A new French book which traces common elements between seven women writers Emily Brontë, Marina Tsvetaeva, Virginia Woolf, Colette, Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann and Djuna Barnes:

7 femmesLydie Salvayre
Éditions Perrin, April 2013
ISBN : 978-2-262-03469-6
Pages : 240

Sept portraits intimistes et enlevés des plus grandes figures littéraires et féminines du début du XXe siècle.

Sept femmes. Sept allumées pour qui l'écriture n'est pas un supplément d'existence mais l 'existence même. Sept oeuvres dont la force e t la beauté ont marqué Lydie Salvayre et décidé pour beaucoup de sa vie. Sept parcours, douloureux pour la plupart, dont elle suit les élans, les angoisses, les trébuchements et les fragiles victoires.

Lydie Salvayre est l'auteur de douze romans, parmi lesquels La Déclaration (Prix Hermès du premier roman), La Compagnie des spectres (Prix Novembre, aujourd'hui Prix Décembre) et BW (Prix François-Billetdoux). Ses livres sont traduits dans une vingtaine de langues. Certains ont été adaptés au théâtre.

Emily Brontë a préféré vivre isolée plutôt que se mêler à ses semblables. (Marie-Laure Turoche) (Translation)

Chacune de ces femmes lui parle de sa propre vie, réveille des souvenirs, lui offre ou lui a offert un regard neuf. Emily Brontë secoue la mémoire de l’internat et de l’adolescente qu’elle fut, fascinée par l’intransigeance sauvage et absolue du héros des Hauts de Hurlevent, dont elle était, bien sûr, amoureuse. La même adolescente se mue en femme impertinente, sensuelle et légère, détachée des contingences amoureuses dans La Naissance du jour de Colette, «vision on ne peut plus éloignée de celle d’Emily Brontë dans Les Hauts de Hurlevent, lu la même année, reconnaît Lydie Salvayre, et dont le contraste vient m’enseigner qu’une même chose peut être regardée avec le même aplomb de dix façons différentes, ce qui, et je pèse mes mots, bouleverse ma vie.» (Eléonor Sulser in Le Temps) (Translation)

Quant à cette Emily Brontë qui vit paumée dans un village du Yorkshire, elle va affirmer, bien avant Freud, qu'il y a une part obscure dans l'homme, une fureur, une violence fondamentale qui peut conduire aux pires désastres mais qui a ce pouvoir d'amener les hommes à une présence au ... (Julie Clarini in Le Monde) (Translation)

The Amarillo Globe-News says the following about the DVD/Blu-ray release of Wuthering Heights 2011:

Director Andrea Arnold's rough-hewn adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic takes the story down to its rawest elements, injecting a perfectly appropriate racial element (Heathcliff here is played by James Howson as an Afro-Caribbean man who was born a slave). It's incredibly atmospheric, though sometimes a little too slowly paced and dreary. (Chip Chandler)

Speaking of Wuthering Heights, via @BronteParsonage and @AJacksonArtist on Twitter we see that a 1970s picture of Ashley Jackson at Top Withins was featured yesterday in the Yorkshire Post. Besides that, Ashley Jackson adds on Twitter,

they shaped the landscape with a pen, I hope to do that with a brush. Heritage needs to be saved for the future #Inspired

A.V. Club dates language by writers' usage when picking '13 Arrested Development quotes to summarize reactions to the new episodes':

Or you can put it in all caps (“I’M AFRAID I JUST BLUE MYSELF”) to represent a Bluth-prompted ejaculation—in the dated, Jane Eyre sense of the word. (Erik Adams, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Will Harris, Steve Heisler, Ryan McGee, Josh Modell, Kyle Ryan, Oliver Sava, John Teti, and Todd VanDerWerff)

Female First interviews writer Sierra Cartwright and describes her previous work as follows:

Last year, she was delighted to be among the launch authors for the exciting Clandestine Classics imprint from Total-E-Bound. The project generated international interest, and her contribution, the expanded Jane Eyre, was featured in segments on such shows as Jimmy Kimmell and Anderson Cooper Live. Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and numerous other online sites also wrote features about the provocative new book. (Lucy Walton)

The Brontë Parsonage Facebook Page and News section share more pictures of the 1940s events at the museum this past weekend.

The Mankato Homeschooling Examiner links to a December 2011 issue of the free educational magazine Early Knowledge for Kids which featured a poem by Emily Brontë. Covers of Brontë novels are among the top ten picked by The Nerdy Reader, So Obsessed With and Lace Vintage Book Reviews. J_on_tour writes about a recent trip to Haworth.

Isabelle Arsenault, the illustrator of Jane, Le Renard et Moi is touring France and Belgium presenting her works including the book:

May 17 Philippe Le Libraire, Paris
May 18 Brüssel Anspach / Brüssel Flagey, Brussels
May 19 La Petite Boucherie, Paris
May 22 L'Atélier d'en Face, Paris
May 23 Mollat, Bordeaux
May 24-May 25 Les drôles lecteurs de Monbazillac.

The book has been recently awarded with an award at the Salon du Livre, Quebec:

Back from the Salon du livre de Quebec awarded by a Bedeis Causa 2013! The Réal-Fillion award - given to an author, scriptwriter or cartoonist from the province of Quebec for the succes of its first professional album - was awarded to "Jane, le renard & moi"! Fanny Britt and I are delighted by this honour. For your information, the book is coming out in English this Fall, as "Jane, the Fox & me" (Groundwood books in North America, Walker Books in UK).

Scarsdale 10583 mentions the children book series The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood and says that they

are very popular with library patrons and have been reviewed by the School Library Journal, which described Book I as, "Jane Eyre meets Lemony Snicket in this smart, surprising satire. [...]" (Brian Shabto)

The Daily Trust (Nigeria) interviews 'Architect, writer, business partner, mother, wife, reader, humanitarian' Hadiza El-Rufai:

What book in your younger days impacted on you? Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. It had a great impact on me. I first read the novel when I was 13 years old and for some reason I identified so much with the protagonist, who was a strong woman far ahead of her time. (Eugenia Abu)

The Bath Chronicle features the local exhibition Laura Ashley: The Romantic Heroine at the Bath Fashion Museum.

The display will capture the Laura Ashley look that in the 1960s and 1970s inspired a generation of women to dress as though they were the milkmaid Tess of the d'Urbervilles from Thomas Hardy's novel, or perhaps Cathy from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

The Jane Thornton adaptation of Wuthering Heights is performed this week in Croydon, South London:

Ashcroft Theatre and Macho Productions present
Wuthering Heights
Adapted by Jane Thornton

Directed by Andrew Lynford
With Mark Homer and Adele Silva

Farfield Halls
May 21, 24, 25  7:30 PM
May 22, 23, 25  2:30 PM

The Croydon Guardian  interviews the director Andrew Lynford:

"It is coming together so well and I think it is going to be a really exciting show.
"The story is so well known and different generation will remember different productions of it.
"It is a story which can be recreated and redefined as it is about love, hated, jealousy and a whole load of human emotions. That is why it resonates with everybody."
He adds: "I have decided to keep to this adaptation in front of me without being too clever with it. I want it to be essentially a theatrical experience.
"For me it is great to be doing something that is considered a classic as I haven’t directed many classic before.
"It is a great fast paced performance and I think it will appeal to a wide range of people." (Andrew Bloss)