Brontëite writers

Keris Stainton from Trashionista interviews writer Alison Kervin and asks her about her favourite female heroine.

Your favourite female heroine (if different from above!), and why?
OK … perhaps Cathy in Wuthering Heights because that’s such an incredibly forceful and clever story – narrated by someone totally outside the story and featuring characters in such distress, it has a darkness hanging over it yet still manages to be a vibrant love story. I think it’s an incredible work of fiction … one of those books that grows every time you read it.

Also Spanish writer Espido Freire is interviewed by El Diario de La Rioja about her new book, Soria Moria.

La narrativa de sus admiradas Jane Austen y las hermanas Bronte está muy presente en Soria Moria. ¿De qué modo han influido en su obra?
- Bueno, para comenzar, Jane Austen describió la caza y captura del marido entre las clases altas con una precisión que me ha servido de orientación..., aunque las madres casamenteras de Soria Moria son mucho más feroces y determinadas de lo que la educación de Austen permitiría describir. Las Bronte asoman menos... (Diego Marín A.)
The narrative of your admired writers Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters is noticeable in Soria Moria. In what way have they influenced your work?
- Well, to begin with, Jane Austen described hunting for husbands among the higher classes with such precision that it has helped to guide me, although the matchmaking mothers of Soria Moria are much more fierce and determined than education allowed Austen to describe. The Brontës can't be seen so much.

In Mexico the Diario de Xalapa reports an event scheduled to take place today where guitarist Mauricio Hernández will play Cumbres Borrascosas (Wuthering Heights) composed this year for him by Julio César Oliva.

Pick and Pluck is a really interesting blog where 'words, phrases, sentences, thoughts and quotations [are] taken from the different books and materials I read everyday and have read'. A couple of posts on Villette (one, two) have appeared lately.

Nitafishie has posted an atmospheric drawing of Jane Eyre made by herself. And Life of a Flibbertigibbet writes about Wuthering Heights.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Music, Villette, Wuthering Heights