Number Fifty

We read on Clare Ruddock's blog about a new audio installation by Katy Merrington that had a preview last June 26 at the Waygood Gallery & Studios (Byker, Newcastle):

Number Fifty.
Two new audio stories.
Thursday 26th June 6pm - 8pm.

I was impressed by Katie's work at Harkers the on Thursday. I unfortunately only had chance to listen to one of her works in which she was discussing the influences on Charlotte Brontes character Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre. (...) Katie presented a single cut out image of old attic room that is illedged to have inspired Bronte, which operated as the only focal point for the viewer/listener as they were drawn into her spoken narrative.

The Newcastle Evening Chronicle publishes the following anecdote with a Brontë twist:

This year we celebrate 100 years of cinema on Tyneside. (...)
Sheila Nilsen, of West Jesmond, has been going to the cinema since she was five years old. (...)
“Once on a date I saw Wuthering Heights, starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. In her dying scene I was completely overcome by the scene and I blew my nose on what I thought was my hanky, but it turned out to be one of my silk gloves. (Ray Marshall)

The Seattle Times reviews briefly the Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 DVD:

Ever wonder about the backstory of Edward Rochester's mentally unhinged first wife? The mystery lady in the attic? So did the incisive British novelist Jean Rhys, whose "Jane Eyre" prequel novel was adapted into a sensuous, explosive BBC film. Now on DVD, it's an R-rated must for Brontë fans. (Misha Berson)

Brontë readers around: Midnight Tea Cup (in Spanish) is reading Jane Eyre. Writing Companion reviews Jennifer Vandever's The Brontë Project. The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reviews the German edition of Ann Dinsdale's The Brontës at Haworth, Die Brontës in Haworth:

Es gibt zwar bereits Dutzende von Biografien und Bildbände über die Bronte-Schwestern, doch der prächtige Band von Ann Dinsdale, Bibliothekarin im Bronte-Museum, und Simon Warner (Fotos) gehört zu den eindrucksvollsten Würdigungen dieser so enorm kreativen Frauen, die sich ihren Weg zur literarischen Anerkennung unter extrem schwierigen Bedingungen als Lehrerinnen oder Gouvernanten mühsam erarbeiten mussten. Abgesehen vom großartigen ästhetischen Reiz historischer Aufnahmen und der stimmungsvollen Landschaftsbilder besticht dieser Band durch seine einfühlsame Akribie. (Peter Münder). Google Translation

By the way, can you imagine Lana Turner playing Cathy in a Hollywood version of Wuthering Heights. It seems highly unlikely, doesn't it? Well, according to some drunk editor of la La Vanguardia (México) she did.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights