The complete works of Alice Brontë

Fox Baltimore shares a clip  related to the Classic Theatre of Maryland's production of Jane Eyre.

Co-adaptors of Classic Theatre of Maryland's production of "Jane Eyre" Laura Rocklyn and Sally Boyett join Marc for a preview of the brand-new show and the other programming at Classic Theatre of Maryland.

According to TV Insider, the 1940s is the most romantic movie decade.

And there are barriers aplenty in 1944’s take on Charlotte Brontë’s brooding Jane Eyre [...] with Joan Fontaine in the title role of a governess smitten with her secretive employer, Edward Rochester (Orson Welles).

The blunder of the day comes from Mail and Guardian (South Africa) in an article about names. Oh the irony of it!

Acton Bell. Currer Bell. Ellis Bell. Any of those names ring a bell?

They did in 19th-century England, as the authors of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Acton); Jane Eyre and Shirley (Currer); and Wuthering Heights (Ellis). 

And there, in the last title, is the giveaway. Acton, Currer and Ellis were pseudonyms for Alice [sic], Charlotte and Emily and the surname Bell for Brontë.      

But why this disguise? Writing in Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, a preface to the memorial edition of Wuthering Heights that she had prepared, Currer explains: “We agreed to arrange a small selection of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed. 

“Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our names under those of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because — without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called ‘feminine’ — we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the scourge of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise.”

This is a magnificent skewering of a critical foible still prevalent today — “the scourge of personality” — and an indictment of the misogyny of the publishing and literary worlds that the Brontës and countless other women writers before and after them encountered. (Darryl Accone)

Both Jane Eyre and Heathcliff make it onto the list of the '23 most loved literary characters of all time' compiled by Times Now News.