Haworth. Not easy to spell

BBC Radio 3 has author Jacqueline Wilson recall the first time she read Jane Eyre. It's lovely to hear her! And more audio as KPBS features Jen Silverman's play The Moors. There's an audio (and transcript) available with Kim Strassburger, who plays Agatha and Whitney Brianna Thomas, who plays...

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Without the Veil Between

A fictional account of Anne Brontë's life has just been published: Without the Veil Between  Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit by DM Denton All Things That Matter Press ISBN-13: 978-0999524336 November 2017 Int he words of the author: When I set out, well over two years ago, to write a...

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Filthy rich Heathcliff

The New Yorker tries to guess - humorously - what Heathcliff may have done during his three years' absence. 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...

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Jane Air (for real)

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...

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Dark Ladies

A Spanish translation of Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers has just been published: Damas oscurasTranslation by Alicia Frieyro Olalla García, Sara Lekanda, Magdalena Palmer and Consuelo Rubio Alcover Impedimenta Ediciones ISBN: 978-84-16542-89-5 ¿Qué hace que las historias victorianas...

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One set of covers for Charlotte Brontë

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...

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Perfume Gifts

A whole new collection of perfumes inspired by Jane Eyre: Poesie Perfume 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,...

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Getting things completely wrong

House Beautiful looks at the prices some books have fetched in auctions: 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. According to joint founder of Barnebys,...

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Pillow Gifts

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...

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Emily celebrates raking

The Sunday Times publishes a nice review of the two volumes of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 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...

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Mug Gifts

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...

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Smells Like Rain

The monthly Brontë Parsonage's Chapter & Verse article in Keighley News is full of events as usual: 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. We’ve enjoyed discovering more about him this year, and the poems of our creative partner...

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Every Object Can Spark a Story

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...

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Haworth Steampunk Weekend

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....

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Burn after reading

i-D features a new web series based on Middlemarch which has an LGBTQ theme. 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....

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Slow but deep

Source (She read Villette in November and deemed it 'slow but deep') The Telegraph has an article by Hunter Davies on his late wife, author Margaret Forster, and several extracts from the forthcoming compilation of her schoolgirl's diaries. AUGUST [1954] [...] 31st Felt awfully weak when I...

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Jewellery with Sophia Tobin

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...

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Jane Eyre translated into movement and music, colour and light

Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, authors of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf have written an article on the subject for TIME's Motto. 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...

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An Elegy

The Radio is the latest poetry collection by Leontia Flynn and includes a Brontë-related poem: The Radio Leontia Flynn Jonathan Cape, 2017 ISBN: 978-1787330085 The included poem is: The Brunties: An Elegy Let's not have any more poems on the Brontës. No, none of the weird sisters toiling in the gloom to...

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Charlotte's hair

Atlas Obscura discusses writers' hair. 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...

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