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A very interesting new exhibition opens today, May 19, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:ElmetCheck these previous posts and the Brontë Parsonage Blog for more information.
Monday 19 May until Friday 25 July, Brontë Parsonage Museum
A special exhibition of photographs by Fay Godwin from her collaboration with Ted Hughes, Elmet, will go on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Monday 19th May 2008 until 25 July 2008.
The photographs are on loan from the British Library, which has recently acquired the Fay Godwin archive. This special exhibition will be a rare opportunity to view the original exhibition prints of the Elmet photographs, displayed within the period rooms of the museum.
The Elmet exhibition forms part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Contemporary Arts Programme 2008.
“We are very grateful to the British Library for loaning us these incredibly evocative photographs. Elmet is inspired by the local landscape, which also inspired the Brontës, and the exhibition will include photographs of the Parsonage and Brontë landmarks such as Top Withens. The exhibition also enables us to build on the reputation of the museum as a vibrant centre for the arts, which is one of the central aims of our arts programme here.” Jenna Holmes, Arts Officer.
One of the country’s best loved landscape photographers, Fay Godwin captured the drama of the Yorkshire landscape in her work, including the moors around Haworth.
Ted Hughes was inspired to write prose in response to Godwin’s photographs of the part of Yorkshire that he was born and grew up in. Their first collaboration, The Remains of Elmet, was published in 1979.
Both Fay Godwin and Ted Hughes went on to add to the sequence, republishing their collaboration as Elmet in 1994. The result is often regarded as one of Ted Hughes’ most personal texts.
In the Middle Ages “Elmet” was the name given to the last independent Celtic kingdom in England, spread across an area roughly encircling Halifax and Keighley, through to Colne and down to Burnley.
For further information about the exhibition or arts events contact jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640188.
The London Free Press covers the death of the Canadian poet and playwright James Crear Reaney:A writer with a wicked sense of humour, who shaped the Canadian arts landscape and whose works will live on and continue to influence generations, was how colleagues remembered James Crerar Reaney yesterday.
Reaney died Wednesday at the age of 81. His passing has saddened the local and national arts communities, where he produced iconic plays and poetry and was an astute literary critic with a powerful way with words.
He was the author of a very Brontë-related play: Zamorna!:
The Akron Ohio News reviews the ongoing Bill Brandt exhibition that we presented some days ago:[David] Ferry is editing a collection of Reaney's plays, titled Reaney Days in the West Room, referring to his boyhood room in a Stratford-area farmhouse where he first started writing.
"As a child he used to play make-believe and then create plays."
The collection, to be published this fall, includes an unpublished play called Zamorna about the Bronte children.
Ferry said Reaney hoped the play would be produced in London or Stratford. (Kathy Sumleski)
Another work, “Top Withens (‘Wuthering Heights’) Yorkshire Moors” (1945), depicts the snow-clad Northern England moors found in the Emily Bronte novel. The landscape is harsh, much like some of the characters found in the fictional work. (Roger Durbin)Rob Woodard in The Guardian's Books Blog recommends 'fat classics' for the summer:
Over the last few years, though, I must admit that I've fallen out of my fat classics routine, mainly because I've been trying to earn some extra money teaching college summer classes. I've been feeling the itch to get back to it, though; there are several of these books sitting on my "to read" shelf that lately seem to be calling my name quite incessantly. Besides, as an obsessive literati, I can't stand the fact that if I kick the bucket today I will have died having read nothing by Sir Walter Scott or either Brontë sister, and only the first book of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy.The Huddersfield Daily Examiner talks about the upcoming Simon Armitage appearance at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
SIMON Armitage is perhaps the best-known poet of his generation and doubtless there will be a packed house in Haworth next Friday when he talks about his work.The Herald (Ireland) discusses prequels and the journalist doesn't seem very fond of Wide Sargasso Sea:
Simon will also be reading from his work at the event in West Lane Baptist Centre.
The event coincides with the Elmet exhibition of photographs by Fay Godwin (from her collaboration with Ted Hughes) which is currently on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum as part of its contemporary arts programme.
Simon is patron of The Elmet Trust and has edited an anthology of Hughes’ poems. He also wrote the introduction to Godwin’s last published collection of photographs, Landmarks.
His poems, accomplished performances and dry sense of humour will make for a highly entertaining evening.
Simon, who lives with his family in the Huddersfield area, has published 10 volumes of poetry, for which he has won numerous awards.
These include a Forward Prize, Eric Gregory Award and a Lannan Award, in addition to being short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award.
His Selected Poems was published in 2001 and his latest collection is Tyrannosaurus versus the Corduroy Kid (2006).
Simon is also the author of All Points North (1998), and two novels, Little Green Man and The White Stuff.
He has recently published Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (2008).
Tickets for the event at Haworth cost £9.50 (£5 16 years and under) and must be booked.
As part of this event the museum will be open until 7pm for those wishing to view the Elmet exhibition. (Val Jabin)
Even the high-brow likes of Jane Eyre weren't immune, with Jean Rhys rewriting the life of Bertha in Wide Sargasso Sea. Your humble correspondent had to study this in college, and really, really wishes Ms Rhys had left poor old Bertha in the attic. (Darragh McManus)The Washington Post reviews the costume design of the current production of Charles Ludlum's Irma Vep at the Arena Stage:
Ranging from a plus-fours suit -- for Lady Enid's secretive, scholarly husband, Lord Edgar -- to safari attire and a Egyptian djellaba, to a spectrum of garish gowns, the costumes reflect the allusive, gleefully ludicrous aesthetic of the play, which lampoons Gothic thrillers, early 20th-century monster movies, "Wuthering Heights," "Macbeth" and Hitchcock's "Rebecca," just to name a few targets. (Celia Wren)On the blogosphere abstractions is reading Jane Eyre. Tales from the Book Bandit has visited Haworth and posts some pictures, The Wounds of a Thorn Rose talks about Jane Eyre in Romanian. Incurable Logophilia posts about Jean Rhys including Wide Sargasso Sea, of course.
A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum: Simon Armitage in HaworthCategories: Brontë Parsonage Museum
Described as the best-known poet of his generation, Simon Armitage will be speaking about and reading from a selection of his work at the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth on Friday 20 June at 7.30pm.
The event coincides with the Elmet exhibition of photographs by Fay Godwin (from her collaboration with Ted Hughes) currently on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Simon Armitage is patron of The Elmet Trust and has edited an anthology of Hughes’ poems. He also wrote the introduction to Fay Godwin’s last published collection of photographs, Landmarks, in 2001.
Simon Armitage’s outstanding poems, accomplished performances and dry sense of humour will make for a highly entertaining evening. The event forms part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme.
Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, for which he has won numerous awards, including a Forward Prize, Eric Gregory Award, and a Lannan Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award. His Selected Poems was published in 2001, and his latest collection is Tyrannosaurus versus the Corduroy Kid (2006). Simon is also the author of All Points North (1998), and two novels Little Green Man and The White Stuff. He has recently published Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (2008).
Tickets cost £9.50 (£5.00 16 years and under) and must be booked in advance. As part of this event the museum will be open until 7pm for those wishing to view the Elmet exhibition. For further details please contact the Brontë Parsonage Museum, 01535 640188/ jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk
Photographs that inspired poet Ted Hughes are to be displayed at the Bronte Parsonage Museum.Don't miss it if you're nearby!
The exhibition Elmet brings together acclaimed work of leading landscape photographer Fay Godwin.
Yorkshire born Hughes wrote verse in the 1970s in response to Godwin's images of the county.
Their collaboration was published in 1979 as The Remains of Elmet, with a follow-up 15 years later.
The new display is billed as a rare opportunity to view the original exhibition prints, recently acquired by the British Library.
The exhibition is included in the museum admission charge. Phone 01535 642323 for times and prices. (David Knights)
Some of the forthcoming events in the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum, TalksFriday 1 February - 31 December 08
No Coward Soul: New, special exhibition at the Parsonage focusing on Emily Brontë - Brontë Parsonage Museum - Free on admission to the museum - For further information contact bronte@bronte.org.uk / 01535 642323
Friday 1 February - 31 December 08
Making Myths: Special exhibition focusing on myths that surround the Brontës' lives and works - Brontë Parsonage Museum - Free on admission to the museum - For further information contact bronte@bronte.org.uk / 01535 642323
Wednesday 13 FebruaryWild Workshops: Art and craft workshops for children (5 - 11 years old) - Brontë Parsonage Museum - £3.95 - For further information contact susan.newby@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640185
Wednesday 5 March
Charlotte Brontë's Dangerous Letters: Margaret Smith, editor of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës will be talking about Charlotte Brontë's letters and in conversation with Dr Bob Barnard - West Lane Baptist Centre - 2.00pm - £3.75 - For further information contact andrew.mccarthy@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640194
Saturday 8 March
Resurgam: An exhibition of paintings, inspired by the Brontës, by artist Bob Littleford - Free on admission to the museum - For further information contact bronte@bronte.org.uk / 01535 642323
Friday 28 March
Wuthering Heights: Continues the series of Brontë movie screenings in Haworth, with the 1992 version of Wuthering Heights, directed by Peter Kominsky and starring Juliet Binoche and Ralph Fiennes - West Lane Baptist Centre, 7.45pm - £5.00 (£3 under 16s) - Tickets in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640188
Friday 4 - Sunday 6 April
Brontë Society Literary Lunch: A weekend in Stratford upon Avon including lecture by Dr Paula Byrne. Optional events include; lecture on Friday evening by Dr Paul Edmonson followed by dinner; Saturday evening RSC performance of The Merchant of Venice; Sunday morning visit to Charlecote Park - For further information contact hedley.hickling@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640195 or consult the Literary Lunch 2008 booking form.
Friday 18 April
Daphne - An Evening with Justine Picardie and Lady Tessa Montgomery: Novelist Justine Picardie will be reading from and discussing the Brontës and Daphne Du Maurier with Du Maurier's eldest daughter Lady Tessa Montgomery. This event includes champagne and canapes and a special opportunity to view rarely seen Branwell Brontë manuscripts once owned by Du Maurier - Brontë Parsonage Museum - 7.30pm - £10 - Tickets in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640188
Wednesday 26 April
Wild Workshops: Art and craft workshops for children (5-11 year olds) - Brontë Parsonage Museum - £4.25 - For further information/ bookings contact susan.newby@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640185
Monday 19 May - Friday 25 July
Elmet: Special exhibition at the Parsonage of photographs by Fay Godwin from her collaboration with Ted Hughes, Elmet - Free on admission to the museum - For further information contact bronte@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 642323
Friday 6 June
Brontë Society Weekend: Events include lectures, talks, readings and panel discussions, theatrical and musical entertainment - For further information contact hedley.hickling@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640195
Friday 20 June
Simon Armitage: Poet, Simon Armitage, will be reading from and discussing his work. As part of this event the museum will be open until 7.00pm for those who wish to view the museum and the Elmet exhibition - West Lane Baptist Centre - 7.30pm - £9.50 (£5 16 years and under) Tickets in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 640188
Jane Eyre: A Retelling by Tanya Landman, Barrington Stoke,iNews publishes an excerpt of Deborah Orr's Motherwell. A Girlhood:
Many teenage readers, be they dyslexic, reluctant or just easily overwhelmed, may struggle to get to grips with Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece in its original form. Landman’s slim, enthralling retelling, published by “super-readable” experts Barrington Stoke, feels true to Brontë’s defiant spirit, but is infinitely easier to digest – and reading this vivid, straightforward version might well encourage strugglers to return and conquer the behemoth. (Imogen Russell Williams)
Me, though? I’d been a pretty little child. But after I learned to read, I couldn’t stop reading. Which meant, because I’d sneakily read when the rest of the house was asleep, that I was tired all the time. I looked pale and wan. And the things I wanted to talk about – Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, plants, trees, woods, walks, the dog, folk stories, gardens and macramé – were hardly the stuff of fascination to my peers.The Sunday Times interviews the model and actress Jodie Turner-Smith:
She changed her clothes, shoes, patterns of speech. “I would practise in the mirror, talking in a way that I thought was like black American: cutting you down with my words in five seconds if you came for me.” But at the weekends she was going to the local library, reading and studying. “My favourite book was Jane Eyre.” (Charlotte Edwardes)Patch Greater Hartford announces an upcoming production of Jane Eyre in Hartford:
A new adaptation of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's beloved tale of courage, sacrifice and self-respect, will debut next month at Hartford Stage. The novel has been adapted for the stage by Hartford Stage Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Williamson, who will also direct. Jane Eyre runs Thursday, February 13, through Saturday, March 14. (Nancy Sasso)Anne Brontë's bicentenary and the publication of a new edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in Spain are in La Voz de Córdoba (Spain):
Este año se conmemora el 200 cumpleaños de Anne Brontë (1820-1849), la menor de las tres hermanas novelistas victorianas. Emily es conocida por su única novela Cumbres borrascosas, Charlotte es conocida por Jane Eyre; en cambio, Anne es menos conocida. A Anne la crítica le ha dedicado menos estudios. Esta columna la rememora y la celebra. (Juan de Dios Torralbo) (Translation)Milenio 2020 (México) celebrates Wuthering Heights:
Al respecto no tengo cosa mejor para compartir que una intuición de entonces en un paper para esa materia. Hice un nexo literario y su desarrollo; va, breve. Apunté que cuando el personaje de Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo y el de Brontë Heathcliff pierden respectivamente a Susana San Juan y a Catherine Earnshaw, los dos se entregan a destruir Comala y Wuthering Heigths. Dije que cuando Comala confunde las campanas luctuosas con una incitación a la fiesta las palabras de Pedro Páramo “Me cruzaré de brazos y Comala se morirá de hambre” bien pudieron cifrar el odio de Heathcliff por Wuthering Heights a la muerte de Catherine. Los vecinos de Wuthering Heights sobre Heathcliff: “ese demonio que no acaba de atravesar patios”; igual que Pedro Páramo en la Media Luna. Y la mejor definición de Heathcliff en las palabras del arriero sobre quién es Pedro Páramo: “Un rencor vivo”. (Luis Miguel Aguilar) (Translation)Pangea (Italy) interviews Monica Pareschi, translator of a recent new edition of Wuthering Heights in Italian. A very interesting read:
Libro miliare e inesorabile, “un diavolo di libro, un incredibile mostro”, lo diceva Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cime tempestose è stato tradotto innumerevoli volte – la prima edizione, per i Treves, è del 1926, lo hanno ‘maneggiato’, tra i tanti, Elio Chinol e Bruno Oddera, Bruna Dell’Agnese e Margherita Giacobino, Beatrice Masini e Marta Barone – così che la versione Einaudi per mano di Monica Pareschi (già eccellente traduttrice della sorella di Emily, Charlotte, e di Bernard Malamud, di Doris Lessing, di Shirley Jackson, James G. Ballard, Paul Auster) è un piccolo evento editoriale. Nel mio privilegio di lettore, oltre a interrogare chi ne sa più di me, mi sono messo a fare un esercizio. Alcuni passi di Cime tempestose (questo, ad esempio: “Il suo insediamento a Wuthering Heights portò un’indicibile angoscia. Mi convinsi che Dio avesse abbandonato la pecora smarrita alle sue abiette peregrinazioni, e che una bestia feroce se ne stesse acquattata tra la casa e l’ovile, pronta a balzare e a seminare distruzione”) mi hanno ricordato il Cormac McCarthy più arcaico e biblico, in bilico sugli assoluti. L’osservazione mi ha fatto sorridere. Forse Emily Brontë – cioè il suo mefistofelico specchio, Heathcliff – è il remoto modello, l’idolo, del Giudice Holden che sparge terrore e innocente spietatezza lungo quel mattatoio superbo intitolato Meridiano di sangue. (Translation)Le Monde (France) reviews Fiona Mozley's Elmet:
Elmet fut l’ultime royaume celte indépendant d’Angleterre. Jusqu’au VIIe siècle, il constituait un sanctuaire pour ceux qui souhaitaient échapper à la loi. C’est en ces terres, devenues Yorkshire et célébrées dans Les Hauts de Hurlevent et les poèmes de Ted Hughes, que la Britannique Fiona Mozley situe Elmet, son premier roman. (Macha Séry) (Translation)El Universal (Colombia) visits British painter Freda Sargent who lives in Bogotá and mentions:
Muchas de sus series como ‘Temas del ermitaño’, ‘Los naipes del tarot’, ‘Los narcisos’, ‘Los carpinteros’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, beben de las fuentes de sus memorias de infancia, pero también de la poesía que ha sido esencial en su creación: Blake, Keats, Auden, Yeats, entre otros. (Gustavo Tatis Guerra) (Translation)El País (Spain) interviews the writer Najat el Hachmi:
¿Qué libro tiene en su mesilla de noche? Tengo la traducción al catalán del Libro de los avaros de Al-Jahiz, ¿Puede prestarme su pistola, por favor, de Lorenza Mazzetti y Cumbres borrascosas (que creo que leí siendo demasiado joven). (Translation)Rodrigo Fresán in Página 12 (Argentina) thinks that Sam Mendes's Skyfall may be the 'most intelligent and subliminal rewriting of Wuthering Heights'.
Nada de lo que amamos podrá extinguirse mientras vivamos. Lo sé por el autor de Alegría: parecemos como dice él personajes de Cumbres borrascosas. (José Luis Ibáñez Salas) (Translation)More news outlets celebrate the Chinese year of the rat, mentioning that Charlotte Brontë is... well, a rat: The Mercury News, Whyy ... A Wuthering Heights quote in Your Tango's 'Happy Quotes About Being Alone Everyone Who Loves Spending Time By Themselves Can Relate To'. A local politician selects Wuthering Heights among her favourite books on Granma (Cuba).
There is a connection between Killead in south Antrim and Charlotte Brontë, author of the novel Jane Eyre, a play based on which finishes its run at the Grand Opera House in Belfast tonight.Financial Times reviews A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf, by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
You see, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who married the eldest of the Brontë sisters in June 1854, used to live on winding Tullywest Road on the outskirts of the picturesque little village.
In fact, the house where he grew up while attending Killead Presbyterian Church is still standing.
As a young man, Nicholls studied for the ministry and eventually was appointed curate to Charlotte's father, the Rev Patrick Brontë, at Haworth in Yorkshire.
And, in between clerical duties for him and writing stories for her, the couple fell in love and married.
The story goes that they honeymooned back in Ireland and villagers like to believe they worshipped at Killead Presbyterian Church - although this is disputed by members of The Brontë Society. (Eddie McIllwayne)
Midorikawa and Sweeney, whose blog Something Rhymed has unearthed many female literary bonds, focus here on female friendships that underpinned the writing careers of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, explaining along the way why these important relationships have been suppressed, passed over or misinterpreted. (...)Georgina Lawton discusses her heritage in The Guardian:
When the authors turn to Charlotte Brontë, long marginalised as a spinster scribbling with her sisters in the Haworth parsonage or tramping solo on the Yorkshire moors, they excavate the profound literary influence of her rebellious school friend, the nonconformist Mary Taylor. It was Taylor, they point out, who challenged Brontë’s self-image as a conservative thinker, and Taylor too who encouraged her to write directly about industrial agitation, resulting in the overtly political Shirley. (Julia Pascal)
Wuthering Heights has been one of my favourite books since I studied it for A-level seven years ago. I was fascinated by the tumultuous (and oddly asexual) relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff, but mostly with the theme of liminality that runs through the book, and many other works of othic literature. Liminality refers to something – or someone – that sits on the boundary between two things; it’s a middle ground between polar opposites. Kind of like being mixed race.The Toronto Star on sequels/prequels/whateverquels of classics:
I didn’t realise it at the time, but I identified with Heathcliff (he’s a dark-skinned Gypsy anti-hero) because I have been straddling the borders of race liminality my whole life. Growing up brown-skinned in a white family and facing questions as to why that was, I have had to navigate many different racial identities depending on who I was with, never quite owning one.
But Massacre of Mankind hopes to join a narrower category of literary continuations: those that become literature themselves. Think the (...)San Francisco Chronicle quotes from Life in Code by Ellen Ullman:
1966’s Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhyss, an account of Edward Rochester’s first marriage to the mentally ill Bertha Mason, before he meets Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester’s charming yet questionable character was what inspired Sarah Shoemaker to become a first-time novelist at age 80 earlier this summer with her Jane Eyre spinoff Mr. Rochester. “He seems so demanding, sometimes playful, but also angry a lot of the time,” Shoemaker says of Charlotte Brontë’s brooding hero. (Ryan Porter)
“The web,” she writes, “is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of Jane Eyre — add anything you like.” (Kevin Canfield)
It is a tale of choosing happiness, discovering independence and succeeding on your own terms that still resonates today … 170 years after it was written.Rewrite This Story reviews the Belfast performances:
Now, after a successful and critically acclaimed season at the National Theatre, the new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre is coming to His Majesty’s Theatre.
The National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic’s joint production of Jane Eyre is astonishingly good … and it is far from being what one would expect. It may be based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, but this work – devised by the original company – is modern in its approach, in its styling and in its staging and manages to retain Jane Eyre’s core characterisation of being a free spirit and a strong-willed individual who strives for equality and for the right to be herself. (Damien Murray)Emerdblog also reviews the production.
Ted Hughes’ ‘badlands’ of West Yorkshire depicted here were once part of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Elmet. However, the struggles of the motherless Daniel and Cathy and their giant ‘Daddy’ to settle their land are reminiscent of the pioneers of the western tradition of the US sprinkled with gothic tropes. Although set in nearly modern times, it is timeless, with shades of Hardy and the Brontes and rural folk struggling beneath the tyranny of the landowning class. (Catherine Turnbull)Stylist also comments on the same novel:
Aged 29, Mozley is the breakout star of this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist. And with good reason: Elmet, with its rugged landscape, violence and high emotion, recalls Wuthering Heights written with a wholly new voice. This debut is the start of something big... (Francesca Brown)Taste of Cinema posts on Guillermo Del Toro's films:
In the same fashion that Pacific Rim is a tribute to Japanese Kaiju tradition or Mimic is self-proclaimed offspring of Alien, Crimson Peak serves as a love letter to romance gothic stories, written in the dialect of texts such as Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jane Eyre, both of which have deeply influenced del Toro’s style and thematic framework. (Frank Zayas)
Still, many had a hard time letting the written form die, thinking it made their manuſcripts look more formal. For example, Charlotte Brontë’s letters of the mid-1800s often contain the long s as did English poet Edward Lear’s diaries as late as 1884. In fact, vestiges of the old letter form remain. Anyone who has struggled with calculus will know it as the symbol in problems involving integrals. (Roger Schlueter)Catastrophic endings in Beco Literário (in Portuguese):
Porém, outro final catastrófico e desastroso é de “Morro dos Ventos Uivantes” (Emily Brontë). Simplesmente catastrófico, desastroso e lindo. Amei! (Gustavo Machado) (Translation)Radio Praha (in French) interviews the author Pierre Cendors:
Que nous dit votre roman en général du processus de gestation de l’œuvre littéraire? (Václav Richter)Mateo Cestari, director of the Jane Eyre adaptation now on stage in Caracas, was interviewed on the program Vladimir a la 1 in Globovisión (Venezuela):
« Qu’elle est multiforme, qu’elle est protéiforme, qu’elle peut aussi bien s’incarner chez une personne, comme je l’ai évoqué tout à l’heure, par exemple chez Rimbaud mais qui peut se retrouver chez Ted Hughes, un siècle plus tard, chez Emily Brontë, également. (Translation)
Cestari comentó que "Jane Eyre: Detrás del Fuego" fue un reto pues la misma es una historia de 600 páginas y se tuvo que adaptar a un libreto de hora y media.Studio (in Italian) lists the worst marriages in literature:
"Aquí es ella donde ella lo salva él, es interesante porque ella en la novela se habla de toda la vida a ella", dijo.
Por otro lado Jhon Colmenares, dijo que el arte es un arte es un "elemento fundamental para la transformación social". (Robert Betancourt) (Translation)
Un’altra catastrofe matrimoniale da riprendere in mano è Il grande mare dei Sargassi di Jean Rhys, scrittrice britannica di origini caraibiche: prequel di Jane Eyre, racconta la genesi di Bertha, la “pazza in soffitta” moglie di Rochester. (Translation)LitReactor has a list with combinations of music and books like:
Kate Bush - Wuthering HeightsKeighley News tells that Clare Twomey, alma mater behind the Wuthering Heights. A Manuscript project, now has a new project in London's Tate Gallery. Medium publishes a list of books for Christian readers which includes Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Another list on Medium is Norwegian Book Clubs’ top 100 books of all time which includes just Wuthering Heights. Pichenettes (in French) reviews Wuthering Heights 1939. Dickens Does Books posts about Jane Eyre. I was just thinking... reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
This is not even a whole album – just a single song – but it’s too damn good to leave out. Inspired by my beloved Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Kate Bush put out a same-titled song in 1978. You guys, it’s just spectacularly melodramatic and weird. The first time I listened to it I had no idea who would want to hear such a thing, but then somehow it became one of my favorite songs. The strange, over-the-top qualities of the song actually perfectly fit the novel, and it includes direct quotes from Cathy, which suits my little literary heart just fine. (Annie Neugebauer)
Today, November 25 at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth:Programme:10.00 Early Tour of the Brontë Parsonage MuseumAnd in York:
10:30 Registration & Coffee - West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth, West Yorkshire BD22 8DR
11:00 Welcome & Introduction
The LitHouses Group - Update from Members - with reference to experiences of film
adaptations, location work, and the use of film and media in interpretation and presentation
13:00 Lunch & Conversation
14:30 “Screening The Brontës”
Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator, The Brontë Society & Brontë Parsonage Museum
15:00 “Film Tourism and Yorkshire - a 100 year heritage”
David Wilson, Director - Bradford UNESCO City of Film
15:30 “Artist Film at the Brontë Parsonage Museum”
Simon Warner, Artist & Photographer
16:00 Tea & General Discussion
16:30 Late Tour of the Brontë Parsonage Museum
Saturday 26th November: Escorted Visit to Ted Hughes’s Birthplace, Mytholmroyd
09:23 The Brontë Bus departs Haworth
09.55 Change buses at Hebden
10.30 Arrive at Ted Hughes’s birthplace: 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, HX7 5NL
Local film-maker, Hughes expert and Elmet Trustee, Nick Wilding leads a short canal-bank walk to places important to Ted’s childhood and subsequent work
11.30 Refreshments at the birthplace, with Elmet Trustees Mark Hinchliffe and Ruth Crossley, who knew Ted personally and will be on hand to talk about Ted, his life and his legacy
‘St. John in the Wilderness’ & the Brontës in York, book launch with author Alan TitteringtonFriday 25 November 2016
Alan Titterington will be signing copies of his book ‘St John in the Wilderness’ at Pyramid Gallery on Friday 25 November between 6pm and 8.30pm
The book focuses on to his ancestor’s time spent in York, mostly in debtors prison, after moving his family to the building that s now Pyramid Gallery, 43 Stonegate
Did you know that Anne and Charlotte Brontë visited York in 1848 and came to 43 Stonegate to meet John and Mary Titterington who were residing 43 Stonegate?
We found this out a few years ago when Alan came and visited Pyramid Gallery to research his story. His Great Great Grandfather actually lived in our building for a short while and having been a very close friend to Branwell Brontë, he knew the Brontë sisters well.
Speaking before the announcement on the BBC News channel, writer and cricit Stephanie Merritt said of Elmet: “It’s a tremendous achievement for a first novel. It’s a book about landscape and our place in the landscape.”Poltrona Nerd (Brazil) reviews John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
"Echoes of Wuthering Heights and Ted Hughes are all there,” added Sameer Rahim, the books editor of Prospect magazine.
“There are some beautiful landscape descriptions and she really can write.”
Não podemos deixar de mencionar Davis, o filho do empresário desaparecido. Surgindo no momento mais oportuno possível, ele é essencial para compreendermos o que se passa na cabeça de Aza. O menino é diferente da maioria dos garotos de sua idade. Se interessa por escrita, leituras clássicas e autores consagrados na literatura como Shakespeare, Demócrito e Brontë, além de usar a internet para desaguar suas ideias. (Paula Ramos) (Translation)Vanyaland reviews the film England is Mine, based on Morrissey's early years.
I remember when Morrissey’s autobiography came out. We all thought we would get the straight story (minus the apparent homosexual affair that American publishers deleted), and we did get just that: Morrissey’s version. Finally. His life in about 400 pages, written as if he were channeling Oscar Wilde and Emily Brontë. After all the point-of-view books on him and then finally his own, did we really need a movie? (Mark Phinney)
A Keighley charity which provides much needed support for people with cancer is preparing an important fundraising walk for its activities this autumn.The Newcastle Chronicle reports the return to England of the only known sketchbook of Thomas Bewick:
Keighley and Airedale Cancer Support is based in New Devonshire House and one of its members, Clare Taylor, is organising a "Withens Welly Walk". (...)
The trek takes place on Saturday November 11, with participants meeting at the Old Sun Hotel, 79 West Lane, Haworth.
There will be two route options. The first is a 7.6 mile walk to Top Withens and back and the second a shorter five-mile walk to the Brontë Waterfalls and back. (Miran Rahman)
The only known sketchbook of the celebrated Northumbrian engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick has come home after surfacing in San Francisco in the United States. (...)The New York Times asks several journalists and authors about 'what they learnt from horror movies':
The event will be the launch of a new book which reproduces the sketches, with a commentary by leading Bewick scholar and author Nigel Tattersfield, who will be attending. Thomas Bewick: The Sketchbook 1792-99, is published by London antiquarian booksellers Jarndyce at £85 in a limited edition of 200 copies, and has been designed by another prominent Bewick authority, Iain Bain.(...)
A History of British Birds came in two volumes, on land birds and water birds, and is repeatedly mentioned in Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre. (Tony Henderson)
I love how often horror-movie monsters can become allegorical stand-ins for what scares us. Back in high school, I came across the 1943 movie “I Walked With a Zombie,” and was floored by how this suspense movie dealt with repression, fear and racism. It caught my attention because my family is from a Caribbean island, and I grew up with stories about Santería.The Australian discusses the current Man Booker Prize Shortlist, including:
Loosely based on “Jane Eyre,” the movie follows a nurse who is hired to care for the catatonic wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean. “I Walked With a Zombie” is upfront about the island’s tragic history of slavery and the slave trade, even as some of its white characters would rather minimize their unsavory past to focus on the romantic melodrama. (Mónica Castillo)
Despite the outward differences between the two books, Elmet draws some of its energy from the same questions about national identity and nationhood that animate Autumn, taking its title from the ancient kingdom that was celebrated by Ted Hughes in The Remains of Elmet, as well as invoking the Brontës and others. (James Bradley)Princeton Times links together WalMart Stores, Jane Eyre and Dracula:
Just last week, I trotted out to purchase fabric. I have been commissioned to create capes for a trip to the local Renaissance Fair. The college teen offered my sewing skills to her friends, and now, I am making crushed-velvet capes for several. I can't really remember when a good cape wasn't in style, though. We had Halloween capes growing up. Count von Count, from Sesame Street has a really, cool cape. All the Dracula movies have capes. Heroines from the Jane Eyre movies have capes in which to pine and swoon. (Fawn Musick)The Sunday Times discusses the latest poetry collection by Jackie Kay, Bantam:
There are poems about war, and our memories of war, channelled through memorials and family stories. There are verses about bereavement, the Brontës, about Brexit, and some very funny lines dedicated to Nigel Farage. (Mike Wade)The Irish Times reviews the novel Devil's Day by Andrew Michael Hurley:
In the same way that Emily Brontë allowed the Yorkshire moors to become a character unto themselves in Wuthering Heights, Hurley’s depiction of the hills and grasslands of Lancashire takes on an anthropomorphic quality, representing a place removed from the outside world, a timeless land with its own rules and laws.BroadwayWorld interviews David Armstrong, director of The Secret Garden, now being performed in Houston:
What was your approach for staging a brand new staging of The Secret Garden? (Alan Henry)BT.com lists several of the Gunpowder filming locations, including:
The design team and I were inspired by the gothic aspects of the original novel. Frances Hodgson Burnett was consciously echoing Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and other gothic stories.
Fans of Wuthering Heights may recognise East Riddlesden Hall (below), a Grade I-listed National Trust-owned property in Keighley, West Yorkshire. The hall has foundations dating as far back as 973 and was used in adaptations of Wuthering Heights in both 1992 and again in 2009. The National Trust took over the deeds of the site in 1934. (Chris Laker)Steinbach opens an article about the Mennonite Heritage Village (Manitoba, Canada) with an Anne Brontë quote from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
“A light wind swept over the corn, and all of nature laughed in the sunshine.” - Anne BrontëLa Verdad (Spain) interviews several local writers on the role of women in literature:
El Día de las Escritoras impulsado por la BNE -se festeja el primer lunes posterior al 15 de octubre, onomástica de Santa Teresa de Jesús-, piensan las autoras murcianas, reunidas por 'La Verdad', es una apuesta importante en la lucha por la visibilidad de aquellas autoras olvidadas, pero no debe ser un acto puntual, sino una constante que hay que convertir, apunta Cerezo, en «cotidianeidad». «Hemos avanzado bastante desde las hermanas Brontë, pero queda todavía mucho por hacer», cree [Dionisia] García. (Rosa Martínez) (Translation)And Enpositivo (in Spanish) lists books written by women that should be read by men:
Jane Eyre (1847) – Charlotte BrontëFrom First Page to Last interviews the writer Carol Lovekin:
Mientras en el siglo XIX la figura de la mujer huérfana, soltera y trabajadora siempre era descrita desde la visión paternalista, Charlotte Brontë desvela otra realidad vivida directamente desde la parte femenina. Se ambienta en la Inglaterra victoriana y muestra cómo esta figura en realidad era luchadora y valiente, y no desvalida y victimista. (Aiste Bereckyte) (Translation)
If you could only read one book for the rest of your life which book would it be?The Doctor Who Companion lists several of Peter Davison's guest appearances, including his Lockwood in Wuthering Heights 1998. Guaripete, needabook and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books review the Aline McKenna & Ramón Pérez's Jane graphic novel. Littlebutfierce7 reviews the National Theatre's performances of Jane Eyre.
Wow! Now that is a question! It’s a choice between Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird. Ideally it would be something by Virginia Woolf – who I admire beyond rubies – but goodness me, she had a thing about paragraphs (the lack thereof!) I’d go blind if all I had to read for the rest of my life was Mrs Dalloway – marvellous though it is.
An alert for tomorrow, May 5, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Fiona Mozley: Elmet
An afternoon with writer
May 5, 2:30PM
Fiona Mozley visits Haworth to discuss Elmet, her debut novel which was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. It’s been described as an ‘elemental, contemporary rural noir’ rooted strongly within Yorkshire, and has been heavily lauded for its ‘rich and unfussy lyricism’. Her evocation of landscape, and a wilful protagonist named Cathy, have drawn multiple comparisons with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.Fiona Mozley was born in Hackney but grew up in York and studied at Cambridge before moving to Buenos Aires for a year – without speaking any Spanish. After briefly working at a literary agency in London, she moved back to York to complete a PhD in Medieval Studies. She also has a weekend job at The Little Apple Bookshop in York.
She remembers writing and performing “very bad” plays with her four siblings. She studied philosophy at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where, despite the lack of creative writing classes offered, she began to submit poetry to various journals. “One summer I sent a poem out every morning. The poems were terrible,” she says. “I can’t remember whether I had particular aspirations or if I chose the journals randomly.” She cites the Brontë sisters, Edith Wharton, and Shirley Jackson as early influences. “As a queer kid, I related to all that repression and unspeakable desire.” (Alana Mohamed)Consequence of Sound reviews the latest album by Vera, Good Job No Conversation:
Lyrically, “Nobody Else” is a tribute to the Caribbean novel Wide Sargasso Sea, by the Creole writer Jean Rhys. The novel is a response to Brontë’s Jane Eyre, in which the landowner keeps his Jamaican wife locked up in the attic, allegedly because she is mad. Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of the “mad woman of the attic” and with its cool tone of tristesse the book describes the wickedness, the Jamaican landscape, and the eternal drinking of rum. (Eddie Fu)The York Press talks about the play The Book of Dragons:
Juliet [Forster] was drawn to Nesbit's dragons for another reason. "One of the stories is set in Forest Hill, in London, which is where I grew up, and that all came back to me when I read them again," she says. "I remembered the characters, the wit, the craziness of the fantasies, though normally I'd read books again and again as a child – I'd read Jane Eyre seven times by the age of 11; weird child! – but I'd only read The Book Of Dragons once because I'd borrowed it from the library, so the stories must have stayed with me. (Charles Hutchinson)The Manual describes the Metchosin House by architect Marko Semcic:
Six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, including full guest accommodations and a separate caretaker’s cabin, allow enough space and freedom that you could host a full family reunion and hardly ever see your visitors, while extra perks like a tennis court, billiards room, outdoor kitchen, fully automated boat house, library, and home theater mean you can become a total Emily Bronte-style recluse and still never get bored. (Leann Whittemore)AV Club reviews the film Phantom Thread by P.T. Anderson:
Phantom Thread often resembles a kind of relocated Gothic romance (there are faint shades of Jane Eyre), with Alma moving into the film’s equivalent of a grand manor, subjecting herself to the strict rules and eccentricities of a life within The House Of Woodcock. (A.A. Dowd)The Sheffield Telegraph reviews Elmet by Fiona Mozley:
Two of my favourite books are Wuthering Heights and Danny The Champion Of The World. Parallels have been drawn between Elmet and the former (not least in the indomitable figure of Cathy, who is nothing short of magnificent, taking her blazing revenge on behalf of centuries of women, like a naked Carrie.) But I found myself spotting more correlations with the latter. And I mean that as the most sincere of compliments.(Anna Caig)Bollywood HelpLine interview the film director Imtiaz Ali:
When asked imtiaz whether he will adapt a book to make a movie out of it, he said, “I in fact, thought of adapting ‘Wuthering Heights’ but lot of people have done that already. There are many version of it in India that has been made like ‘Dil Diya Dard Liya’ and ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’ had some aspects of it. I was thinking of lot of these classics like ‘A Fairwell (sic) To Arms’ but it will be too expensive so then I am kind of resting that thought for sometime but I would love to do that but the important thing is when you make a film, it has to be your film so it could be somebody else’s story but then what is your story within books like ‘Wuthering Heights’”One strong contender for the title of the most absurd post of the year: what to read next, according to your zodiac sign (sigh). Your Tango has the doubtful honour:
Taurus is set in her ways and live up to everything an earth sign is known for. That’s why Jane Eyre is a must for you.A local literary contest for high school students in Valdemoro, Spain, with Emily Brontë as referent:
Read about the strong and independent woman, Jane (didn't see that coming, did you?), who finds herself and learns to trust her gut above all. Through strife and love and finding out her fiance is already married, she has an interesting life that could keep any Taurus glued to a book.
Cancel drinks for tonight, sit down with some tea and a blanket, and get started on this dramatic account of an orphan in the 1800s. (Sarah Gangraw)
El tema de la prueba de narrativa breve es la mujer, ya que este año se celebra el segundo centenario del nacimiento de Emily Brontë, autora de Cumbres borrascosas, y se la toma como referente. El texto no podrá superar los cinco folios. (José Manuel in Revista de Valdemoro) (Translation)Jouster Courant (in Dutch) reviews the comic Guardian 3: Ophelia by Robbert Damen:
Guardian is een solistisch optredende Scotland Yard- vrouw met bovenzinnelijke gaven, die zo uit de Harry Potter-wereld afkomstig zou kunnen zijn dan wel uit die van de gezusters Brontë. Haar uiterlijk is enigszins gothic dankzij de zwarte kledij en haar indringende ogen. (Koos Schulte) (Translation)El País (Spain) interviews the writer Magela Baudoin:
El regusto es parecido al que deja Jorge Luis Borges en muchas de sus narraciones. Tampoco eso es casual. “Mi abuela era una gran lectora de clásicos, por ella llegué, precoz, a las Brontë, a Jane Austen... Con los años fue perdiendo la vista y entonces memorizaba la poesía que yo le leía en voz alta; como admiraba a Borges, el primer bardo que descubrí fue él; hoy aun le leo reiteradamente”, rememora Baudoin, nacida en Venezuela en 1973, pero boliviana de crianza vital y literaria. (Carles Geli) (Translation)What can possibly have in common a Scottish cliff and Wuthering Heights? According to MeriStation (in Spanish) reviewing he PC game Black Mirror it has:
Encarnamos a Dave Gordon, heredero de el Castillo de Black Mirror situado en un acantilado escocés al más puro estilo de Cumbres Borrascosas. (José Luis López de Garayo Felgueroso) (Translation)Cineseries-Magazine (in French) reviews the film God's Own Country by Francis Lee:
Filmée au printemps, cette terre est hospitalière, contrairement à celle des Hauts de Hurlevent, le film de sa compatriote Andrea Arnold, également dans le Yorkshire, également belle, mais cette fois-là embrumée et inquiétante. (Beatrice Delesalle) (Translation)BookRiot vindicates Anne Brontë vehemently; To Read, Or Not To Read reviews the Thandie Newton's Jane Eyre audiobook; the Brontë Sisters compiles several Christmas pictures of Haworth and the Parsonage.
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William Atkins and Benjamin Myers: Lives, Landscape, LiteratureThursday 16 October,Caught by the River gives some more information about the Heathcliff Adrift exhibition:
7pm-8pm
Durham Cathedral, Chapel of the Nine Altars
This special event celebrates the dramatic landscape of the moors, in both words and pictures. William Atkins’ The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature is a deeply personal journey across our nation’s most forbidding and most mysterious moors.
Atkins will read from his work, surrounded by Heathcliff Adrift, an exhibition of poems and images from author Benjamin Myers (winner of the 2013 Gordon Burn Prize) and photographer Nick Small, covering Heathcliff’s ‘missing’ three years in Wuthering Heights, when he leaves Haworth a boy and returns a wealthy man, and the moorland landscape, as seen through his eyes. Extracts from Myers’ haunting poems will be read aloud during the event.
The Moor was The Guardian’s book of the week and described as ‘an ambitious mix of history, topography, literary criticism and nature writing, in the tradition of WG Sebald, Robert MacFarlane and Olivia Laing.’
A clever idea cooked up by a triumvirate of Caught by the River pals and contributors – Nick Small, Ben Myers and Will Atkins – Heathcliff Adrift is a series of narrative poems, a selection of which are being reproduced and exhibited in Durham Cathedral for the duration of Durham Book Festival 2014.
Ben says of the idea’s genesis: “It was conceived while walking the moors of the West Riding in Yorkshire and born out of the questions: where did Heathcliff go and what did he see? The work runs alongside stunning landscape photographs taken by Nick Small which explore the idea of what happened to Heathcliff during his ‘missing’ three years in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, an era in which the industrial revolution was in its earliest days and the ragged beauty of the landscape was under threat from the arrival of mechanisation.”
Nick says: “This collaboration between Ben and I was born on the pages of Caught by the River. Having exchanged correspondence over an number of years we finally met in the fitting environs of a Hebden Bridge pub, with beer in hand and in the company of chief alchemist Jeff. When Ben asked me to provide photographs to accompany his Heathcliff poems we both found that we referenced the peerless collaboration between Ted Hughes and Fay Godwin, “The Remains of Elmet” as our inspiration. The photographs are taken on the South Pennine Moorland between Calderdale and Haworth. The intention was not to create a literal narrative accompaniment to the poems. Instead, I wanted to present a series of images that would convey the wild and weird nature of the landscape that is my “back yard” and to explore some of the emotional themes that the landscape itself evokes: love, fear, life, death, awe, euphoria and, above all, time(lessness).”
Emily At Home is the title of the first talk on February 6, exploring the domestic side of Emily and her writing.Sheffield Telegraph reviews the novel Elmet by Fiona Mozley.
A spokesman said: “As someone who revelled in the wild extremes of nature, freedom and the outdoors, Emily also seemed to embrace the quieter pleasures of the everyday, of the familiar routine of life with her family at the Parsonage.”
Future talks include the poetry of Emily Brontë (March 6), Heathcliff (April 3), the origins of Wuthering Heights (May 1), and Emily Brontë and nature (June 5).
Brontë Treasures will begin in February 23 at 2pm, focusing as usual on the world’s largest collection of Brontë artefacts, manuscripts and personal belongings.
The spokesman said: “Brontë Treasures offers a unique opportunity to go beyond the security cord into the Parsonage Library for a close-up viewing of some of the items not on display.
“During the special two hour-long sessions, a member of our curatorial team will share facts and stories about a number of carefully-selected objects.
“They will offer a specialist insight into the lives and work of this inspirational family. Fascinating and moving in equal measure, Brontë Treasures is a not-to-be-missed experience.”
Parsonage Unwrapped will begin at February 23 at 7.30pm with Writing The Brontës.
The spokesman said. “Since the publication of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë in 1857, countless biographers have researched, detailed and occasionally embellished the lives of the Brontë family.
“Join principal curator Ann Dinsdale for an evening considering Gaskell, Leyland, Du Maurier, Gerin and Barker and how their perspectives have shipped understanding of Haworth’s most famous family.” (Jim Seton)
The South Pennine landscape is as rugged, brutal and changeable as Daddy, the looming figure at the centre of the novel, whose behaviour is terrifying, and yet tender. And as the novel progresses and the violence within Daddy bubbles and grows, the landscape itself becomes increasingly bleak. Just as the moors drew Danny and Cathy together, it divides them, prompting comparisons with Heathcliff searching for his Cathy on those same moors centuries before. (Anna Caig)Creative Loafing has a bookstore owner reminisce about the time a couple requested books for a literary-themed wedding (as it turned out, they only wanted nice-looking books, regardless of their content).
I immediately thought of those great novels with grooms in morning coats and brides in empire waists, mumbling vicars and stumbling groomsmen, all living happily ever after. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen observes, “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Books often extol marital bliss for sure, so they must be a good omen for a prospective husband and wife.Now that a bar in NYC's East Village has forbidden the use of the word 'literally' inside its premises, The Cut looks into 'The 300-Year History of Using ‘Literally’ Figuratively'.
But then I began to remember those books with disastrous weddings and marriages. There is that unfortunate business in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre when Jane discovers Rochester’s secret lurking in the attic. Well, “I declare the existence of an impediment,” indeed! (Ben Wiley)
The emphatic “literally” is not a millennial invention; it goes back to the 1700s at least, though Smith gets it right that it’s English. John Dryden, a man who is best known as the founder of literary criticism and the prohibition against the terminal preposition, was an early user of the emphatic “literally.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace all used the emphatic “literally” in their works. (Kory Stamper)Beware of spoilers - The Loop lists what we know so far about the second season of The Handmaid's Tale:
In the first season Alexis Bledel was only able to appear as a guest star on the show, but the time she had on screen was definitely memorable; she did secure an Emmy for the role, after all. So it seemed like a no-brainer for Miller and co. to promote her to series regular this year and expand on her story. While we don’t know just how much screen time Emily (who was named after Emily Brontë, by the way) will actually get, we do know that we’ll see her in the Colonies when she does reappear. Fingers crossed we’ll also get a good flashback story or two. (Amber Dowling)The Brontë Society Young Ambassador Lucy Powrie offers a few 'Brontë non-fiction recommendations'on her YouTube channel.
4 Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëIn the same vein, Bustle recommends '15 Classic Novels You Missed In College That You Need To Read Now', such as
Odds are, when you read the Charlotte Brontë classic about an orphaned governess who falls in love with her tormented employer, Edward Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall, you were in grade school and—shall we say—unenthusiastic.
But take it from us, revisiting the twists, the turns, the secrets in Brontë’s story as a willing adult participant is simply thrilling. And we highly recommend it. (DeAnna Janes)
'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean RhysSpectator reviews The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Beware of spoilers!
In her prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys centers on Antoinette Cosway, the young woman who will become Bertha Mason — Mr. Rochester's first, locked-away wife. (K.W. Colyard)
Aunt Lydia is approximately as old as Margaret Atwood, who was born in 1939. She remembers the founding of Gilead in New England, the suspension of the US Constitution, the liquidation of Congress, the mass executions and the terror. Before the coup, she was a distinguished family court judge who had an abortion to prioritise her career, ‘a law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination’. After Gilead was established to address the problem of the US’s declining birth rate, she was tortured, then recruited as a trusted enforcer of the new rules for girls and women. She writes her testament at Ardua Hall in the Hildegard Library, surrounded by forbidden texts from the old world: Anna Karenina, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Paradise Lost, Lives of Girls and Women. She hides her manuscript inside a hollowed-out copy of Cardinal Newman’s X-rated (because Roman Catholic), Apologia Pro Vita Sua: A Defence of One’s Life. It is addressed to ‘My Dear Reader’. And so she takes her place in the long tradition of fictional composers of memoir alongside Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Orwell’s Winston Smith. (Ruth Scurr)Daily Nation (Kenya) interviews writer Karang’ae Chege.
What is that one book you read that was out of your comfort zone? Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë was out of my comfort zone owing to the sad events dominating the pages. (Kariuki Wa Nyamu)The Guardian takes readers’ travel tips for autumn breaks in the UK.
Hebden Bridge, West YorkshireAccording to The Portsmouth News, Southampton airport is the gateway to
Hebden Bridge’s autumnal colours, post-industrial buildings and poetic links all add up to this being the best time to visit. See the leaves changing colour as you walk by the river up to Hardcastle Crags and among the ruins and former mills, which used water to power their looms. Detours over the moors take you to the farmhouse at Top Withens, said to have provided some inspiration for Wuthering Heights, and the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth. At nearby Heptonstall is Sylvia Plath’s grave and Ted Hughes’s Lumb Bank, an 18th-century former millowner’s house, now the Arvon Centre for writers. Among interesting places to stay is Elmet Farmhouse (sleeps six, three nights from £440) which Hughes knew well.
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LeedsIf you want to add about 5 hours to your journey, then yes it is.
This hidden gem in the heart of Yorkshire is your base for exploring the stunning Yorkshire Dales and, just a short trip away from the city centre, historic Harewood House with its royal connections, extensive art collections and impressive grounds. Head out of Bradford to Haworth if you’re interested in literature and want to learn all about the famous Brontë sisters.
ATTN: FREE ticket for Amy Liptrot's event this Sun at 2pm! A generous benefactor can no longer come & would like to gift her ticket to someone who might not otherwise be able to attend. Please email lauren.livesey[@]bronte[.]org[.]uk - we'll select someone at random @ 2pm Thur— Brontë Parsonage (@BronteParsonage) September 18, 2019
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