Jessica Worrall's sparse design economically evokes Haworth and universal associations of light and shade, wildness and domesticity. (...)Robert McCrumb describes a horror-like scenario in The Guardian:
Catherine Kinsella, Sophia di Martino and Rebecca Hutchinson make a multifaceted trio. If, on press night, Kinsella's was the most rounded performance, the other two seemed about to blossom. Gareth Cassidy as Branwell tended to imprison his frustration and drunken fury in unmodulated histrionics, but shows promise of a wider emotional scale.
Although Morrison's use of the Three Sisters template is as intelligent as it is daring, some changes loosen the overall structure – the transformation of the Prozorov sisters' domineering sister-in-law into Branwell's employer-cum-mistress (a deliciously repulsive Becky Hindley) is sharp, but weakens the dramatic tension; and the final act (the furthest from Chekhov) is dramatically, at times, almost as unsteady as Branwell in his cups. However, Morrison's dovetailing of dialogues real and fictional is superb. (Clare Brennan)
The model Jordan, who successfully publishes ghosted fiction with titles such as Angel, Crystal and The Comeback Girl under her real name Katie Price, has always been an innovative figure in the world of contemporary prose. She takes the market seriously and never fails to gratify her fans. Her latest venture is Katie: My Magazine, a glossy publication that explores various facets of La Price's life and sells at £3.99. Will it catch on? Will it inspire copycat publications? I look forward to Martina: My Magazine and perhaps, more upmarket, Jeanette. Or Hilary, or Ali? Who could rule out Jo! The Official JK Rowling Magazine. Alternatively, a commercially minded Brontë estate could launch Charlotte – or, perhaps, Lottie!Awards Daily reviews Wuthering Heights 2011, seen in Toronto:
Wuthering Heights, is one of the more intellectually challenging films to screen at the festival this year. Andrea Arnold adapts Emily Brontë’s celebrated novel with voracious authenticity. Gone is the languid pacing of many classical adaptations, as are the sweeping score, the heaving bosoms, and the stylized smooching in the rain. This is Brontë stripped and raw.According to HitFix, Olivia Hetreed is not very happy with the final version of the film:
If not for the title, one might not suspect that Wuthering Heights is based on a book. Arnold conjures up an exciting episodic structure for the narrative, and allows the drama to unfurl in fragmented and synecdochal close-ups as well as disorienting hand-held shots. The film has minimal dialogue, thus expensing with much of the prose that readers assume to be sacred. Wuthering Heights is a wholly cinematic rendering of the literary classic and a wondrous feat of visual composition. Cinematography Robbie Ryan writes the film masterfully through his lens, and offers a markedly original take on the period piece, for his camera rejects the expansive widescreen vistas and swooning pans that usually accentuate such films and instead opts for densely composed frames at the small ratio of 1.33:1. Arnold and Ryan pack as much detail into one frame into Wuthering Heights as a Victorian novelist would into one page. After the success of Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights should readily whet the appetite of anyone hungry for another serving of literary cinema. (Patrick Mullen)
All the elements exist in "Wuthering Heights" to have made something good and interesting and special, and yet it's so over thought, so precious, that it's just suffocating. By some accounts, even the co-writer of the film is baffled by the final product. A big misstep for a promising voice. (Drew McWeeny)Imdb users mdrocioscott and caramelitaa don't like the film (we suspect that they haven't actually read the novel):
The director's main aim seemed to be to try and shock audiences who thought they were coming to an Emma Thompson type costume drama by making the film as morose as possible and throwing in lots of swearing, violence and a bit of necrophilia. Unfortunately the only shocking thing was that they had managed to make such a bad film out of a classic novel.
This movie was disturbing. I went to see it because Wuthering Heights is supposed to be a classic and because I love period films. I knew it would be minimalist from the description, so I was not expecting elaborate costumes with frills. Not only was it utterly depressing, but there was a lot of needless violence to animals.But MSN's The Hitlist thinks it nearly a masterpiece:
As many books as have been burnt by fascists and fearmongers, it's safe to suggest an equal number have been ruined not by hatred but, rather, by admiration -- placed on a high shelf where they can't be touched or broken or sullied or, eventually, seen, and so we pass them by with a vague notion of what they're about each time we breeze by them. Much like this year's earlier adaptation of "Jane Eyre" from Cary Fukanaga (sic), Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" takes Emily Brontë's sole 1847 novel and reclaims it from that sealed vault of veneration, the airless, sealed space where so much of the canon is placed so the books might be unharmed but instead merely ensures that the books are unread and unappreciated. (...)Petronella Wyatt tries to be funny in the Daily Mail:
But Arnold's version made me truly think about what I truly knew about Bronte's work and the times it depicted, and truly feel for Heathcliffe's (sic) doomed passion and Cathy's impossible love. The performers are fascinating -- Howson's Heathcliffe (sic) is a glowering force of nature, Scodelario's Cathy a pale shimmer of pure feeling poured into the knots and constrictions of a lady's dress.
Visually, the film is a marvel, shot through with the raw, stark sense of sense that Arnold brings to her work -- the feel of wet earth, the cold of an abandoned room, the lush crimson of Cathy's riding coat, the blasted vastness of the windy moors. Atop the hill where they looked out over the countryside as children, battered and shaken by the wind and the passage of time, Cathy makes what's almost a joke: "How could you leave all this?" Then she breaks: "How could you leave me?" throughout the film, the cool remove of watching passion and feeling through cinema becomes simply passion, feeling and cinema. Arnold could have stayed in what seemed to be her métier of urban grit and modern trials, low-income housing and low-outcome lives. Instead, she's at a stroke reinvented herself, from a director to watch to a major talent, her past ability and intellect and feeling opening up with a burst of new energy that gives her potential future work -- and her current admirers -- a dizzying sense of possibility. (James Rocchi)
I have just seen the new Jane Eyre film with Mia Wasikowska in the title role and Michael Fassbender as brooding aristo Mr Rochester. Why is it that Jane Eyre is of such abiding fascination? Could it be, that despite the narrowing wage gap between the sexes, and the geeky, freaky metrosexual hybrid that helps us with housework, we women still yearn for a well-heeled primitive man.The cinema listing section of The Sunday Times says about the new Jane Eyre:
This new version of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), begins two thirds of the way through the story, as Jane (Mia Wasikowska) takes flight across a storm-lashed moor. It’s the standard plot, just not in the standard order. Plain Jane and the pained Rochester (Michael Fassbender) still engage in the seduction of verbal sparring. She is a young woman of character and conviction and Wasikowska does her justice. Unfortunately, Fassbender brings nothing new to Rochester: he growls, he broods and he has outbursts of bad temper, as you’d expect, but he doesn’t make us feel it or sympathise with his plight. This is a wonderfully atmospheric Jane Eyre, but dramatically it’s a bit thin, considering the twists and turns in the plot. (The same newspaper says that Michael Fassbender is the new Al Pacino:
Two weeks ago, his take on Mr Rochester in Cary Fukanaga’s (sic) Jane Eyre opened across the country. [.] (...) Rochester would have found plenty of avenues on which he could self-destruct. Instead, as Jane Eyre is set in the Peak District in the 19th century...Fassbender went down in history. Jane Eyre is in cinemas nowJane Eyre 2011 is also reviewed on thefilmkid; Plaza Cinema Dorchester; Greercn's Blog.
Indeed, had Charlotte Brontë known her way around New York’s seediest dives, maybe Rochester would have found plenty of avenues on which he could self-destruct. (...) That said, this is a story that has inspired nine television series and 16 films. Andrea Arnold — with whom Fassbender worked on the exceptional British council-estate drama Fish Tank in 2009 — has a forthcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation that strips Emily Brontë’s novel to the barest of bones, adds a black Heathcliff, chucks in ome swearwords and ends with a song by Mumford & Sons. By contrast, Fukanaga’s elegant film is traditional allowing Fassbender to create something new from a 164-year-old character already played by Toby Stephens, Timothy Dalton and William Hurt. (...) I felt there was something bipolar about Rochester, and I wanted to show that unpredictable nature. One minute he can be cruel, the next very engaged, almost excitable. I wanted to show that he is somebody trying to escape from himself and close himself ff, and when Jane comes in, she starts this healing process." (Jonathan Dean)
[U]nlike BA (which I had booked), American (which I had not) was charging for drinks and had very little in the way of films — we had no seatback screens, just a distant overhead monitor showing Jane Eyre with the brightness turned down.The Daily Pioneer (India) interviews the actress Sonam Kapoor:
She is a fan of classic romances of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters and Sonam Kapoor says that portraying the coy beauty Ayaat, a Kashmiri girl, in Mausam felt like being part of a period novel.(...)The last installment of The X-Factor included a cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:
"I am a very romantic person and the film, which is about four seasons of love, reinstated my faith love. This is why when I was in Edinburgh, which is the second season in the movie, I felt like I was a part of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'," says Sonam.
Next up was Ceri from Bridgend. Wuthering Heights was her choice of song and it was a very odd performance. Gary told her “It wasn’t human, that voice.” Ceri didn’t get through. (Sian Eleri in Entertainment Focus)
Ceri Hoey, from Bridgend will make her X Factor debut on tonight’s episode, and her audition is far from run of the mill.
The Welsh wannabe sang Wuthering Heights for the judging panel when she tried out for the ITV show, though we use the word ‘sang’ in the loosest possible way.
Actually it was more like a wail, like a dog howling at the moon and it seems that the judges agreed. They didn’t seem impressed when she left the stage and screamed in their faces either. (Lisa McGarry in Unrealitytv)
[A] women doing Wuthering Heights, in the ‘mad old person’ vein that X Factor loves so much. (BeccaDP in HolyMoly!)Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
Every publishing house is focused on creepy books for Halloween. I’m less interested in them, though I’ve had my favorites over the years — Thomas Tryon’s “Harvest Home,” Anne Rice’s vampire novels, short stories by Guy de Maupassant. I enjoy Gothic stories, which combine a bit of romantic flourish with a little scariness, e.g., the old mysteries of Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt, “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setter, “The Lace Reader” by Brunonia Barry and classics like “Wuthering Heights” and “Rebecca.”The Hindustan Times interviews the actress Sonam Kapoor:
I looked around at the options being brought forth. There are many new books, and I haven’t read most of them. Check the book display aisles in your favorite bookstore.
Here’s a list, though, of other temptations, some classic, some contemporary:
“The Distant Hours” and “The Lake House,” Kate Morton
“The Woman in Black,” Susan Hill
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” a lesser-known Anne Brontë. (Ann Connery Frantz)
If your house was on fire and you had to save three books, which three would you choose?The Guardian's Book Clinic is about northern gothic novels. Philip Hensher says:
Sonam: I would save my Kindle [laughs]! (...)Then I’d save some hardbound classics that I liked when I was younger, like the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and stuff like that.
Name your favourite authors. (...)
Sonam: The Brontë sisters. I think in that day and age they were true feminists, and at that time women weren’t even allowed to write, so the fact that they broke the glass ceiling is inspiring to me. (Zuni Chopra)
The north has formed a natural fit with the gothic at least since the Brontës. Bram Stoker’s Dracula has turned Whitby into a capital of gothic extravagance. Ever since, writers have gone on exploring the combination of natural wildness, extremes of grandeur and suffering, and frequent flashes of bizarre humour.HorrorNews reviews the film The House of Violent Desire:
This film has secrets aplenty that would make the Brontë sisters take to their fainting couches with the most convulsive of vapours. (Glenn MacLeod)Yorkshire, Brontë and steam trains in La Stampa (Italy):
I traballanti vagoni storici per motivi logistici non collegano tutti i luoghi meritevoli della regione, ma, insieme allo sbalorditivo Museo dei Trasporti di York, formano un fascinoso fil rougeIl Manifesto (Italy) talks about Jean Rhys's works:
Forse perché la prima tratta ferroviaria al mondo fu tracciata ai confini dello Yorkshire (nel 1825, la Stockton-Darlington) e forse perché le locomotive a vapore sbuffavano, e sbuffano ancora grazie al carbone estratto nei dintorni della loro Wakefield, certo è che gli eredi di Henri Moore e delle sorelle Brontë venerano i treni d’epoca. (Andrea Battaglini) (Translation)
Cosa racconta del resto anche Il grande mare dei sargassi, quel capolavoro travestito da prequel di Jane Eyre che nel ’66 segnò la sua riscoperta dopo un silenzio protrattosi per quasi trent’anni, se non la storia di una donna creola trapiantata in Inghilterra e abbandonata dall’uomo che ama, precipitata nella follia per il disprezzo e l’incomprensione e il gelo di un mondo che le è estraneo? (Margherita Ghilardi) (Translation)Trouw (Netherlands) reviews the novel Crusoe's daughter by Jane Gardam:
Pas op haar zestiende komt zij voor het eerst buiten het dorp bij een familie in Yorkshire, de Thwaites, van wie pas later blijkt in welke relatie ze tot Polly staan. Hier begrijpt ze hoe haar tantes haar ‘in een vacuüm’ hebben laten zitten. Polly: “Ik hou van het moeras en van Oversands en ik weet dat ik in een heel boeiend landschap woon, zoals de gezusters Brontë. Maar tante Frances, ik heb zo mijn vragen over de gezusters Brontë. Ik vraag me af of het ooit de bedoeling is geweest dat mensen helemaal met een landschap vergroeien. Ik ben tenslotte helemaal niet mystiek, ik wil niet eens het Vormsel ontvangen.” (Laura van Baars) (Translation)Es Diario (Spain) quotes Isa Pantoja from a local reality show contest:
Ya en los pasillos del estudio, la hija de la Pantoja inclusó habló de lecturas favoritas. Y contó que le apasiona la vieja narrativa inglesa. "Cumbres borrascosas, de Emile Bronté( (sic), o las novelas de Jane Austen", citó Isa, añadiendo que suele leerlas en inglés, idioma sobre el que posee un gran dominio. (Translation)Finally an alert from the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival:
I'm No Bird and Magpahi (Alison Cooper)The Brontë Babe Blog posts about her own experience with internet trolls, Brontë version.
Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 5 PM – 8 PM UTC
Hope Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge
As part of the Weekend Of Wonderful Women from Hebden Bridge Arts Festival.
A screening of 'I’m No Bird', a short film comprising images of local women at work at play throughout the 20th century taken from the Yorkshire Film Archive and accompanied by a soundtrack by Todmorden-based musician Magpahi (Alison Cooper).
Alison will also be performing two specially commissioned songs inspired by local suffragettes.
CNN Shanghai interviews singer, composer and director Eheart Chen whose latest album is "简, 爱" ("Jane, Love"). The Jane of the title has some relation to our Jane Eyre: The album’s addictive hit song is "Jane Love," which pays tribute to Shanghai’s popular dubbing actor Qiu Yuefeng, who passed away 30 years ago. The half-Russian’s legendary voice was the most recognizable one in the media for most Chinese people from the 1950s to 1970s.Click here to watch the "Jane Love" music video (Youku).
“Qiu was the voice behind Chinese dubbing classics like 'Jane Eyre.' Dubbed movies were culture symbols in Shanghai for several decades. It was the entertainment I grew up with,” explains Chen.
Chen made the song's music video by himself, using rare movie footage and photos he got from Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio and Qiu’s son. Chen also invited his friend Moz Wang, an editor at Shanghai's Chinese Timeout, to collaborate on the lyrics.
“I’m also a fan of Eheart’s music,” Wang says. “[He] might not be the best musician in Shanghai, but he’s definitely the most Shanghainese one. He uses music to relive the city’s past and to tell stories.” (Tracy You)
[Sara] Canning is talking from the Atlanta, Ga., set of the CW TV show The Vampire Diaries, which seems more than a few worlds away from the Emily Brontë-like mix of manners, corsets and doomed romance found in Black Field. (Eric Volmers)John Farr reviews several Joan Fontaine/Olivia de Havilland films for The Huffington Post. No review of Devotion (in which Olivia de Havilland was an improbable Charlotte Brontë) but there's one of Jane Eyre 1944:
Sent to a girls' reformatory by a hateful aunt (Agnes Moorehead), young orphan Jane Eyre (Fontaine) endures ten years of harsh discipline and abuse at the hands of a sadistic headmaster. Ten years later, Jane finds work as a governess at the gloomy estate of gruff, imperious Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), where she cares for his coquettish, French-born daughter, Adele (Margaret O'Brien). Though Rochester is clearly fighting some inner demons, he's also increasingly fond of Jane, who becomes his most trusted confidante. Welles put his distinctive stamp on this haunting adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's canonical novel playing the brooding, ill-starred baron who falls for his humble governess, movingly played by the fresh-faced Fontaine. Director Robert Stevenson worked closely with author Aldous Huxley on the script, but apart from the excellent cast and writing, what makes this version so memorable is its oppressive, darkly romantic Gothic atmosphere: in particular, Jane and Rochester's first terrifying meeting on the fog-shrouded moors will surely etch into your mind. Look, too, for Liz Taylor early on as Jane's consumptive childhood friend.The Hindu insists on Emily Brontë's influence on Sarita Mandanna's Tiger Walls:
When Sarita Mandanna sat down to write her first novel, she knew it would have to be in the mould of her favourite novels from childhood — the grand, sweeping sagas of Emily Brontë or Jane Austen. (Divya Kumar)Masala interviews actress Sonam Kapoor:
Tell us about your favourite real-life love story and your fave movie love story.Azar Nafisi remembers Neda Agha-Soltan (and mentions her Brontë interests) in The Huffington Post; Stitching Words, One Thread at a Time hates Jane Eyre as much as she loves Wuthering Heights; Gypsyscarlett's weblog posts about Wuthering Heights translated into German; Avant-garde reviews Jane Eyre. Several blogs review Wide Sargasso Sea: Seeing and Being Seen, The Long Distance Book Club and Soy Chai Bookshelf. Somehow it gets to be tomorrow posts icons of Jane Eyre 1944 and The Other Ayn icons of Jane Eyre 2006. Tädi-Blogi reviews the performances of Wuthering Heights in Vanemuine (in Estonian). Also in Estonian orkaani südames on vaikus posts about Jane Eyre. Finally PrimaveraLuna reviews Wuthering Heights in Lithuanian.
Real-life would have to be my mum and dad (Anil and Sunita Kapoor). From the movies, ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, and ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. Wait a minute, none of them end very romantically, do they? (Nazia Khan)
Visitors to the Yorkshire Moors are attracted to the heather-covered fields, gentle green valleys and charming market towns – the backdrop to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. It’s hard to imagine a lovelier spot in England.Writer Catherine Gervais says who her favourite author is on Hattiesburg American:
The moors are also the unlikely setting for a key effort to help stop the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, where BP’s rogue oil well is into its third leaky month. In the unspoiled countryside just outside Kirkbymoorside, about 40 kilometres north of York, lie a clutch of old industrial sheds, where the famous Slingsby glider aircraft were made. The same sheds now make subsea robots, known as ROVs – remotely operated vehicles – used by oil companies in the Gulf and elsewhere in the deepwater frontiers. (Eric Reguly)
Who is your favorite author? Charlotte BrontëA well-known Brontëites is actress Sonam Kapoor who once again mentions Wuthering Heights in an interview on Masala:
For new fans, is there any author that you would compare your style to? Perhaps a combination of Charlotte Brontë and Janette Oke. (Mary Lett)
Tell us about your favourite real-life love story and your fave movie love storyAnd finally there might be Brontëites in the making in the Rauhauser family, featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Real-life would have to be my mum and dad (Anil and Sunita Kapoor). From the movies, ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, and ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. Wait a minute, none of them end very romantically, do they? What movie love story do I like that has a happy ending? There has to be something! (Thinks for a while) I’ve got it! ‘My Fair Lady’! (Nazia Khan)
What did we say earlier about Kapoor Ahuja’s favourites? Stopping by a cosy bookshop, the actor marks the outing with a printed, dull pink dress and a blue blazer. The rolled-up sleeves channel the end-of-day winding down business formal look. Tying the browns with her belt, boots, and handbag, she presents a new-age librarian attire that we stan. Her authors of choice? The Brontë Sisters. ( Akanksha Kamath and Shloka Mehta)
At Sunday school I learnt that Eve was a temptress. In history lessons Anne Boleyn was a manipulative social climber. And when I read Jane Eyre, I concluded that Bertha was mad without giving much thought as to why (it took Wide Sargasso Sea to fix that). (Bella Mackie)
One for the period drama fans, if you love Charlotte Brontë novels then The Cook of Castamar is perfect for you. (Jacob Robinson)
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Nestled away in a leafy street in Ardwick, behind the better known Whitworth Gallery and the Royal Infirmary, is 84 Plymouth Grove, the house of celebrated Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell, contemporary to the Brontë sisters and to Charles Dickens. (Daniel Goldstraw)
I’m in my 40s now, and I still haven’t met the love of my life. I grew up with as many romantic expectations as the next woman—I read Jane Eyre and Bridget Jones’s Diary, fell in love with Mr Rochester and Mark Darcy (Sharon Sweeney)
J'ai eu, comme beaucoup, ce moment anglais à 20 ans : Jane Austen, les sœurs Brontë… C'est un défi, le vrai roman d'amour. (Marion Ruggeri) (Translation)
Luis Alegre: ¿Qué libros o películas le deslumbraron?Tantos. Podía ver los números musicales de ‘Cantando bajo la lluvia’ millones de veces; recuerdo sentirme mayor después de leer ‘El banquete de Platón’ y engancharme mucho con ‘Jane Eyre’. (Translation)
Una creación que nos transporta también a películas como Expiación o Jane Eyre donde la delicadeza de los encajes y las sedas usadas para la creación de su vestuario hacen de estas cintas verdaderas obras de arte de la costura. (Carmen Raya) (Translation)
The Brontë Babe publishes a tribute to the Brontës in the form of flash fiction.
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, whose gritty, primal take on "Wuthering Heights" screens at the Seattle International Film Festival this week, first read the Emily Brontë classic as a young adult. Because the book was so famous, she was expecting it to be a love story. "When I read it, I was a bit surprised," she said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. "It's not quite as simple as that — there's so much more going on. It's actually a confounding book, really." (Moira Macdonald) (Read more)Shock till You Drop interviews Michael Fassbender, who makes a reference to his role in Jane Eyre 2011:
Q: Regarding your character "David," he's an earlier android than Ash in "Alien" and Bishop in "Aliens," so di you reference their performance at all?The Guardian's Shortcuts discusses prequels by bringing up the unavoidable reference... with a most certainly avoidable blunder:
Fassbender: No, I don't know why, but sometimes you do, like when I was doing "Jane Eyre," I watched as many of the Rochesters as I could get my hands on, but for this I made a decision not to watch the "Alien" movies. (Edward Douglas)
From the 1966 Jane Eyre spin-off novel Wild [sic!] Sargasso Sea to Ridley Scott's cinema release Prometheus, the prequel has been a much-used narrative device. (Priya Elan)Judging by this letter from a reader to the Morning Star, another blunder concerning the Brontës seems to have happened recently:
There was an extra dimension to one of the Quizmaster's questions in the weekend Morning Star (May 26-27).Sonam Kapoor continues displaying her Brontëiteness. From the Deccan Herald:
As well as knowing the name of the house in Wuthering Heights, correctly identified as Thrushcross Grange, the further test was to realise that it wasn't Charlotte Brontë who wrote it, it was her sister Emily!
Emily died within a year of the novel being published and while Charlotte did write an introduction to the second edition of the book two years later, the power and imagination of the narrative is Emily's.
Carol Stavris
Didcot
"I am a very romantic person and the film [Mausam], which is about four seasons of love, reinstated my faith love. This is why when I was in Edinburgh, which is the second season in the movie, I felt like I was a part of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'," says Sonam.The Sault Star is worried about plans for a new legislation:
Republicans in New York State want to force organizations based there to remove posts made by anonymous sources.The Hindustan Times recommends Jane Eyre among other novels:
That would include blogs and news agencies.
The legislation would cut down on the "mean-spirited and baseless political attacks" on the Internet, says Republican Assembly member Jim Conte.
He obviously didn't follow the federal Republican leadership race.
The legislation has no chance of passing because the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, but it's troubling politicians would see it as their legitimate authority to decide who can and cannot publish anonymously, in any forum.
Back in the 1800s, such sentiments would have silenced the Brontë sisters, who published under pseudonyms, thus their voices were rendered anonymous. (Brian MacLeod)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte BrontëThe Canon reviews the novel while Save the Bookworms! loves the 1983 miniseries, Movies 4 Dummies writes briefly about the 2011 adaptation and Red Curtain shares screencaps from the 1973 miniseries. Flickr user Lucia Buffa posts a collage with pictures of an old edition of Jane Eyre. Finally, Cor de Mel posts in Portuguese about Wuthering Heights.
Another book I read in my teens. The character of Jane Eyre fascinates me, her childhood as an orphan in an institution, her role as a governess, her love for Mr Rochester, another powerful male protagonist in literature. (Amrutha Penumudi)
To win just send an email with HEIGHTS! in the subject line to comp@film-news.co.uk including your name, address and telephone number. Winners will be notified by phone/email.The Kaya Scodelario Web is also giving away two copies of the DVD among UK residents. BrontëBlog readers have it easy as they have to answer who wrote Wuthering Heights.
All you have to do is send an email with your name, address, and answer the following question to tayna@kayascodelario.net :Forbes on Michael Fassbender:
Who wrote the novel, Wuthering Heights?
The competition will close on Wednesday, March 28th, when the winners will be drawn at random. Only one entry per person will be accepted and this is for UK residents only. Hopefully we will have other competitions in the future for international visitors.
Michael Fassbender is great. His performance in Jane Eyre was phenomenal. He wasn’t half bad as Magneto either. I look forward to seeing him in this movie [Prometheus] as David, an advanced android who may or may not be as interesting as Rochester. (Erik Kain)The Times of India features Brontëite Sonam Kapoor and her sister Rhea:
There was really no scope for sibling rivalry because they excelled at different things. "I was happiest sitting in my room with a book by Jane Austen or The Brontë sisters, eating cookies, while Rhea had her dolls," says Sonam, who also enjoys sports.The Collegian reviews the student production of Polly Teale's Brontë at the California State University in Fresno:
This is a play that depends upon the acting ensemble for it to be effective and moving. There are many entrances, exits and several multiple roles, which were deftly performed by all.Abigails sports several governess gowns in well-known Brontë locations and Typing Tiara reviews April Lindner's Jane.
Matthew Schlitz played a notable role of father Patrick Brontë, Mr. Brocklehurst and Rochester (both from “Jane Eyre”), Mr. Heger (Charlotte’s French tutor), and Arthur Bell Nicholls, with a variety of accents and costume changes that was truly masterful.
Also of note were Aaron McGee, in the roles of failed brother Branwell, Heathcliff (from “Wuthering Heights”) and Arthur Huntington (from Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”).
Huntington sparked in every scene he was in, and Kia Vassiliades as middle sister Emily, whose spirited performance as well as striking make-up change in the last scenes were captivating. (Stephen Keleher)
The success of the play can be seen in a few simple and creative decisions. The multi-layered staging creates an intriguing set, allowing for multiple scenes to enthuse the audience simultaneously. Particularly effective is the decision to have Bertha Mason (Joanne Murray) – the original ‘mad woman in the attic’ – on stage throughout, reacting to, and interacting with, Jane Eyre’s (Chloe Gale) every movement and emotion. It’s fascinating to see this production try to assimilate Bertha Mason into Jane Eyre’s character as her play-mate, alter-ego, and sinister spectator. It will be up to the opening night to prove whether this can truly be pulled off without leaving the audience confused and unable to follow the ploy that (in theory) really brings an interesting take on the psychology of Jane Eyre. [...]While the other dwells more on the negative aspects and gives it 2 stars:
So, for anyone who wants to see a fresh take on a classic, in conjunction with some great acting and brave staging decisions, the message is obvious: go see Jane Eyre and expect to be left breathless. (Mona Damian)
Based on Polly Teale’s admirable adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, this production was a mixed bag. Despite some strong points, the acting was not wholly convincing. Many actors were playing multiple parts and few were playing all of them well. The notable exception was Josie Richardson who switched from kindly housemaid, with a great accent, to the cold and snobbish Blanche Ingram, then to an addled old woman. Her voice, her face, her movements changed completely in the embodiment of each new role. Chloe Gale as Jane did well to convey the span of time across which the play takes place; she visibly matured from childish insolence through to carrying the burdens of her adult life. Jo Murray played Bertha Mason who, at the beginning of the play, is merely a theatrical device to express Jane’s inner feelings but then, as the play develops, retreats to the attic in Thornfield, observing and reacting to the situations on stage. Her feral ferocity was great; she emitted a profuse energy and intensity with a reddened face, contorted in angst, emitting squeals and squeaks and roars. But this good stuff was undercut by mediocrity in other characters: either too wooden or too pantomime, with forced, simpering smiles or lines that sounded like reading from a script. While it is easy to forgive a few, there were too many clipped and stumbled lines which, with that amount of regularity, belie the immersive experience that theatre should be.Patti Smith's Brontëiteness has reached Montréal. From Le Devoir:
The set was visually enticing: stained and tattered, decaying dust sheets cover various items of furniture. A hatstand stood on one side and a rusted chandelier lay neglected on the other, all surrounded by boxes of tat and bric-a-brac. As a whole, a gothic glow emanated from it. The way this set was used was also ingenious. [...]
In fact, the direction (Imogen O’Sullivan and Olivia Gillman) was very good and incorporated some innovative ideas. [...]
It was an odd production. Some clever direction and an excellent design did not redeem two and a half hours’ worth of unexceptional acting (from some characters) and a lack of pace that should not have been present in a condensed, whistle-stop tour through what is, actually, quite a long novel. (Timothy Bano)
Patti Smith a lu et relu Baudelaire, Verlaine, a été fascinée surtout par Rimbaud. « Ces jours-ci, je relis Chroniques de l’oiseau à ressort d’Haruki Murakami ; j’ai commencé à relire Roberto Bolano. Ce sont deux grands auteurs, qui me portent à écrire. Je suis aussi sur une biographie de Charlotte Brontë… » (Catherine Lalonde) (Translation)Another well-known Brontëite is actress Sonam Kapoor who, according to NDTV,
would love to work in the movie adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel "Wuthering Heights".The Wall Street Journal uses Marta Acosta's Dark Companion as one of several examples of 'How to Land a Book Deal by Writing Online!'
The actress, whose film Aisha was also an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel 'Emma', says she wants to play role of Catherine in the movie.
"I already did 'Emma'. Another book I like is 'Wuthering Heights' and I love Catherine and I think that is a great character to play," Sonam told IANS.
The Midcareer AuthorBeards, moustaches, facial hair in The Times:
Marta Acosta had already published two novels with Simon & Schuster when she had an idea for a supernatural homage to Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre." Her literary agent tried and failed to sell it, saying the vampire trend was over. Eight publishers turned it down.
Ms. Acosta decided that if she couldn't sell the novel, she would give it away. So she tried Scribd, a social reading and document sharing site with more than 100 million users. In 2010, she posted the entire 368-page novel, which tells the story of Jane Williams, a teenager who was orphaned as a child and gets a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school.
The novel was read 24,000 times, and became the top young adult novel on the site. A few months later, Ms. Acosta sold the book to the young adult imprint Tor Teen, which released hardcover and digital editions of "Dark Companion" this past summer. (Alexandra Alter)
I believe I have the answer. I think I am wearing the answer right now. Steve Jobs knew it and George Clooney knows it. It took me a long time to discover the truth (though the voyage did NOT, whatever my oldest daughter might tell you, include a sideburn period brought on by a BBC production of Jane Eyre) but I ken the noo.Queen of Swords Book Reviews posts about The Classic Collection's Jane Eyre audiobook. Our Times writes briefly about Jane Eyre 2011. My Book Basket writes in Rumanian about Wuthering Heights. Sophie Lit reviews in French Jane, le renard et moi. Also in French, L'Esprit vagabond writes about a trip to Haworth, with pictures.
It is this: an electric trimmer set to number three. Will set you free. (David Aaronovitch)
What book would you take to a desert island and why? Probably Jane Eyre, my favourite novel. (Marion McMullen)Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor is a well-known Brontëite. Today the Times of India describes her as...
Charmed by classics like Wuthering Heights, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pride and Prejudice, Sonam rarely agrees with onscreen versions of her favourite novels, "I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line, they way books do," she says. (Kunal Guha)The Guardian remembers Gordon Brown with the Brontë add-on:
As I head for my 18th wedding anniversary – my chrome, my porcelain or my Velcro? – I think back fondly to the farewell words of Gordon Brown. You remember him. He was the dark and brooding prime minister from the Emily Brontë novel, as opposed to the shiny new guy from a Richard Curtis movie. (Jon Canter)The Brontë Parsonage Blog continues posting about the AGM weekend. And Les Brontë à Paris commemorates Patrick Brontë's death (in French).
Did you know? After reading & admiring Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, Mia inquired of her agent if there was a movie version being planned. There wasn’t – but a few months later, there was, and Mia’s agent quickly sent her the script. A few months after that, production was underway with Mia in the iconic lead role of the heroine.Rupert Christiansen, opera critic of The Telegraph, is a good example of that particular breed of scholars who love to expose their philias and phobias as if they were based on well-reasoned theories when they are nothing more than a matter of taste, and not particularly original one:
About the second-division Victorians, however, I have mixed views. Vanity Fair is great fun, but no more. Jane Eyre and Villette are gripping in their sheer passionate intensity, but I can’t imagine ever reading the over-heated, over-rated Wuthering Heights again.Anyone is entitled to their own opinion of course but to qualify the Brontës, Emily Brontë in particular (over-heated? come on!) and Thackeray and Thomas Hardy as second-division Victorians just below the Premier League of Austen, Dickens and Elliot is certainly something, say, a bit misleading.
Wuthering Heights is what happens when a turbulent love goes tornado destructive. It's an epic twister that sucks up everybody in its path...including the audience!Time Out Chicago also recommends the production:
Revenge over generations can get complicated and confusing especially when cousins marry. Cameron Feagin (Nelly) begins the show with introductions and guides the audience through the story with relevant narration. Feagin transitions perfectly from telling the story to being in the story with insightful ease. As a sage, she cuts to the essence with 'who should forgive and who should be forgiven?' Director Elise Kauzlaric stages the beginnings and endings of acts with all the characters, dead and alive, on stage. It's a haunting visual that reinforces the supernatural love story. Under Kauzlaric's direction, the entire cast engages with a lingering poignancy. The eye of the storm, Lindsay Leopold (Cathy) is verbally and physically commanding. Her attempts to 'go home to Wuthering Heights' are thwarted with spooky misery. Gregory Isaac (Heathcliff) is the tormented turned diabolical. Issac's complicated portrayal is a man so obsessed with love for one woman that he hates all others, including his own son. The entire ensemble provides classic novel performances adding to the gusty page turner pace. Initially and sporadically, the cast chants 'who are you?' and 'don't let me go' seemingly random statements that connect the beginning to the end with a deliberate finality.
Set in the moors of Yorkshire, Scenic Designer Alan Donahue gives the stage a mystical quality with swirling metallic greens, golds and browns. Mesh screens and circular layered platforms illustrate the woods and houses separated by a hanging door. The costumes by Branimira Ivanova are stunning. The elaborate finery is showcased against the simple backdrop to conjure up the gothic drama unfolding. Wuthering Heights is a literary masterpiece that overwhelms potential readers by its cult following and ominous reputation. Playwright Christina Calvit blows the mystique away with manageable Bronte bites. This show captivates from preface to epilogue. Lifeline Theatre promises and delivers 'big stories, up close.' Having never read Wuthering Heights, I left the theatre amazed at the powerful story and crossing it off my bucket list. (Katy Walsh)
Wuther or not you’ve read Emily Brontë’s only novel, you can enjoy Christina Calvit’s new stage adaptation of Heathcliff and Cathy’s doomed love story. (Mark Bieganski)And Chicago Critic reviews it with several pictures (like the one on the right).
Her literary creativity expanded while attending Morristown East High School. There she became influenced by the works of William Faulkner, Carson McCullers and the Brontës.Casaubon's Book reviews Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson:
Just as Jane Eyre ends ambiguously with the word "Jesus," ending a book about a started but deeply unfinished agrarian work, in an era that resists agrarianism and is largely hostile to it, in a place that depends on tourism and the oil that enables it, just as oil becomes scarce cannot but be at least a little ambiguous in its invocation of hope. (Sharon Astyk)BollySpice talks about the actress Sonam Kapoor:
Sonam is actually quite fond of poetry. A fan of the Mahabharata, Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, not many have seen her private collection poems. (Githa Vanan)Clare B. Dunkle continues her House of Dead Maids blog tour with a guest post on In Bed With Books (where you can find also a review of the book). Wuthering Heights is discussed by Apenas Uma Vez (in Portuguese). Jessica McFarland posts about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Reflexionem-hi writes (in Catalan) about Jane Eyre and Stalking the Belle Époque reviews the 1944 film adaptation. Cinema OCD traces a history of Jane Eyre screen adaptations. Pensa Outra Coisa reviews Sparkhouse 2002 (in Portuguese). Rebecca Reads discusses Agnes Grey. Finally, fiftytwo is not thrilled about Wide Sargasso Sea.
A rare and important letter written by Charlotte Brontë in between the deaths of her brother and a sister is expected to fetch up to $100,000 at an auction in New York later this month.We hope that soon the letter(s) will be going home to Haworth.
The letter, dated October 18, 1848, is to her publisher William Smith Williams, of Smith, Elder & Co, and will be up for auction on June 17 at Sotheby’s in New York, with a reserve of $70,000 to $100,000 (£50,000 to £71,000).
The letter is one of two [three, actually] up for auction from the James S Copley Library, based in California.
The second, dated from April 3, 1850, appears to give medical advice to her lifelong friend and correspondent Ellen Nussey. It has a reserve of $30,000 to $50,000 (£21,000 to £35,000).
Justin Caldwell, vice-president of department of books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s, New York, said the first letter was of particular interest.
He said: “This is when she is working on her second novel Shirley. She’s had a big success with Jane Eyre of course and I would have to say this letter is certainly written on a day when she is very down.
“It’s certainly a letter full of gloom, I have to say. It is also an interesting letter because she is in mourning.”
The letter was written in the brief time between the deaths of her brother Branwell on September 24, and her sister Emily on December 19. Mr Caldwell said the second letter was also of interest and both had attracted interest on either side of the Atlantic.
He said: “I would say that certainly all three of the Brontes have a wide following here as well as in the UK, so I would expect some American bids, other American institutions as well as collectors.
“So I would say that certainly for these two letters there will be transatlantic competition. I’m really glad we have got these letters, we don’t see them too often here. These have been hidden away in the Copley Library for many years so they are fairly fresh on the market and with interesting content.” (James Rush)
"It is now also commonly acknowledged that film plays a major role in shaping external perceptions and the 'brand' of individual destinations, for example in Yorkshire, whose popular image mirrors its rich history in film, from Jane Eyre and The Railway Children, which evoke its famous rolling scenery, all the way to The Full Monty and The Damned United which reflect its dominant working class culture."Speaking of The Railway Children, the Yorkshire Post reports that the film is going to be used to promote Yorkshire nationally.
The property went up for sale after the current owner, surveyor Mark de Luca, who bought it in 2013, decided it was unviable to re-open the Brontë-themed coffee bar, Emily’s, that he had been running from the building after the business suffered losses during Covid.Brontë Birthplace Ltd supporters had tried to buy it before the de Lucas moved in, but they have now had a £300,000 offer accepted on the terraced house that was built in 1802 in the village of Thornton, near Bradford. [...]The property went up for sale after the current owner, surveyor Mark de Luca, who bought it in 2013, decided it was unviable to re-open the Bronté-themed coffee bar, Emily’s, that he had been running from the building after the business suffered losses during Covid.Brontë Birthplace Ltd supporters had tried to buy it before the de Lucas moved in, but they have now had a £300,000 offer accepted on the terraced house that was built in 1802 in the village of Thornton, near Bradford.Also involved in Steve Stanworth, an engineer who also co-ordinates the volunteer action group at the Bell Chapel, the remains of the church where the Reverend Bronte preached before it was replaced with a new building in the 1870s."We tried to buy the Brontë birthplace at auction back in 2012, but we ran out of time. Mark de Luca has been trying to sell it for a few years, so we thought we’d have another go. We set up a Community Benefit Society so we could apply for funding, and have got a generous grant from Bradford 2025.”Now, the group of dedicated Brontë enthusiasts have launched a Crowdfunder campaign to raise an additional £355,000 in ‘pledged’ donations that will go towards the costs of renovating the building."Our vision is that every schoolchild in Bradford will visit and stand in front of the fireplace where these famous writers were born. We’d like to open next September, but we need to fully rewire the house, repair the roof and fit new fire safety systems for the letting rooms. It needs extensive work. It’s Grade II-listed, and even restoring each original sash window will cost around £4,000."The seven-year plan includes tendering the contract to run the cafe on a franchise basis and appointing a business manager to run the events space and guest accommodation. Links will be forged with the Haworth Parsonage Museum, with plans for a walking trail between the two attractions."We’ve got a lot of experienced people on the committee who add value to the business, and most of them live in Thornton. It will be a real community-based asset. We had two visitors from Australia last week asking why they couldn’t go inside – there is interest in the Brontes from all over the world.”So far, the Crowdfunder has generated £34,000, with a further £10,000 contributed from fundraising events."We’re targeting local businesses who might want to become patrons now. Fundraising for renovations is always a harder sell than for actually buying the property!” (Grace Newton)
I used to live in “God’s own country” and that can only be one place, as every true Yorkshirewoman will tell you.Our Sundays were spent striding the beautiful wild expanses of the moors surrounding our home in Ilkley. It wasn’t hard to see how Emily Brontë conjured up the enigmatic Heathcliff in such an empty and desolate landscape.
Tell me about your favourite book and your favourite movie.I like Charlotte Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Obviously, Jane Eyre (by Brontë as well) as well is amazing. (Jyotsna Sharma)
A Brontë-themed lunch will take place at the Village Hotel, Tingley, complete with a three course lunch. (James Carney)The Seattle Times reviews the new Madame Bovary film version by Sophie Barthes, recently screened at the TIFF:
Barthes’ vision is a traditional one (though a fair bit of plot is trimmed, to make the film a tidy two hours), with Mia Wasikowska in the title role, and it looks gorgeous — wet green fields, candlelit interiors, ravishing gowns that seem to plaintively illustrate how desperately Emma wants to be surrounded by beauty. Though Wasikowska’s beginning to make a specialty of nineteenth-century literary films (i.e. “Jane Eyre”), her Emma here is no Brontë heroine; she’s petulant, flat-voiced, and intriguingly guarded. (Moira MacDonald)Janet Quin-Harkin, author of the Heartbreak Café series, reminds us of the origins of the modern YA genre in The Guardian:
Then around 1980 publishers in the USA had a bright idea. They began publishing paperback series, aimed at teenagers, mostly girls. These were books about other teens, like themselves. About ordinary girls, problems with which every teen could identify, romances every teen believed could be possible… and usually happy endings (although most of us do like a good cry too). Some of the books were funny, some were sad, just like real life.The Asian Age interviews the actress Sonam Kapoor:
What this meant was that for the first time the reader was the consumer. Teens could let publishers know what they wanted to read. Every teen had enough money to buy the books for about the same price as a movie ticket, and they bought them in hundreds of thousands.
Of course some teachers and librarians complained that they weren't Jane Eyre. So what?
Some of them were well written AND it meant that teens who would not have been readers were devouring books. It was rather like the Harry Potter phenomenon when every child was suddenly reading 700 page books.
No matter how many modern authors I read I can never not re-read the Brontë sisters or Gone With The Wind, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens… these are works you can keep going back to. And if you ask me as an actor, reading gives me so much. These are all such different stories and characters from different times saying and representing different things. For example, I read Gone Girl a couple of years back and although it was the most amazing pulp fiction I had read in years, it made me question what love is really like. I was horrified at what people can do to each other. And then I decided on a whim to read Jane Eyre again and discovered romance all over again!” (Nandini D. Tripathy)The Huffington Post reviews the play The Wayside Motor Inn by A.R. Gurney:
They are followed by Phil and Sally, two undergrads who are splurging on a motel room for a night of uninterrupted sex. Phil has brought The Joy of Sex and some marijuana; Sally has brought Jane Eyre and refuses the joint. The last person to check in is Andy, a doctor who has recently taken a new job in Pennsylvania and is being divorced by his wife Ruth who did not want to uproot their school-age children and move from Boston with him. (Wilborn Hampton)The Guardian reviews In Search of Solace by Emily Mackie:
This is the Pauper's Inn, and within lurks Fat Sal, proprietress, talking about love and Wuthering Heights with her young employee, Lucy. She leaps before us almost too vividly, a terrifying mixture of appetite and comfort, for Mackie's nouns are choice, her verbs springy, and we are always in the present tense: "Sal's lips are wrapped round her sandwich, her teeth tearing another bite of bacon. As she pulls away, a gloop of ketchup is left in the corner of her mouth. She wipes it with a finger and pops the finger between her lips. 'Romantic?' she suggests. Her mouth is full yet she pushes the word out." (Kate Clanchy)Financial Times reviews the novel He Wants by Alison Moore:
The plot (well, sort-of plot) turns on the reappearance in Lewis’s life of a bad-boy (well, sort-of bad-boy) school contemporary called Sydney (“like the capital of Australia”; “Sydney’s not the capital of Australia”). Sydney – grey-stubbled, skinny, shifty – is no sort of Heathcliff but he has come to represent a freedom that Lewis still covets; a freedom itself now framed not by the possibility of roads to be taken but by regret at those it’s too late to take. (Sam Leith)The Daily Telegraph (Australia) talks about the Get Caught Reading campaign:
Reading, to me, is the most magical means of escape from life available to us. Forget movies, TV, internet shopping — losing yourself in a good novel is still the most effective way of shedding life’s worries.More campaigns or challenges. Dawn (Pakistan) talks about the 10-book challenge:
Feel a little lovelorn? Dive into Pride and Prejudice, or devour Wuthering Heights, depending on whether you’re the kind of girl who wants a good or thoroughly bad lover. (Kerry Parnell)
The challenge itself was deceptively straightforward: nominate friends to compile a list of ten books that had sustained a long-term effect on them. The nominee in turn was expected to nominate another ten friends from their list and so it continued – an excellent idea indeed, and I personally extracted tremendous enjoyment out of scanning the lists of many people.Kit O'Connell's Cartoon Friday Watercooler recommends the Cartoon Hangover short, Blackford Manor:
Alarm bells, however, started to ring when in many cases I struggled to find a single non-white, non-British writer on the 10-book list. The usual suspects, ranging widely over the centuries, were pervasive: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, William Shakespeare, Enid Blyton and Thomas Hardy topped the charts as it were. (Dr Gohar Karim Khan)
A bit of playful, gothic horror for you tonight! I enjoyed this short film’s silly send-up of all those Brontë-esque tropes.But what we really loved it was the caption of one of the picture:
Free Bertha Rochester protest rally outside the East Wing.The Globe and Mail interviews the writer Eliza Robertson:
What agreed-upon classic do you despise?And The Sun publishes an interview with Alice Munro:
I have never read anything by Jane Austen, so I don’t despise Pride and Prejudice, but I do think that gap on my shelf is notable. I generally dislike Victorian novels. I find them rangy and overwritten. But Wuthering Heights really shook me, so perhaps I haven’t given them their due. Generally, I prefer contemporary work.
What is important to you when you tell a story?Dcist has a funny story overheard at D.C.:
Well, obviously, in those early days, the important thing was the happy ending –I did not tolerate unhappy endings, for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like Wuthering Heights, and very very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.
On a Red Line train toward Glenmont:Zimbabwe Independent (Zimbabwe) visited Angus, Scotland:
An elderly, vibrant, redheaded woman is dressed in exotic clothes and jewelry that suggest she is a world traveler. A father gets on the subway car with his son, who appears to be about four-years-old. The cheerful little boy is chatting with his dad and then starts a conversation with the woman.
Boy: "What is your name?"
Woman: "Jane."
Boy: "Why do you have a boy's name like James?"
Woman: "No, it's Jane. Like Jane Austen or Jane Eyre."
Boy gives a blank look.
Woman: "Like Jane in the marvelous Tarzan books written by Burroughs!"
Four-year-old boy continues to give the blank look.
Woman to father: "Good heavens! Don't children read books anymore?" (Andrew Wiseman)
Barrie’s home is open to the public as a museum and there’s a splendid little general museum with helpful staff. A Peter Pan statue is prominent in the market square and, although a local pub is called the (Captain) Hook Hotel, the town doesn’t go over the top about its most famous son. Peter Pan-ism isn’t in your face constantly like, say, the Brontë sisters are at Haworth, Yorkshire or the orgy of Flopsy Bunny-ism found at Beatrix Potter’s former home village in Cumbria. (Dusty Miller)Blogtaormina (Italy) has been to Haworth:
Libertà dal maschilismo patriarcale, emancipazione e consapevolezza del proprio ruolo, questo è il messaggio che resta impresso, leggendo i romanzi delle sorelle Brontë. Una letteratura che già allora ebbe notevole consenso di pubblico e che ancora oggi, esercita tutto il suo fascino, considerate anche le numerose trasposizioni cinematografiche che ne sono state fatte. Una letteratura evocativa che spinge gli appassionati a fare pellegrinaggi in quei luoghi. Lo Yorkshire, la brughiera, sono l’ispirazione e la scena dei romanzi, con il piccolo borgo di Haworth, immerso nelle vastità dell’Inghilterra settentrionale, vicino alle cittadine di Halifax e Bradford. Qui trascorsero l’esistenza, sostenute dalla loro fervida immaginazione, le sorelle Emily, Charlotte e Anne. Circondate da un paesaggio selvaggio e isolate dal resto del mondo ma con il sostegno della lettura e della scrittura; libere di varcare qualsiasi tipo di confine ma trasfondendo nelle loro opere, quelle atmosfere e quei paesaggi. (Read more) (Lisa Machis) (Translation)Rheinische Post (Germany) talks about the German translation of Astrid Lindgren's The Six Bullerby Children (aka The Children of Noisy Village):
Das Buch heißt "Wir Kinder aus Bullerbü", und der Ort, an dem seine Geschichten spielen, gehört zu den großen Sehnsuchtslandschaften. Er liegt auf der imaginären Karte der Weltliteratur gleich neben Marcel Prousts Combray und dem magischen Gondal der Geschwister Brontë. (Phillipp Holstein) (Translation)
Origo (Hungary) discusses the evolution of the Hungarian curriculum:Pedig a világban történt egy és más az elmúlt 36 évben. Ki hinné, hogy a mai, sokak számára megkérdőjelezhetetlen kánon az 1978-as oktatási reformnak köszönhető? Akkor a Poszler György vezette irodalmi csoport rést ütött a magyartanítás ideológiai szemléletén, és olyan, korábban mellőzött nagys(Scheer Katalin) (Translation)Keighley News reports the Microsoft Pro Surface 3 Brontë Sisters portrait by James Mylne that was in the news a few days ago. La mesilla de noche (in Spanish) and Quite as a Mouse review Jane Eyre. Writergurlny does the same with Wuthering Heights.
ágokat emelt be a tantervbe, mint Dosztojevszkij, Bulgakov, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dickens vagy Brontë.
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