Bertrand Russell and Anne Brontë in the space

Today in our usual daily tour around the news and the blogosphere, we have found the following:

A new writer with a Brontë background. Sandra Ruttan publishes her first novel Suspicious Circumstances and is interviewed here:

What is the best/most influential book you have ever read and why did it inspire you?

When I was in high school I had an English teacher who told me I wrote like Bronte. As a result I read Jane Eyre. I actually read a lot of classics, like Great Expectations, Heart of Darkness, Anthem, The Chrysalids, Fahrenheit 451, Stone Angel. (Bethany K. Warner in The Oshkosh Northwestern)

We have found on Studiosavant's blog a quote from Bertrand Russell no less concerning the Brontës. It was published in The Conquest of Happiness (1930):

The Brontë sisters never met any congenial people until after their books had been published. This did not affect Emily, who was heroic and in the grand manner, but it certainly did affect Charlotte, whose outlook, in spite of her talents, remained always to a large extent that of a governess. Blake, like Emily Brontë, lived in extreme mental isolation, but like her was great enough to overcome its bad effects, since he never doubted that he was right and his critics wrong."

Expanding Horizons publishes a review of Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn. It seems that this Jane Eyre in the space, originally published in 2003, has its fans:

Jenna Starborn captures the whole essence of Jane Eyre, only in a completely different setting and society. I guess, at it's core this story is a romance and that part carries through in Jenna Starborn. (Cyn)

And finally we have to mention here E_Jushan where recently a few poems by Anne Brontë (and one by Charlotte Brontë) have been published. It's always nice to see that Anne's poems, still widely ignored today, find their way into someone's heart.

Categories: Anne Brontë, Brontëites, References, Sequels