Jane & Heathcliff, fan favourites

PrideSource reviews Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue:

A chronological listing of book titles is useful for readers who want to graze the centuries of prose that Donoghue has uncovered, writing that ranges from the heights of Shakespeare and Jane Eyre to some truly horrific potboilers. (Richard Labonte)

In the Delaware County Daily Times an article about Janes:

'Jane Eyre' a famous novel written in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë an English writer and poet. One of the themes, in a male-dominated society the character attempts to assert her personality. In 1847 hmmm, have things changed that much? (Mary Ann Fiebert)

Book Southern Africa has a curious theory of how books enter the 'classic canon':

You wouldn’t be far wrong in saying that the literary canon is made up of fan favourites that gradually got adopted by the literary establishment. From Shakespeare, to Austen, to the Brontës, to Dickens, and many points in between, we see smash-hit plays and novels being retrospectively gathered into the bosom of the establishment and granted a recognition they lacked in their own time. (Fiona Snyckers)

The Citizen reviews BBC4's In Their Own Words: British Novelists (Episode 1: Among the Ruins 1919-1939) and quotes Jean Rhys saying:

The Wide Sargasso Sea author Jean Rhys said she only wrote when unhappy: “When I was excited about life, I didn’t want to write about life at all, and when I was happy I had no wish to write.
“I have never wanted to write about being happy. You cannot describe it.”

The Doings Western-Springs asks for the book you wish you had written:

Jean Diedrich, attorney, Hinsdale: "Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë."

Conservative Home's Parliament Page interviews Margot James MP:

What is your favourite book? Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

April Lindner's Jane gets a not very good review in Chasing Ray; A Year of Thanks likes 'far better' Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights; Threads of Red Blog selects some passages from Charlotte Brontë's novel; Saltaire Daily Photo visits the Brontë Parsonage; awsumgal posts her work-in-progress Rochester (1983 version) doll; We Other Victorians posts about Jean Rhys's other Bertha Mason in Wide Sargasso Sea; Les Brontë à Paris writes a brief biographical note of Elizabeth Gaskell (in French) and Katie-Isms acutely reviews Wuthering Heights:

No matter what you've heard, this is not a love story. It's a story about a passion, an obsession, and the depressing, often terrifying effects it has on the people involved. The love, if it is love, between Catherine and Heathcliff is very intense and very serious, but it certainly didn't make anyone happy.

Finally, Flickr user perseverando has uploaded a picture of Wycoller Hall.

Categories: Books, Elizabeth Gaskell, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights