The Letters of Charlotte Bronte: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends Volume II: 1848-1851 (Letters of Charlotte Bronte 1848-1851) (Vol 2)
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Dare to Die by Carolyn...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
John Mullan selects the best teachers in literature for The Guardian . Lucy Snowe makes it into the list: The heroine of Charlotte Brontë's last novel, Villette , finds employment teaching in a private girls' boarding school in Belgium. Plain and brainy, she's scornful of the silly, rich girls she has to teach. The school hums with sexual tension, and Lucy falls for first the school doctor, then...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Abelard Abelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story has often been retold, notably by Alexander Pope. "From lips like those what precept failed to move? Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love." Holofernes...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
More scholar books with Brontë mentions: The Female Gothic New Directions Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith Palgrave Macmillan 12 Nov 2009 9780230222717 240 pages This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Twilight zone only grows and grows, but let us begin with non-Twilight-related news. The Independent interviews Mary Beard : Which fictional character most resembles you? When I was younger I liked to imagine myself as a cross between Jane Eyre and some hapless Margaret Drabble heroine – a horribly self-regarding position to take. ( Boyd Tonkin ) Today's Chicago Woman writes about author...
book-a-rama (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yes, shut up, I know I said I was going easy on the challenges but I couldn't pass this one up. I love the Brontes so I must do All About the Brontes hosted by Laura's Reviews . Besides it doesn't really start until January. I have buckets of time. Here is my list for All About the Brontes: The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte Either Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
By putting her own name to the Belle de Jour blog, the sex blogger has joined one of literature's more honourable traditions The story of Belle de Jour, the anonymous sex blogger whose elusive mystery has tantalised investigative journalists, literary detectives, and blog-busters for years is headline news , of course. Sex sells. And the woman who was not Isabel Wolff, or Rowan Pelling, or Tony Young,...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Greensboro News & Record republishes news from 75 years ago (November 1934) and we find this curious one: The Dolley Madison Club of Madison voted unanimously to donate 24 books to the Rockingham County Library at a meeting that also heard Mrs. W.T. Lanten talk about the life of Charlotte Bronte. ( Jack Scism ) The Twilight phenomenon arrives to Sri Lanka, Brontë mentions included: Still,...
An Enchanted Cottage (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
...located in Concord, MA, is where Louisa May Alcott penned "Little Women," and what a magical place to visit! Her bedroom is on the second floor, right, front side of the house. In between the two front windows is a small, half-moon shaped desk that her father built for her, and that is where history was made. Shivers run down my spine every time I've taken the tour, standing right next...
silencing the bell (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
So we had a mad dash around the charity shops today after M decided that she wasn't well read enough to get into Yale . Her reading list now includes: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Persuasion by Jane Austen Hard Times by Charles Dickens Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (labelled as a first edition but we have established it is not) The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike War and Peace by Leon Tolstoy...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Today The Guardian brings several allusions to the Brontës: John Mullan lists several examples of ekphrasis (the recreation in words of a work of art): Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lucy Snowe, Brontë's narrator, visits an art gallery in Villette (aka Brussels) and encounters The Cleopatra : a large portrait of a voluptuous woman ("that wealth of muscle, that affluence of flesh")...
book-a-rama (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I'm foreseeing a busy couple of months ahead with Christmas coming. I have several projects on the go, including making Christmas gifts. I also decided to spend a little more time on my sad Etsy shop and actually put some items in it. Then there's the concerts, parties, cleaning and baking that will need to be done. Last year, I caught a really bad flu and ended up in bed for a couple of weeks. I...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week Seven Up by Janet Evanovich N or M? by Agatha Christie The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (Review Coming Soon) Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Books I Am Currently Reading Dune by Frank Herbert...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The Independent reviews the latest book by Juliet Barker Conquest: The English Kingdom of France . The article begins with a reminder of Juliet Barker's previous Brontë work: The books that first brought Juliet Barker renown were moving studies of the Brontës' lives and letters, and an immense life of Wordsworth. Her reinvention as a medievalist with her last book, Agincourt, seemed extraordinary,...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The New York Times reviews the dance piece The Art of Making Dances by Chase Granoff at The Kitchen : The performance begins strongly. As Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” plays, the cast gathers around Mr. Granoff, who pours Champagne. Here, Joe Levasseur’s lighting works wonders, as he gradually darkens the stage until only two dancers remain. ( Gia Kourlas ) The Telegraph &...
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