Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers in the Web

Two very different articles coincide today quoting a well known paragraph from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The Times does it in an article about cricket:

In the build-up to this Test match, Michael Vaughan said that England go out to bat in every first innings with the aim of reaching 400. Just for the record - because it may not be obvious - I must state that whenever I lift the lid of my laptop I intend to write the next Wuthering Heights. That does not happen, either.(...)
Selectors responded to England's last defeat by dropping Stephen Harmison and Matthew Hoggard. This time the bowlers have kept them in the game and today may well represent one final chance for certain batsmen. The sleepers, as Emily Bronte put it, would have suffered some unquiet slumbers last night. (Richard Hobson)

And the Mail on Sunday ends an article about the English willage West Tanfield like this:

As Emily Bronte wrote: 'I wondered how anyone could ever imagine anything but unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' (Roy Hattersley)

Actually, and for the sake of completeness, the novel ends:

I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Philippa Gregory selects Dragonwyck by Anya Seton for a list of summer books on CNN. This is how she describes it:

"A gothic novel set in 1844 America. At times it's utterly ridiculous, but it is truly haunting. Think an American Jane Eyre at high speed. A great book to gulp down in a day."

Einsiders reviews the A&E Romance Collection DVD box set which includes Jane Eyre 2006:

"Jane Eyre" rivals "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" as the most often filmed book. Is there a British actress who has not played the title role. Read the book instead. This version clocks in at 108 minutes. Needless to say, much of the book falls to the wayside. (Rusty White)

On the blogosphere we found today a brief comment about Jane Eyre on Sarit's Little Craze.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights