The Guardian's readers interviewed actor Tara Fitzgerald and one of them asked:
Vikkimarshamarsh: Would you rather be Polly from The Camomile Lawn or Helen from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? Helen had a very difficult time. Polly had a lot more fun. Helen is an oppressed Brontë woman in Victorian England, married to a dissolute man, who falls in love with a much more honourable working farmer from the gentry. It was controversial because it’s really a novel about a woman getting out of an abusive marriage. Polly, Mary Wesley wrote in her 60s, based on her experiences of the war, and the people that she knew who were quite sexually progressive and decided to live life to the full on the proviso you didn’t know what tomorrow would bring. (Rich Pelley)
A contributor to
Vanguardia (Mexico) quotes from P.D. James's
Talking about Detective Fiction and her opinion that Jane Eyre might be considered 'detective fiction', too.
El ensayo abre con una pregunta que también me inquieta: “¿a qué nos referimos exactamente cuando hablamos de ‘historia detectivesca’? ¿En qué se diferencia del mainstream o literatura general?”. El tema es más complicado de lo que parece, porque si pensamos en un enigma, alguien que intenta resolverlo y una serie de indicios para llegar a la respuesta, podríamos decir que existen muchas novelas con esas características. James cita como ejemplo “
Emma” de Jane Austen o a
“Jane Eyre” de Charlotte Brontë, dos libros que nadie juzgaría como “detective fiction”. Entonces, ¿cuál es la frontera?
(Eugenia Flores Soria) (Translation)
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