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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

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Broadway World has a video interview with Nadia Clifford, who currently plays Jane Eyre in Sally Cookson's adaptation.

The Washington Times reviews the novel The Little French Bistro by Nina George.
Novels about women leaving a dismal marriage are legion. One of the first in English was Anne Brontë’s “Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” whose heroine Helen takes her young son and runs away from her alcoholic husband. This was published in 1848 when divorce was not possible, and legally the child and any property the wife might have owned belonged to the father.
Helen therefore must live a secret life to protect her boy and herself. Brontë was taking aims at the cruel failures of the law to protect women and their children. Nowadays, novelists who take up the theme of the wife who abandons her marriage have no need to argue in favor of divorce. Instead they interrogate a relationship, asking implicitly or explicitly what shortcomings justify the wife’s departure. (Claire Hopley)
USA Today's Happy Ever After interviews writer Mimi Matthews.
Joyce: What inspires your book ideas? Mimi: Anything and everything. However, the biggest source of inspiration for me comes from my research. It’s while researching for my non-fiction history projects that I discover interesting tidbits about things that happened in the Victorian era, many of which find their way into my stories. I also draw inspiration from 19th-century novels by authors like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and the Brontë sisters. For The Lost Letter in particular, classic Victorian literature definitely played a role in shaping the flow and style of the story. (Joyce Lamb)
Los Angeles Magazine recommends 'Seven Bars in L.A. That Are Perfect for Reading Books' such as
7. The Wellesbourne
10929 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles
We couldn’t make this list without including the only West L.A. bar we know of that can literally boast its own library. Dark wood, shelves lined with vintage tomes, and that’s just one of the snug rooms you’ll find at this decidedly Old World-inspired drinking den. Fireplaces, chesterfield sofas, velvet drapes—if you’re not reading something Victorian up in here, you’re probably doing it wrong.
What to Read Here: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Brittany Martin)
While The New York Times recommends the show Literati: A Comedy Show About the Greatest American Novels Never Written at Union Hall.
This regular live show and podcast welcomes new comedians each month to read a selection of literature, real or imagined, in character and in costume. On Thursday at 9:30 p.m.,the guest headliners are Jacqueline Novak, left, who doles out Jane Austen-like wit with the self-assurance of Jane Eyre, and Jaboukie Young-White, whose Twitter feed could be compiled into a best-selling book of aphorisms. (Kasia Pilat)
Uncut reviews the film God's Own Country.
This debut feature from Yorkshire-born actor and first-time director Francis Lee shows the British countryside as a lonely and unforgiving place; his camera unflinching as it captures the graphic realities of livestock farming. It would be easy to see God’s Own Country as an uneasy mix of Brokeback Mountain and All Creatures Great And Small – it isn’t. Instead it feels closer in spirit to Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights – which similarly took place in an eerie, untamed wilderness – or Pawel Pawlikowski’s splendid Yorkshire-set same-sex romance My Summer Of Love. (Michael Bonner)
The Times has an obituary for Jeremy Dale Roberts who trained
singers for a recording of Bernard Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights at Barking town hall.
Another obituary can be read in Ojo (Perú), the actress Saby Kamalich who played Cathy in a Peruvian TV adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel in 1963.

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