Independent (Ireland) interviews Irish actress Marie Mullen.
What was the first book you loved?Jane Eyre. Such a beautiful story of love. I read it when I was very young and again in my twenties and recently too. It's magic.
Arizona Public Radio picks a poem and a bookshop for Poetry Friday:
For this week’s installment of Poetry Friday, we head to the bookstore...the Brightside Bookstore in Flagstaff, to be exact. Tyler Clark is a graduate student at Northern Arizona University and an employee at the Brightside. He leads us back to the poetry section where he reaches for the writings of the Bronte sisters. Here is Tyler Clark with Charlotte Bronte’s On the Death of Emily Jane Bronte, a tribute to her sister. [...]My favorite authors of all-time are the Bronte sisters. They’re really popular for their novels and their fiction, but they also have some really good poems. Charlotte Bronte is my favorite. I think Emily Bronte tends to be the most famous of the poets, but Charlotte has some really good works as well.I’ll read today the poem On the Death of Emily Jane Bronte. It was written by Charlotte Bronte right when her sister passed away on December 24th [sic], 1848. (Gillian Ferris and Tyler Clark)
You can listen to him reading the poem.
In The Guardian, novelist Sarah Perry discusses the 'history of remarkable and outspoken women' from Essex.
If you might not have suspected Essex of having been the site of that sacred ground and those holy women, I can’t hold you entirely to blame. A landscape is constructed not only from its hills and the species of its common trees, but from the cultural and historical associations attached to it. Heathcliff will always possess the Yorkshire moors; Tess of the D’Urbervilles will sit forever weeping on her Dorset milking stool.
La Croix (France) features Deborah Levy's 'working autobiography'.
Et la cicatrice de l’exil quand, à son retour, la famille s’installe en Grande-Bretagne, ce désir d’être « en exil de l’exil » ; cette parole, surtout, originellement entravée et qu’elle n’aura de cesse de rechercher par l’écriture – poétique, romanesque, théâtrale –, convoquant pour cela Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras et sa muse, sa compagne de route, Simone de Beauvoir : « Parler haut, ce n’est pas parler plus fort, c’est se sentir autorisé à énoncer un désir. On hésite toujours, quand on désire quelque chose. » (Fabienne Lemahieu) (Translation)
Herts Live features Knebworth House.
Since the late 1950s, locals have been able to spot the house, including in the 1989 Batman film and the 1997 adaptation of Jane Eyre. (Matthew Smith)
