Weird Brontë news

The Brontë news and mentions today are quite weird, with a very few exception. Read on and you'll see what we mean.

A Victorian Christmas Market has taken place in the English city of Snettisham

A fancy dress competition was also held, with Mike Dibley voted the best-dressed man and Jenny Suart being crowned best-dressed woman.
Snettisham brother and sister Andrew Boyd (9), dressed as the Artful Dodger, and Harriet (12), as Emily Brontë, won best-dressed boy and girl, and all four won a £10 voucher. (King's Lynn Today)

You can see Harriet dressed as Emily Brontë. Fabulous disguise - no wonder she won! (Photo credits)

Emily Barclay, who will play Anne Brontë in Angela Workman's upcoming production of Brontë, has just won Best Actress at Australian Film Institute Awards for Suburban Mayhem. Congratulations to her then.

One more article on The Mystery of Irma Vep brings up again the Brontë sister that never was: Jane Brontë. She's a favourite of some journalists.

Add to this a vampire and a werewolf and an Egyptian mummy and a bleeding painting. You've got Hitchcock's Rebecca and you've got Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. And you've got your Poe and your Brontes (Jane and Emily) and your Shakespeare and your Wilde. And who knows who else. (Toby Zinman for The Inquirer)

And the mentions just go downhill from there.

A make-up brand - Urban Decay - gives us a unique quote:

Founding partner and creative director Wende Zomnir partnered her favorite complementary "punk rock meets 'Wuthering Heights'" shades to please Urban Decay junkies and newbies alike. (Briann Horan for the Tribune-Review)

Not less unique is this review of Lionel Richie's Hello video (included on the Top Ten Epic Music Videos list made by The Eagle Online).

The end, when she shows him a clay sculpture of his head, will bring even the noblest of people to tears by this modern day "Wuthering Heights."

Don't know about tears but that video and this mention had us in fits of laughter.

Not your mother's bookclub interviews author Nancy Werlin, who reveals she's a true Brontëite:

Some favorite authors included Georgette Heyer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Anne McCaffrey, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, the Brontes (Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre was and remains my favorite book of all time).

All very normal up to that point but look at the cover of Jane Eyre that goes together with this mention. Priceless!

Categories: Weirdo, Brontëites, In the News, Jane Eyre