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Monday 7 May 2012

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The Spenborough Guardian has a short article on the recent Luddite recreations at Red House.
THE turbulent times of the early 19th century were recreated at Red House on Sunday.
The event was held at the Gomersal museum to mark the bicentenary of the attack at Cartwright Mills in Liversedge in April 1812, in which two Luddites were killed.
Visitors met a ‘Luddite’ and a ‘mill owner’ to find out their different views on the uprising, and the Mikron Theatre company performed extracts from their play Can You Keep a Secret? They also tried their hand at traditional textile crafts such as carding, spinning and weaving without the aid of modern machines.
Two exhibitions told the story of the Luddites, one by the West Yorkshire Archive Service and the other by Kirklees Council, while the ‘Secret’s Out’ Gallery explored the local Brontë connections and how the story of the Luddite attacks in Spen Valley were featured in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley.
We are somewhat intrigued by the conclusions reached at this high school talk in Bromley, as reported by the News Shopper.
An author enriched the minds of students by making them think about the issue of racism in fiction.
Malorie Blackman was invited to Bromley High School to address the question of whether Charlotte Brontë was racist.
The writer of works including Noughts and Crosses did this by talking about Jean Rhys’s prequel novel to Jane Eyre, The Wide Sargasso Sea. (Robert Fisk)
But was she a racist or not? Oh well, she was just probably a woman of her time in that respect.

Another high school is mentioned by KTVU where
senior Sarah Gidre [...] is reading "Wuthering Heights" on an iPad.
Another way of 'reading' Wuthering Heights is an audiobook, a format recently mentioned in the TV series The Client List where, as Perez Hilton eloquently puts it,
A client on Jennifer Love Fefferman's list who ISN'T interested in a happy ending from the actress during his rubdown?!
IMPOSSIBLE!
Until now, at least!
That's right, check out the latest from The Client List's collection of awkward Rub 'n Tug scenes, which features our heroine struggling to understand why a heterosexual male would rather relax and get an actual massage while listening to Wuthering Heights on audio book than, as she so eloquently puts it, take "the D train"!
Gawker also discusses the matter and thinks the guy can't actually be straight if he listens to Wuthering Heights (!).

Examiner has an article on Wuthering Heights and the Otago Daily Times comments on the 2009 adaptation of the novel:
Wuthering Heights - this version at least - tries to be just a wee bit modern. Check out the fonts on the opening credits.
And there is something just a little wrong with Tom Hardy as Heathcliff.
He just does not look embittered enough to pull off the sort of emotional brutality the role requires. His lips are too pink and full.
But let us not dwell on the negatives.
It's the moors - it's Emily Brontë, it's Cathy and Heathcliff, it's Andrew Lincoln back from outer space, and not killing zombies.
It's Wuthering Heights.
Just get into it. (Charles Loughrey)
Rebecca Chesney from The Brontë Weather Project has just read Agnes Grey and Poesias Brontëanas writes in Portuguese about Anne Brontë. Livros com Cookies posts in Portuguese about Jane Eyre and Books Music Movies writes briefly about the 2011 adaptation. Dilemma - based on a true story has a short text in Swedish on Wuthering Heights 2011. The Octogon writes about Haworth.

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