I admit the Brontë family’s relationships leave me livid, as well as the contemporary attitude toward women that made the sisters publish under pseudonyms. This new biography of Charlotte only adds to the irritation I feel when I learn more of the accomplishments of this brilliant woman. There are illustrations of her drawing skills and newfound novelettes and letters that only make it more of a travesty that she was denied her rightful place as a woman of letters. (Jane Davis)Stuff (New Zealand) quotes author Min Jin Lee and her 2007 book Free Food for Millionaires:
"It really was such a hard book to write because I was trying to write a 19th century-style narration, because those are the kinds of books I love to read," says Lee, who counts George Eliot and the Brontë sisters amongst her formative influences. (Stephen Jewell)Diario de León (Spain) presents Santiago Posteguillo's new book, El Séptimo Círculo del Infierno:
La inspiración para su obra la busca en grandes nombres de la literatura mundial, como el ruso León Tolstói o las británicas Jane Austen y Charlotte Brontë. (Nayara Batschke) (Translation)Deadline Hollywood on the film Beast:
Unusually for a genre movie of this kind, the lead character is a woman, which was [Michael] Pearce’s goal from the outset. “I’ve always been struck by how many anti-heroes we have in cinema,” he said, “like Travis Bickle or Michael Corleone. But I can’t think of many anti-heroines, and the ones that we do have come from literature, whether it’s Gone Girl, Cathy from Wuthering Heights, Carrie or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really struggled to think of a genuine film anti-heroine, and I thought, ‘That’s really weird.’ (Damon Wise)Greenwich Time traces a profile of new author Finn Murphy:
Murphy's late father, John Cullen Murphy, produced the "Prince Valiant" strip for many years until his death in 2004 and his brother, Cullen Murphy, also wrote for the series.A podcast by Proyecto Grado Cero (México) on Wuthering Heights.
"It wasn't, say, like the Brontës, where the siblings created an incredibly complex fantasy world,” said sister Caitlin Murphy of Manhattan earlier this year.
“But my parents did value reading. There were always lots of books around, and television viewing was limited. Trips to the library were a regular event. Finally, both my parents were themselves enthusiastic readers, so we grew up in that kind of atmosphere," she said. (Alexandra Villarreal)
The range of literature studied should include:As you can see, Elizabeth Gaskell and other Brontë contemporaries remain on the reading list as well.
texts that enable students to understand the nature, significance and influence over time of texts from the English literary heritage. This should include work selected from the following pre-twentieth-century writers: Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, William Blake, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Congreve, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, John Donne, John Dryden, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Hardy, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry James, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, RB Sheridan, Edmund Spenser, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, Henry Vaughan, HG Wells, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth and Sir Thomas Wyatt
And, in spin-off vein, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys pays homage to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It imagines the life of Rochester and his first wife (the one who goes mad and is held in the tower) in the Caribbean.Actually we don't think Jean Rhys intended to flatter so much as to put right something she saw wrong.
My favorite authors/biggest influences are (in no particular order) Orson Scott Card, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Maeve Binchy, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne DuMaurier, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Eva Ibbotson, William Goldman, Douglas Adams, Janet Evanovich... the list goes on, but I think I hit the highlights.This Next interviews Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires, who has been written down as a Brontëite before.
TN: If you were a book, you’d be ________.The Mystery of Irma Vep - a theatre play with passing resemblances to Wuthering Heights, is on stage at Shimberg Playhouse-Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Florida, according to Creative Loafing. See the theatre's website for further information.
MJL: Jane Eyre.
"WHEN I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" is a witticism often attributed to Hermann Göring. I don't suggest you do that, but I recognise the sentiment. I was once involved in the shooting of a copy of Wuthering Heights with an airgun - God, how I hated that book.Today's Times's Bookwise contains a Brontë reference:
If you don't recognize Rochester in drag (à la gypsy), you need an urgent re-reading of Jane Eyre.Some old news now: Los Angeles Times recalls again the Wuthering Heights references in Stephenie Meyer's novel Eclipse and the Chicago Sun-Times reminds us also of the influences of the writer Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires:Can you name these characters associated with knots? In which books do they appear? Who are the authors? (...)
4 Disguised as an old hag, this man persuaded the governess in his employ to let him read her palm. He spoke mostly of himself. Finally, confessing to his deceit, he asked her to help remove his cloak, saying: “The string is in a knot – help me!” She coolly replied: “Break it, sir.” (Barbara Hall)
Lee cited Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert and the Bronte sisters as some of her favorites authors during a chat from her New York home two weeks before her family's move to Japan. (Jae-Ha Kim)Brontë on the blogosphere: bollewangenhaptoet remembers her reading of Villette and on jonofuzzbox one of the latest visitors to Penistone Hill Country Park in Haworth can be seen.
Maggie O'Farrell's three previous novels have been respectfully reviewed, but her new one radiates the kind of energy that marks a classic. Think Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" or Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: stories that illuminate the suffering quietly endured by women in polite society. To that list of insightful feminist tales add The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. At the heart of this fantastic new novel is a mystery you want to solve until you start to suspect the truth, and then you read on in a panic, horrified that you may be right. (Ron Charles)The Minnesota Daily has a passing mention of the recent performances of Jane Eyre at the Guthrie Theatre:
Mojo theater, in essence, is everything that your Jane Eyre at the Guthrie is not- blending and freeze-frying the comic and the tragic, sweeping universal scopes and jaunty, physically aware performers. (Sarah Nicole Miller)CottonKnickersForAfrica went to the Margaret Drabble talk in Haworth and shares a funny anecdote:
I took a half day’s leave in the afternoon and went to Haworth of Bronte fame to hear a talk by Margaret Drabble the novelist on the influence of the Brontes on her work. She was very good, funny and certainly knows her literature, or so I thought. I went with a retired professor of English Literature, who is a Bronte researcher. ‘Well she was wrong about that bit of Wuthering Heights, it was in the January 2 months before the baby was born that, that happened’. Sometimes you can know too much.Harukanaru...Yume posts about Wuthering Heights in Thai. Lyza Danger Gardner reviews Jane Eyre. Everyday I Write the Book Blog interviews Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires, who comments once more on her Brontëite background:
Casey can be a somewhat frustrating person. Do you have sympathy for Casey because you share some of her impulses, or does she frustrate you as well?Parlez Moi Blog reviews H. The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights by Lin Haire-Sargeant (originally published in 1992):
MJ: Casey can be a frustrating person. I think her behavior is occasionally textbook (psychology) “acting out.” In my vain mind, she was drafted in light of the heroines I loved from the old novels who are stubborn, clever, foolish and spirited—an homage of sorts to Lily Bart (House of Mirth), Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Caroline Meeber (Sister Carrie), Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch), Becky Sharp (Vanity Fair), et al.
Basically she used the tale-within-a-tale technique to describe a train trip that a fictional Emily Brontë was taking back from France when an ill-fated love affair ended. On the train she encounters a man who tells her about a trip he is taking to visit an old friend on her death bed. Soon he persuades Miss Brontë to read a series of letters sent him by this lady and the fun begins. Of course using such a construct for a novel is extremely clever because you can cover any gaps in credibility with missing pages to letters or letters to another party or simple human error but this story doesn’t really rely on this at all. (Kathleen Valentine)Finally, on Maggie Robinson means romance:
I rescued this handsome edition of Wuthering Heights (circa 1959, I’m guessing), last checked out in 1995. I think the cover artist had a little “inspiration” from John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. (Maggie Robinson)Categories: Books, Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Sequels, Talks, Theatre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights
All of the Brontë-related volumes came from the library of the late Arthur D Walker, all of them had his label (with a catalogue reference) on the inside cover, and all the money raised went to the Brontë Society. Each person present was issued with a laminated piece of paper with a number on it, to be raised when a bid was made. (...)This review of Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee quotes a Brontë reference in the novel:
Earlier in the day I had listened to a lecture on writer's homes by Victoria Glendinning (pictured below) - brilliantly entertaining, with insights into her working methods. It is absolutely necessary for a biographer to travel, to soak up atmospheres and appreciate ambiances, to walk slowly around houses, to poke around in garden sheds. (Read more) (Richard Wilcocks)
Impulse spending on designer clothes, extravagant gifts and a $2,000 first American edition of "Jane Eyre" she [Casey Han, the protagonist] buys out of pity for an aging antiquarian bookseller, leave her "in a perennial state of buyer's remorse." (Heller McAlpin in San Francisco Chronicle)It's no surprise, because Min Jin Lee happens to be a Brontëite (or at least, a Jane Eyre fan) as her myspace page suggests.
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