor Bradford
Saturday 19 September
7.30pm, Old Schoolroom, Church St, Haworth
Internationally bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford will be visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of her landmark novel, A Woman of Substance, and the release of her new book, Breaking The Rules. She will be speaking about her work and the influence of the Brontës with journalist and arts critic Danuta Kean.
Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at sixteen. By the age of twenty she had graduated to London's Fleet Street as both an editor and columnist. In 1979, she wrote her first novel, A Woman of Substance, and that enduring bestseller has been followed by 24 others. Her novels have sold more than 81 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Barbara Taylor Bradford lives in New York City.
Tickets are £5 and should be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
National Poetry Day – Writer in Residence
Saturday 10 October
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Poet Katrina Naomi is the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s first Writer in Residence, and over the coming months will be working in the collections, as well as facilitating a special community project. To mark National Poetry Day, Katrina Naomi will be engaging with museum visitors for the day, to produce new poems inspired by visitor responses.
Katrina Naomi is originally from Margate and now lives in London. Her first full collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake will be published in October 2009. She won the 2008 Templar Poetry Competition and her pamphlet Lunch at the Elephant & Castle was published later that year. She has received an Arts Council England writer's award and a Hawthornden Fellowship, and has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths. Katrina is also a lecturer in creative writing for the Open University.
Free on admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Tracy Chevalier
Friday 16 October
7.30pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Novelist Tracy Chevalier will be visiting Haworth to read from and discuss her new novel, Remarkable Creatures. The novel tells the story of Mary Anning, who in nineteenth-century Lyme Regis discovers the first pre-dinosaur fossils which will pave the way for Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Tracy Chevalier is the author of five previous novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), The Virgin Blue (1997), Falling Angels (2001), The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) and Burning Bright (2007). Born in Washington, DC, she now lives in London with her husband and son. She is Chairman of the Society of Authors.
Tickets are £5 and should be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Peter Bowker and Wuthering Heights
Saturday 24 October, 7pm
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
BAFTA winning screenwriter Peter Bowker will talk about his recent work adapting Wuthering Heights for television. Peter will be joined by director Coky Giedroyc and (filming schedules permitting) other key members of the production team to discuss the process of transferring the story from page to screen. The costumes from the ITV production are currently on display at the Parsonage.
Peter Bowker wrote Blackpool for the BBC, and adapted A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005) and Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale (2003) for television. His ITV movie Buried Treasure won the BAFTA Lew Grade Award for Most Popular Drama in 2001, and his television film, Flesh and Blood won the Prix Europa and two Royal Television Society awards in 2002. His three part drama, Occupation, about three British soldiers serving in Iraq was shown on BBC1 in 2009.
Tickets are £10 and must be booked in advance. Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
From Laptop to Bookshop: The Mslexia Roadshow
Saturday 28 November
Mslexia is a magazine dedicated to women writers. The Mslexia Roadshow offers a day of creative writing opportunities and to hear a successful author discuss her work. Each event can be booked onto individually or you can take part in the whole day.10am – 12pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
- Mslexia Workshop 1: Writing a synopsis
Led by novelist and founder of Mslexia Debbie Taylor, this creative writing workshop is aimed at novelists. It will help you identify what your novel is really about, and communicate it to an agent or editor.
Tickets £10 and includes admission to the museum; women only; places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk1.30pm- 3.30pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
- Mslexia Workshop 2: First Paragraph
Led by novelist and experienced creative writing tutor Jane Rogers, this workshop is aimed at novelists and short story writers and will help you create an arresting first paragraph.
Tickets £10 and includes admission to the museum; women only; places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Sarah Waters in conversation
6pm, West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Sarah Waters will be in conversation with Mslexia founder Debbie Taylor about her writing career and her latest novel, The Little Stranger.
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and has been an associate lecturer with the Open University. She has won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2003, she was named Author of the Year three times and was also chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature and both Fingersmith and The Night Watch were shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television. The Night Watch is currently in development with the BBC. The Little Stranger has been long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Tickets are £8 and should be booked in advance; all welcome.
Bookings: 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Mr Lockwood’s Confusing Christmas
Saturday 12 December
Brontë Parsonage Museum
It’s Christmas and characters from the Brontës’ novels have escaped the pages of their books and been let loose in the Parsonage, where mayhem unfolds. What would happen if Mr Rochester met Cathy under the mistletoe, or Jane Eyre came across Heathcliff in the graveyard with a shovel? And when will Nelly Dean sort out that strange laughter coming from the attic?
Event takes place throughout the day. Free on admission to the museum.
Jo Brown: The Sunbeam and the Storm
Friday 5 March – Monday 3 March
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Artist Jo Brown exhibits a series of abstract paintings inspired by descriptions of weather in Emily Brontë’s poems.
Jo Brown was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and studied in Yorkshire, at Bretton Hall College then Sheffield Hallam University, gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1995. She was artist in residence at Dean Clough, Halifax in 1995 and has since exhibited regularly in municipal and commercial galleries in England, Scotland and the USA. Free on admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum
Lisa Appignanesi: Mad, Bad and Sad
Wednesday 10 March, 2pm
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2010
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
“Charlotte Brontë’s portrait of Bertha Mason, the ‘mad, bad and embruted’ wife of Rochester in Jane Eyre has taken on iconic value. But by the time Brontë penned it, she was drawing on what were already old images of madness, probably garnered from the notorious Bedlam”. Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi will be talking about her latest book MAD, BAD and SAD: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800. Including writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, this is the history of the study of the female mind over the past two centuries. The book has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, the Warwick, the MIND and has won the Medical Journalist’s Award.
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster, she is former deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, chair of the Freud Museum and president of English PEN.
Admission is £3 and there is no need to book in advance
An Afternoon with Persephone Books
Wednesday 24 March, 2pm
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Persephone Books reprints neglected novels, diaries, short stories and cookery books by women writers such as Dorothy Whipple and Katherine Mansfield. Founder Nicola Beauman talks about the origins of Persephone, how books are chosen and some of the authors.
Admission is £3 and there is no need to book in advance
Lisa Appignanesi's Mad, bad and sad: A History of women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present is reviewed in The Jewish Chronicle. Our very own Bertha Rochester appears:Justine Picardie's novel is a story within a story within a story. In 1957, novelist Daphne Du Maurier is coming apart at the seams. Haunted by Rebecca, the heroine of the novel that has brought her fame and fortune, she seeks escape from the misery of her failing marriage in writing a biography of Branwell, the unsuccessful reprobate brother of the Brontë sisters.
Her research entangles her with bibliophile and Brontë expert Alex Symington, a dubious character with connections to literary forgers, who leads Daphne to believe in the possibility of uncovering a literary sensation: that Branwell's work may have been passed off as his sisters'.
In the present day, a young woman newly wed to an older man who, like Maxim De Winter in Rebecca, seems still under the spell of his first wife, buries her unhappiness by following Du Maurier's Brontë trail, hoping to succeed where the novelist failed.
Parallels between the two narratives pile up — but then unlikely coincidence is a major tool of romantic novelists, including Du Maurier and the Brontës, and here it works effectively to underline emotional truths.
It's all very clever — but not too clever — and adds up to an intelligent, absorbing mystery story, a real tour de force all bookworms will love. (John Harding in The Daily Mail)
From Jane Eyre’s “madwoman in the attic” to Victorian ladies prostrated by “nerves” and Freud’s hysterics, through to today’s Valium-poppers, women especially have seemed affected by mental illnesses and have been theorised and experimented on by generations of would-be curers. Lisa Appignanesi here brings together 200 years of the treatment of mental illness and an analysis of women’s experiences to shed light on why we treat women’s madness as we do, and why we still don’t fully understand it. (Sophie Lewis)It's not the first time that this book is mentioned on BrontëBlog.
She was the younger sister of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the critic and essayist William Michael Rossetti. It's tempting to see the Rossetti clan – with their precocious childhood journals, their melodramas and morbidity - as the Italian Brontës. Christina, a pious Anglican, suffered ill health from childhood and was disappointed in love. (Sam Leith)As I Like It reviews Agnes Grey not very enthusiastically. Banana Smothie briefly comments Jane Eyre 2006. Tiger, the Brontës's cat gets a mention in El Rumbo de México, El Comercio (Perú) celebrates the 65th birthday of the film director André Téchiné and comments his filmography, including Les Soeurs Brontë.
En "Las hermanas Brontë", por ejemplo, le reprocharon que resaltara el ambiente frío, inhóspito y sin color que rodea a las futuras escritoras. Lo que sus detractores olvidan es que Téchiné, como autor, es incapaz de entusiasmarse con sus personajes como si se tratara de un 'biopic' celebratorio, a la manera de Hollywood. Es crítico con las Brontë y, justamente por ello, las convierte en la pantalla en seres humanos. (Google translation)Argentinian actress Marta Bianchi reveals herself as a Brontëite is this interview in Página 12:
Mi pareja preferida, porque amaba formar familias-parejas, eran Caty y Heathcliff, los protagonistas de Cumbres borrascosas.Categories: Agnes Grey, Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References
(My favourite couple, because I loved to create couples-families, were Cathy and Heathcliff, the main characters in Wuthering Heights). (María Mansilla)
Behind Closed Doors2. The Brussels Brontë Group organizes a talk by Patsy Stoneman:
Event 163, Friday 17 October, Cheltenham Town Hall 2-3pm
Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Neve & Helen Small
Women's mental anguish finds a particular kind of expression in 19th century novels from Jane Eyre to Madame Bovary and beyond. Leading writer Lisa Appignanesi, author of the critically acclaimed Mad, Bad and Sad joins literary expert Helen Small and medical historian Michael Neve to discuss the 19th and early 20th century's medical treatment of women's extreme states of mind and its reflection in the period's literature.
Saturday 18 October 2008 at 14.30Edit: Check also New Zealanders in Belgium
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bld. du Jardin Botanique/Kruidtuinlaan 43, 1000 Brussels
What Everyone Knows about Wuthering Heights: the novel and its adaptations
A talk by Dr Patsy Stoneman illustrated by film clips
Patsy Stoneman will examine the assumption that even people who haven't read Wuthering Heights think they know what it is "about", mostly from films. She will compare some extracts from film adaptations of the novel (e.g. the 1939 film with Laurence Olivier, the 1970 film with Timothy Dalton and the 1991 one with Ralph Fiennes, as well as the Bernard Hermann opera and the 1991 musical) with the corresponding passages from the novel, showing for example that the films give us answers to what in the novel remain questions.
Patsy Stoneman is Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Hull. Her main areas of study are the nineteenth-century English novel, especially the novels of the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell, and women's studies in English. Her works include several critical guides to Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, and an edition of previously unpublished Victorian stage plays based on Jane Eyre.
She encourages audience participation and there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and for discussion.
Entrance charge €6 (includes drink)
Non-members welcome
Contact person: Helen MacEwan at helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu
Access map of Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis: http://www.fusl.ac.be/fr/233.html
Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brussels, TalksSaturday 18 October
Wild Workshops: Art and craft workshops for children aged 5-11 years.
Bronte Parsonage Museum - 10.00am-12.00noon and 1.30pm-3.30pm
£4.25 per child - Bookings susan.newby@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640185
Financial Times reviews (3 out of 5 stars) the Wuthering Heights opera production in Minnesota (Picture by Michal Daniel):There are enough moments when music and drama come into Hitchcock-like sharpness to make one wish it were all like that. But perfunctoriness often infects scenes that seem more dutifully composed than inspired. Heathcliff is portrayed sympathetically, a victim of Cathy’s mean-spirited brother Hindley, with no inherent diabolical streak. But perhaps this is acceptable operatic simplification, designed to strengthen the love-bond between him and Cathy.Minneapolis Post likes the production:
Herrmann knew something about creating music keenly matched to drama, and his lush, late-Romantic musical palate engages the listener. Several short motifs run through the score. Aria-like numbers, though rarely captivating melodically, affectingly spell well-crafted expository stretches. I left wondering whether on subsequent listening, certain scenes would emerge in sharper relief.
Eric Simonson’s staging, with sets by Neil Patel and costumes by Jane Greenwood, evokes both the fraught ambience of the Heights and the forbidding moors surrounding it. Sara Jakubiak’s bright soprano and clear diction make for a captivating Cathy, a demanding role with two extended scenes in which she anguishes over Heathcliff, who is sung by baritone Lee Poulis in virile voice. Adriana Zabala boils over in frustration as Heathcliff’s eventual wife Isabella, while Michael Christie ably conducts a slimmed down version of the score. (George Loomis)
Despite occasional flaws, the work is a rich and rewarding endeavor, as compelling in dramatic terms as it is musically accomplished, and the superb, thoughtful production it is receiving at the Ordway Center serves only to make the opera's strengths abundantly clear. (...)Minnesota Star Tribune:
Simonson's cast is uniformly strong. Lee Poulis is the handsome Heathcliff, a brooding, powerful presence onstage. His wounded pride and aristocratic bearing enforce Simonson's theory that Heathcliff is the love-child of the elder Earnshaw, whom we don't meet, and is therefore Cathy's half-brother, a relation that Brontë could only hint at. Poulis' rich baritone is a perfect match for Sara Jakubiak's soaring, firm-toned soprano — and a wonderful characterization here, too, a woman torn between conflicting impulses — nature verses respectability.
Among the others, Ben Wager was compelling on opening night as the dissolute Hindley, Adriana Zabala was a sweet Isabella and Eric Margiore an earnest Edgar. Victoria Vargas was fine as Nelly, Rodolfo Nietro a properly stern Joseph and Jesse Blumberg a believably nervous Lockwood. (Blumberg's "snow, ever-lasting snow" got a knowing laugh from the audience Saturday night. Brontë would have felt at home in a Minnesota winter.) Jane Greenwood designed the costumes and Robert Wierzel the lights. Heidi Spesard-Noble choreographed the dances, executed so winningly by Jeremy Bensussan and Megan McClellan.
Conductor Michael Christie drew a polished, passionate performance from the orchestra, and Herrmann's many brief but telling woodwind solos came through beautifully. It's a brilliant score in many ways. Much of it is delicate chamber music, though the climaxes, like that of the first act, are almost over-powering in their force. (Yes, we do hear echoes of Herrmann film scores such as "Vertigo" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.")
And what of that awkward ending that Herrmann left us? Heathcliff is supposed to wander the moors endlessly searching for Cathy. Simonson has him lie down with her on the table, as if joining her in death, and then carrying her decayed body across a field. Grim, perhaps, but surely a better solution than having the two of them climb toward heaven and the celestial choir, as happens in the 1939 movie. (Michael Anthony)
Most of the musical interest resides in the orchestra. The resplendent music is reminiscent of Herrmann's film scores, but it is rooted firmly in the tradition of American romanticism, exemplified by composers like Samuel Barber.His loss.
The vocal line is mainly extended recitatives, broken up by arioso and a number of extended arias. But too many of them are of similar tempo and mood, resulting in a sameness of vocal utterance.
Conductor Michael Christie led a brisk performance, but he could not overcome the opera's fatal flaw: Herrmann's lack of experience in pacing opera. Too often, forward momentum is sacrificed to orchestral expressiveness, as in Act IV, when another interlude interrupts drama that should be propelling to the climax.
The physical production could hardly be bettered. Neil Patel's set creatively contrasts an oppressive and gloomy Wuthering Heights estate with the elegant and airy neighboring Thrushcross Grange. Wendall K. Harrington's projections create an effective visual representation of the music.
Under Eric Simonson's direction, Heathcliff and Cathy come across as a pair of passionate lovers, compelling in their all-consuming ardor. The details of his staging give the over-the-top story an emotional verisimilitude.
Lee Poulis' Heathcliff was a most vivid characterization. He brought a Byronic presence and a dark baritone, rich in colors. He was capable of dark rage, but became all the more engaging in stillness.
Sara Jakubiak made Cathy's casual selfishness palatable. She has a silvery, gleaming soprano, but needed more heft to fully scale the heights of dramatic intensity called for by the music.
Minnesota Opera makes a strong case for "Wuthering Heights," but this is an opera I never need to hear again. (William Randall Beard)
Top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through SundaySome blogs reviewing the film: Through the Shattered Lens, Always, Capra, Rusty Sarcasm, Everyday adventures (of me at the city), TTPost (in Korean), Smoke~~, InvadeNola, The Enchanting Butterfly.
16. "Jane Eyre," Focus, $993,232, 274 locations, $3,625 average, $6,605,035, six weeks.
In spite of the confusion introduced by [John] Brown’s character, this was still a professional production, well directed by Colin Lewisohn and sympathetically staged, and there were many, many instances of a real understanding of difficult characters. Particularly clever was the way in which Branwell was made to lift well turned phrases from his fiction and insert them into his letters. Indeed, the use of the text of Brontë letters was extremely well done. Costumes and props were simple but appropriate and stage management neat and as unobtrusive as possible within a studio setting. (Chris Went)BWW interviews the actress Jamie Farmer, a true Brontëite:
If you could play any role, direct any work, design any production, mount any production...what would it be and why? I want to play Cathy in a gorgeous, startling, spooky, dramatic, violent, unsettling and unapologetically romantic staging of Wuthering Heights. I would also love to do a one woman show about Emily Brontë. (Jeffrey Ellis)The Herald reviews the book All About Love. Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi:
But what better description is there of love, first or otherwise, than when Emily Bronte’s heroine Catherine Earnshaw describes her feelings for Heathcliff: “He’s always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” It is this – the most fierce, painful, searing of bonds – that dominates and ignites Appignanesi’s work. (Rosemary Goring)Owls go hoot posts pictures of Top Withens and Brontë country; Basically, I'll Read Anything reviews Wuthering Heights; sand is overrated... (in Swedish) and Cindy's Book Club post about Jane Eyre. EDIT: James Dumb alerts us of another No Coward Soul is Mine reading on Erodiade2008's YouTube channel.
Children’s Books: An American Jane EyreAlso on Publishers Weekly:
In ‘The Hired Girl,’ young readers get a heroine not just for the early 20th century, but also for our own time. (...)
When her father abruptly forbids further schooling and destroys her treasured novels, however, the girl is made desperate. Joan has little education and even less money, but having covertly perused the help-wanted ads in the newspaper, she reasons that, like Jane Eyre, she too can find at least “a new servitude.” (Meghan Cox Gurdon)
Joan is reminiscent of heroines like Anne Shirley, Jo March, Cassandra Mortmain, and her own favorite character, Jane Eyre (Joan even gives herself a fittingly literary alias, Janet Lovelace). Her overactive imagination, passions, and impulsive disregard for propriety often get Joan into trouble, but these same qualities will endear her to readers everywhere.The Times' Six of the Best mentions Bertha Mason in an article on portraits of madness by Lisa Appignanesi.
Eight-year-old Charlotte Brontë was described by hers in less than glowing terms: she ‘writes indifferently’ and ‘knows nothing of grammar, geography, history or accomplishments’. (Lucky Vickery)Clovis News Journal lists some of the new books at the local library:
“The Lost Child,” by Caryl Phillips conjures a young Heathcliff, the antihero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family in a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it.The Guardian's Fashion hot news includes:
Alasdair McLellan’s ads for Margaret Howell Wish You Were Here meets Wuthering Heights.The Yorkshire Evening Post announces some of the highlights of the upcoming (October 2-18) Ilkley Literature Festival:
Other performance pieces this year include Nine Lives about the experiences of a young asylum seeker in the UK, written by Leeds-based playwright Zodwa Nyoni and We are Brontë, a knockabout comic physical theatre show about the real and imaginary worlds of Yorkshire’s most famous literary siblings. (...)The Irish Times and some so-called first-world problems:
The Brontës provide one of the festival’s seven key themes this year – After Waterloo: The Brontës and Their World. “We have a whole range of Brontë anniversaries coming up and we wanted to do something the set the stage for that,” says Feldberg. “The Battle of Waterloo happened a few years before the Brontës were born and they were fascinated by Napoleon and Wellington. I thought it would be interesting for audiences to see what the world the Brontës came in to was like.” Events that come under this strand include Clare Harman talking about her new biography of Charlotte Brontë, while novelist Patricia Dunker considers Charlotte’s lesser known novel Villette, once described as ‘too subversive to be popular’.
We are born to worry. No starving person will fret much about whether university administrators have placed “trigger warnings” in copies of Jane Eyre. People who really have life-threatening illnesses don’t bother with the imaginary ailments that affect the worried well. (Donald Clarke)More Bustle lists: Books To Read Now That You’re Mature Enough To Really Get What They’re About
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëMore Grey stuff in Las Provincias (Spain):
As an eight-year-old I took it upon myself to try and read Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, Jane Eyre. I have no idea why I thought I’d be able to read it: I think I had heard it was about a ghost in a castle attic and that seemed appealing. Even in college I never had the opportunity to read it for class, and I floated through life, vaguely aware of what Jane Eyre was about, never having read it. Finally, on a long flight, I read the entire book, at the age of 28, was shocked to find the book about much more than the mysterious Mr. Rochester and that ghost in the attic. It’s really a novel about Jane, of course, and about staying true to oneself at all costs. (Jessica Ferri)
Sí, lo confieso, yo he leído las 50 sombras. Cómo lectora empedernida que soy, devoro todo lo que cae en mis manos desde Murakami a Megan Maxwell, pasando por las hermanas Brontë, qué le vamos a hacer… Por eso me apetecía escribir sobre este “fenómeno” por llamarlo de alguna manera. (María José Pau) (Translation)Keighley News reports the uncertain future of the Brontë Weaving Shed store in Haworth; The Guardian publishes the obituary of Clifford Hatts (1921-2015), production designer of, among many others (notably the Quatermass and the Pit series), Wuthering Heights 1962. Reads and Daydreams vlogs about tv and film adaptations of Jane Eyre. A room of one's own discusses Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper, and abusive males in 19th century literature.
When I started reading, I was swept away. The fact now surprises me. I loved reading, but I was wonderfully ignorant, knew nothing of homosexuality or even sexuality, and hadn't yet reached the age of university pretension. I would read anything and everything: Little Women side by side with Jane Eyre; the latest doctor and nurse romance; a comic or cereal packet.The Davidson County Dispatch publishes an article by a local high school student about the pleasures of reading a good book:
In my English class, we just finished reading “Jane Eyre.” I feel that it is Jane herself who has brought about my interest in reading, because even though she dealt with many difficult things in her life, she could always find happiness in a good book. (Molly McGee)The Modesto Bee insists on the same recommendation:
If you are in the mood for a dark, eerie romance and a feminist account of the journey to find oneself, pick up the classic novel "Jane Eyre."The New York Review of Books reviews several compilations of George Orwell's essays. Commenting one of Orwell's boutades, the reviewer says:
The novel focuses on a young orphan who is constantly oppressed by the people in her surroundings. I immediately got swept up in Jane's trials as she attempts to break social barriers, listen to her heart and discover her true identity.
But don't think this book is only for the women, guys. The novel is a beautiful story about overcoming obstacles that may hold you back, as well as learning how to finally become the person you want to be. (Emily Kay Shrader)
Then there is: "A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot." Since this dismisses both novelists of the private life and those who (as was common in the nineteenth century) set their stories a generation or two back, out go Austen, the Brontës, Flaubert, James, and so on, and so on. (Julian Barnes)Los Angeles Times reviews the current performances of Dracula at the NoHo Arts Center and finds parallels with Heathcliff:
Bram Stoker's 1897 tale of a parasitic undead aristocrat draining the life from hapless middle-class victims has undergone countless plot transfusions over the decades. But it was Frank Langella's 1977 Broadway performance that put the final stake in the coffin of Stoker's original concept, re-envisioning the vampire count as a brooding romantic figure -- a whiter shade of Heathcliff, as it were. (Philip Brandes)The Economist presents the new book by Elaine Showalter A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. The Independent has an article about Nelson and his (Duke of) Bronte connections.
Itsaso Lozano escribía por gusto, «por evasión, el placer por crear algo». Profesora de piano, enamorada del campo inglés y de las autoras británicas de finales del siglo XIX -como Jane Austen y las hermanas Brontë (Emily y Charlotte)-, Lozano se planteó seguir el modelo de la 'novela de sentimientos' creado por estas mujeres para su primera obra, que permaneció en un cajón durante cuatro años. (Iñaki Esteban) (Google translation)El País (Spain) interviews also Itsaso Lozano who says:
Pese a que el jurado que la premió creyó ver en ella algo de Carmen Martín Gaite, esta escritora novel se considera deudora de la literatura femenina anglosajona. "Jeane Austin (sic) y las hermanas Brontë, también Rosamunde Pilcher. Lo que no está editado en castellano lo leo en inglés". (S. López) (Google translation)Fluctuat traces a history of the X-Men character, Wolverine. Apparently
en 2001, Jenkins et Isanove révèlent le vrai nom de Wolverine (James Howlett) dans la saga Origins qui reste l’un des plus beaux livres associés au personnage. On découvre un Wolverine plus proche de Heathcliff, le héros des Hauts de Hurlevent que d’un superhéros traditionnel. (Google translation) (Benjamin Berton)Expressen interviews the Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist who reveals that in the autumn he will be part of the cast of a new production of Jane Eyre, but he seems somewhat confused about which sister it was by:
Är du fortfarande anställd på Dramaten?Svenska Dagbladet reviews the theatre play Monsterkabinettet by Malin Axelsson (Stockholms Stadsteater). It seems that the author's inspiration came from Gilbert & Gubar's Madwoman in the attic:
- Ja, och jag ska tillbaka i höst. Jag ska då ... (här bli han tvungen att viskande konsultera pr-mannen) ... vara med i Emilie Brontës "Jane Eyre". (Cecilia Hagen)(Google translation) (Check also Nöje)
Att det blev en pjäs i gotisk anda föll sig naturligt. Malin Axelsson har alltid gillat den sorts melankoliska gotik som bland annat finns i Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre. Just när hon fick frågan att skriva manus läste hon det litteraturvetenskapliga verket The madwoman in the attic, som med ett feministiskt angreppssätt analyserar Jane Eyre. Hon bestämde sig för att skriva som den galna kvinnan på vinden. (Lina Kalmteg) (Google translation)Mark McNulty Photography posts a panorama of the Brontë Bridge and surroundings, Mariakäfer reviews (in German) Jane Eyre 1944, Of Cabbages and Kings... suggests what kind of blog the Brontë sisters would have published (hint: Blathering Hights).
A couple of Brontë alerts for the ensuing days:Conversations:2. As we informed previously, tomorrow (November 17), the Biennale Teatro di Venezia is hosting a curious initiative trying to revive Bernard de Zogheb's (in the picture) 1968 comic opera Le Sorelle Brontë. The so-called Laboratorio Internazionale del Teatro is working in this pr
Turning Classics Into Comics
William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde are getting visual makeovers as graphic novels. How does prose transfer to panels? What is lost, and found, in translation?
Adaptors Richard Appignanesi and Ian Edgington talk with their visualisers Mustashrik (Julius Caesar), Chie Kutsuwada (As You Like It) and Ian Culbard (Picture of Dorian Gray), and writer Jason Cobley, illustrators John M. Burns (in the picture) and Mike Collins reveal how they adapted Frankenstein, Jane Eyre and A Christmas Carol.
Supported by Classical Comics, SelfMadeHero & Letraset
Tickets: Each talk - £6, £5 concs, £4 members
Tickets: All three of today's talks - £15, £12 concs, £9 members
Where: Nash & Brandon Rooms, ICA
When: Sunday, 16 November, 6pm to 7.30pm
oject since last November 12, but tomorrow the public presentation will take place. Check this previous post for all the details. Venezia.net has some new information:(Google translation)EDIT: Also in Il Messaggero.
Tra lunedì 17 e giovedì 20 novembre, si attiveranno tre laboratori, complementare gli uni con gli altri poiché tutti hanno come tema portante il Mediterraneo. Inoltre biosogna tener da conto anche che il giorno diciotto vi saranno due proiezioni al Giorgione del filmato L’ultimo Pulcinella, di Scaparro, che ha come protagonista Massimo Ranieri, odierno vincitore del Premio De Sica al Quirinale.
Ieri è arrivato in Laguna per l’occasione Edoardo Bennato. Il rocker partenepeo è uno degli artefici del seminario musicale avente come tema Le sorelle Bronte, capolavoro comico scritto in italiano “maccheronico” dall’”ultimo intellettuale cosmopolita” d’Alessandria d’Egitto, il siro-libanese Bernard de Zogheb. L’opera verrà messa in scena dal regista Davide Livermore e dal musicologo Stefano Valanzuolo. Obiettivo del laboratorio è l’elaborazione di un linguaggio musical-teatrale che contribuisca a formare un gruppo di artisti capaci di ricreare quell’ambiente alessandrino interculturale - celebrato da de Zogheb ne Le sorelle Brontë - in cui confluiscono e si mescolano il café chantant, il melodramma italiano, il grand opéra francese, la zarzuela, il recitar cantando secentesco e, quindi, la rivista italiana. Chi meglio di Edoardo Bennato, che sta per completare l’allestimento del suo Spettacolo musicale Peter Pan the rock musica, poteva dare dei validi suggerimenti all’elaborazione dello spettacolo che poi andrà in scena a febbraio?
Maurizio Scaparro ha presentato invece stamattina al Teatro Piccolo Arsenale un frammento di ciò che sarà Polvere di Bagdad all’interno del laboratorio C’era una volta, che prende le mosse da un percorso a ritroso verso e radici della civiltà: dall’Asia Minore alla Sicilia, passando per il Maghreb e l’Andalusia. Scaparro vuole così evidenziare i successivi affinamenti di un comune linguaggio orale, leLe Mille e una notte che diventano Cunto de li cunti e Teatro Delle Ombre. (Tania Danieli)
Girl crazy: madwomen in booksThe Mitfords, the Gattys, the MacDonald sisters... and now the Erdrich siblings. There are Brontë lookalikes everywhere:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847
The original madwoman in the attic, Bertha is confined by her husband, Mr Rochester.
How much talent can one family have? Ask anyone who knows the Erdriches and you'll hear about seven accomplished siblings - three of them writers who might be the Midwest's answer to the Bronte sisters. (...)The New York Times reviews Betrayed by George Packer, a new play opening Wednesday in New York about a group of Iraqi translators. Even in this context, a Brontë reference finds its way:
Before you draw any conclusions about family rivalries, there are three things to know about the writing Erdrich sisters - Louise, Lise and Heid - who've published 27 books between them.
First, they may be the only trio of siblings in the Midwest who consistently publish books, although nobody keeps track of sisters who write.
Even more unusual, each of the sisters has a new book, and they are celebrating with their first joint Twin Cities reading at the Minneapolis Public Library.
Lise's debut short-story collection, "Night Train," is out now. Louise's novel, "The Plague of Doves," will be published April 29, and Heid's third poetry collection, "National Monuments," will be available in the fall.
"The Erdrichs are our Bronte sisters," says former Minnesotan Jonis Agee, a novelist, literature teacher and Heid's longtime friend. (Mary Ann Grossmann in St. Paul Pioneer Press)What: "Night Train" and Other Ojibwe Stories: A Celebration of Writing and Sisterhood With the Erdriches
When: 7 p.m. Feb. 12 (doors open at 6:15 p.m.)
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Like hundreds of Iraqis in real life, the fictional Intisar enthusiastically offered her services to the Americans after they toppled Saddam Hussein in April 2003. She’d spent her youth dreaming of America, memorized the prose of Emily Brontë and saw in the invasion the promise of renewal for her country and herself. (Dexter Flikins)The Texas local newspaper The Facts has an article on fog. And Wuthering Heights 1939 apparently has plenty of it:
People who make motion pictures have always seen fog as a handy way to convey setting and mood. Heathcliff and Catherine wandered through a good bit of it out on the lonely moors in “Wuthering Heights.” (Ron Rozelle)Critical Mass reviews Wuthering Heights 1992 and thinks that,
The result, as I've spent so much time dodging, is one of the better Heights adaptations I have ever seen, the best in fact.Find your neutral space raises the question who is wealthier Rochester or Mr Darcy? Apparently Mr Rochester is richer:
So far, I know that:Nevertheless, Jane Eyre is supposedly backdated, so the difference could be even greater.However, I understand that I have to consider the real difference in value that £10,000 in 1813 (the year P&P was published) has over £20,000 in 1847 (the year Jane Eyre came out) -- but I can barely keep track of how much money I have in my own bank account at any time, much less be able to compute relative values allowing for inflation and other factors in 19th Century finance. So as much as it pains my black little OC husk of a heart, I'm going to take the figures strictly as they are. (...)
- Edward Rochester has £20,000 a year (I'd have to verify that figure first) and owns Thornfield Hall. Jane Eyre inherits £20,000 from her uncle, but divides it amongst her cousins, the Rivers siblings -- leaving her with £5,000;
- Fitzwilliam Darcy has £10,000 a year and owns Pemberley. His friend, Charles Bingley, has £5,000 a year.
Thanks to blinovitch (with this link), I discovered that even with a 30-year difference, Rochester can still flash a thicker wad of cash than Darcy on his best day.
Pictures inspired by Emily Bronte’s descriptions of weather are to go on show in Haworth.Cape Argus (South Africa) mentions the dangers of playing family games at Christmas:
Jo Brown will display abstract paintings inspired by the Wuthering Heights author’s poems.
The exhibition, The Sunbeam and the Storm, will be at the Bronte Parsonage Museum from March 5 to May 3.
The parsonage will also host an appearance by writer Lisa Appignanesi on March 10. She will talk about her latest book, The Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800.
The book, shortlisted for several awards, includes the cases of writers such as Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf.
An Afternoon with Persephone Books will feature a talk by the firm’s founder Nicola Beauman on March 24. It publishes novels, dairies, short stories and cookery books by women writers.
Every Christmas we play a board game. (...) This year we opted for 30 Seconds, a general knowledge game. (...) According to R, (...) one of the Brontë Sisters penned Little House on the Prairie[.]The Wall Street Journal mentions the Harper Teen covers of Wuthering Heights (and other novels) marketed à la Twilight. Curiously, The Celebrity Café poses the following question:
The massive numbers of “units” shifted by Meyer, Rowling et al show that in their creation they must be doing something right, but the same cultural theorists warned of a “dumbing down” in culture, and can anyone honestly say that 200 years from now “New Moon” or “Eclipse” will be looked upon as Meyer herself seemingly looks upon “Wuthering Heights”? (Andrew MacLaughlin)We don't want to sound highbrow, but we think we know the answer to the question.
J'ai beaucoup aimé me replonger dans cette oeuvre, et le fait de voir les choses du point de vue de Rochester est assez plaisant.Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre, References, Sequels, Wuthering Heights
On dirait un peu un journal intime, où Rochester écrirait ses pensées, raconterait sa journée à un lecteur, qui au fur et à mesure de la lecture, devient un peu son confident. Il prend beaucoup les lecteurs comme témoin ou lui posent des questions.. Cela peut être assez déroutant durant les premieres pages.. (Google translation)
Let's open this Saturday newsround with a Rochester identikit picture. The Composites creates "images (...) using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters". The right hand side portrait uses the following description:Mr. Rochester, his foot supported by the cushion; he was looking at Adèle and the dog: the fire shone full on his face. I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair. I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake. His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy…My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth.Flavorwire talks about these portraits (and thinks that this Rochester is a quite a Javier Bardem lookalike) and FemPop Magazine is quite shocked with Rochester:
We all have our personal favorite Mr. Rochester (sup Michael Fassbinder you potentially spouse abusing dude you), but what happens when you take Brontë’s description of the dour dude who stores crazy wives in the attic and put it into the same software that the police use to build composite sketches of suspects? You get this guy! He's a bowl cut away from murdering people in No Country For Old Men. I bet your sex feelings for him have puttered out now eh? Mine too. (Alex Cranz)The press releases of Andrea Clarke's book Love Letters: 2000 years of romance, edited by the British Library, mentioning the letters of Charlotte Brontë to M. Heger have generated some regular articles (The Daily Beast) and a lot of very funny ones mainly in the foreign press (we love the soap opera tone of ABC's "El amor prohibido de Charlotte Brontë" (The forbidden love of Charlotte Brontë) but arguably the best one is Télam's "Publican las cartas que la autora de Cumbres Borrascosas escribió a un amor prohibido" (Forbidden love letters by the author of Wuthering Heights published). The Telegraph has also something to say, not so funny we are afraid:
There is one of Charlotte Brontë’s love letters, written in French to a married professor. His wife retrieved the missive from a bin and stitched it back together after her husband had torn it up. (Anne Sebba)Rachel Ward chooses Esther Summerson from Bleak House as her favourite Dickens character in The Telegraph and mentions Charlotte Brontë's comments about the character:
Charlotte Brontë may have described her as “weak and twaddling,” but she’s the only woman that Dickens allows a pen and he brilliantly projects Esther as his type of ideal woman, with her modesty, perceptiveness, and moral responsibility.The Times lists the 100 more relevant names in British cinema:
Andrea Arnold Writer, director. The children’s TV presenter turned writer-director has applied her bleak naturalism to modern urban dramas (Red Road, Fish Tank) and Brontë’s moors (Wuthering Heights). She is currently developing a Chicago police comedy series for HBO called Dirty.The Daily Post's tips for Valentine's Day are a very frightening thing:
Whether you’re inspired by Emily Bronte or Robert Browning, try penning a masterpiece to woo a potential lover. On the pretty Greek island of Skyros and under the tutelage of distinguished writers, you get the chance to indulge your creative side surrounded by idyllic landscapes and friendly people. If you don’t find the perfect partner, you will at least be well equipped to woo. (Sarah Gordon)But we have more Valentine stuff around:
The five best romantic novels for people who hate romance, according to Michelle Kerns of Examiner.com: 1. “Persuasion” by Jane Austen. 2. “The Scarlet Pimpernel” by Baroness Orczy. 3. “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. 4. "Menfreya in the Morning” by Victoria Holt. 5. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.CNews:
Still, I imagine that Harlequin novels have become a little more liberally sprinkled with overt phraseology--since the days when your mother's heart might have pitter-pattered at the idea that Heathcliff would clutch her to his bosom.The Guardian:
Sadly, this report revealed that modern-day Heathcliffs are an extinct breed. For 75 percent of women thought their dating life duller than a New Jersey lake in February. (Chris Matyszczyk)
So which writer has taught me most? Is it John Donne with his precise yet violent collisions between time and desire? Or Montaigne for whom friendship reigns supreme? Or Jane Austen with her girl meets boy tales and that romance of a marital happily-ever-after so thoroughly grounded in the realities of property? Was it Emily Brontë, with her wild dreams of twinship with Byronic Heathcliff? (Lisa Appignanesi)Also in The Guardian a Valentine's literary quiz:
In Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane assumes that Mr Rochester holds affections for one particular woman. She turns out to be totally wrong! Who is this lady?Shore News Today:
Mrs Fairfax
Blanche Ingram
Diana Rivers
Mary Rivers (Alexander Blackman)
Great Romantic Movies: Wuthering Heights. The great Laurence Olivier had one of his finest roles as Bronte’s brooding, debonair hero, Heathcliff, who conquers the world just to win the heart of his beloved, Cathy Earnshaw. Alas, it doesn’t work out quite as planned. A real weeper, rich in ambience, with a superb performance by Merle Oberon as Cathy.Naperville Patch:
Jane Eyre: Another tragic love story that despite the tragedy does come to fruition. (Mary Ann Lopez)International Business Times makes a top ten of romantic books:
Wuthering Heights. Today, when critics take up Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, much of the conversation centers of two pivotal points – the geographical setting for the story (the wild, untamed, harsh and oftentimes angry moors) and the character of the protagonist – Heathcliff. Indeed, so wonderfully are each of the two reflected in the other that sometimes you forget, just occasionally, about the romance and heartache in the plot. Wuthering Heights is not a straightforward love story…. In fact, it isn’t even really a love story. It is a mixture of romance and revenge and why it is special is because of the heart-rending intensity of each.Ramona Sentinel recommends Jane Eyre 2011 for Valentine's Day.
Jane Eyre: Yes… yes… we have another Brontë on the list. It is, perhaps fortunately, a rarity that the world sees such literary brilliance manifest itself thrice in the same generation of a single family. The Brontë sisters – Emily, Charlotte and Anne (a poet but whose literary works include “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, a wonderful read in its own right) – have written and painted with an inimitable style. The realities of a hard life (their two elder sisters, Maria, 11, and Elizabeth, 10, died in 1825 of tuberculosis) and the harsh Yorkshire moors that were their home, coupled with incisive minds resulted in a series of novels, each better than the last. Jane Eyre is about a female protagonist that women from all walks of life have found profoundly moving for over a century… a heroine that must ultimately choose between her desire to be with the man she loves and the morals that form the core of her character.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre contains the most erotic passage ever written in English literature. It's the exchange between Jane and Mr. Rochester when she must leave to tend to her ailing Aunt Reed, who lives 100 miles away from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester doesn't want her to go. They negotiate terms: money, how long she will be away etc. There is no physical contact between them – just words, spoken and unspoken – and body language, but it's a powerful description of how they long for each other. Gives me shivers each and every time I read it. (Laurie Glen Norris, Fredericton)The Yorkshire Post talks about the boom in tourism experienced in the region:
Yorkshire has seen a huge increase in tourists from overseas last year after launching a major international marketing campaign across Europe and the Far East. (...)
Andrew McCarthy, the director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth said that it has seen eight per cent increase in visitors in the past year. He said the international acclaim of the Brontë’s meant Haworth pulled tourists from around the world – especially from the United States and Japan.
The Brontë Parsonage also appears in this chart in the New York Times about "quests, destinations and quixotic journeys (see right hand side) (by Charles Wilson. Illustrations by David Sparshott).Dario Marianelli with Jack Liebeck. Jane Eyre soundtrack (the year's best traditional score) (...) The score for the fine remake of Jane Eyre is the best orchestral score of the year.Miguel Juan Payán Blog reviews the soundtrack in Spanish.
Caroline has a great voice for covers (request her incredible “Wuthering Heights” next time you see her. (amrit)The Odessa American tells a story about a local retired teacher:
I’m making my debut — my very first day of teaching in my hometown, situated on the moors of West Texas. (See Brontë, Emily.)The Scotsman reviews Little Bones by Janette Jenkins:
I had been given a textbook called Adventures in Appreciation published by Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich. Clutching that book as a baby clutches the blanket with the satin lining, I walk into my classroom and fall in love — with the book.
(I’ll bet you thought I was going to say the local version of Heathcliff wearing cowboy boots was there waiting for me, but I fooled you, didn’t I?) (Charelna Chandler)
As any reader of Dickens, Brontë or Hardy can testify, Victorian literature can be as violent as it is verbose and as gritty as it is grand, qualities that Janette Jenkins replicates in her latest novel. (Rebecca Monks)El Correo Vasco (Spain) reviews the film One Day:
Especialmente recomendada para los lectores/espectadores de lágrima fácil, 'One day' es la alternativa perfecta para el público que no tolera la extrema crueldad de dramas post-mortem como el descrito por Emily Brontë en 'Cumbres borrascosas'. (Josu Eguren) (Translation)Página 12 (Argentina) reviews the film The Woman in Black:
La melancolía, el duelo, la presencia de la muerte como halo fatídico se hacen presentes ya en la secuencia de presentación, en la que Radcliffe –tan pálido y ojeroso como Heathcliff, el casi homófono protagonista de Cumbres borrascosas– prueba, durante la afeitada matutina, apoyar la navaja sobre el cuello y hacer una ligera presión. (Horacio Bernades) (Translation)El Faro de Vigo (Spain) has an article about the Fortes family which includes several writers:
Hace unos ocho años todos viajaron a York. "Alquilamos un bungalow y después cada uno llega cuando quiere o cuando puede, fuimos a varios sitios siguiendo la obra de Emily Brönte (sic) y sobre todo del Tristram Shandy de Laurence Sterne y para mi fue toda una sorpresa, una Inglaterra que no conocía, la continuación de El Quijote en cierto modo, además Susana había leído Cumbres Borrascosas y todo eso así que nos decidimos a recorrer los páramos. Y las noches se dedicaron siempre a los debates literarios". (Translation)We wonder if the Hungarian distributor that has chosen February 14 as the opening night for Wuthering Heights 2011 in Hungary has actually seen the film. Origo filmklub has free tickets for the premiere.
Situationen är minst sagt välbekant, den är en tillspetsning av Schlinks ”Högläsaren”, Nabokovs ”Skratt i mörkret” och, naturligtvis, ”Jane Eyre” där priset för kärlekslycka också är blindhet. (Agneta Ullenius) (Translation)Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden) reviews the Adriano recording of Bernard Herrmann's Jane Eyre soundtrack. A very bad review:
Självlärde dirigenten Adriano har inget efternamn men har spelat in ett mängd skivor för Naxos. Här har han alltså slarvat betydligt med urfin musik som förtjänar bättre.The New Jersey Star-Ledger confirms that Wuthering Heights 2011 will be at the Filmmakers Symposium’s Arthouse Film Festival (starting March 5); HitFix thinks that Jane Eyre 2011 will win the Costume Desing BAFTA tomorrow; the artist Amanda White is 'revisiting' the Brontë Parsonage in winter; Jactherat-Ephemera, lies & chocolate recommends Wuthering Heights for Valentine's Day; Savidge Reads discusses her top Victorian readings, including Emily Brontë's novel; Cabo Kennet (in Spanish) posts about Jane Eyre; Falaise Lynnaenne (in French) reviews Wuthering Heights; Here, There & Everywhere has not understood that Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth was not a biography about the Brontës but a book about the biographies on the Brontës; Sylire (in French) reviews Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler.
Han låter tuttistråket klara sig bäst de kan, och de kan de inte. Han låter falska horn slinka igenom nålsögat som borde vara hans eget. Så synd på en skiva som för första gången kommer med hela Herrmanns soundtrack, utan bortklippta snuttar.
Dessutom låter inspelningen som om den är gjord med en mick längst bort i en väldigt långsmal konsertlokal där orkestern gömt sig i andra änden. (Hanna Höglund) (Translation)
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