Jane Eyre without the letter E

The Guardian features American playwright Adrienne Kennedy.

Kennedy was whirling through London’s theatre scene. [...]

Kennedy was writing pages for the adaptation and Kenneth Tynan, then the literary manager for the National Theatre company at the Old Vic, came on board. Spinetti, it was decided, would direct a one-off performance in December 1967, to perhaps be followed by a full run the next year.

Laurence Olivier was the National’s founding director and had been running the company for several years. For Kennedy, he was still Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights – a film that is “fixed in my brain” she says. He was also her mother’s favourite actor. All these years later, she says that meeting him in London was “the most earth-shaking” encounter she has had. (Chris Wiegand)

Ahram Online looks back on the life and times of novelist, travel writer, and founder of the British Egypt Exploration Fund Amelia Edwards.

Born in London in 1831, there was little in Edwards’s early life that might have predicted her going on to play so important a role in the development of Egyptology aside perhaps from her intense interest in other countries and places besides her own.

An almost exact contemporary of the more famous Brontë sisters, born in the north of England in similar economic circumstances, Edwards was attracted early on to producing voluminous imaginative works, perhaps as a substitute for the experiences given to many of her male peers but typically denied to young women.

The latter were often kept cloistered up in the parental home and only left it upon marriage. They had few opportunities for formal education, and even fewer possibilities for rewarding careers.

Like the Brontë sisters, Edwards reacted to this situation by developing her imagination, finding in the writing that she began to produce from the age of seven onwards a way of exploring the opportunities denied her by the social conventions of the time. (David Tresilian)

SDX Central discusses AI.

AI systems are not really thinking. They are simply statistical systems that are correlating their training data with a prompt, he said. Also, they fail and there are many things they can’t do. For instance, some have shown trouble with basic arithmetic, when, on the other hand, they can write haikus or summarize “Jane Eyre” in different languages or without using the letter “e.” (Taryn Plumb)

More AI as El placer de la lectura (Spain) lists the best novels by women writers as recommended by AI. Both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre make it to the list.

“Cumbres borrascosas” (1847) de Emily Brontë

Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, una de las tres hermanas Brontë, contiene la quintaesencia de la novela romántica inglesa decimonónica. En sus páginas se suceden los amores apasionados limítrofes con el incesto, los odios agriados que se prolongan durante generaciones, los celos, las apariciones espectrales y las tormentas, todo ello narrado con una fuerza y un brillante retrato de personajes que la han convertido en un clásico imperecedero. 

“Jane Eyre” (1847) de Charlotte Brontë

Marcada por su temprana orfandad materna, la escritora británica Charlotte Brontë, que a lo largo de su corta vida (1816-1855) acumuló muchos lutos, revela en su obra el apasionado deseo de encontrar un lugar en el mundo. Jane Eyre, la obra que consagró su éxito fulminante, tiene los ingredientes de una novela gótica, pero rebasa con mucho las convenciones del género. Jane, la protagonista, nos muestra un nuevo modo de descubrir la realidad, y con su reflexión la acompañamos en un viaje hacia la autenticidad. (Translation)

Jane Eyre is also one of 'Seven Classic Novels That You Will Actually Want to Read This Summer' according to The Teen Mag.

5. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Genre: romance, coming-of-age

Length: 352 pages

"Jane Eyre" follows the life of the bright, relentless Jane Eyre, from her tumultuous childhood to her journey of self-discovery and love. Orphaned at a young age, she is sent to live with Mrs. Reed and her cousins, who treat her cruely. Nevertheless, she finds joy and escape in books and excels in her studies. As Jane grows older, she becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the brooding and mysterious Mr. Rochester, who seems to be hiding dark secrets. The novel explores the themes of love, independence, and social class, showcasing the resilience and determination of Jane Eyre as she navigates through adversity in search of self-worth. (Emma Luu)

However, the book that inspired writer Merryn Allingham as a teenager was Wuthering Heights as she says on Great British Life.

The book that inspired me as a teenager

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. I fell in love with the wild, magnificent Yorkshire landscape and the equally wild Gothic romance. Today, my view of the novel is very different. When I recently reread it with a book-group, I found it an abusive and difficult read.

WNG shares a transcript of a recent programme which featured Jane Eyre. Zenda Libros (Spain) mentions the fact that the first copies of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer made it into the US literally under cover of Jane Eyre.

Finally, question about Frances O'Connor's Emily on the Brussels Brontë Blog.