The Norwegian author Hilde Østby publishes in
Aftenposten (Norway) an essay about the impact of Jane Eyre on her life:
En bok kan forandre ditt indre landskap for alltid. Jane Eyre forandret mitt.
Jane Eyre er en engelsk Pippi.
Etter årevis med spekulasjoner ble det i 1850 avslørt: Currer Bell var ikke en mann.
Prestedatteren Charlotte Brontë fra Yorkshire trådte ut fra psevdonymets mørke, etter tre år med ville spekulasjoner. Nå visste alle at bestselgeren Jane Eyre var skrevet av en kvinne. (Translation)
The Hindu talks about female and male leads in literature:
In literature, women have often trained a feminist lens on society. Jane Austen’s sardonic novels discussed property inheritance and marriage laws that placed women’s money at the disposal of their husbands. The Brontës too wrote of the trials and hopes of young women who don’t always have parents looking out for them.
Charlotte Brontë gave us a memorable character in Jane Eyre. She does not allow anyone to ride roughshod on her dignity, not even her boss, and she dares to dream of love. However, there is a darkness embedded in the novel in the form of a mentally unstable Bertha, Rochester’s wife, who is imprisoned in her own home and whose existence is not acknowledged by her husband.
This dark corner of the novel captured the interest of another writer, Jean Rhys. In Jane Eyre, Bertha is a beautiful Creole woman from a wealthy family in Jamaica. By Rochester’s own admission, his father encouraged him to marry her for her wealth. But once he sees that she is mentally unstable, why does he not leave her in Jamaica and return to England? Why does he bring her to a new country where she is friendless, and lock her away for 10 long years? (Annie Zaidi)
Daily Times (Pakistan) interviews the actress Nadia Jamil:
“Stories are tied up in our DNA in our genetic memory. Memories in our bodies, our subconscious, the way we develop characters, the themes we choose, the language we choose to tell our stories in, all reveal so much about life, others and ourselves. The unravelling of a story is such an incredible process. I think of some of my own favourite stories from ‘Aesop’s Fables’, “1001 Nights” and Grimms’ Fairy Tales” to classic literature like Austen, Dickens and Brontë to Georgette Heyer, PG Wodehouse, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth and Musharaf Farooqi to Ashfaq Ahmad, Manto, Ismat Chugtai, Shafiqur Rahman and I could go on and on with an endless list. " (Muhammad Ali)
Boloji talks about the writer Taslima Nasreen and quotes from the (in)famous letter by Robert Southey to Charlotte Brontë:
It might sound preposterous today but there was indeed a time when writing was considered to be an all-male prerogative and a woman was thought to be ‘genetically unsuited’ for literary production. As revealed in Robert Southey's famous letter to Charlotte Brontë , the bias in the West against women indulging in creative activity was very strong: “Literature is not the business of a women’s life and it can not be.’’ We have now come a very long way from the initial stage when women writers had to wage a long drawn-our battle for recognition of their literary talent. (Rashmi Bajaj)
The Observer looks for the spirit of Jean Rhys in Dominica:
Roseau is tiny. It took me five minutes to stroll from the hotel up to the town’s Botanic Gardens, created in 1890 in collaboration with Kew. Was it under the gardens’ vast banyan tree – nowadays a favourite spot for selfies – that Rhys painfully recalled having been “mentally seduced” by a certain “Mr Howard”, an elderly Englishman who fantasised about turning a wide-eyed 14-year-old girl into his sex slave? Or did this strange episode take place in the more formal garden that encloses the clifftop Roseau library? (I knew that this was where Rhys first read Jane Eyre, the book that inspired her best-known novel, Wide Sargasso Sea.) (Miranda Seymour)
MindMatters and the uncanny valley:
Centuries ago, the Uncanny Valley was the stuff of finely crafted horror tales where dark secrets are only slowly revealed, for example in Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
Centuries ago sounds a bit too remote.
Ivana Grkeš lists important books on
Dubrovniknet (Croatia):
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Sestre Brontë ostavile su golem opus iza sebe, a većina čitatelja preferira Orkanske visove. Volim ih i ja, ali Jane Eyre ipak je zauzela posebno mjesto u mojem srcu. Radi se o više manje klasičnom Bildungsromanu koji prikazuje život jedne obične djevojke neobičnih pogleda na život. Izuzetno je zanimljivo čitanje svakodnevnog života jedne obitelji i načina na koji ona u taj život intervenira. Jane je snažna i neovisna djevojka koja uspijeva svoj emotivni život ukrotiti dovoljno da donese racionalne odluke. Međutim, iako je roman presvučen sivom, gotičkom bojom (sinestezija pisane riječi), na kraju ostavlja prostor za rimbaudovsku zraku sunca koja raščišćava sivilo i donosi sretan završetak u nesavršenim okolnostima. (Translation)
A local health care administrator and Brontëite in
The Westerly Sun.
20 Minutos (México) mentions the Emily Brontë's Asperger speculation. The sixth instalment of
The Eyre Guide's eight days of
Jane Eyre.
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