BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let's begin with the Brontë references in today's newsround that are not Twilight-related, shall we? The Telegraph and Argus comments on the upcoming auction of Very Important Brontë Items at Christie's . A rare copy of Emily Bronte’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, owned by her sister Charlotte, is expected to be sold for up to 60,000 US dollars – about £36,000 – when...
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")...
The FRBR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Lots of people have been linking to Rob Styles’s Bringing FRBR Down to Earth. Wuthering Heights is a work by Emily Bronte, realized in a written expression of the same name. The written expression is embodied in several different manifestations each of which is exemplified by many items, one of which I hold in my hand. … [...]
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Twilight mentions continue but, as in this instance taken from The Daily Freeman-Journal , they are not always positive. Meyer in interviews likens her novels to those of Jane Austen's or Emily Bronte's. Yet I scarcely recall these brilliant writers making such idiots out of their heroines. ( Carrie Olson ) Speaking of Emily Brontë - she's one of the options to the question posed by GMTV in...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Let's begin today's newsround by taking a look at writers and the Brontës. A few days ago we recalled Paul Auster's admiration for Emily Brontë, and today his own writing is differentiated from Wuthering Heights in the New Statesman . What distinguishes Auster's execution from that of Coleridge in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or Emily Brontë in Wuthering Heights or Nathaniel...
Crazy Cozy Murders (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I had a couple interesting days lately, book-wise! First, I spent some time with a vegan vampire (no worries, in the end said vampire decided to give in and eventually survived!), and now I'm with a almost-bulimic werewolf. This sure sounds crazy, but I'm having so much fun! The characters are far from your average vampire or werewolf. As for the books, I'll keep you guessing with the vegan vampire,...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Most of the finds of today's newsround are about coming across the Brontës in unexpected places. A couple of news outlets have articles on the first Anthropologie London shop, and they both use similar descriptions of the atmosphere. The Telegraph says, "Everything is for sale," continued Richardson, mounting the staircase and bypassing the chandeliers which the South African art collective...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Via GalleyCat we have found a project launched on WowOwow: Words Move Me , where readers and writers are asked for the books which inspire them. Fourteen Sony Readers will be given away to the contributors. We have found, a Brontëite usual suspect Alice Hoffman giving her opinion about Wuthering Heights: I always return to Wuthering Heights , Emily Bronte's masterpiece -- the greatest psychological...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The website wowOwow has launched a new reading project called " Words Move Me ," asking readers and literary celebrities to explain which books inspire them. Editors Note: An earlier version of this post referenced a Sony Reader giveaway that has already ended. If you need inspiration, here are of a few of this GalleyCat editor's favorites. Salon.com senior writer Rebecca Traister confessed...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The website wowOwow has launched a new reading project called " Words Move Me ," asking readers and literary celebrities to explain which books inspire them. In addition, the site is also giving away 14 Sony Readers to lucky readers who contribute their own entries. If you need inspiration, here are of a few of this GalleyCat editor's favorites. Salon.com senior writer Rebecca Traister confessed...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Publishers Weekly reviews the upcoming Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler : South African Kohler's well-written seventh novel takes the lives of the Brontës: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Branwell and their father, and substitutes imagination for facts. The book opens in 1846 with Charlotte's father recovering from eye surgery in Manchester, England. The narrative follows the internal ragings and musings...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Susheila Nasta picks her top 10 cultural books for the Guardian and quotes Jean Rhys's 'motto' when writing Wide Sargasso Sea: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys was one of the first books to take me on such a voyage, throwing me into the haunted landscape of Emancipation Jamaica and the hidden Creole history of Bertha, the so-called 'madwoman' in Jane Eyre. 'There is always the other side, always', Rhys...
Christian quoter (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
You can always tell a Yorkshire man...... but you can't tell him much More than any other county in England, Yorkshire retained a sort of social independence of London. Scotland itself was hardly more distinct... To a certain degree, evident enough to Yorkshiremen, Yorkshire was not English--or was all England, as they might choose to express it. --Henry Adams, 1906 I lingered round them [tombstones],...
rashbre central (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I accidentally strayed onto Facebook a couple of days ago, mainly because I was clearing down some of the applications that seem to create repeats of my messages. I think I deleted around forty so-called applications that had somehow installed in my Facebook. How careless of me. Anyway, I also stumbled onto this little quiz from the BBC about books. Apparently the average person has read six of these....
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