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Thursday, March 12, 2020

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Graphic Policy shares a preview of the comic Adler #2:
After uniting some of the most famous heroines of the Victorian age including Jane Eyre, Miss Havisham and Marie Curie, Irene Adler must finally come face-to-face with Sherlock Holmes’s greatest nemesis, Moriarty!  World Fantasy Award winning writer Lavie Tidhar and TMNT artist Paul McCaffrey present an alternate history of the greatest literary characters of the 19th Century in the vein of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!
The Nerd Daily recommends '5 YA Victorian Retellings You Will Love', such as
My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand (A retelling of Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre)
While this is the second book in the The Lady Janies series, this is a stand-alone novel and is only connected to its forerunner because both feature a protagonist named ‘Jane’ and both are retellings of older tales.
You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love—and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!) Or does she?
Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights. (Simone Richter)
ABC (Spain) features a recent release in Spanish of a compilation of essays by Romanian philosopher and essayist Emil Cioran.
Santa Teresa es de las pocas mujeres de las que habla en los «Cuadernos», y a la que le dedica más referencias y comentarios. Otras son: Tsietáieva; Simone Weil («Esa mujer extraordinaria cercana a la santidad»); Emily Dickinson («Cambiaría a todos los poetas por ella»); Ajmátova; Carolina Von Günderode; Sylvia Beach (acude a su entierro); Emily Bronte; Simone de Beauvoir (para meterse con Sartre en el entierro de ella); o Susan Sontag (a quien descalifica por la crítica que le hizo a «La tentación de existir»). (Cësar Antonio Molina) (Translation)
Far Out magazine has a lengthy article on 'The Story Behind The Song: Wuthering Heights’ Kate Bush’s literary record-breaker'.
On this day in 1978, Kate Bush achieved something truly remarkable. She became the first female to ever take her own, self-penned song to the number one spot in the U.K. It was a feat of determination and artistic pursuit that would cement the little known Bush as one of Britain’s most creative forces.
We’re going to look back at the incredible talent, skill and musicianship that went into creating this iconic number. From the track’s literary influence to the career it would herald, as we take a look at The Story Behind The Song.
As anyone who has studied English Literature at school will be able to tell you, the track was undoubtedly inspired by the novel written by Emily Brontë of the same name. Written in 1847 and published under her pseudonym Ellis Bell, Brontë’s novel has become a cultural touchpoint across the world.
The novel may have been written in the Yorkshire moors but the song was written in a leafy South London suburb in March of ’77. As London was swollen with the vicious angst and energy of punk, positively pulsating with feverish anger, Kate Bush was creating a masterful pop record: “There was a full moon, the curtains were open and it came quite easily,” Bush told her fan club in 1979.
But while we dream of Bush rifling through dusty books for her inspiration, the story goes that Bush didn’t read the book but caught the final ten minutes of the 1967 BBC mini-series based on the famous novel, writing the entire song in just under a few hours. However, those a little worried that the song has no literary identity needn’t fret, the song is still littered with references to the novel and its protagonist, Catherine Earnshaw.
Bush lifted lines straight from Brontë’s work as she uses Earnshaw’s plea “Let me in! I’m so cold” among other quotations from the novel. It’s clear that Bush truly connected with the song, and in fact, the novel too. She told Record Mirror in 1978, “Great subject matter for a song. I loved writing it. It was a real challenge to precis the whole mood of a book into such a short piece of prose.”
Bush continued, “Also when I was a child I was always called Cathy not Kate and I just found myself able to relate to her as a character. It’s so important to put yourself in the role of the person in a song. There’s no half measures. When I sing that song I am Cathy. (Her face collapses back into smiles.) Gosh, I sound so intense. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is so important to me. It had to be the single. To me, it was the only one.”
The Berkshire Eagle reviews briefly Hartford Stage's take on Jane Eyre, which finished its run a few days ago. More on the visit to the Mariemont Museum on the Brussels Brontë Blog. The Eyre Guide compares Jane Eyre and Villette.

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