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05
Jul
2009
Heathcliff is not going to the Emmys  

12 hours ago by M.

Let's start with unexpected news, it seems that the PBS has not submitted Wuthering Heights 2009 to the Emmy Awards. From The Envelope (Los Angeles Times): Very odd: Several notable TV miniseries didn't bother to enter the Emmy derby: BBC America's "Burn Up" and PBS productions "Oliver Twist" and "W ...

BrontëBlog - bronteblog.blogspot.com · Rank: 14,515 · 55 references

100 Novels: Burning Down the House with Jean Rhys  

22 hours ago by theexile

Wide Sargasso Sea By Jean Rhys (1966) Jean Rhys’s classic revisionist novel Wide Sargasso Sea resurrects an obscure, strange figure, Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and gives her her own book. Essentially a plot device used in Jane Eyre to keep separate lover ...

Exile on Ninth Street - exileonninthstreet.wordpress.com · Rank: 181,482 · 14 references

04
Jul
2009
Meh.  

1 day ago by sabrina92

Gahhh...I'm stuck on my fic, on chapter 3. I know what's going to happen in this chapter, but the problem is how to describe it in an interesting, original way since it's kind of repetitive to what happens all the time on RH.... I will have to read some of 'Jane Eyre' again. For some reason reading ...

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G.I. Jane Eyre and her stash of pornography  

1 day ago by M.

The latest novel by Alice Hoffman ( an inveterate Brontëite), The Story Sisters, is reviewed in The Philadelphia Enquirer: Shades of the Brontes: Three sisters have created an imaginary world of fairies and demons, queens and minions. (...) When Charlotte Bronte and her siblings were children, they ...

BrontëBlog - bronteblog.blogspot.com · Rank: 14,515 · 55 references

My life in books  

1 day ago by Gail

It's what old hacks call "the silly season," that period in summer when it goes very quiet except for the odd superstar's death. When I was a journo, it meant revisiting tedious stories about beasts of Exmoor. In a nutshell it's a time when occasionally there's nothing much to write about.I could te ...

A Curious Girl's Guide to Life - chat1960vintage.blogspot.com · 3 references

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy  

1 day ago by katherineprice

As promised, I begin as I mean to go on: with a book. ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ certainly isn’t a book for lighthearted readers. It’s long, Hardy’s description, although vivid, and intrusive narration can become tiresome, and those of you who’ve read it will know that it’s not a happy book. In fac ...

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Going ons.  

1 day ago by Wannabe Fashionista

What a nice week to express the summer~ Things started up on Monday, when I thought I ought to bike to my Grandma's house for some piano practice. It's always a nice little 10 minute ride around suburbia and alongside a little rickety creek. Only, I had forgotten that my grandma was actually at home ...

Beware the Jabberwock my ... - husbife.livejournal.com · 2 references

03
Jul
2009
A rags-to-riches tale  

2 days ago by M.

Sharon Tanenbaum recommends the recently published The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James in RealSimple: In the foreword to this historical novel, author Syrie James ( The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen) asks you to imagine that the private diaries of Jane Eyre scribe Charlotte Brontë ar ...

BrontëBlog - bronteblog.blogspot.com · Rank: 14,515 · 55 references

Jane Eyre takes the Stage in Beijing  

2 days ago by Brontëana

A new theatrical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is taking the stage in Beijing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Chinese born Wang Luoyong went to the United States in the 1980s and was recognized as one of the rare Asian faces in Broadway for playing the lead in "Mis ...

Untitled blog - bronteana.blogspot.com · 4 references

02
Jul
2009
Jane Eyre  

3 days ago by Adrian

Adrian’s rating: 7 (Watch once) First watched: 14th - 15th June 2009 (DVD, owned) Lou has me reading Jasper Fforde’s “ The Eyre Affair” and decided that I needed to watch “ Jane Eyre” (the 2006 BBC One miniseries) for “background”. I haven’t finished “The Eyre Affair” yet - so no spoilers please. I ...

Adrian Mateljan - webdjinn.com/blog · Rank: 192,157 · 1 reference

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