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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:28 pm by M. in , , , , ,    No comments
The Times of India talks about fog in movies and literature:
Literature too has its share of fog. But there's more to it than a mere sheet of white. The haze in Charles Dickens' Bleak House, is a metaphor for legal obfuscation. And in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it is incoherence and incomprehension. Emily Bronte offers a poetic image of the fog in Wuthering Heights. She calls it, "a silvery vapour.'' (Shreya Roy Chowdhury)
We don't know if there will be fog tonight at Top Withens, but The Times recommends a late travel deal nearby:
A detached cottage for a couple - and up to two dogs - in moorland above Stanbury, near Haworth, West Yorkshire, is on offer for a week from January 3, 10 and 17 with Yorkshire Cottages. It costs £192 a week and is on a path leading to Top Withens, reputedly the setting for Wuthering Heights. 01228 406701 (Tony Dawe)
Keighley News reports today the recent news about the Brontë Parsonage Museum receiving full accreditation by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (more information in previous posts).

Renčina červená knihovna reviews in Czech Lin Haire-Sargeant The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights; Suite101 talks about Carlisle Floyd's 1951 Wuthering Heights opera and My Shen writes about the original novel; Reading Before Writing posts about Jane Eyre.

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Our traditional summary of the year in images (and with a little help from the wonders of Picasa 3.0):

The Brontë year in... books/audiobooks:

In DVD Releases:

In Art/Exhibitions:

In Theatre and Dance:

In Music:


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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:05 am by M. in , , ,    No comments
The Telegraph publishes the obituary of Sir Michael Levey, art historian and former director of the National Gallery... but not a Brontëite, as we can read:
Victorian works come in for particularly inventive criticism: "Reading Jane Eyre is like gobbling a jar-full of schoolgirl stickjaw", while the only reason "the English have been gulled" into regarding Wuthering Heights as a great work is because "it makes so much of the weather".
This (almost) last day of 2008 doesn't seem very propitious to Brontëiteness, The Hunstville Times says the following about Wuthering Heights:
Have fun. Make sure that whatever you're doing, you're doing it in as much comfort and style as possible. Sure, reading "Wuthering Heights" might not sound thrilling, but reading it while at the ice-skating rink makes it an extreme sport, and therefore much more bearable.
On the blogosphere: one more post about the recording of a Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights cover by the Brazilian band Je Rêve de Toi and Be the Change is impressed by Helen Burns's behaviour in Jane Eyre.

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Surfing the net we sometimes find unexpected things. We have discovered a recent Chinese SACD release of Mandarin music which has an obvious Brontë connection. If this connection goes beyond the name, we don't know... therefore, if some Chinese reader can enlighten us it would be most welcome. These are the details:
剪爱 (Jane Eyre) DSD (Digital Stream Digital)
by 李维 (Li Wei)

Release Date: 2008-10-03
Language: Mandarin
Country of Origin: China
Disc Format(s): CD
Publisher: 齊魯電子音像出版社

Songs:
01. 一句一傷
02. 類似愛情
03. 圍城
04. 復刻回憶
05. 情人節快樂
06. 放手去愛
07. 同類
08. 想你,零點零一
09. 我比誰都清楚
10. 謝謝你這些日子
11. 遺撼
12. 當淚流乾的時候
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008 11:17 am by M. in , , ,    No comments
This columnist in The Plymouth Herald is not very happy with costume dramas on TV in general and BBC's Little Dorritt dramatization in particular. He reaches this (delirious) conclusion:
Costume drama is everywhere at the moment. Austin (sic), Bronte, Trollope… it's all the same and dead easy to write. I might give it a go myself.
Nevertheless, the best part comes in the post-script:
PS. True story, I once convinced an American journalist that Charlotte and Emily Bronte had a brother called Charles who wrote Death Wish! (Fitz)
Come on Fitz, that's your chance for glory: rewrite And the Weary Are at Rest as a Charles Bronson's flick. That could be something.

The Vindicator celebrates the acceptance into Mensa of a local Youngstown man who happens to be also a Brontëite:
Reading materials in Lyle’s living room include an atlas, Smithsonian Magazine, copies of The Vindicator and “Jane Eyre,” which he calls “the best book I’ve ever read.” (...)
His role models are author Charlotte Brontë and singer Karen Carpenter, whose music he calls “part of the mosaic of our lives.” (Amanda C. Davis)
Choking on Popcorn reviews Jane Eyre 2006 enthusiastically and Kalapa Book Reviews posts about the original novel, Bibliomusings and Chaplum' (in French) briefly discuss Wuthering Heights.

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A few days ago we had a comment alerting us to some changes concerning the Brontë biopic production. Today we have an explanatory comment by Angela Workman herself.
Hello, Bronte Blog! I'm pleased to report to you that, as the Bronte film's original writer/director, I am once again its owner and am back on board as its director. I am currently recasting entirely. The wonderful Cinematographer Andrew Dunn has graciously agreed to return to the project. More when I know it! Happy holidays!
We are certainly pleased to hear that and we sincerely hope that this will finally get the film going.

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Oh, we know, Christmas is just behind us and here we come again with yet another possible present. But we don't know what your budget was, but we have a feeling that this might have been slightly past it for most people. Still, however, it makes for a nice holiday package, and isn't it already time to plan the big 2009 vacation?

The St Louis Today recently (and even before Brontës.nl) brought this to our attention:
The Wayfarers, which promotes "eco-aware walking holidays" for both culture and fitness, is introducing new walks to its Girlfriend Getaways lineup, designed for the adventurous female traveler.
Developed around the achievements of two famous authors and one famous architect, the walks are great for mothers and daughters, old friends and solo travelers, with a single supplement available.
The Bronte Trail, July 26-31, is a six-day trek in one of Britain's most evocative literary landscapes. It includes several locations from "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," as well as views of farmhouse ruins, picturesque valleys and remote plains. Priced at $3,695 a person, based on double occupancy, which includes meals, accommodations, transfers and gratuities.
The Wayfarers website, of course, offers more information, as well as more available dates:
In search of the Brontës.
Wild, heather-clad moorland, ruined farmhouses and the remote parsonage where the young Brontës' creativity was nurtured make a stark, striking backdrop to this Walk in one of Britain's most evocative literary landscapes.
In Yorkshire we explore Haworth village and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, trek to Top Withins Farm (Wuthering Heights), walk along the Pennine Way and learn more about the Brontës ' lives at a pre-dinner talk by expert Ann Dinsdale.
In Derbyshire we enjoy spectacular views from Stanage Edge, passing several locations from Jane Eyre including North Lees Hall, before a guided tour of Haddon Hall (the BBC's location for Thornfield Hall).
**Women Only Departure is 26 July 2008.

Walk Summary

Dates
14-Jun-09 - 19-Jun-09
26-Jul-09 - 31-Jul-09
06-Sep-09 - 11-Sep-09

Trip
6 days, 5 nights

Terrain
Moorland paths and tracks, valley walking, modest hills, sweeping views. 8-12 miles of walking per day.

Price
US$3,695.00 per person double occupancy
(single supplement US$420.00)

The walk begins in Haworth, with arrival at Keighley Railway Station and ends in Chatsworth, with a departure from Chesterfield Railway Station.
It is something to consider, isn't it?

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:59 pm by M. in , , , , , , ,    No comments
The recent publication of William Grimshaw: Living the Christian Life by Paul & Faith Cook,
Living the Christian life
from the original writings of William Grimshaw
Paul & Faith Cook
ISBN: 9780852346914
Evangelical Press

William Grimshaw of Haworth in Yorkshire, born 14 September 1708, was regarded by J C Ryle as one of the three greatest men of the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival; the other two being John Wesley and George Whitefield. And yet he is little known today.
One reason for this is that he left behind no printed sermons - nothing that posterity could read and profit from after his death - or so it was thought until the Methodist historian Frank Baker unearthed four manuscripts which Grimshaw had prepared for publication. Baker used these for his doctoral thesis on Grimshaw, published in 1963, two hundred years after the preacher’s death.
Sometimes preaching up to thirty times a week in towns and villages throughout Yorkshire and beyond, William Grimshaw had little time and perhaps available finance to see his work through the press. On his death at the age of fifty-four, his manuscripts were retained in the family and eventually sold to an earlier Methodist historian, Luke Tyerman. Tyerman arranged for them to be stored in the Methodist archives and a full century would pass before these pithy and wise comments would be rediscovered. Then, surprisingly, they appeared to be lost once more. Anxious to obtain them for my forthcoming biography on William Grimshaw in 1996, I made urgent enquiries regarding them. Eventually they were discovered among unclassified material at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, passed there from the Hartley Victoria College.
is the subject of an article in The Telegraph & Argus:
A preacher who stamped Haworth’s fame across the north 80 years before the Brontes arrived, is being celebrated in the first published book of his writings.
It has been released to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the fiery cleric William Grimshaw, who spent 16 years in the village, from 1742.
His legend is still recalled by some in Haworth, especially his no-nonsense approach to tipplers in the Black Bull, later a favourite haunt of Branwell Bronte. They were said to leap out of the window on his approach.
The Reverend Patrick Bronte, Branwell’s father, did not arrive from Thornton, Bradford, with his brood, including Charlotte, Emily and Anne, until 1820.
Ann Dinsdale, of the Bronte Parsonage museum, said: “Haworth has become very much associated with the Brontes, but the village had already attracted fame a century before because of Grimshaw.
“It’s good to see important new material relating to this largely forgotten figure finally coming to light.’ Preaching up to 30 times a week, Grimshaw kept a ledger with his sins on one side and good deeds on the other, but never had time to publish his work.
But joint author, Faith Cook, unearthed his manuscripts which had been stored among unclassified material at the John Rylands University library in Manchester.
She said: “It was a treasure trove of new information which had hardly been explored apart from by a few academics. It was great – literally an open field for me,”
The result is “William Grimshaw Living the Christian Life” a biography of his life and a collection of his writings.
He was in charge of Haworth church until his death at 54, and he was one of the main figures in the 18th century evangelical revival, his name equal to John Wesley and George Whitfield. It was said his preaching could make a nation tremble.
Starting with a congregation of only 12 when he arrived in the village, the church was later filled with hundreds inside and out.
People would travel miles to hear him preach and at times scaffolding had to be put up in the graveyard to accommodate the thousands..
Mick Lockwood, Minister at Hall Green Baptist Chapel, Haworth, said: “He was mega-famous at the time – hundreds walked miles to hear him preach. What he did was terrific.
“Reading this little book is like taking a short brisk walk on the Haworth moor. It is invigorating and refreshing. A no-nonsense exhortation to Christians, full to the brim of simple wholesome bible food.” (Clive White)
The Birmingham Mail publishes a very positive review of Burns & Corzine Classical Comics adaptation of Jane Eyre:
I've been fortunate enough to view copies of John M Burns's black and white art for this book for well over a year now, and quite a few of the coloured pages too. Every time I see them I come out with the same old line to the people at Classical Comics, "This one's an award-winner - Put it up for as many as you can!" I know I'm like a broken record (that's something they used to make out of vinyl, kids!) but quite frankly I don't care.
John M Burns, for those unaware, is a master craftsman of the comic strip medium. Schooled in our proud British illustrative tradition, perfectly at home on the comic book page as much as the now neglected newspaper comic strip, he is also well versed in both adventure and romance and to some degree both skills are called upon in this graphic novel adaptation.
Period dramas are big news on our terrestrial television stations, and the film world continues to see their currency. It's not just some romantic link for more innocent times, it's the fact that stories of an elder pedigree were put together to work, to be read and enjoyed by as wide a populace that could read.
Personally I have a problem with anything that lingers around the parameters of being a bodice ripper but there you go, each to their own. (...)
Some may find the turns of phrase and colloquialisms in the full version a little hard to grasp - not that the words are difficult but the unfamiliarity of the way they are expressed - and for that reason I can see where the abridged text using more modern expressions could prove the more popular read. However, I much enjoyed the full-bodied text, rich in its language, with Jane giving as good as she gets, thus showing the first flowering of women' s emancipation in an admirable, subtle manner.
These dialogues add tremendously to the humour that can be found deep in this romance, and tragedy.
I'll not give the game away but even as the couple express their love openly tragedy does indeed wait to stab them from the wings. This twist in the tale takes place roughly half way through the story and there are more changes of fortune for Jane before the end of the story.
As the reader will find for themselves from the various supplementary text features at the rear of this book, a substantial amount of the novel's plot was derived from Charlotte Bronte's own ordeals in life, but equally so her own life followed suit with some of the chapters; as if she was either channelling her own future life or living out her own fantasies in the real world.
I have to say the novel itself, as noted before, with its affectations towards subdued bodice ripper romance doesn't always grab me, but the fine persuasive lines of conversation between the action certainly engages my attention and so I forgive the former.
A few points, again, on Mr Burns's art: whether it is the script adaptation or his own presence of style, he reclaims comic book storytelling for storytelling sake. The use of a surprise/shock page ending to induce enthusiasm to turn over to the next page has been taken for granted as a pre-requisite, Burns gives us moments within the page itself that are just a vital, startling and positively rewarding in their artistic merit.
While the fully painted art that is published is admirable, there is a great part of me that wishes this were printed in black and white - while the colour doesn't hide the detail it does disguise the fact that these were drawings created in pencil then ink, with attention to detail in the folds of a curtain as much as the flaring nostrils of a horse. This is not slick work this is consummate drawing with thought and concentration given before a pencil line is delivered. People should be impassioned enough to want to take up drawing themselves, for the sheer pleasure of it as its own reward.
Burns is an artist's artist and doesn't fail to deliver, picture the scene: it's early Sunday evening and the Birmingham International Comics Show 2008 has just finished so there's a handful of comic book creators in need of a stiff drink, once deposited in the nearest city centre public house someone brings out a copy of this book, and it's not me, it's followed swiftly by a chorus of: "I've got that!" from most of the artists gathered. Simply put the book caught their eye at the show and they bought it.. Professionals they were and are, and talented ones too, but the level of expression they had for Classical Comics' Jane Eyre proved that even these seasoned stars paid their venerable due respect to a master of the form.
If this doesn't find its way into graphic novel award nominations some serious questions about why not have to be asked. (Paul Birch)
The Times (South Africa) reviews Catherine Hardwicke's film Twilight and mentions the compulsive Wuthering Heights reference:
He gets a real Wuthering Heights vibe going, which is exactly right because Emily Brontë’s saga of the headstrong Cathy and the brooding Heathcliff is an obvious ancestor of Twilight.
Mark Zimmer begins a review (for Digitally Obsessed) of the extraordinary John M. Stahl's film Leave Her to Heaven with the following (misleading) words:
Two classics of literature, Wuthering Heights and The Count of Monte Cristo are enjoyable to the misanthrope for completely different reasons. In Emily Bronte's novel, it's because all the characters are vile and deserve everything terrible that happens to them; in the Dumas adventure it's the frisson of delight at seeing an utterly Machiavellian plot come together. This classic picture from 20th Century Fox combines these two themes in a memorable vehicle for the stunning Gene Tierney that, while not quite standing up to these literary antecedents, is certainly memorable and vicious in its own right.
The Scotsman interviews Amanda Ryan who was Catherine in the recent Birmingham Repertory Theatre performances of April de Angelis's Wuthering Heights and gives us this (colourful but only mental) image:
When were you last naked in front of another person?
In my dressing room doing a quick change for my last show, Wuthering Heights.
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1. Rukkanor (aka Robert Marciniak) latest album: Despartica (Face Two) puts into electronic music a poem by Emily Brontë: Past Present Future. The album is described like this on Rage in Eden Records:
The mixture of styles and musical ages. Echoes of 70's electronic, new romantic of 80's (OMD, Numan, Heaven 17, Visage). A bit of industrial, a pinch of EBM, a touch of synth-pop. Second part of the specific interpretation of 19th and 20th Century poetry. This time in more gothic and electromantic "musical sauce". Achtung! No martial nor neo-folk songs. A very last album of Rukkanor. 11 hits :-), 44 minutes, CD in digipack designed by Michal Karcz. "...Only by breaking with what is already achieved, man can create the space for new events."
The poem by Emily Brontë is the last track of the record. A review in Italian can be read on Darkroom Magazine.
2. On the latest album of the Birmingham based musician Avrocam Zweimal (according to his myspace page, alternative, concret music, minimalist) Against the Dying of the Light there is a track with the title: Ultra Bronte. Why? We don't really know.



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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:04 pm by M. in , , , ,    2 comments
The New York Review of Books (Volume 56, Number 1. January 15, 2009) devotes a post to the works of and about Gene Stratton-Porter. The article concludes like this:
Imagine a Jane Brody column written by Charlotte Brontë and you will have a sense of Stratton-Porter's singular feat. (Janet Malcolm)
BackStage reviews the James Barbour's Holiday Concerts at Sardi's and a reference to his Rochester role on Broadway's Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre is made:
At a song's downbeat, he takes the boy out of Cherry Hill and plops him down on the pages of scripts he's done adapted from classical literature. By now — Shakespeare-trained — he's played the above-mentioned Carton, an Englishman, and Rochester in Jane Eyre, another Englishman, not to mention the vaunted protagonist of Beauty and the Beast. He refers to these characters as "dark and moody," and that's what he becomes: dark and moody with a pronounced English accent — or his version of an English accent. (David Finkle)
Now a collection of very diverse Wuthering Heights mentions in the press:

The Yorkshire Post 2008 quiz contains the following question:
18) Who were the following gifts sent to: a Kaiser Chiefs record; a Lesley Garrett album; a copy of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights; a Yorkshire County Cricket Club tie; and a bottle of beer from Timothy Taylor?
The anwer can be found in our archives.

André Aciman writes in The Wall Street Journal about New Year's purpose of recovering things from his past, Brontë connection included:
My high-school English textbook: after 40 years, I found it on eBay for less than $5. I would have paid $100 to own it. "Crime and Punishment," No. 89 in the Classics Illustrated comics series: resurrected from oblivion through a friend of a friend of a friend. "Wuthering Heights" in its orange-white-orange Penguin edition: found in a second-hand bookstore in London.
Reading Wuthering Heights is also part of the new year's resolution of this writer at The Huffington Post.

Joseph O'Connor writes in The Irish Times a summary of the political and economical year and includes the following comment:
As summer came looming, the crisis deepened. The Dáil responded with impressive commitment to the nation by immediately going on 11 weeks' holiday. (When you have unreceipted expenses of €12,000 a year, you need a damn good rest during which to add them up.) The summer weather was the greatest example of pathetic fallacy since Heathcliff stalked the rainstorms of Yorkshire. The downpour was monsoonal, constant, horizontal.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel publishes an article about winter and writers:
And who can forget the role winter plays in "Wuthering Heights." Bronte makes the reader shiver as cold winds blow in across the moor, adding even more chill to the plot: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary." (Ina Hughs)
The release of the Studio One: Anthology DVD box set (which includes Wuthering Heights 1950) is the subject of this article on Isthmus.

And in the blogosphere: Claims of Brontëiteness on Hear You Me and declarations of love for Jane Eyre on The Clothes Make the Girl.

Finally, we would like to thank 'A longtime fan of BrontëBlog' for the following info:
You might also take note on the IMDb message board for Bronte (the film) that there have been more changes made. Besides Mr Sturridge, more of the cast have been removed, as well as all of the crew, and Andrew Dunn's name is back on for Cinematographer.
Indeed, the only names on the IMDb Brontë page are the three sisters (only as 'rumored'), the writer (Angela Workman, of course), the producers and the cinematography director as stated in the comment.

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The Brontë Parsonage/Brontë Society have a very ambitious and welcome project in their hands. They are currently uploading details and images from all the treasures in their collection, from library books to dresses, to drawings, to manuscripts to rings to boxes and a long, log etcetera.
OUR LIBRARY AND MUSEUM CATALOGUE CAN NOW BE VIEWED ONLINE! We are very pleased to announce that our catalogue can now be accessed online for the very first time. Those with a keen interest to learn more about the objects in our museum and material in our research library, please click here.
Just try and do your own search and you will see what we mean. Although there aren't yet images to every indexed object, it's very exciting and addictive all the same. A true peep behind the scenes at the museum.

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Friday, December 26, 2008

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The Hindu reminds its readers of the upcoming broadcast (next Friday Jan 23 & Jan 30) of Jane Eyre 2006 in the Indian channel Zee Studio:
Zee Studio presents television adaptations of some of the popular classics of English literature – “Pride and Prejudice”, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “Vanity Fair”, “Jane Eyre”, “The Other Boleyn Girl”, and “Madame Bovary”. These will be telecast at 10.30 p.m. every Friday night.
The Brazilian band Je rêve de toi has recorded another cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Here you can watch a video of the recording session and here a set of pictures of the videoclip. The cover features in the film Morgue Story by Paulo Biscaia.

Fashionista Piranha reviews the Classical Comics's edition of Jane Eyre:
Amy Corzine, the script adapter for Jane Eyre, did a wonderful job capturing the characters' emotions in abbreviated form. (...)
John M. Burns' did a stunning job with the art. Instead of the usual inked panels we see in comic books, Jane Eyre is lushly painted in an older style of art that reminds me of the old Nancy Drew covers. (After Googling Nancy Drew's art in an attempt to understand this connection, I must be remembering the second generation artist Bill Gillies or third generation Rudy Nappi.) The use of heavy shadows and rich color really capture the mood of the gothic story. Dark greens and greys give Lowood School a unhealthy pallor, while Thornfield Hall's brightly decorated walls, so lovely during parties and special events, become dimly lit and vaguely threatening when Rochester's mood is low.
Finally, LipRing Inspired: A ZiggyGurl Production includes a brief comment about Jane Eyre.

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We know for a fact that Brontëiteness tends to expand into all sorts of different aspects of your life and, well, we are here to help. If your friends know about your obsession and you delight in surprising them, we suggest you present them with a good Brontë iced cake this season.
This Luxury Iced Christmas Fruit Cakes from the Bronte Collection who have been baking quality products for 125 years. This is a fine fruit cake of the traditional recipe, round in shape, with hand-finished Almond marzipan and Royal Icing.
But if you think that is not quite enough for your friends, you can always amuse them by serving the cake at the same time you recite James Nash's September's poem of the month (included in his 1999 book Deadly Sensitive)
Imagine being Emily Bronte
nipping out for a pint of milk
or some fags
and having to dodge the coaches
and all those shops
selling tins of biscuits
with your name on them.
Although Mr. Nash was probably thinking of the Patterson Arran Brontë brand of products:
In the 19 60's a company calling itself Bronte cakes established itself making cakes in Haworth Yorkshire .
I am anticipating that most of you know that Haworth is the village where the Bronte sisters lived. The 3 Bronte sisters all wrote books Jane Eyre by Charlotte, Wuthering Heights by Emily and The tenant of wild fell hall by Ann.
The company in Howarth (sic) sold out to a Livingston firm Patterson Arran, who have since expanded the range of products with the Bronte name calling its products café Bronte new products oat biscuits and muffins produced. (mumsymary on ciao.co.uk)
Now your friends will really understand what you mean when you say confidently how much you like those Brontës.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:53 am by M. in ,    No comments
Steve Duin on The Oregonian chooses The Best of 2008 Comic and Graphic Novels. Discussing Posy Simmonds's Tamara Drew (a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd), he expresses a wish:
As I noted in my original review, Simmonds "the ability to capture the voices of a wide range of characters, mix prose and art on a page, and gently mock everyone in sight without belittling any of them." I hope she has plenty of time and watercolors on hand: I can't wait to see what she has planned for George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Oscar Wilde.
What Mr Duin probably doesn't remember is that Ms Simmonds already had a take (just a vignette though) on Charlotte Brontë. Check this old post for more details.

Another sorf of Best Of is BBC's 2008: A year in words. The Heathcliffgate is quoted:
Heathcliff
Up in the windy rooms of Number 10, a magnificent, brooding, dark-browed Mr Brown was hatching ideas to save the economy. In an embarrassing episode, he appeared to tell the New Statesman he thought he was a little like an "older, wiser" version of Heathcliff, the dastardly anti-hero of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights. It was not long before the Bronte museum pointed out this character might not be the best role model, given that he was guilty of domestic abuse and was possibly a murderer who had dug up the remains of his dead lover. Well, no-one's perfect. (Justin Parkinson)
EDIT (28/12/08): The Toronto Star also remembers the incident:
The U.K.'s stodgy, taciturn PM, Gordon Brown, said it was "absolutely correct" to compare him to Heathcliff, the passionate anti-hero of Wuthering Heights, although "an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff." No, Gordon, not even close. (Lynda Hurst)
And on Christmas Eve, nasimrochester has added a new story to Jane Eyre FanFiction.net: A Waft of Wind.

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The Brontë sisters and Branwell in the shadows have gathered around their Christmas tree - which is a tradition which started about their time - to join us in wishing all of you a very happy Christmas (or your holiday of choice)!

Winners of our Christmas contest will have received or will be about to receive an email notification.

To the rest of you, many thanks for participating and stay tuned to the two following weekly quotes as they will be there thanks to them.

May you have a very merry Christmas surrounded by all your loved ones.

Our very best wishes,

BrontëBlog Team.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:08 am by M. in , , , , ,    No comments
Keighley News announces the change of name and scope of the Haworth Traders Association:
The chairman of Haworth Village Association said the organisation was keen to move beyond its previous focus on local retail concerns.
Robin Jackson said the group — which has changed its name from the Haworth Traders Association to highlight its switch of emphasis — now has a new logo and constitution.
He told the Brontë Country Partnerhip meeting it aimed to embrace other community groups in the area.
He said association members had put a lot of effort into organising this year’s Christmas festivities, but added he felt some of the events could benefit from better planning and co-ordination. He also showed his BCP colleagues a copy of the publicity leaflet for next year’s Haworth 1940s weekend. It will take place on May 16 and 17. (Miran Rahman)
Precisely on the Haworth Village website there are pictures of this year's Torchlight Procession and information about the Christmas services in all Haworth churches, including St. Michael and All Angels, of course.

Andrew Dunn reviews Laura Miller's The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia for Bloomberg and makes the following comment:
[Quoting Laura Miller]“The author who can make a world for a reader -- make him believe that the people, places and events he describes are, if anything, truer than his real, immediate surroundings -- that author is someone with a mighty power indeed,” she writes. “Who can doubt that every literary encounter they have afterward must somehow be colored by it?”
I can, for one. My childhood literary treasure is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” a gift from my grade-school teacher, Mr. Tribe. However exhilarating I found, and still find, Douglas Adams’s mad universe, I can’t honestly say the book informed my response to “Jane Eyre” 25 years later. “Wuthering Heights”? Maybe.
See Magazine reviews John Patrick Shanley's film Doubt and, describing the director's mise en scène, slips a Brontë reference:
As a director (this is the first time he’s stepped behind the camera since 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano), Shanley hammers home his points too loudly, whether he’s making an obvious contrast between the nuns at dinner and the priests rowdily joking and smoking as they dig into their blood-red slabs of beef, or shooting Streep from an ominous low angle, as if she were Vincent Price in The Witchfinder General. (He also gives Doubt the most portentously Gothic weather patterns since Wuthering Heights.) (Paul Matwychuk)
The Telegraph goes further and dares to find the perfect resting place for Heathcliff:
Serene. That's the word. Nova Scotia is serene. Even Heathcliff would find eternal peace there. (Ashley Slater)
Also in The Telegraph we read the following statement by Lynda LaPlante which sounds quite familiar:
"Personally, I'd love to do historical drama, but I'm not allowed," she harrumphs. "I'd love to hear someone say, 'What else have you got?' and I'd say, 'Well, I've been researching Mata Hari for five years now' or 'I've got a new take on Wuthering Heights'. But nobody wants to know. A completely unknown 18-year-old stands a better chance of having that kind of project done than I would right now." (Tim Walker)
Stacy's Bookblog talks about Jane Eyre 1983, the crazy world of bec reviews briefly the original novel. Finally, Angel in The Dark publishes new information about Mark Ryan's Wuthering Heights musical project:
This week Robb Vallier and I went back into the studio to finish up work on two more tracks for Wuthering Heights. Once again Robb has done an amazing job with the arrangements and production on: “I Am The Man” and “Kiss The Moon.” Both tracks are unique and yet hold true to the starkly emotional themes and symbolism running through Emily Bronte’s powerful novel. (...)
The blog also publishes Katie Boeck's (Isabella in the musical) opinion of the musical:
I sent in my headshot and resume and Mark sent me a couple of songs to listen to. I absoulutely fell in love with them from the minute I heard them. The character of Isabella especially interested me and the music Mark had written for her part was just beautiful. Mark and I spoke and he wanted to make sure that I understood the magnitude of sheer emotion that comes with playing these characters. He really stressed the dramatic intention he wanted to come through in the characters' voices.(Read more)
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More Brontë gifts from etsy shops:

From willocreeksigns:
Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same Vinyl Wall Art Decals Words Lettering Custom Graphics
20" Wide by 15" Tall
Shown in Chocolate Vinyl
This decal kit will add elegance to any room and comes in the color of your choice. We have 29 colors to choose from and if you want a different color we will make it happen. Please include in your payment details section your color choice. All of our decals can also be mirrored to suit your space.
From NannetteBernard:
Charlotte Brontë quote plates
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will"
-Charlotte Bronte
(This was taken from the novel Jane Eyre 1874 written by Charlotte Bronte. What a wonderful book, if you haven't read...get to the book store!)
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“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed”
~Charlotte Bronte
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I am also more than happy to do any other quote that you like. Charlotte Bronte has many many more wonderful things to say, and every sentence from every book is fantastic. I just picked my two favorite quotes.
Lettering is gold and background is red. Sealed with triple coat lacquer.
Painted with acrylic paint, and then sealed with Krylon triple coat lacquer. This little plate is not meant to be submersed in water or in the dish washer, you should only hand wash.
From miniaturebooks:
The Brontës' Parish
The rustic and isolated folks in the hills of Haworth, Yorkshire, England, where Rev.Brontë brought his family about 1818, were a strange and independent lot. These are the people and the countryside where the Brontë sisters were raised. Signed and dated edition of 50.
Designed and bound at Pequeño Press by Patrice Baldwin.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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The Kilburn Times talks about the redevelopment of South Kilburn Estate project (Brent, West London) which includes a so-called Brontë House:
An announcement on whether this next phase of regeneration - and the future demolition of Austin (sic), Fielding and Bronte Houses - is expected in February next year. (Will Davis)
This Brontë House
is an 18 storey tower block on the South Kilburn Estate in Brent, West London. It was approved in 1969 and is 51m tall. (Ukhousing Wiki)
A picture of this (gloomy) building can be found here (Picture credits: Nicobobinus).

The Asian Review of Books reviews Socialism is Great! by Lijia Zhang and mentions Charlotte Brontë:
Alternative universities, train marathons to the north, unfaithful lovers and faith-inspiring literary works (Charlotte Bronte underpins an unforgettable scene, which I won't spoil), all feature along the way. (John D. Van Fleet)
The Memphis Commercial Appeal recovers local memories, one of them involves a performance of Jane Eyre:
125 years ago: 1883
Mme. Modjeska, one of the greatest actresses of the times, will open her engagement at Leubrie's Theater tomorrow with a matinee on Christmas also scheduled. Tonight Charlotte Thompson and her company will close their engagement at the theater with their presentation of "Jane Eyre."
Picture: Charlotte Thompson as Jane Eyre (Source: NYPL Digital Gallery)

According to Patsy Stoneman's Jane Eyre on Stage 1848-1898, Charlotte Thompson was using in 1883 a modified arrangement of the English translation (by Clifton W. Tayleure, 1871) of the original play by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer Die Waise aus Lowood (first performed in Vienna in 1853):
The 1884 programme for the Star Theatre, New York, plays down any link even with the novel and places its emphasis on comedy.
The Guardian includes a Brontë choice in one of its 2008 in books quiz question:
11. Who paid £1.95m for a limited edition?

1. The British Museum, which bought one of Charlotte Brontë's Angria fantasies, which she wrote in miniature handmade copies as a child
2. Bond producer Cubby Broccoli, who bought copy 007 from a run of 10 copies of the latest Bond sequel, packaged in a secret compartment of a specially customised Aston Martin
3. “The number one fan” of Candace Bushnell's original manuscript for Sex and the City
4. Amazon bought a hand-written copy of JK Rowling's disappointing Harry Potter follow-up at a charity auction
(John Crace)
The correct answer is not Brontë but... well, we'll let you play.

Let's finally highlight the Italian blog Le voci del mondo which continues publishing posts about Emily Brontë.

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We present today a French book with Brontë references:
Femmes remarquables au XIXe siècle
by Liesel Schiffer

Vuibert Publishers
328 pages
ISBN : 2-7117-4442-6

Le XIXe siècle ne fut pas le siècle de la parité. La politique et la guerre demeuraient des activités viriles sur l’ensemble de la planète. Les Amazones n’avaient été qu’un mythe. Le code Napoléon affirmait partout où la Grande Armée l’introduisait en Europe que la femme devait obéissance à son mari.
Et pourtant le XIXe siècle a été traversé par de grandes figures féminines qui ont influencé le cours de l’Histoire.
Cet ouvrage dresse des portraits vivants et haut en couleur. Deux figures d’impératrice encadrent le livre : celles de Joséphine et de Victoria. Entre ces deux impératrices, l’auteur nous propose des femmes écrivains, des mondaines, d’autres encore qu’elle ressuscite avec talent, se partageant entre l’émotion et l’humour. Cette vision des cent années qui s’écoulèrent entre 1800 où Joséphine entre aux Tuileries et 1901 où Victoria accomplit son dernier voyage à Westminster, est bien éloignée des clichés habituels. (Google translation)
The author is interviewed on Grioo.com and we read some details about Charlotte Brontë's appearance in the book:
Charlotte Brontë est représentative du milieu du siècle, héritier du romantisme. Ce romantisme est alors vécu intellectuellement par les femmes, à travers la littérature et la représentation qu’elles ont d’elles-mêmes; la créature vierge et précieuse que l’homme doit conquérir tel un preux chevalier. (Google translation)
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Monday, December 22, 2008

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Not very much to report today:

The San Diego Reader briefly reviews Lynn Stopkewitch's 1997 film Kissed which deals with a controversial topic. Luis Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión is quoted:
It confirms our suspicions that necrophilia is a subject better approached obliquely, furtively, figuratively: Sleeping Beauty, Laura, Portrait of Jennie, The Brides of Dracula, Truly Madly Deeply, My Boyfriend's Back, Cold Heaven. Not to forget that treasure trove otherwise known as the oeuvre of Luis Buñuel: Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, Los Olvidados, Wuthering Heights, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, et al. (Duncan Shepherd)
As usual, the blogosphere brings some Brontës: For Outsanding Work in the Department Of... explains her experience watching (more or less) Jane Eyre 2006, timeless_story on 50 Book Challenge has read Wuthering Heights and feels like the book is not that romantic, Jorie's Reads and L'Aide-Mémoire (in French) post about her reading of Jane Eyre. Finally, Mariakäfer reviews in German, Sparkhouse.

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More Brontë gifts... from the etsy shops:

From elloh:
Jane Eyre looking on Thornfield Hall inspired limited edition canvas cloth
The image (fits within 8x10") of Jane Eyre, the main character from the book written by Charlotte Bronte, is printed from an original painting by el (me) onto quality 8.5x11" canvas cloth paper.
The limited edition print (only 50 will be made) is signed, numbered, titled and comes carefully packaged along with a paper certifying it as an authentic elloh piece-all ready to give as a gift.
From jillcornell's shop:
Emily Brontë Quote Card
A love-themed quote and gorgeous colors created this card! Finished size: 4" x 9". Your card will be shipped in a padded envelope for protection via first-class mail.
From UneekDollDesigns:
Jane Eyre Character Trio
If you have read the novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, then you are very familiar with this trio of characters. Where else can you find plain Jane, the lonely orphan grown to be a governess for the mysterious, and somewhat scary, Mr. Rochester? Of course we can't leave out Bertha Rochester, the insane wife who manages to cause quite a ruckus throughout the tragic yet hopeful tale!
I designed each character with their own appropriate costume. Bertha has on her white nightgown, and the wild, unkempt hair. Jane is dressed modestly and plainly in a blue dressing gown with black trim. Mr. Rochester has on a grey suit coat over tan vest and breeches. He looks a bit uncertain, and with good reason... He has a twisted mess of things to unravel and doesn't have an easy way of it! (Read the novel for more on this...)
The Brontë Sisters in Velvet
Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte were not only sisters, but hugely talented authors. Many of their novels have been made into wonderful movies, but read the books if you want to get the full feel of their writings!
Charlotte is dressed in royal blue velvet with a white, pearl trimmed bonnet. Emily is ready to write down her ideas in her book with her quill pen. She is dressed beautifully in gold, crushed velvet trimmed in black lace and ribbon. Anne is wearing her favorite burgundy velvet dress trimmed in cream lace. Her hair is curled nicely and she and Charlotte both have their writing utensils ready for action. They stand about 4 and 3/4 inches tall.
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne would make a wonderful addition to your collection or any Bronte fan would love to have them as a one of a kind gift.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

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Keighley News publishes the Brontë Parsonage press release concerning its involment in The Fragmented Orchestra project.

The Sunday quiz of The Times (South Africa) includes a (very) easy Brontë-related question:
Which Brontë sister wrote her only novel, called Wuthering Heights, in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell?
The Denton-Record Chronicle compares David Greene's 1967 film The Shuttered Room with Jane Eyre:
On a remote island filled with Deliverance-type weirdos, including menacing, overacting Oliver Reed, the couple go through various, unsettling ordeals before discovering the secret hidden in the house (hint: think Jane Eyre). Based on a novel co-written by H.P. Lovecraft. (Boo Allen)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announces the next assignment of the Jennie Reading Sisterhood Book Club: Jane Eyre.

On the blogosphere, lesbiatopia and read along with teabird review Wuthering Heights (incest conpiracy theory included in the first post) and coven_icons posts several Jane Eyre 2006 icons.

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La Bibliothèque de Toulouse (France) currently exhibits a selection of Edmund Dulac's works:
Edmund Dulac, Illustrations féeriques Toulouse 1882 – Londres 1953
Médiathèque José Cabanis
12/11/2008 to 25/01/2009

Edmund Dulac, un maître de l’enchantement…
Edmund Dulac est né à Toulouse, dans le quartier du Busca, en 1882. Il a passé son enfance et sa jeunesse dans sa ville natale, où il a reçu sa première formation artistique, à l’école des Beaux-Arts. En 1905, il s‘expatrie à Londres où il trouve rapidement à employer un précoce talent d’illustrateur. En quelques années, il devient un des grands artistes du livre illustré anglais, et prend la nationalité britannique en 1912.
Son œuvre, fortement marquée par son goût pour l’Orient, dégage une poésie et une élégance très personnelles. Dulac a illustré des grands textes de la littérature universelle, notamment les contes des mille et une nuits, ceux d’Andersen et de Perrault. Grâce au poète W.B Yeats, il a été aussi un homme de théâtre, créant décors et musiques de scène.
Après la première guerre mondiale, il collabore à plusieurs revues anglaises et américaines, diversifiant ses thèmes d’illustrations, et investit de nombreux domaines des arts décoratifs. Il est tour à tour médailleur, créateur de cartons de tapisseries, graphiste, graveur de timbre-poste, dont la célèbre Marianne, commandée par les services de la France Libre. Edmund Dulac est mort à Londres en 1953.
L’exposition présentée montre ses premiers travaux toulousains ainsi que la quasi-totalité de son œuvre d’illustrateur. Elle célèbre une œuvre encore mal connue en France, dont la beauté et le merveilleux sont à découvrir. (Google translation)
We hope then that his works as illustrator for the Brontë novels will be included in the exhibition. He was hired in 1904 by J. M. Dent and given the comission to illustrate the collected works of the Brontë sisters (sixty color illustrations).

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Let's start by highlighting a very interesting (lenghty and full of fascinating details) post published on the Brussels Brontë Blog.
Eric Ruijssenaars has written this report on recent research done by him on Brontë connections in Brussels, with the help of other members of the Brussels group.
Despite having done research on the Brontës and Brussels for almost two decades now it was only two years ago that I started to concentrate on the burial places of Martha Taylor and Julia Wheelwright, the friends of Charlotte and Emily in Brussels in 1842, who died there that year.
Don't miss it, it's absolutely worthwhile.

The Telegraph
talks about the publication of a new English translation of the Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights (by Malcolm Lyons with Ursula Lyons). The Brontës' juvenilia (and not only juvenilia) are full of references to the Arabian Nights tales:
They have penetrated as deeply into the popular imagination as those other eastern books we know as the Bible, and it is hard to compile a full list of writers and artists who have been influenced by them: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Beckford, the Brontës, Stevenson, Poe, Joyce, Cocteau, Rushdie, Byatt… (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst)
Some recent usual suspects reappear again in today's news: Wuthering Heights 1950 included in the Studio One Anthology DVD box set is rated with three stars by Michael Wilmington on Movie City News. The Daily Mail recommends Sartre's Sink by Mark Crick:
In Sartre's Sink (Granta, £10.99) you will find handy tips on hanging wallpaper by Hemingway, on bleeding a radiator by Emily Brontë, on tiling a bathroom by Dostoevsky and, most useful of all, on unblocking a sink by Jean-Paul Sartre. (Christopher Matthew)
The Portuguese writer Inês Pedrosa makes her Brontë choices clear in this article in Expresso:
São muitos séculos de literatura, cinema e música a empurrarem-nos para as gloriosas escarpas da inteligentíssima tristeza, a gritarem-nos que a paixão é efémera e a persistência coisa de gente sem engenho e arte para a mudança... De Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë (que prefiro mil vezes a. O Monte dos Vendavais) a Do Fundo do Coração de Coppola, ou a Chanson des Vieux Amants de Brel, há todo um dicionário de amores felizes escondido debaixo do tapete da História das Artes. (Google translation)
El Periódico de Catalunya devotes a nice article to Emily Brontë (which is not very usual in the Spanish press) using the recent translation to Spanish of Winifred Gérin's biography of the author as an alibi. The article features an illustration by Ramon Tàssies.
Cuando un día de verano de 1847 las hermanas Brontë --Charlotte, Emily y Anne-- vieron tres soles en el cielo mientras paseaban por los páramos de los alrededores de su casa --según contó una amiga de Charlotte que las acompañaba-- no pudieron por menos que sonreír ante los buenos augurios que anunciaba este fenómeno meteorológico conocido como parhelio, que provoca que aparezcan en el cielo varias imágenes del sol reflejadas en las nubes. Las tres tenían listas ya sus novelas: Jane Eyre, escrita por Charlotte, Cumbres borrascosas por Emily y Agnes Grey por Anne. (Read more) (Susana Jiménez) (Google translation)
且行且唱 reviews Emma by Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady which was published in 1980 (not to be confused with Clare Boylan's Emma Brown which also used this unfinished last sketch, as Thackeray put it, by Charlotte Brontë as a starting point). According to Charlotte Cory, "another lady" was Elizabeth Goudge.

The Reader's Paradise and Eating Pages post about Jane Eyre; The Modern Historian and The Diary Junction Blog devote posts to Emily Brontë,

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James Barbour, who played Rochester in the Broadway performances of Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre: the Musical back in 2000, will be given a series of Holiday Concerts, starting today December 20, at Sardi's Restaurant in New York. We are hopeful that some Jane Eyre tunes will be in the programme. The December 30th concert will be particularly fitting as Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre in those performances) will be his special guest.

EDIT (31/12/2008): But apparently this was not the case. For a report of Barbour+Schaffel concert please check this post at the Jane Eyre-The Musical Forum.

These are the details:
Treehouse Entertainment Inc. presents
James Barbour The Holiday Concert

EVENINGS
Saturday, December 20th 8:30pm
Tuesday, December 23rd 8:30pm
Friday, December 26th 8:30pm
Saturday, December 27th 8:30pm
Tuesday, December 30th 8:30pm
Friday, January 2nd 8:30pm
Saturday, January 3rd 8:30pm

MATINEES
Sunday, December 21st 3:00pm
Wednesday, December 24th 3:00pm
Sunday, December 28th 3:00PM
Sunday, January 4th 3:00pm


A voice that fuses raw power and rich expression...

Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None

Hear your favorite Holiday Classics and the greatest Broadway songs sung by one of Broadway's brightest stars. Special guests appearing. Come and join in the warmth of the Holiday season.

Special Guests: Dec. 20 at 8:30 PM Brandi Burkhardt; Dec. 23 at 8:30 PM Natalie Toro; Dec. 26 at 8:30 PM Jodi Graham; Dec. 27 at 8:30 PM Deborah Gibson; Dec. 30 at 8:30 PM Marla Schaffel; Jan. 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM Marc Kudisch; Jan. 3 at 8:30 PM Natalie Toro and Kevin Earley; Dec. 24 at 3 PM Derek Keeling and Kate Shindle; Jan. 4 at 3 PM Jack Noseworthy
More details can be found on James Barbour's blog. But if you want a 5$ discount from your ticket, better check this message on the Jane Eyre: the Musical forum.

The author of the musical, Paul Gordon, has also recently left an interesting message on the forum concerning the announced revamping of the Jane Eyre score:
Speaking of JANE EYRE. Brad Haak, who is currently the music director of MARY POPPINS on B'way, and I had some very productive work sessions on the new score to JANE EYRE last week. We had the pleasure of Jayne Paterson coming by and working with us. We made her sing "Secret Soul" and "Sweet Liberty". Many goose bumps were had. We are considering doing a JANE EYRE concert in NY in the coming months with the new reduced orchestrations. Stay tuned.
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