The blogosphere's take on Jane Eyre

Our post today comes entirely from the blogosphere. Let's start with Justine Picardie's blog and her post on her recent talk at the British Museum:

Anyway, it was a really interesting evening at the British Library. Rebecca Fraser, who is the president of the Bronte Society, as well as a biographer of Charlotte Bronte, was brilliant at chairing the proceedings, as well as contributing her expertise; and the audience -- an extremely knowledgeable lot -- asked me questions about everything from Freemasonry (Branwell and Symington were both members of a masonic lodge) to spiritualism. There were several descendants of Symington in the audience, who fortunately like the book. They said they saw it as a sympathetic portrayal of him...

The book in question is, of course, Daphne.

Several bloggers have posts with different approaches to Jane Eyre: Margarita please and make it strong thinks about women today and what they could learn from Jane Eyre. British Book Look examines the portrayals of Rochester in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. Sarah's Blog also has a post on how these two novels compare. And As a Mother Thinketh writes about Jane Eyre 2006.

Two Brontë-related though quite rare books are reviewed today. Jenny's Books reviews Jenna Starborn, which won't be joining her favourite books. And Letture di Amelie writes - in Italian - about Bianca Pitzorno's La bambinaia francese, which tells, as you will recall, Sophie's background and arrival at Thornfield Hall.

The sole mention of Wuthering Heights today makes up for the fact that there aren't more: a lengthy, in-depth post from Rishinagar.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights