Brontëites around

Our first Brontëite lives in Florida, US. Her name is Ginny Esson and we read on The Villages Daily Sun how:

Since the mid-1970s, Esson has amassed more than 70 albums filled with photos and memorabilia related to the United Kingdom. (...)

Esson compiled several albums that are devoted to Brontë Society, a literary group that focuses on the Brontë sisters —Charlotte, who wrote “Jane Eyre”; Emily, who wrote “Wuthering Heights”; and Anne, who wrote “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".

Several paintings and books are on display in one bedroom. Esson also has framed pictures of her posing at locations described in the books.

Esson had heard a radio dramatization of “Wuthering Heights” and “I just loved it.

“I found the book in the attic, and it’s the best thing I ever read,” she said. “Then I stumbled upon ‘Jane Eyre.’”

Next we go south, to Mexico, and we discover in this article published in La Jornada how the Mexican writer Sergio Pitol (awarded last year with the prestigious Cervantes award) loves Wuthering Heights:

"Sergio confessed to me: Wuthering Heights is, in my formation, a definitive work, the perfect model to structure a novel, an oblique writing, when I first read it I was extraordinarily impressed with the construction of the novel through a labyrinth of stories, of filters, that prevent the reader to know with exactitude what it's going on."

Further on the south, in Argentina we find how Florencia Bonelli, writer of romantic novels, confesses her devotion to Jane Eyre:
(...) the first book that I read and marked me forever was Jane Eyre.

And crossing the Atlantic we arrive in Spain where the singer and writer, Cristina Rosenvinge talks about Wide Sargasso Sea:

"I just finished it. It's a perfect book. (...) It's a wonderful novel because it assumes the risk of using the reference of Jane Eyre, the protagonist of the great writer Charlotte Brontë, but with a different and modern style. It's a masterpiece in itself (...) This book is a very interesting study about how madness begins in women. It describes little by little how a woman can be driven crazy by love."

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