The film Jane Eyre 1996 on February 12 was broadcast on RTL8 this weekend again to see on RTL 4. The film was broadcast Sunday, February 28th starting at 13.45 hours.
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The British comedian Arthur Smith for the BBC's The One Show one night in the bedroom of Patrick Brontë. He brought the visit to the Parsonage in Haworth as part of a series of items on the homes of literary greats. It reports the Telegraph & Argus.

The comedian's hope for a ghostly visitation never materialised - his sleep disturbed only by the Chiming of the clock on the landing - the same one wound every night by Mr. Bronte, Bronte Parsonage Museum collections manager said, Ann Dinsdale.

Read the entire article here.
The item is expected tomorrow (Thursday, February 11) broadcast during The One Show, BBC1 at 20.00 hours.

(Source: Brontëblog)

The Red House in Gomersal until April 18 an exhibition on Mary Taylor, the friend of Charlotte Brontë, to see. Reported that the Brontë Parsonage Blog. Mary Taylor was Charlotte's school friend and later a great inspiration. Charlotte Brontë visited and regularly stayed at the Red House, the home of the Taylor family. They later used the family as inspiration for her book Shirley.
Mary Taylor for her time was very independent and progressive. She emigrated to New Zealand and started a business there. She also wrote articles for magazines and a novel, Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago.
More information about Red House can be found here.

RTL8 broadcasts on Friday, February 12 from the 1996 film Jane Eyre. In this film, Anna Paquin plays the young Jane and Charlotte Gainsbourg plays the adult Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester is played by William Hurt. The film starts at 20.30 hours.

Jane Eyre is an orphan and lives with her aunt, who treats her badly. When she was old enough, Jane is sent to a girls' school. She follows a good education and teacher. With all her knowledge, she searches for a better life and will work with Mrs. Fairfax. There, she falls in love with Mr. Rochester. The feelings are mutual, but a dark secret seems to ruin everything.

Total raffled two tickets musical theater for the presentation of the musical Jane Eyre on Friday, February 5 Theater in The Lady in Amersfoort. Send this week to answer the following question pr@muziektheater-totaal.nl and win these cards:

Who played Charlotte Brontë in the play The Brontë Sisters and the players of Total Music is it in the picture?

The answer can be found on the homepage of Total Music. You submitting to January 31, the cards will be raffled on February 1.
Curious about the musical? See below Youtube-movie:

Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth

The Brontë Parsonage Museum is on Monday, February 1 after an extensive refurbishment reopened to the public. The redesign is the opinion of many visitors asked about what should change. Eventually, this led to a new arrangement of the exhibits. A number of new acquisitions to admire, such as Emily Brontë's character and its geometry box set, which the museum recently through an auction managed to secure. The museum has also recently closed a miniature manuscript of Charlotte Brontë bought. None of these items have been previously exhibited.

The museum also has people in Haworth called to search for stuff that they think it has a connection with the Brontes. So is there a music sheet found at the Haworth church from the time of the Brontes and three bound volumes of the book Family Economist in the possession of Tabitha Brown, a former maid of the Brontes.

Director Andrew McCarthy writes:

We're delighted with the improvements to the Parsonage and sure that these will enhance the experience of visiting. The new casing displays and are allo wing us to show more of the treasures of the museum's collection and more of the collection that relates to the Haworth community in which the Brontes lived. It's wonderful to be Able to exhibit new items which have come to us through the generosity of local people. We've also tried to create the new displays in such a way as to make the Parsonage feel even more like a domestic home and so we hope people will come along and see the new look and enjoy some of the wonderful new displays.

Whether they ever get the cinema is questionable, but it seems that real effort to cinema film versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. In Jane Eyre we have according to the International Movie Database (IMDb) have to wait: this film is now planned for 2011. The two main roles have been distributed by now. Jane Eyre will be played by Mia Wasikowska, who soon in the title role of Alice in Wonderland will be shown. For Mr.. Rochester Michael Fassbender said. He is known among the more Tarantino-hit Inglourious Basterds.
Wuthering Heights is in short all three times by director changed. Last week it was announced that Andrea Arnold takes over from Peter Webber, who had taken them by John Maybury. Andrea Arnold is currently the rage with the film Fish Tank. If we are to believe the rumors, is in May of this year starting with the filming of Wuthering Heights in Scotland and Ireland. Yet are still called Gemma Arterton and Ed Westwick as Catherine and Heathcliff.

Andrea Arnold is the new director of Wuthering Heights

(Sources: Brontëblog, IMDB, Slashfilm.com)

Vincent van Gogh was a fan of Charlotte Brontë, as shown by his correspondence. Some of his letters will be exhibited next week at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Brontëblog, in reaction to an article in the New Statesman, which refers to Van Gogh's favorite writers, some research.

In a letter to his brother Theo Van Gogh wrote in 1881:

I do not know if you ever read English books. If so then I highly recommend you "Shirley" by competing Bell, also author of another book, "Jane Eyre". That is so beautiful as the paintings of Millais and Boughton or Herkomer. I found it to Prince Hage and read it in three days out though 't quite bulky book.

In another letter to his brother, the same year, he wrote:

Read at least once and l'amour and la femme, you can 't given, My wife and I and our Neighbors of Beecher Stowe. of Jane Eyre and Shirley Bell of competing. Much clearer and much more things than I can tell you those guys.

And in a letter to Anthon van Rappard in 1882:

It is a shame that the artists here know so little English. Mauve eg enthusiasm when he got into the landscape of Millais Chill October13 saw but they do not believe in the English art and prejudices too superficial in my view. Mauve always says "that is literary art", but does not mention that the English writers like Dickens and Eliot and competing in the Bell and French Balzac eg so amazing 'plastic' as I 't may so express it as puissant as an example or drawing of Herkomer Fildes or Israel. And Dickens himself sometimes used the phrase, I have sketched.

The exhibition The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters from Saturday to see in London.

(Sources: Brontëblog, BBC News)

Total Music Theater, which this year the musical Jane Eyre on the shelves brings two free raffle tickets for the presentation of Friday, February 5th in Amersfoort.

For chance to win the ticket, you must answer the following question:

"Who played Charlotte Brontë in the Play The Brontë Sisters and with whom she is the picture on the website (http://www.muziektheater-totaal.nl) Total of Music in Amersfoort?

Send the correct answer to: pr@muziektheater-totaal.nl. Among the contributors are right on Monday, February 1, 2010 and the lucky winner drawn on this post. The outcome of this contest may not be final.

The show 'Wuthering Heights' theater of Artemis from Den Bosch last week premiere. The reviews were enthusiastic:

Clever text Jeroen Olyslaegers, atmospheric direction and acting fierce game. From adolescence to retirement, there is no story that is so familiar and universal as that of the wrenching love and that is the great strength of this performance, which extends over the previous age. Woest The Tomorrow it is ready for it. Cathy and Heathcliff celebrate their untamed passion. Of the six characters is likeable in this one directed by Floor Huygen. That makes the show melancholy but strangely fascinating. As the book. De Volkskrant

Miserable that you feel the play is over, but it is the intention. The misery of the original book they know well across. Deadline.nl
A couple where the sparks of love afspatten, shapes and Alejandra Theus Joris Smit. A special processing stage, where the bare, raw stage, wind machines and natural roughness of the story sounds the more tangible. The thoughtful direction makes an impressive experience of. Brabants Dagblad

On the website of Artemis to read the full reviews. You will find the play list.