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Sunday, September 14, 2008

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Margot Peters, author of Charlotte Brontë: style in the novel (1973) and Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë (1975) will enter into the Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (picture source):
Twenty-two famous names are on the Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame at the Milwaukee Public Library. This month, up go two more, those of a fiction writer and a biographer whose books have brought them national notice and whose work the library's selection committee believes will stand the test of time.(...)
And Margo Peters, a Lake Mills resident who holds a doctorate in Victorian literature, will be honored for her seven biographies, among them two books on Charlotte Bronte and "Design for Living," about actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who made Ten Chimneys in Genesee Depot their part-time home.(...)
Peters, a Wausau native who is admired for her books on the Barrymores and British actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell among others, received the Banta, the George M. Freedly Award, and the Council of Wisconsin Writers Award for "Bernard Shaw and the Actresses."
Ansay and Peters will be inducted into the Wall of Fame and feted at a reception at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Central Library downtown. (Geeta Sharman-Jensen)
Daphne Lee in The Star complains about the removal of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy from the GCSE curriculum:
However, in Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, exams invigilator Pat Schofield says, “I think it (the poem) is absolutely horrendous – what sort of message is that to give to kids who are reading it as part of their GCSE syllabus?” (Article at guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/06/gcses.poetry.carol.ann.duffy.)
Schofield was one of three exam officers who complained about the poem. I wonder if other complaints are going to start pouring in about the violence in Shakespeare’s plays, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, and other texts in the GCSE syllabus.
El Nuevo Herald (Venezuela) highlights once again the connections between Wuthering Heights and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga.

On the blogosphere, Once More With Feeling feels frustrated with Wuthering Heights, Oyunun başı sonu.. posts about Jane Eyre in Turkish , A Kindred Spirit's Thoughts is reading Jane Eyre, The Sound of Butterflies posts about Wuthering Heights and FashionInk reviews Justine Picardie's My Mother's Wedding Dress.

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