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Friday, August 18, 2017

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Clare Twomey's new project, after the ongoing Wuthering Heights: A Manuscript at the Parsonage will be at Tate Gallery in London, according to The Guardian:
The artist Clare Twomey is creating a working factory, with eight tonnes of processed clay, a 30-metre production line, workers, a wall of drying racks and over 2,000 fired clay objects. (...)
Twomey is confident that people will want to participate and points to the popularity of another of her projects at the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth. As there is no handwritten copy of Wuthering Heights, she is asking visitors to copy one line into a handmade book that will be exhibited next year, the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth. (Mark Brown)
Opera Today reviews the recent recording of John Joubert's Jane Eyre opera:
Librettist Kenneth Birkin has focused on Jane’s adult life, which deprives us of the first stages, at Gateshead and Lowood, of Jane’s progress through Brontë’s Bildungsroman but which sensibly makes Jane’s romantic trials with Rochester and St John Rivers the central concern. Each act is divided into three scenes. Act 1 begins on the eve of Jane’s departure from Lowood and journey to Thornfield, where she takes up her position of governess. Scenes two and three juxtapose Bertha Mason’s attempt to murder Rochester by setting his bed alight, with a garden scene in which Rochester and Jane declare their love for each other. Act 2 begins with the disruption of their wedding ceremony by Bertha’s brother, before the action shifts forward one year and presents Jane in the parlour of the Rivers’ cottage at Whitecross where she has been given refuge. When St John attempts to persuade Jane to join him, as his wife, as he departs for missionary work in India, she desists and, haunted by Rochester’s anguished cries, ‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’, returns to Thornfield where the final scene sees her reunited with the now blind Rochester, who is at last free to marry her. (Claire Seymour) (Read more)
The Herald interviews the writer Nikki Gemmell:
What was the first book you read that made you think maybe you could become a writer? 
Jane Eyre, which I read when I was about 12. To be so invested in a character.
 Cookbooks for kids in Los Angeles Times:
You may have bestowed the stacks, hoping that the bug to cook would take hold like the one to read, the culinary equivalent of giving copies of Madeleine L’Engle or Charlotte Brontë. Likely, you and your children cooked as you read these early cookbooks, spattering the pages with sauce or blowing snowstorms of flour as you went. (Amy Scattergod)
Dork talks about the new track released by the band Banfi, June:
Speaking about the track, Joe from the band explains: “This is a love song based on those classic ‘run to the airport’ scenes near the end of films, only this time he’s too late. Lyrically, I couldn’t get the verses right until I stole Kate Bush’s idea of using ‘Wuthering Heights’ for inspiration, and then Heathcliff’s character was a big help. ‘June’ is actually a hybrid of what began as two separate songs. We like the tension and urgency created between those two threads of those initial songs as they fight for their place in this final version” (Stephen Ackroyd)
Comicosity thinks that DC Comics' Sebastian Faust is quite a Heathcliff-type:
I wanted a brooding, aloof, tormented Heathcliff type, because that’s always sexy, and Sebastian Faust fit the bill perfectly.
The Daily Astorian recommends summer readings:
If you grew up with the tale of Jane Eyre and loved it, you will also enjoy “Mr. Rochester,” by Sarah Shoemaker. Finally giving us the story of Edward Rochester from childhood to adulthood, it fleshes out his character and explains some of his behaviors from his point of view throughout the Jane Eyre story. The majority of this book focuses on the Rochester’s background, his lonely childhood and adulthood, although it does go briefly through the story of Jane Eyre as well, rounding out the same story from a different perspective. An enjoyable read for fans of Charlotte Brontë, albeit written from a more modern point of view.
And Mamamia lists some books 'for a lifetime':
Jane Eyre
It's a novel about the power of love, and the many transformations within a woman's life. From a young girl indebted to her abusive aunt and cousins, to a woman in charge of her own life - yet understanding her place in the world.
When 'plain' Jane Eyre falls in love with Edward Rochester she goes through the phases so many of us have also experienced: daydreaming in secret; jealousy; bravery in revealing her feelings; skepticism that he feels the same in return; heartbreak; loss; and deep, deep love that remains, despite all odds. (Caitlin Bishop)
The Rumpus interviews the publisher and author,  Peg Alford Pursell:
Rumpus: There are these studies out recently, which, to the delight of readers everywhere, say that reading fiction makes us more empathetic. Assuming the premise to be true, what are you hoping that the reader gains from reading your book? (Linda Michel Cassidy)
Pursell: My first awareness that an author “knew” me came to me as a child when I was reading an abridged condensed version of Jane Eyre—my mother was a member of a subscription book “club” that monthly sent her books that contained these forms of classics. That was a profound moment for me to felt known and understood by someone, an author, who I’d never met. I felt less alone in the world. 
The Sydney Morning Herald praises I Walked with a Zombie 1944:
Don't be led astray by the title. Set on a Caribbean island and loosely inspired by Jane Eyre, Jacques Tourneur's 1943 chiller relies less on explicit shocks than on a delicate, cobwebby texture – to the point where, as with so much of Tourneur's work, it's hard to say too much without risking breaking the spell. (Jake Wilson)
The Times recommended a programme in Radio 4:
Breaking Up with Bradford
Radio 4, 2.15pm

When Kasim returns to Bradford after finishing his English degree at Cambridge University, he finds himself in a neither-fish-nor-fowl situation. His accent, which was not quite posh enough for Cambridge, is now too posh for Bradford, and many of his old friends are baffled by the point of his degree. When he explains that he studied Wuthering Heights as an exploration of the tragic and self-consuming nature of love and morality, his friend is sceptical. “How is any of that going to help you get a job?” she scoffs. It’s a good point. (Catherine Nixey)
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A Belgian castle in Le Croix:
Aux premiers jours de l’hiv (Xavier Renard) (Translation)
er, la brume cotonneuse enveloppant le fleuve lui confère une atmosphère nostalgique, qui aurait inspiré, en leur temps, les sœurs Brontë, Jane ­Austen et les plus belles plumes romantiques anglaises.
Brave Writer recommends Jane Eyre 2011; The Silver Petticoat Review posts about Jane Eyre 1996. The Brussels Brontë Blog visits Kilkee (Ireland) one of the stops on the Irish honeymoon trail of Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls.

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