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Monday, April 22, 2019

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The Guardian reviews The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins:
Instead, Collins offers us a bold and timely reinvention of the classic gothic novel: this is a story unashamedly immersed in its literary heritage. There are echoes of Jane Eyre in Frannie’s upbringing as an illegitimate child of an English plantation owner, John Langton, and his Jamaican housekeeper.  (Hannah Beckerman)
El Asombrario & Co. reviews Luciana by Pilar Tena:
Tiene pequeños ecos de Jane Eyre, pero también hay párrafos que le cabrían dentro de la boca a Emily Dickinson. Luciana es íntegra e insobornable. (Sonia Fides) (Translation)
Letralia (in Spanish) interviews the playwright and actress Claudia Schvartz:
Rolando Revagliatti: ¿De qué artistas te atraen más sus avatares que la obra?
—Tengo una pésima memoria. Los sucesos en la vida de las personas no sé si me interesan demasiado. Realmente no puedo recordar a ningún autor por sus hazañas. Si las he conocido fue a partir de la obra: Louise Labé, François Villon, William Shakespeare siempre son enigmas… Emily Brontë… a todos los leí antes y después de conocer algún hecho de su biografía. (Translation)
Cinematographe (Italy) vindicates the film Definitely, Maybe:
Sebbene sia simile alla maggior parte delle commedie prodotte in quegli anni, il lungometraggio di Adam Brooks riesce a rendersi riconoscibile e, sotto certi punti di vista, originale grazie ad un particolare espediente narrativo, necessario a mettere in moto la vera storia del film: il MacGuffin del libro di Jane Eyre, senza il quale non si sarebbe mai giunti ad un finale esaustivo. (Letizia Hushi) (Translation)
Rock My Wedding posts about a Scottish wedding with alleged Wuthering Heights hints. AnneBrontë.org celebrates the birthdays of both Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey. Finally, a very curious article: Gordon Fischer Law Firm makes a legal analysis of Wuthering Heights:
Often when I’m reading fiction I’ll find estate planning-related issues that cause conflicts, both big and small, for the characters. And, while the stories may be fictitious, the lessons they give us serve as valuable reminders of the importance of quality estate planning.
One such tale I recently revisited is the 1845 gothic novel, Wuthering Heights, in which author Emily Brontë swiftly weaves in ample estate planning issues with English family drama worthy of the Kardashians.
While many estate planning laws and practices have evolved and changed since the mid-1800s, many also have not. Indeed, the outcome of failing to create a valid, quality estate plan certainly has not.
Wuthering Heights twists and turns with love, revenge, birth, and death spanning some thirty-something years from the late 1700s to 1803. Among many other plot devices, conflict rests on the real property (named Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange) that a man named Heathcliff comes to in possession of through a number of different property rights and inheritance laws. In this way English common law has its own sort of starring role in the book, a character for which Brontë shows an impressive grasp of. (Read more)

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