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Friday, May 05, 2023

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The Guardian has an obituary for actor Barbara Young.
In other celebrated Pulman adaptations, Young played Anna Scherer in War and Peace (1972) and Madame Lippevechsel in Crime and Punishment (1979), both for the BBC, and Miss Scatcherd in the 1970 film Jane Eyre. (Anthony Hayward)
Star Tribune has an obituary for another actor, Barbara Bryne.
"She was a small lady with a huge talent — one of a kind," said former Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling, who directed Bryne in numerous shows at the Minneapolis theater where images of her in action are embossed on the exterior and interior of the building.
Dowling first worked with Bryne at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival, created by the Guthrie's founder, Tyrone Guthrie. She played a Rude Mechanical in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the beginning of a decadeslong partnership with the director that included "H.M.S. Pinafore," "Macbeth," "Jane Eyre," "His Girl Friday" and "Pygmalion." (Rohan Preston)
Independent lists the '40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights'.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Will there ever be a novel that burns with more passionate intensity than Wuthering Heights? The forces that bring together its fierce heroine Catherine Earnshaw and cruel hero Heathcliff are violent and untameable, yet rooted in a childhood devotion to one another, when Heathcliff obeyed Cathy’s every command. It’s impossible to imagine this novel ever provoking quiet slumbers; Emily Brontë’s vision of nature blazes with poetry.  (Chris Harve)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
You will need a cold, dead heart not to be moved by one of literature’s steeliest heroines. From the institutional cruelty of her boarding school, the “small, plain” Jane Eyre becomes a governess who demands a right to think and feel. Not many love stories take in a mad woman in the attic and a spot of therapeutic disfigurement, but this one somehow carries it off with mythic aplomb.  (Ceri Radford )
More sites listing the filming locations for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story mention Belton House, which was Gateshead in Jane Eyre 2006. From Radio Times:
Belton House has also been used as a location for the likes of similar period dramas like The Young Victoria, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, but can also be visited as a National Trust venue. (Morgan Cormack)
According to The Sun,
Ripon - best known for its cathedral, which has a history dating back 1350 years - is the city which inspired Charlotte Brontë to write classic Jane Eyre. (Tom Duffy)
Well, Norton Conyers which may or may not have inspired the creation of Thornfield Hall is near Ripon but that's it.

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