Spiky Conversations

The Quad-City Times talks about the Literary Heroines exhibition in Davenport, IA:

As staffers at Davenport's Putnam Museum prepared for a board of directors meeting late last year, they set out several items from storage that aren't often seen.
They included an 1828 wedding dress worn by an ancestor of the Putnams — the family that established the museum.
A woman attending the board meeting noted that the dress was from the time period of Charlotte Brontë's novel, "Jane Eyre," and said she'd often wondered how characters in that story dressed. (Alma Gaul)

The York Press is listing the York Civic Trust Plaques and today is the turn of The George Inn in Coney Street:

The inn's most famous guests, however - at least as far as the people of today are concerned - were undoubtedly Charlotte Brontë and her sister Anne. With their friend Ellen Nussey they were travelling from Haworth to Scarborough for the sake of Anne's health, and stayed at The George on the night of May 24/25, 1849. (Stephen Lewis)

The Virginia-Pilot reminds us that

 PBS’ Great American Read will wind up Tuesday with a live broadcast (8 p.m., PBS) in which “America’s best-loved novel” is identified, after several weeks of voting. The 10 finalists (alphabetically speaking): “Charlotte's Web,” the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, “Gone with the Wind,” the Harry Potter series, “Jane Eyre,” “Little Women,” the “Lord of the Rings” series, the Outlander series,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” (Erica J. Smith)

The Australian reviews Girl, Balancing & Other Stories by Helen Dunmore:

Other stories involve John Donne, Keats and Grace Poole, the housekeeper in Jane Eyre, as well as people — especially older people, and women — usually overlooked. (Felicity Plunkett)

Wired talks about the re-edition of several scientific classics putting them in context with literature in general:

“If we think about it from the point of view of literature in general, I would ask myself why we should be interested in the first edition of Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre or Anna Karenina?” says Anton. “Reading the work as it was written by its author transports us to how they imagined it while writing it, how the author chose each of the words and not others.” (Sarah Scoles)

iNews highlights some night activities at the British museums:

Spooky Storytelling
West Yorkshire
Explore the atmospheric Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth by candlelight. Residents of the parsonage will share ghost stories and local superstitions. Thurs, 5.30pm-8pm, adults £8.50. children £4, free if you live in certain local postcodes, bronte.org.uk 

Vulture Hound reviews the latest album of Jimmy Urine, Euringer:

And that’s without mentioning the sickly, extreme Believed eighties-ness of The Doobie Brothers cover ‘What a Fool Believes’ and his rendition of Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ will be stuck in your head for days! (Rai Jayne Hearse)

The Live Mirror recommends The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera:

The novel is written by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera. Miss Prim is entering the house of landed gentry in one of those awkward ‘not quite family, not quite staff’ roles such as librarian or governess. Like one of Gaskell’s or Brontë’s heroines she engages in spiky slightly confrontational conversations with her employer. Gentle, thought-provoking and really one of those books that you will think about for a long while. (Saumya Gourisaria)

The Courier interviews the new artistic director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Elizabeth Newman:

Ask Elizabeth about the writers who inspire her and the flood gates open. “Oh so many,” she enthuses. “Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, the Restoration writers, John Donne, William Blake. I adore remarkable novelists like Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen, the Brontës, JM Barrie, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot. I’m in awe of writers who have the capacity to transform, to distil an idea into a few words. They are just awesome. (Caroline Lindsay)

Motorcycle routes in Alaska on Rider:

Dalton Highway
I’d somehow curried favor with Lady Luck again, as an uncharacteristically dry Dalton Highway guided us for a glorious 248 miles. Gliding along a good dirt road from Fairbanks to Wiseman, we were just 12 miles from Coldfoot–the last place to gas up and the halfway point to Prudhoe Bay.
The landscape took on a raw, peculiar beauty with a bleak “Wuthering Heights” quality.  (Lisa Morris)

Playground (in Spanish) reviews the Spanish translation of How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ:

Más bien al contrario: en Monstruas y centauras, el texto autobiográfico que acaba de publicar Marta Sanz, la madrileña explica haber sufrido el mismo tipo de violencias estructurales —heteropatriarcales— que denuncian los testimonios Anne Finch, Charlotte Brontë, Kate Wilhem, Adrienne Rich o Sylvia Plath en Cómo acabar con la escritura de las mujeres. (...)
"Lo escribió ella, pero alguien la ayudó (Robert Browning, Branwell Brontë, Su propio 'lado masculino')" (...)
Joanna Russ demuestra que tras la estructura del "lo escribió ella, pero..." no hay simple maledicencia, prejuicios sin consecuencias. (...)
"Cuando estoy enseñando mis lecciones o cosiendo", reconocía Charlotte Bronttë, "preferiría estar leyendo o escribiendo; pero intento negarme a mí misma". (Eudald Espluga) (Translation)

Tomos y Grapas (in Spanish) presents the Spanish edition of  Jane by Aline McKenna and Ramon K. Perez

Se nos presenta una libre actualización de Jane Eyre, el clásico escrito por Charlotte Brontë. En este caso será la joven Jane quien viajará a Nueva York para cuidar de una niña con una extraña familia. Un thriller romántico aderezado por el espectacular y delicado trabajo de Ramón Pérez. (Alfredo Matarranz) (Translation)

A recent Emily Brontë celebration took place in Avilés (Spain), La Nueva España talks about it:

Escritoras como Leonor López de Córdoba, Juana Manso, Oliva de Sabuco, Delmira Agustini o Beatriz Bernal son, desde ayer, un poco más conocidas para el público juvenil al haber protagonizado sus textos la sesión del Club de Lectura "Una habitación propia", celebrada en la Factoría Cultural. Al acto, que conmemoraba el 200.º aniversario del nacimiento de Emily Brontë, se sumaron alumnos de Bachillerato del colegio Paula Frassinetti, autores del blog "Redescubriendo autoras". (...)
La jornada, para la cual algunas asistentes vistieron modelos de la época de la autora de "Cumbres borrascosas", comenzó con un pequeña representación teatral a cargo de cuatro habituales del club de lectura que promueve la concejalía de Igualdad. Ofrecieron una historia en la que mostraron a las tres hermanas Brontë (Charlotte, Emily y Anne), poetas y novelistas que en principio firmaban sus obras con seudónimo. (C.G. Menéndez) (Translation)

The intention is good, but please check your sources. We read in El Economista (Spain):

Lo de que detrás de cada gran hombre hay una gran mujer fue, literalmente, cierto. Bajo el seudónimo de J. T. Je-roy, Currer Bell, J. K. Rowling, George Eliot, Gauthier o Ferrán Caballero nacían algunas de las obras más aclamadas de la literatura universal como, entre muchas otras, Cumbres borrascosas, Harry Potter, Claudine o el Molino de Floss. Detrás de cada una de estas firmas masculinas había una mujer, que por prohibiciones de la época o de las editoriales, presiones de sus esposos o, simplemente, porque sabían que si utilizaban su nombre real sus obras no se tomarían en serio, tuvieron que enmascarar su identidad. (Cecilia Moya) (Translation)

Perú21 (in Spanish) interviews the playwright Mariana de Althaus:

Y cuando llegamos para esta entrevista, interrumpimos la lectura de Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, en la mesa de un café barranquino. (...)
“He escrito y dirigido 16 obras de teatro. Cuando no es el teatro, leo. Estoy leyendo Cumbres borrascosas, que no lo había leído hasta ahora. Tengo muy poco tiempo para leer, por eso no veo series. Felizmente, hasta ahora no he resbalado en Netflix (risas)”.  (Mijail Palacios) (Translation)

Il Corriere della Sera (Italy) interviews the writer Anna Todd:

Roberta Scorranese: Che cosa leggeva?
«Romanzi, anche classici, come Cime tempestose. In fondo, i miei libri hanno una forma non tradizionale, però l’intreccio è sempre quello e rispecchia i codici delle novelle romantiche». (Translation)

Noticias de Guipuzkoa (in Spanish) and others talk about the Euskadi Literature Awards. The winner of the Euskera Translation category was Irene Aldasoro for Gailur Ekaiztsuak (Wuthering Heights). Tiempo21 (Cuba) mentions the screening of Wuthering Heights 1992 in the Cinemazul Festival. Cinemarodrigo (in Portuguese) posts about I Walked with a Zombie 1943. The Sisters' Room posts about The Hawthorn: Barraclough’s house in Haworth. The Japanese Brontë Society Blog briefly posts about their recent 2018 Convention.