Diversionary's artistic director Matt Morrow stated in the press release, "This play will have you laugh out loud and keep you intellectually stimulated for days. Although it takes place in 'the moors' of the English countryside, it is noted in the script that the characters all speak with American accents. The story is really revealing sexual and social politics for women stateside, which could not be more timely or important. The social satire is heavy on the humor and will shock and delight even the most seasoned theater-goer. Jen Silverman is a white-hot talent on the rise, and has multiple productions being produced at the most reputable theaters across the country. This is only the third production of this fierce new play."Bustle recommends '11 Fascinating Nonfiction Books To Give The Reader Who Has Already Has Basically Everything On Their Shelves', including
Lisa Berger directs the play and employs a set design that places the wild moors right on the edges of the prim and proper parlor of the spinster sisters Agatha (Kim Strassburger) and Huldey (Hannah Logan).
"In this very small space we needed to create two very distinct spaces," Berger said. "It was important for us that you saw there were these two things juxtaposed against each other. This very formal parlor and this wild moors, and that they exist together, that they both exist here in this world. The moors we talked about it during rehearsal as being a living breathing entity and how can we do that with lights and how can we do that with sound. The moors are something dangerous, a place where you can be harmed or hurt but the moors are also a place where magical things can happen." (Beth Accomando)
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire SweeneyThe Hollywood Reporter announces that the rights to the novel Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne are available. The novel, to be published in May 2018, is described as
The world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. But Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have proven this wrong, through never before published letters and diaries detailing the friendship between Jane Austen and playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, often portrayed as bitter foes, but who enjoyed a complex relationship. For readers who love to know more about the lives of the authors they love, A Secret Sisterhood has inside info galore. (Kerri Jarema)
Jane Eyre in space: This YA Gothic romance novel follows a bored 17-year-old who has spent her life on a spaceship orbiting the ice-covered Earth until she's hired as a governess aboard the Rochester, a ship helmed by a rebellious 19-year-old captain. (Andy Lewis and Rebecca Ford)The Globe and Mail tells about the Victorian railway shares bubble.
By the mid-1840s, British Railway Mania was nearing its zenith. In 1845, total railway revenues were £6 million (already about 1% of GDP and 10% of government spending) yet British investors were expecting them to grow to £60 million by 1852! Even prominent intellectuals such as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and the Brontë sisters were enveloped in this collective delusion—they had invested heavily into railway stocks even though none of them knew much about rail. The ending of this story should not be surprising: the mania created a bubble, the bubble eventually burst, and railway investors suffered extensive losses. (Kara Lilly)La Razón (Spain) reviews the Spanish translation of Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet, giving it a 10 (out of 10?).
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Spoof rail travel posters mocking places including Keighley and Haworth are proving to be just the ticket with the public.We love Councillor Poulsen's remark about the spelling.
Sales of the posters, which artist Laura Nicholson admitted were produced as a joke, have rocketed.
New print runs were being reeled off this week to keep up with demand.
"It's been beyond amazing," said Ms Nicholson. [...]
Keighley is described as "that scary place on the way to the Dales", while the Haworth message declares "it killed the Brontes".
Ms Nicholson said the posters were not meant to offend.
"The idea came about when we were organising a pub crawl and a friend kept making rude remarks about places!" she said.
"We made a few posters as a joke – I'd never done anything like it before.
"I printed out a set for the CraftLocker gallery at Elland and put one on Facebook, and it just took off – it was incredible.
"Orders have flooded in and I'm constantly adding to the range."
Ms Nicholson, 45 this week, said the posters were proving popular with locals in the featured places.
"I was at the Haworth Steampunk Weekend and they went down really well there," she said. [...]
And Worth Valley ward district councillor Rebecca Poulsen – who lives in Haworth – said if the posters were intended as a bit of fun, she didn't see any harm in them.
"If people treat them in the light-hearted way they are meant I can't see anyone taking offence – and she's spelt Haworth correctly, which is a positive!" (Alistair Shand)
in a “wobbly” family. At times we resembled the von Trapps, all dancing and singing around the house. Other times we were straight out of "Wuthering Heights." (Tiffany Gee Lewis)Actor Ian McShane has joined the cast of American Gods and Looper looks back on his most famous roles, such as
Wuthering Heights (1967)Beco Literário (Brazil) features Wuthering Heights. Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany) features a book on Anne Lister and mentions Emily Brontë's 'connection' to her. Littlest Bookshelf reviews Manga Classics' take on Jane Eyre.
In one of his earliest roles, McShane appeared in the 1967 BBC miniseries adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, in the main role of Heathcliff. He starred opposite Angela Scoular, who plays the role of his doomed love Catherine Earnshaw with particularly deranged intensity. The young McShane offers everything you could hope for in a Heathcliff—wild-eyed and rugged handsomeness, and a convincing performance as the man who brings misery to everyone around him with his hellbent course of revenge. (AJ Caulfield)
Without the Veil BetweenInt he words of the author:
Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit
by DM Denton
All Things That Matter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0999524336
November 2017
When I set out, well over two years ago, to write a fiction about Anne Brontë, youngest sister of Charlotte and Emily, I doubted I would find enough material to produce something longer than a novella. Before the first part was finished, I was convinced there was more than enough for a novel.
My objective didn’t change as pages filled and multiplied. I wanted to present Anne as a vital person and writer in her own right, as crucial to the Brontë story and literary legacy as her more famous and—in her brother Branwell’s case—infamous siblings were. As anyone who ventures off the Brontë beaten path might, I soon realized Anne had a very independent, intelligent, inspiring story to explore, take to my heart and soul, and tell.
Without the Veil Between follows Anne through the last seven years of her life. It begins in 1842 while she is still governess for the Robinson family of Thorpe Green, away from Haworth and her family most of the time, with opportunities to travel to York and Scarborough, places she develops a deep affection for. Although, as with her siblings, circumstances eventually bring her back home, she is not deterred in her quest for individual purpose and integrity. She stands as firm in her ambitions as Charlotte does and is a powerful conciliator in light of Emily’s resistance to the publication of their poetry and novels.
There’s a lot we don’t know about the main character of Emily Brontë’s novel “Wuthering Heights.” We don’t know who his parents are. We don’t know if his name is only “Heathcliff,” like Cher, or “Heathcliff Heathcliff,” like Sirhan Sirhan. And we don’t know how it is that, in the middle of the book, he goes away for three years and returns filthy rich.BookRiot considers Jane Eyre to be one of 'The 5 Best Fiction Titles From The Folio Society's Christmas Collection'.
Here are some guesses about how Heathcliff acquired his fortune:
Invented an app that I.P.O.’d at a billion dollars but then was revealed to have a toxic, sexist office culture, and he got ousted as C.E.O.
Sold tea, because that seems like the only way to make money in England?
Married a rich woman and killed her. Say what you want about Heathcliff, but he is (a) sexy to a select number of people and (b) talks about wanting to murder people all the time. In fact, those are pretty much the two things you can say about him.
Wrote a book under a female pseudonym and, when it was revealed that he was really a man, was driven out of the literary community—but only after he made millions. Heathcliff definitely believes in reverse sexism. (Blythe Roberson and Colin Stokes) (Read more)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë with illustrations by Santiago CarusoBustle lists '9 Classic Books That Are Actually Way More Subversive Than You Thought', including Jane Eyre.
Brontë’s timeless heroine is brought to life in this gorgeously illustrated edition that highlights the novel’s gothic influences.
“When we say we love it—and everybody I’ve ever mentioned the book to says, with a stern fervour, ‘I love Jane Eyre’—do we mean the novel or Jane herself?” asks Emma Donoghue in her introduction. The answer is decidedly both.
Caruso, who was born in Quilmes, Argentina in 1982, is an avant-garde artist who is fascinated by the fantastique in his work. His symbolist images highlight the otherworldliness of the novel as Jane finds herself caught between two worlds. (Matt Grant)
Nowadays, when we think about politics and Jane Eyre, we think of the (extremely valid) critiques of the way the novel treats the "madwoman in the attic." But when Jane Eyre was first published, the novel was considered edgy for an entirely different reason: it portrayed a self-reliant young woman. The idea of the female lead of a romance novel dumping her guy because she loves herself and that's enough for her? That was unheard of. Plus, first person narration in a book written by a woman was extremely saucy and even scandalous. (Charlotte Ahlin)Still, this columnist from Post Bulletin seems to make fun of precisely that.
I was fresh off a semester of classes such as 19th Century Literature: The Unlikely (And Uncompromising) Feminism of Jane Eyre. (Steve Lange)Metro USA wonders whether,
movies like the incomparable Wuthering Heights from 1939, with an anguished Laurence Olivier, belong under the same Goth banner as Twilight, the vampire YA romance that made the world realize women had desires, too? (Matt Prigge)Readers' Lane has compiled a list of several retellings of Jane Eyre.
A curious Jane Eyre with aerial dancing (!) is performed today, November 29, in Santa Barbara, CA:Jane Air
Adapted by Charles Donelan
presented by the AP English Literature class at Laguna Blanca School
A partnership between the Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Dance and Laguna Blanca's English and performing arts departments.
10:15 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in the Spaulding Auditorium, 4125 Paloma Drive
Donelan wrote the adaptation of the novel for the stage over the summer and began meeting with [Ninette] Paloma, who choreographed the piece, in August. Performing Arts Theatre instructor Dana Caldwell is the theatrical director.
The project is connecting senior students in AP English literature with Caldwell's Middle School theater arts students in an experience that merges the Upper School English curriculum with aerial dance. (Tara Broucqsault in NoozHawk)
A Spanish translation of Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers has just been published:Damas oscurasTranslation by Alicia Frieyro Olalla García, Sara Lekanda,Includes Napoleon and the Spectre 1833 from The Green Dwarf.
Magdalena Palmer and Consuelo Rubio Alcover
Impedimenta Ediciones
ISBN: 978-84-16542-89-5
¿Qué hace que las historias victorianas de fantasmas sean tan perfectas para leer al calor de una chimenea en una noche oscura? Historias de mansiones abandonadas, de viajes en coches de caballos por páramos desolados, de castillos en acantilados, de bellas mujeres sepulcrales, de oscuras historias
familiares en las que los antepasados no acaban de irse del todo… Un género en el que algunas eminentes damas novelistas, especialistas en lo escalofriante, marcaron tendencia. Las veintiuna historias incluidas en este volumen abarcan el reinado de la reina Victoria y cuentan con aportaciones de autoras clásicas como Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant o Willa Cather, junto con otras no tan conocidas pero no por ello menos especialistas en lo tenebroso y lo sobrenatural. Ambientados en las montañas de Irlanda, en un villa mediterránea o en una tétrica mansión de Londres, estos relatos evidencian la fascinación victoriana por la muerte y por lo que había más allá, con atmósferas sugerentes, ingenio y mucho, mucho humor.
Vilaweb (in Catalan) has an article on the winners of the Butaca awards. Carme Portaceli's Jane Eyre was nominated to several categories and ended up winning Best Actress (Ariadna Gil) and Best Supporting Actor (Abel Folk).Gil ha compartit el guardó amb les altes nominades. “Estar aquí és un honor i el fet d’interpretar a Jane Eyre em va ensenyar que un ha d’aixecar-se i lluitar en les pitjors condicions i tota la il·lusió que veig ha de ser una lluita continua tot i les dificultats”, ha apuntat. Ha assegurat que és el personatge que més l’ha exigit. El millor actor de repartiment ha estat Abel Folk també per ‘Jane Eyre: una autobiografia’. (Translation)The New Yorker discusses biographies and how their number of volumes may have conveyed a message in Victorian times.
In the nineteenth century, the big sets were usually reserved for the big politicians. Disraeli got seven volumes and Gladstone three, but the lives of the poets or the artists or even the scientists tended to be enfolded within the limits of a single volume. John Forster’s life of Dickens did take its time, and tomes, but Elizabeth Gaskell kept Charlotte Brontë within one set of covers, and Darwin got his life and letters presented in one compact volume, by his son. The modern mania for the multivolume biography of figures who seem in most ways “minor” may have begun with Michael Holroyd’s two volumes devoted to Lytton Strachey, who was wonderful and influential but a miniaturist perhaps best treated as such. (Adam Gopnik)And The Times has some stats on audiobooks:
Almost 80 per cent of those who bought the audio version of Sir Craig Oliver’s recollections of his time in Downing Street at David Cameron’s side switched off before the referendum was lost and Sir Craig’s memoirs came to a full stop. The classics fared little better. Wuthering Heights kept only 19 per cent of its audience to the end; Crime and Punishment managed 21 per cent. But Ulysses, a listening odyssey that consumes 31 hours, was completed by only 7.5 per cent of buyers — even though rumour has it that the naughtiest bits come at the end.Yorokobu (Spain) is amazed by the fact that Victorian women writers were actually able to write as circumstances weren't always favourable.
Prueba a escribir un novelón, un libro canónico, mientras pelas patatas como Charlotte Brontë, escondes las hojas a hurtadillas en la sala de visitas a lo Jane Austen o cuidas a tu padre como George Eliot (de nombre Mary Anne Evans, por cierto). Escribe de amor sin enamorarte libremente, de escarceos sexuales sin tenerlos, de parajes exóticos sin haber visto más allá del páramo, de trabajo sin ser otra cosa que institutriz; escribe, además, con todo tu poco tiempo y tu escaso dinero disponible. Todo eso, básicamente, resume la necesidad de la habitación propia. (Isabel Bellido) (Translation)Elizabeth Hawksley discusses Leslie Stephen's controversial words on Mr Rochester.
A whole new collection of perfumes inspired by Jane Eyre:Poesie PerfumeSilver Petticoat Review posts about the collection.
Thornfield Collection
#1 OPENING CHAPTER
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
You find yourself blissfully ensconced in a window seat with your favorite book and a generous cup of steaming Darjeeling tea. Outside, the garden may be rainy and gray, but you needn’t worry about that at all. You don’t even have a cold, unfeeling aunt or a big bully of a cousin, unlike some people.
Notes: a generous cup of steaming Darjeeling tea, a rainy day, a pile of old books all your own
#2 TINY PHANTOM
I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see. Alas! yes: no jail was ever more secure. Returning, I had to cross before the looking- glass…and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit.
Poesie Perfume: You see it there in the glass, a tiny phantom – a glimpse of white in an otherwise dark room. But there’s no need to scream, and there’s no need to faint — the thing in the darkness is you.
Notes: innocent pink roses, marshmallow buttercream, pale white musk, antique mahogany
#3 THORNFIELD
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. I like Thornfield.
The fire broke out at dead of night and she danced in the flames. Mysterious, intoxicating, and irresistible. Some people just like to watch the world burn.
Notes: burned wood and lingering smoke, new Vanille accord, the barest hint of pumpkin pie spices
#4 BEWITCHED
When you came upon me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.
Poesie Perfume: Did she spread ice on the causeway that fateful night or was it just a coincidence that his horse fell? Bewitched features six ingredients for a love spell – yellow apple, clove, apricot, black pepper, vetiver, and cauldron smoke.
#5 SIR
“Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward — give me my name — Edward — I will marry you.”
“Are you in earnest? Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?”
“I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it.”
“Then, sir, I will marry you.”
If she had bewitched him, he had enchanted her. By times dismissive, warm, humorous, and strange, he had drawn her in a surely as a wild creature is tamed.
Notes: a masterful blend of fine cognac and tobacco, leather riding boots and a worn leather saddle, hay from the stables, warm skin
#6 STRANGE UNEARTHLY THING
You– you strange, you almost unearthly thing!–I love as my own flesh. You–poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are–I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Poesie Perfume: Perhaps she was a fairy creature, strayed from a mystic midnight gathering. The scent of the forest clung to her – moss and ivy entwined, an overturned log studded with tiny mushrooms, one ripe peach, & a circle of fairy flowers.
Notes: moss and ivy entwined, an overturned log studded with tiny mushrooms, one ripe peach, a circle of fairy flowers, white amber
#7 MARBLE KISS
There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my ecclesiastical cousin’s salute belonged to one of these classes.
Poesie Perfume: Surrounded by the moors, he gave her a marble kiss. It didn’t matter that his face was that of a Greek statue – for her, his heart was just that cold. The gorse blossoms that cover the moors, a hint of Indian sandalwood, and the wedding flowers she would never wear for him.
Notes: gorse blossom, pink marshmallow, sweet sandalwood incense, a wedding coronet of orange blossom, white iris, and rose de mai
#8 NO BIRD
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Poesie Perfume: Her heart soared beyond the confines of her life, over the wild moors where she could be free. There, she was unfettered by circumstance, unencumbered by convention.
Notes: blossoming heather, windswept moors, dried leaves eddied by a zephyr
#9 MYSELF INVISIBLE
Poesie Perfume: What passions raged behind the quiet facade? Hidden away in an isolated stone house on the lonely moors and obscured by her nom de plume, she was neither Currer Bell nor the unassuming vicar’s daughter. She made herself invisible but poured out her flaming heart onto the pages that have resonated through centuries. A tribute to Charlotte Brontë in perfume form.
Notes: stacked books, spilled ink, black tea, shy violets hiding deep in the forest
Everyday items you might be tempted to bin could actually be worth a small fortune. According to Barnebys, the world's leading search aggregator for auctions, many books which would have been purchased originally for a few pounds, are now worth a small fortune, fetching high prices at auction.Sify News reviews the Indian film Padmavati.
According to joint founder of Barnebys, Pontus Silfverstolpe, the real gems of the book world to look out for are:
1. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
In 2007 a rare first edition of this classic novel, originally published in 1847, sold at auction for a whopping £114,000. (Sarah Barratt)
The idea of subversion of the stereotype through re-visioning and rewriting became popular in the twentieth century, and has been a powerful tool for the voice of traditionally oppressed communities – by gender, by race, by class. Works such as Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys in response to Jane Eyre, and more recently The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall as a reinterpretation of Gone with the Wind have been crucial in pointing out and dismantling the stereotypes in those classics of literature. (Nandini Krishnan)BBC Music lists '7 times music critics got things completely wrong', including:
Everyone v Kate BushKeighley News looks back on Haworth Steampunk Weekend. Sometimes I Write Movie Reviews posts about Wuthering Heights 1992. Cicily 17 imagines what Jane Eyre's garden would have looked like in November. Nick Holland has written about 'How The Brontë Family Came To Haworth' on AnneBrontë.org.
Some artists are so far ahead of their time, it can take critics a while to catch up. But the issue when Kate Bush emerged in the late-70s was different. She was unlike any British artist before or since - a complete original - and, if anything, she was accused of being behind the times, not ahead of them.
Her debut single, Wuthering Heights, came out in 1978 - after the punk explosion - to much head-scratching from the press. As the Guardian reported, "Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews - at once guileless and guarded - made her a target for music-press mockery. Her music was often dismissed as a middlebrow soft option, easy listening with literary affectations."
The assault was typified by Charles Shaar Murray of the NME in a review of a 1979 gig, which he described as "all the unpleasant aspects of David Bowie in the Mainman era.... [Bowie manager] Tony DeFries would've loved you seven years ago, Kate, and seven years ago maybe I would've too. But these days I'm past the stage of admiring people desperate to dazzle and bemuse, and I wish you were past the stage of trying those tricks yourself."
The public paid no attention. Wuthering Heights was a No.1, and Kate had two other Top 10s before 1980 was over. Come her second flurry of hits in the mid-80s, with songs like Running Up That Hill and Hounds of Love, the press made a dramatic U-turn. Kate suddenly became critically adored, as well as commercially successful. (Phil Hebblethwaite)
Jane Eyre Pillow Book
by BrassingtonHollow
Snuggle up with your favorite book! This is a pillow version of "Jane Eyre", by Charlotte Brontë. It's plush, soft, and the perfect addition to your book nook chair. Measuring approximately 8.5 inches across, 11 tall, and 4 wide, this book pillow is soft and squishy, but will still keep it shape while sitting up right. Open the fabric cover to find the first page of "Jane Eyre printed and readable! The inside cover also features a quote from the book, which
reads
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do...It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
When closed, the edges of the book's 'pages' cushion have text from the book printed in old, faded text. From a distance, this appears to be closed pages.
The fabric cover is a slate blue-gray with a frame of roses. The roses start out as sickly gray buds on the bottom and bloom into full, plum colored roses as they climb up the cover. The front cover has the title of the book, the authors name, and a cameo of Jane meting Mr. Rochester for the first time on that fateful night. There's also details of plum, light gray, and blues throughout the cover. The back of the book has a quote which reads "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
Made from cotton fabric and foam stuffing, this book pillow is sturdy, yet soft. It is almost entirely hand sewn as well. Hours of detail have gone into this book to create a recognizable yet unique version of "Jane Eyre". This is the perfect gift for your favorite teacher, bibliophile, or even for a child just learning to read. This would also make a great ring bearer pillow for a literary themed wedding!
Kitty loves this book, the atmospheric and quirky illustrations and the clever way it has been written — the authors manage to pick out little details from each life that make the stories unusual and very readable. Kitty’s favourites are The Brontë Sisters, the deaf motocross star Ashley Fiolek and Frida Kahlo. She particularly loves the detail in the Ashley Fiolek story that her parents realised she was deaf when some pans fell with a loud clatter onto the kitchen floor and the toddler Ashley didn’t seem to notice. And Kitty is mesmerised by Kahlo’s near-death accidents and loves the idea that the Brontë sisters had to go to London to prove they were really women — as no one could believe their books hadn’t been written by men. (Esther Walker)Congratulations to Janneke de Beer who played Jane Eyre at the Spot! Theater production of the Gordon & Caird Musical in the Netherlands for her award as Best Actress at the Amateur Musical Awards 2017. (Via BD)
[Y]ou can vote for your favourite book-inspired song. (My current top tips are Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush and the utterly bonkers but brilliant Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins, sung by none other than Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy.) (Hardeep Singh Kohli)Rake, not blow. That's the advice on The Register-Guard:
Since they were invented back in the 1950s, and especially once they came to neighborhoods near you by the 1970s, these nasty blowers have been the source of complaints. They’ve been targeted by proposed bans or restrictions, often without success. It’s easy to trash leaf blowers. Yet they proliferate.The Times of India talks about the latest book by Ruskin Bond, The Lone Fox Dancing:
Instead, let’s celebrate raking. And leaves.
“The falling leaves drift by my window,” go the lyrics of the romantic standard crooned by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Jimmy Rogers. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me,” wrote Emily Brontë in her bittersweet poem. (Peter Laufer)
He advised young writers to be simple and original. "Choose subjects closest to you heart and words that are not big but convey the right meaning. Do not show off. My language is simple because I aim for clarity. You will see it in all good writing, such as that of Somerset Maugham and The Brontë Sisters." He described how he started with short stories to make a living out of writing, and how even then, it was tough.Culturopoing (in French) reviews Jane Campion's The Piano 1993:
Si Jane Campion avoue adorer les Sœurs Brontë et en particulier les Hauts de Hurlevent, c’est plus pour son atmosphère visuelle tourmentée, poussée par la fureur du climat et des éléments, que dans son traitement des personnages. Car, en réalité, The Piano est beaucoup plus érotique que romantique, relisant la littérature à l’orée de l’évolution des mentalités, faisant passer le romantisme et ses héroïnes par le prisme d’une réflexion contemporaine, s’interrogeant sur les pensées entre les lignes, tout ce que dissimule la littérature du 19eme siècle. (Olivier Rossignot) (Translation)A debutante at the Bal des Débutantes 2017 and Brontëite, according to Vanity Fair (Italy):
Costanza Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini: «Ho appena finito Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë, l’ho divorato. Film… Qualcosa di romantico, tipo Le pagine della nostra vita con Ryan Gosling e Rachel McAdams». (Andrea Tomasi) (Translation)The World of my Green Heart reviews Lyndsay Faye's Jane Steele.
Christmas is almost here and a Brontë-related gift is always a good option:Jane Eyre quote mug
by JaneBoothCeramics
This handmade pale blue Jane Eyre mug would make a wonderful Christmas or birthday gift. A perfect present for a fan of the Brontës, particularly Charlotte Brontë.
Jane Eyre is a favourite novel for many people . It can be read many times and something new discovered at each reading.
The' mug features a vintage illustration from an 1850s edition of 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë on the front. it is rare to find an illustrated version of Jane Eyre.
I found this after a several years of searching, as Jane Eyre is my favourite novel!
On the reverse is the following text (said to Jane by Mr Rochester):-
'I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time; I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you:
their expression and smile did not strike delight
to my very inmost heart for nothing'.
The mug has been thrown and decorated by hand by me and has undergone 3 firings. It is also fully functional for your first cup of tea or coffee in the morning and can go in the dishwasher.
It comes in a beautiful bespoke box with a pink satin padded lining.
Wuthering Heights mug
It features a vintage illustration from 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë on the front.
and the following quotation on the reverse :-
"Well, if I cannot keep Heathcliff
for my friend - if Edgar will be
mean and jealous - I'll try to break
their hearts by breaking my own.
That will be a prompt way of
finishing all, when I am
pushed to extremity."
Branwell’s bicentenary year is drawing to a close, so our final free Tuesday talk of the year, on December 5, will see our learning officer Sue Newby deliver ‘a retrospective’ on the troubled Branwell Brontë.BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics features Jacqueline Wilson this week:
We’ve enjoyed discovering more about him this year, and the poems of our creative partner Simon Armitage, and the brilliant recreation of Branwell’s bedroom, have really helped visitors get a sense of who Branwell was. Join us on 5 December to hear Sue look back on the year.
The end of Branwell’s bicentenary year means Christmas is approaching – a time of year we all love at the museum.
If you’re looking to treat somebody to a pre-Christmas gift, we still have spaces on our very intimate Brontë Treasures by Candlelight evening on Friday, December 8 at 7.30pm. This very special evening costs £85 per person, and includes a glass of wine upon arrival.
If you don’t have the excuse to treat yourself, there is another opportunity to see the museum by candlelight at our late-night Thursday on December 14.
The Parsonage will be dressed for Christmas, and we’ll be serving sherry in the shop, where we have some very beautiful Christmas cards on sale, and prints of the Parsonage looking very wintery – prefect gifts for any Brontë fans.
We will also be joined by local author SR Whitehead, who will be happy to sign copies of his latest books. We were so busy last year, we had to nip out and buy some more sherry, so come along if you want to instil some Christmas cheer!
As is always the case on our late night Thursdays, after 5pm, entry is free to visitors providing proof of residence in BD22, BD21, BD20 or Thornton.
We have our final event of the year on Sunday December 10, an event postponed from October.
Simon Armitage and actor Adam Nagaitis, who played Branwell in Sally Wainwright’s To Walk Invisible, will be in conversation with Yvette Huddleston, arts correspondent at The Yorkshire Post.
We were very disappointed when we had to postpone this event in October, but are delighted that we’ve managed to reschedule before the end of the year, and surprisingly we still have a few tickets left.
Don’t delay in booking if you want to hear Simon and Adam discuss the various ways in which they chose to approach Branwell. It should be the perfect conclusion to Branwell’s bicentenary year.
More from me next time about our January events.
Like last year, although the museum will be closed in January for our deep clean, and the preparation of our new Emily Brontë exhibition, the shop will remain open, and we have events on Saturdays January 6, 13 and 20, and will be joining West Lane Baptist Centre’s Movie Monday on January 8 with a screening of the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights. (Diane Fare & Richard Parker)
Dame Jacqueline Wilson talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped her throughout her life.
I’m not a Brontë but this is my territory - Jacqueline Wilson on Jane EyreDaily Kashmir Images talks about Jane Eyre:
Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson read Jane Eyre as a child and remembers being inspired by its savagery
(...) The novel deliberates over a broader feministic perspective which is very much unprecedented to the Victorian era. It does not only belong to women, it is rather a proto-feministic text that deals with the problems faced by unattached women compelled to earn a living in a hostile world. It is about identity, self-esteem and morality.Long Island Weekly recommends some classic holiday reads. Apparently Wuthering Heights is one of them:
The protagonist of the novel is exquisitely crafted, from running away from Thornfield to the doomed courtship of St. John Rivers and her return to the Thornfield only to find Rochester blind, keeps the reader hungering for more. Of course, a happy ending does ensue, which is a little bit clichéd, but it does tie up all the ends nicely. It is almost like a summer storm in a way- gorgeous, sunny outlook followed by rain, lightning and thunder, and then finally the calm after the storm when it still smells like rain. (Ayaz Nabi Malik)
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Peterborough Examiner examines the history of Reydon Hall in Suffolk:
Published in December 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell,” Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë’s only novel. Her two sisters Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell), known for Jane Eyre and Anne Brontë (Acton Bell) known for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, also achieved literary success of their own. But it is Wuthering Heights that has found a static place on the wintertime bookshelf. An English literature classic, the novel pushed the envelope by challenging strict Victorian ideals of the day regarding social classes, religious hypocrisy and gender inequality. Everyone knows the story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw and if you don’t, be sure to dive into this classic this season. (Jennifer Fauci)
Revisiting her Reydon youth in 1860, Catharine Parr recalled that the Stricklands were much like the famous Brontë family. English literary history has, however, overlooked that sisterly uniqueness and familial accomplishment. It is certainly time to revisit the remarkable Stricklands of Reydon Hall not only to see them more clearly as a writing family but also to review their wide-ranging literary achievements. (Michael Peterman)Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) interviews the writer Ayòbámi Adébáyò:
Vilka författare har gjort särskilt starkt intryck på dig, Emily Brontë? (Georg Cedeskorg)Gabriel Vetter in Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland) is a little sick of the know-it-alls:
Ja, ja, hon är en av de viktigaste! Men också Charles Dickens, där finns det ju verkligen en hel del mörker, honom läste jag redan som ung och så Tolstoj och Tjechov förstås. Toni Morrison återvänder jag ofta till liksom Elizabeth Strout, Wole Soyinka och givetvis Margaret Atwood. (Translation)
Leute wissen ja ständig über alles Bescheid. Sie wissen um die deutschsprachige Literatur aus der Romantik und kennen den englischen Fussball und wissen, wo Vögelbrutstellen im Kanton Aargau liegen und zitieren Jürgen Habermas und zitieren Beat Breu und zitieren Charlotte Brontë (und wissen nicht nur, dass sich Brontë mit zwei so Pünktchen über dem e im Nachnamen schreibt, sondern auch noch gleich, wo auf der Computertastatur sich diese zwei Pünktchen über dem e befinden – ich habs nicht rausgefunden, Tschuldigung), und sie kennen nicht nur die wichtigsten Werke von Vivaldi und wissen, warum man Mehl sieben muss, wenn man einen Teig macht (wegen des Klumpens, nehme ich an), sondern sie können auch Turnfiguren am Reck, zum Beispiel Feldaufzug und Abhurten. (Translation)24 heures (Switzerland) interviews actress, theatre author and director, Laetitia Dosch:
Un père plombier, une mère «dans les ressources humaines», une enfance solitaire qui la pousse aux frontières du gouffre psychique. «C’est vrai, vers 15 ans, j’ai arrêté de parler. Trois ans. Dans ma famille, les choses n’étaient plus… dicibles. Je me suis réfugiée dans la lecture, du Club des cinq aux sœurs Brontë. Et John Irving. Puis la télé, avec Johnny Depp dans 21 Jump Street que j’ai suivi chez les cinéastes indépendants, les Jim Jarmusch, John Waters et Tim Burton.» (Cécile Lecoultre) (Translation)Gazzetta di Parma (Italy) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the second live album of Genesis, Seconds Out:
E a cantare ci ha preso gusto, tanto che nel tour europeo per lanciare “Wind&Wuthering” - copertina fantastica ma atmosfere che iniziano ad allontanarsi dal prog; il titolo richiama il romanzo di Emily Brontë, Cime tempestose, appunto Wuthering heights – alla batteria c'è lo statunitense Chester Thompson, tranne nel “solito” “The cinema show” in cui la suona Bill Bruford. (Michele Ceparano) (Translation)Ginger Generation (Italy) is not very happy with the Io Legge e tu? spot which featured Wuthering Heights:
Fuori campo la voce della presunta protagonista ci legge le frasi divorate dagli occhi della lettrice. Per chi non riconoscesse i nomi dei due protagonisti, ecco arrivare un aiutino: in primo piano gigantesco la regia ci sbatte in faccia il titolo del libro che un lettore medio si suppone conosca. La giovane donna sta leggendo Cime Tempestose, il capolavoro di Emily Brönte (sic).Empire (Italy) interviews the scholar Irene Gammel on the Netflix adaptation of Anne of the Green Gables:
La giovane legge avidamente la descrizione di Heathcliff, il bel tenebroso maledetto protagonista del libro. Mentre la donna si sente divenire la nuova Catherine, la protagonista femminile del romanzo citato, la telecamera sposta l’attenzione su un ragazzo. Anzi un ragazzino, data l’esile corporatura. Non ha nulla del tenebroso e magnetico Heathcliff. Ora un primo piano degli occhi dei due protagonisti della pubblicità.
Non sappiamo come, grazie forse al teletrasporto, il giovane è improvvisamente dietro alla fanciulla che ora è in piedi e in mezzo al locale. Ella sente lo sguardo rapace e torbido e passionale del giovane divorarla. Emozionata sente di rivivere nella vita reale l’amore struggente del libro “Cime tempestose”. Lui ha un’aria in realtà spersa. Sembra alla ricerca della teca dei panini.
Insomma se la prima ondata di spot facevano un po’ ridere, questa seconda non è da meno. In che modo dovrebbe questa coppia della città metropolitana spersonalizzante e capitalista essere la nuova coppia Heathcliff e Cahty della brughiera inglese? In che modo quei due ragazzotti dello spot dovrebbero essere una delle coppie d’amore più struggenti della letteratura? (Claudia Lisa Moeller) (Translation)
Nel romanzo, il poeta Alfred Tennyson è nell’aria, nella serie Netflix Jane Eyre è citata ben due volte. Un vero colpo di stato ai danni dei kindredspirits evocati dalla scrittrice… (Mario A. Rumor)Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark) talks about the 150th anniversary of the real Elvira Madigan:
Le citazioni dalla letteratura classica e dalla poesia sono state fondamentali per la Montgomery. Conosceva quei testi a menadito, amava la forza delle parole, la letteratura. Quando era più giovane lavorò anche nella biblioteca di Cavendished era solita leggere un libro parecchie volte prima di acquistarlo per la sua collezione personale. Inoltre era dotata di una memoria formidabile e amava recitare versi e intere poesie mentre passeggiava con gli amici. Lucy Montgomery ha rivelato un impegno partecipativo e performativo nei confronti della letteratura davvero straordinario. Questo spiega perché l’intertestualità divenne così importante nella sua narrativa, sia che si riferisse al versetto di Tennyson o a Jane Eyre. (Translation)
Historien om den tragiske kærlighed står som en af de helt centrale tematikker i den vestlige litteratur. Det er fortællingen om det unge par, som forelsker sig, men som ikke kan få lov til at realisere deres kærlighed til hinanden. Romeo og Julie blev adskilt af stridende familier, Paris og Helena startede sammen Den Trojanske Krig, og for Heathcliff og Catherine stod 1800-tallets klassesamfund i vejen for et lykkeligt ægteskab på Wuthering Heights. (Morten Hammeken) (Translation)La Razón (Spain) reviews the film God's Own Country:
«Tierra de Dios», su película, arranca como un retrato frío, inmisericorde, de una Inglaterra rural gris y sin perspectivas, con las largas laderas de Yorkshire (aquellas «Cumbres borrascosas» de las Brönte (sic)) llenas de brezo, esperando una segunda oportunidad. (G. Núñez) (Translation)Critictoo (France) recommends To Walk Invisible:
Lorsque vous êtes une scénariste originaire du Yorkshire, les sœurs Brontë sont encore plus incontournables qu’à l’accoutumée. Sally Wrainwright a donc récemment donné vie aux trois mythiques romancières dans un téléfilm qui revient sur leur relation avec leur frère et la naissance de leurs œuvres majeures. À la fois sombre, beau et inspirant, To Walk Invisibledramatise la vie de Charlotte, Anne et Emily avec autant de passion que de réalisme pour nous emporter un peu plus dans cet univers et nous donner envie d’aller encore plus loin. (Fabien) (Translation)CinéChronicle (France) describes the film Rebecca 1940 like this:
L’histoire, proche de l’univers des sœurs Brontë (Jane Eyre, Les Hauts de Hurlevent) s’inscrit dans la tradition du drame victorien. (Thierry Carteret) (Translation)Autostraddle recommends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney's A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf; La Vanguardia (Spain) recommended Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls as a Black Friday purchase. El Heraldo (Spain) lists Wuthering Heights as one of the books to read before dying. Palabras que hablan de historia (in Spanish) reviews The Brontë Cabinet.
An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for today, November 25:Sophia Tobin: Every Object Can Spark a Story
Saturday, November 25, 2017 2:30 PM
Join novelist Sophia Tobin for a creative writing workshop that uses the Brontë collection for inspiration – there will be a unique opportunity to see some items up close and then write prose or poetry inspired by the Brontë relics. It is suitable for beginners or more experienced writers. Sophia Tobin is the Library Secretary for the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. She previously worked for a Bond Street antique dealer for six years, specialising in silver and jewellery. Inspired by research into a real life eighteenth-century silversmith, Tobin began to write her first novel, The Silversmith’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Sophia’s latest novel, The Vanishing, published in early 2017, has been praised by critics for its ‘brilliantly Brontë-esque’ tone and plot.
The Haworth Steampunk Weekend 2017 is beginning:Haworth Steampunk Weekend
November 24 – November 26
It’s steampunk weekend in Haworth! What’s steampunk? It’s a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. And for us, it’s an excuse to get creative, so join local artist Rachel Lee for a junk-modelling/up-cycling drop-in workshop.
Markets will be at Haworth Village Hall & West Lane Methodist Church Both Days. Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 10am to 4pm
The history of literature is much more queer than your English teachers let on. Shakespeare’s gayness is still glossed over or purposely omitted from textbooks. Homer’s Iliad has been censored since ancient times, with screenwriters still playing down the homosexual relationship between “cousins” Achilles and Patroclus. Possibly-lesbian correspondence was equally suppressed. None of Ellen Nussey’s romantic letters to Charlotte Brontë survive, while Brontë’s 1854 letter to Nussey begs her to burn it after reading. Yale undergrad Rebecca Shoptaw is tackling this erasure of LGBTQ history head-on by adapting classic works into progressive web series. Her opus is the unabashedly queer Middlemarch, which sees George Eliot’s self-described study of Victorian provincial life recreated in a 2017 Connecticut college dorm. (Hannah Ongley)While some scholars have made a case for a romantic relationship between Charlotte and Ellen, it is a fact that Charlotte's letter asking Ellen to burn her correspondence has nothing to do with this and all to do with her husband worrying about said letters getting in the wrong hands.
Tre andra filmer som utspelar sig i Yorkshire som ibland kallats för God's own country (liksom en hel del andra platser i världen): Ken Loachs uppväxtklassiker "Kes - falken" (1969), "Allt eller inget" (1997) om strippande stålverksarbetare och Andrea Arnolds leriga Emily Brontë-filmatisering "Wuthering heights" (2011). (Helena Lindblad) (Translation)20 Minutes Montpellier (France) is proud of its first local book tree, which includes a copy of Jane Eyre. A Lady in London recommends '15 Inspiring Books That Will Make You Fall in Love with England', including Wuthering Heights.
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AUGUST [1954]She later summed The Life of Charlotte Brontë as 'not bad at all'.
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31st Felt awfully weak when I got up this morning so I thought I had better stop the slimming and start eating solid food. Had diarreoha too. Felt better in afternoon so walked over to Jeans and had a pleasant time. Stayed for my tea. Also borrowed ‘Jane Eyre’ which we have to read in the hols for English. Very busy in the morning – washed step, grate, bk floor. Raining. [...]
OCTOBER
29th Went to town this morning (half term) and got Mrs Gaskells ‘Life of Charlotte Brontë’ at the library – also got 1,000 paper bags for cheese crisps for biscuit stall. Went for a blow early afternoon – the river is over again. Spent rest of afternoon doing notes on John & S Cabot, & Colet for History. Washed the mop with a ‘White Rain’ Shampoo and got on with ‘Thomas More’. Quite a decent biography
Cassidy, of course, was best known as one of the young men who made teenage girls scream and faint. As a teenage girl, I thought all that was silly. I loved Enid Blyton, although I liked to imagine that I loved the Brontës more.The Movie Waffler reviews the film Ava.
The primary influence would seem to be Andrea Arnold, with a teen protagonist on a potentially dangerous journey of self-discovery, a theme shared with both Fish Tank and American Honey.While Series Addict (France) reviews the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.
It's Arnold's 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights that I was most reminded of, with Mysius exploiting the never-ending, breezy French coastline in the same manner Arnold captured the Yorkshire moors, whistling wind replaced by crashing waves, while Juan is very much an (un)romantic love interest broken from the Heathcliff mold. (Eric Hillis)
L'histoire même nous fait penser à un roman du 19e siècle. On pourrait se croire dans Les Hauts de Hurlevent d'Emily Brontë avec ses histoires d'amour sans véritable déclencheur, ses passions et surtout ses personnages qui meurent d'un coup de froid. Tous les personnages sont très vite affectés pour la moindre chose et cela devient vite agaçant. Nous ne parlerons pas du sort des personnages à la fin de la série mais avouons quand même que c'est gros pour certains d'entre eux. (Charlotte Papet) (Translation)Zeit Online (Germany) features famous siblings and of course the Brontës are among them:
Mit der Macht der Fantasie: Die Geschwister Brontë
Charlotte, Branwell, Emily und Anne – den Kindern des Reverend Brontë winkt zur Rettung aus Seelennot nur das Land der Gedanken. Ihre Mutter ist gestorben, als Anne noch ein Baby war, zwei Schwestern haben ein frommes Institut nicht überlebt. Der Vater ist nicht lieblos, aber beschäftigt. Im Pfarrhaus von Haworth im Yorkshire-Moor hocken die vier Hinterbliebenen in ihrem kalten Kämmerchen. Entgegen dem Anschein jedoch sind sie keine schüchternen Halbwaisen, sondern die allmächtigen Großschutzgeister Tallii, Brannii, Emmii und Annii, die über ein erdichtetes afrikanisches Reich mit stattlichem Helden- und Schurkenpersonal gebieten: Angria.
1826 haben die zehnjährige Charlotte und ihre jüngeren Geschwister das Gedankenspiel erfunden, haben sich spintisierend, lachend und streitend gegenseitig zu immer ergötzlicheren Geschichten aufgewiegelt. Charlotte und Branwell tifteln schließlich alles in winziger Schrift aufs Papier. Ihre Angria- Saga umfasst mehr Seiten als die gedruckten Romane der Schwestern Brontë wie Jane Eyre, Sturmhöhe und Die Herrin von Wildfell Hall.
Auch als erwachsene Schriftstellerinnen sind Charlotte, Emily und Anne einander die liebste Gesellschaft; literarisch kühn, im Umgang mit Fremden spröde, dem Erfolg nur unter neuen Pseudonymen gewachsen: Currer, Ellis und Acton Bell. Ihr Bruder geht darüber verloren. Brannii Blitz, das helle Bürschchen, wird weder Autor noch Held, sondern gibt sich Alkohol und Opium hin. Mit 31 ist er tot. Emily überlebt ihn um drei Monate, Anne um kein Jahr. Beide sterben an Tuberkulose – wie auch Charlotte kurz vor ihrem 39. Geburtstag. Sie hat noch eine Ehe riskiert, aber der Hilfspfarrer Nicholls, ein gänzlich Fremder im Land der Fantasie, ist ihr kein rettender Großschutzgeist. (Elsemarie Maletzke) (Translation)
An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for tomorrow, November 24:Parsonage Unwrapped: Jewellery with Sophia Tobin
Exclusive evening event
November 24, 2017, 7:30 PM
This unique event will focus on the jewellery in the collection, presenting brand new research from our curatorial team. Sophia is an expert in antique jewellery, and Library Secretary for the Worshipful Company of Goldsmith’s.
Tickets £20/£17.50 concessions and Brontë Society members – includes a glass of wine. Places are limited, so early booking is advised. Please book in advance at www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on or by calling 01535 642323.
But where are the women in this roster of legendary friendships? Jane Austen is mythologized as a shy and sheltered spinster; the Brontё sisters, lonely wanderers of windswept moors; George Eliot, an aloof intellectual; and Virginia Woolf, a melancholic genius.We think that many Brontë biographies do pay attention to Mary Taylor and her possible influences on the Brontë family, though.
Skeptical of such images of isolation, we set out to investigate. We soon discovered that behind each of these celebrated authors was a close alliance with another female writer. But, to this day, these literary bonds have been systematically forgotten, distorted or downright suppressed.
Similarly, the early 19th century upbringing of the Brontё sisters causes endless fascination, yet biographers pay scant attention to the literary influence of Charlotte’s friend, the feminist writer Mary Taylor.
Her calling card, however, was a magnificent, two-part Jane Eyre, a total theatre treat that translated Charlotte Brontë’s book into movement and music, colour and light. Since its premiere at the Bristol Old Vic in 2014, more than 250,000 people have seen it on stage or on screen – possibly unprecedented for a piece of devised theatre. (Matt Trueman)Film Music Magazine interviews composer Dario Marianelli and recalls his work for Jane Eyre 2011.
His ravishing sense of feminine empathy has distinguished “Jane Eyre” “Agora” and “Anna Karenina”. (Daniel Schweiger)Anchorage Press discusses dysfunctional families and apparently, the columnist's parents weren't
nearly as scandalous as Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. (Miles Jay Oliver)Whatever that means.
Y este año nos inspiraremos en una obra de la ilustre escritora británica: Emily Brontë, porque en 2018 se conmemorará el paso de un siglo desde su nacimiento y merece recordar a esta poetisa, que toco la narrativa bajo el pseudónimo de: “Ellis Bell” y que será siempre recordada por su única novela titulada: “Cumbres Borrascosas” y aunque sea poco decoroso, esta vez tiraremos de su párrafo final, porque seguro que os sugiere, otra corta pero gran historia:Romance MFA compares Jane Eyre to Samuel Richardson's Pamela.
(Ya nos contaréis, cuáles eran aquellos sueños o quienes descansaban en aquellas tumbas, quietas o inquietas…) [...]
Como reza el cartel de esta quinta edición de nuestro certamen, la Dirección del Concurso, quiere conmemorar, otra efeméride literaria de gran relevancia internacional, el primer centenario del nacimiento de la poetisa británica la inglesa: Emily Brontë (Thornton, 30 de julio de 1918 – Haworth, 19 de diciembre de 1848) aunque lo hiciera en su lengua, cuya obra ha sido íntegramente traducida a esta lengua española que tanto queremos. (Translation)
The Radio is the latest poetry collection by Leontia Flynn and includes a Brontë-related poem:The RadioThe included poem is:
Leontia Flynn
Jonathan Cape, 2017
ISBN: 978-1787330085
The Brunties: An ElegyThe Irish Times reviews the collection:
Let's not have any more poems on the Brontës.
No, none of the weird sisters toiling in the gloom
to fan some inner flame (a grim, al dente gruel might cool nearby) no lamp, no tomb-
like interior filled with — what? — moor-wide minds;
and the father, kind and peculiar: let him drop.
The son too, lone and lost — and all that doom,
cod as their umlaut ... reboot. Photoshop
in particular the grating nonchalance
with which each contrived of some retro malaise,
quite without warning, to be — presto! —dead
inside an hour, as Emily watched dance
the cherry tree, the Autumn sun's low rays ...
and 'Alright. Get the doctor now,' she said.
Flynn’s instinct for or, better, her insistence on, other, awkward voices is clear: “The world is born of hysterical men and women. / Our teeth are shiny as accidental stars” (Poem in Praise of Hysterical Men and Women). That poem is part of a set that honours kindred spirits, Bobby Fischer, the Brontës, Hopkins (“his muse being bi[nsey] po[p]lar[s]”) and MacNeice, whose talky, free-wheeling, suddenly acute poems have clearly been good companions to this book. (John McAuliffe)
Once it has been trimmed and saved, hair might take any of several paths to the stacks. Some acquisitions are deliberate. A scrapbook of tresses compiled by the poet and critic Leigh Hunt now belongs to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The “Hair Book,” which features samples from Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, has become “one of the [library’s] most popular ‘show and tell’ items.”In The New York Review of Books, Elaine Showalter writes about Sylvia Plath, the current Sylvia Plath exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C (One Life: Sylvia Plath) and centers specifically on a sample of the the poet's hair cut and preserved by her mother when she was 12.
Other paths are more roundabout. Oftentimes, a library will acquire an entire collection of papers or correspondence, only to find some spare hair squirreled away within it. When the New York Public Library received Charlotte Brontë’s traveling desk, a lock of her hair came along. (Cara Giaimo)
Locks of hair, of course, are a traditional memento of distinction and fame. The Ransom Center of the Humanities at the University of Texas in Austin owns a popular collection of the tresses of famous writers, assembled by the nineteenth-century English poet Leigh Hunt. Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Poe are there, along with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charlotte Brontë. But literary locks are usually meager strands. Plath’s thick glossy ponytail is unique, and, indeed, hair is a theme of both her literary legend and the exhibition, which emphasizes her visual imagination and her self-portraits in painting and photography.Daily Gazette tells the story of children's writers Jane, Ann and dad Isaac Taylor:
Local historian Andrew Phillips asks: Name two sisters, daughters of a clergyman, who transformed literary England in the early 19th century. Is your answer Brontë? If so, read on. [...]In The New York Times, author Jeffrey Eugenides reviews the book Mrs Osmond by John Banville, a sequel to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and
Earlier still, a young girl sat at her bedroom window, still there today in West Stockwell Street, where, she wrote, ‘I used to roam and revel ‘mid the stars, when in my attic with untold delight, I watched the changing splendours of the night.’
She was, of course, Jane Taylor, who, with her elder sister Ann, became, for a while, the best known children’s writers in Britain, celebrated by literary figures both here and in America. How come?
Theirs was a family of literary achievers.
Their father, Isaac Taylor, did copper engravings for book illustration, a task in which his five children joined him from eight in the morning till eight at night, stopping only for meals when books were read out aloud, so that the time could be used for learning. [...]
The Romantic Age was dawning: she caught the bug. So it was that the girls’ second volume in 1806 included a poem called ‘The Star’. You all know the first verse, now set to music with an old French tune. Largely unknown are the other 4 verses, but ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’ is known the world over. [...]
There are obvious parallels between the Taylor and Brontë daughters.
Both were Romantics, anonymous authors with a clergyman father, amazed by their success. What Colchester has never realised is that they were nearly neighbours too.
The Rev Patrick Brontë, a remarkable man, was born Patrick Brunty, son of an Irish farm labourer. Yet he actually won a scholarship to St John’s College Cambridge. It was here he changed his name to Brontë to hide his humble origins. He studied for the church, going initially as a curate to Wethersfield near Braintree.
But in the summer of 1807, shortly before his full ordination, he moved to Colchester to visit St Peter’s, the civic church on North Hill, which was reserved from Cambridge for an Evangelical minister like Brontë.
Nothing came of this visit, Brontë fell in love with a farmer’s daughter, and his life moved on.
We shall never know if, in his brief stay, he crossed the path of the famous Taylor authors. What we do know however is that two streets away in George Street was another bedroom window facing west, where a young Grammar School pupil also studied the stars, scratching his name with a diamond on the window pane.
As with Jean Rhys’s Brontë prequel, “Wide Sargasso Sea,” this shift of perspective lets the reader view the original story anew.While The Guardian reviews Jackie Kay's new poetry collection, Bantam:
There are so many delightful poems here. I loved Perfume, about trying in vain to make scent out of rose petals (I recognise the futile enterprise from childhood), and who could resist a poem with the title Would Jane Eyre Come to the Information Desk? (Kate Kellaway)The poem was first published in 2015. It can be read in its entirety here.
You can practically hear Heathcliff and Cathy calling to each other across the desolate, windswept landscape.Bookneeders reviews Manga Classics' take on Jane Eyre.
What with the ominous music, the funereal wood and wine-colored furnishings, and the fog wafting in, you get the creepy feeling that things will not end well. And of course, they don’t.
“The Moors,” by Jen Silverman, is a macabre satire, conjuring (and Americanizing) those Victorian literary oddballs, the Brontës: Charlotte, who wrote “Jane Eyre;” Emily, who created Heathcliff and Cathy in “Wuthering Heights;” and their dissolute brother, Branwell, who lived together in a gloomy, isolated mansion in the midst of the Yorkshire Moors. [...]
The eccentric family has always been ripe for exploitation and exaggeration, and New York-based playwright Silverman has stepped into the fray with subversive, diabolical glee.
She introduces us to the spinster sisters’ bizarre existence, with austere, severe Agatha in charge of everything and everybody, particularly her unhappy, unacknowledged sister, Huldey, her (unseen) profligate brother, Branwell and the maid, whose name and hat change depending on whether she’s perceived to be in the kitchen or the parlor. It’s either Marjory or Mallory; one’s pregnant and the other has typhus.
Somewhat peripheral to the main events, but no less entertaining, are a philosophical Mastiff, mired in existential dread, and an air-brained but independent-minded Moor-Hen. And, as is common in these Gothic tales, a governess, Emilie, is added to the mix. Mayhem, murder and lesbian love ensue.
The perfect shepherd for this black-sheep of a sendup is Lisa Berger, one of the best directors in town, who relishes diving into deep, dark comedies. She and her marvelous cast are having a longing, lusty field-day with this West coast premiere at Diversionary Theatre. (Pat Launer)
