Based in the Melbourne, AU area, Ruccis Circus has put together a hula hoop act, performing to Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, on, well, Wuthering Heights.
Ruccis Circus’ Wuthering Heights Hula Hoop Act
Portuguese Heathcliff rap
A Brazilian record company, Casadepau Records, has recently released “Heathcliff,” a rap ode to one of our favorite brooding (anti)heroes.
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters links for August 27, 2017
Here are your Jane Austen and Bronte sisters related links for the week:
- Five surprising facts about Jane Austen – Catholic Canada
- ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Co-Creator Updates ‘Jane Eyre’ With Graphic Novel – The Hollywood Reporter
- A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney – A Review – Quatro Knows
- The tragic link between Jane Eyre author and Antrim hamlet – Belfast Telegraph
- Celebrations of Jane Austen providing tourism boost to Basingstoke – Basingstoke Gazette
- Rise in visitors put down to Jane Austen effect – Basingstoke Observer
- Sentiments of Jane Austen echoed in loveless relationship of Charles and Diana – Belfast Telegraph
- All About Jane: Celebrating 200 Years of Jane Austen at Ridgefield Library – Ridgefield’s Hamlet Hub
- Jane Austen Historical Sites Crank Up Appeals for Funds – Information Today
- Jane Austen News – Issue 81 – Jane Austen Centre
- Issue 19: The First Brazillian Translations – Jane Austen Literacy Foundation
- ‘I read my boyfriend Pride and Prejudice as a bedtime story’: meet the Jane Austen superfans – The Guardian
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters links for August 20, 2017
Here are your Jane Austen and Bronte sisters related links for the week:
- No book title is so widely mispronounced as Wuthering Heights – The Spectator
- Haworth’s Bronte Parsonage exploring option of building its own toilets for visitors to the museum – Keighley News
- Tuesday 18 July – Jane Austen, 200 years on – Jane Austen’s House Museum
- Re-Cast Pride And Prejudice To Find Out Which Character You Are – BuzzFeed
- Jane Austen News – Issue 80 – Jane Austen Centre
- Haworth’s Bronte Parsonage exploring option of building its own toilets for visitors to the museum – Keighley News
- The Bronte link with Dundalk – Dundalk Democrat
- Bronte cleric Arthur Bell Nicholls moves on to sister Charlotte after his love Anne dies – Keighley News
- The Austenista – New Republic
- Bookmonger: A fond salute to Jane Austen – Cost Weekend
- Jane Austen festival in Steventon celebrates author’s life – Basingstoke Gazette
- This is how to meet guys according to Jane Austen – Verily
- Jane Austen 200th anniversary spawns memoirs and reading guides – The Australian
- The world of Jane Austen [timeline] – Oxford University Press Blog
- The Guardian view on Jane Austen: pride not prejudice – The Guardian
- An Anglican take on Jane Austen – Press Republican
New blogroll at Excessively Diverting
If you take a gander to the right-hand nav bar, you’ll notice a new feature! This blogroll is the one I use, along with highly filtered Google alerts, to track what’s happening in the Austen and Brontë worlds. As you will notice, there is a lot of Austen sites and not so much of Brontë—even the website for the Brontë Society US chapter is defunct. This is where you come into play! If you know of any current sites (so many are dead), mainly geared for Brontë fans, please use the form below to let me know. It will be much appreciated!
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters links for August 13, 2017
Here are your Jane Austen and Bronte sisters related links for the week:
editor’s note: as you probably heard, the creators of Poldark and Victoria are doing a new version of Pride and Prejudice to be shown on ITV (a British channel) in the next few years. I started adding all the articles in relation to that announcement and stopped when I came across over 50 of them.
- Jane Austen News – Issue 79 – Jane Austen Centre
- The female friendships that sustained four great writers – The Irish Times
- If Jane Austen characters used dating apps – BBC News
- New £10 note release date revealed – why is Jane Austen on the plastic banknote and does it contain traces of animal fat? – The Sun
- Why we should listen to Jane Austen in the age of Tinder – BBC News
- Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied – The New York Times
- Pride and Prejudice: Poldark makers plan new Austen adaptation – BBC News
- Poldark producers to adapt Pride and Prejudice for ITV – Radio Times
- ITV to make ‘less bonnet-y’ Pride and Prejudice, bringing out Jane Austen’s dark side – The Telegraph
- Pride And Prejudice: Poldark producers promise darker twist on Jane Austen adaptation – Express
- ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to get ‘darker’ adaptation – india.com
- How Pride And Prejudice Has Taken The Big And Small Screen – Vogue UK
- With another Pride and Prejudice, TV commissioners are truly failing us – The Telegraph
- Victoria and Poldark creators to make ‘darker’ Pride and Prejudice adaptation for ITV – Evening Standard
- Victoria And Poldark Producers Are Working On A NEW TV Series Of Pride And Prejudice – Heart UK
- Poldark producers to take on ‘darker’ adaptation of Pride and Prejudice – The Independent
- Re-reading Jane Austen – The Hindu
- Audible wants your dog to listen to Jane Austen – YourErie.com
- Smart pet? Audible wants Fido to listen to Jane Austen – USA Today
- Homes give insight into Jane Austen – The Columbian
- Author Kathleen Flynn entices Jane Austen fans with talk – The Litchfield County Times
- Book Review: A sly, funny look at Brontë sisters – Providence Journal
- How Charlotte Brontë came to write “Jane Eyre” – The Economist
- Rereading Wuthering Heights: A Tribute to Emily Brontë – The Wire India
- Actress Gemma Arterton is latest celebrity spotted at the Bronte Parsonage Museum – Keighley News
- Stars of new film adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights open steampunk weekend – Keighley News
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters links for August 6, 2017
Here are your Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters related links for the week:
note: Since we’ve been gone for two months, this week’s link roundup is massive but nowhere near complete. Next weekend will bring the smaller, and more manageable and timely, link list.
- Neil Gaiman Is Starting A Book Yoga Challenge For His Followers, And Your Other Fave Authors Are Joining – The Bustle
- Jane Austen News – Issue 78 – Jane Austen Centre
- Jane Austen News – Issue 77 – Jane Austen Centre
- Jane Austen News – Issue 76 – Jane Austen Centre
- Jane Austen News – Issue 75 – Jane Austen Centre
- The Retreat Of Western Liberalism And How Charlotte Bronte Came To Write “Jane Eyre” – WAMU 88.5
- Portrait of Charlotte Brontë to return to Parsonage Museum in Haworth following auction – Keighley News
- Piecing together the lost letters of Charlotte Brontë – The Yorkshire Post
- Landseer ‘Brontë sisters’ painting auctioned for £40,000 – BBC News
- Earliest known painting of Brontë sisters bought for ‘a couple of hundred’ sells for £50k – The Telegraph
- Brontë birthplace for sale – Keighley News
- Brontë Society hawkish about Emily’s Year in Haworth – Keighley News
- Disturbing 19th-century sensibilities – Church Times
- Portrait of Brontë Sisters Sold for £50,000 – Keighley Online
- Portrait of Haworth novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë sells for £50,000 – Telegraph and Argus
- Where Charlotte and Jane Meet – The New York Times
- Recalling the small, plain woman with the upper hand – The Washington Times
- Rereading Wuthering Heights: A Tribute to Emily Brontë – The Wire
- Branwell: The Other Brontë – JSTOR Daily
- Quite right: Jane Austen wrote of love but thought of £10 notes – The Times
- Austenland Revisited– The Daily Star
- Irony in Jane Austen bank note – Chicago Now
- A Jane Austen after 200 years – The Guardian (Nigeria)
- Tory politician Andrea Leadsom calls Jane Austen one of our “greatest living authors” – NewStatesmen
- A writer, real and imagined – The Hindu
- Austen: Neither Modern Progressive nor Zombie – Wall Street Journal
- Pak’s Austen society fights prejudice with a lot of pride – The Times of India
- 5 Jane Austen works to read in honor of the 200th anniversary of her death – PBS Newshour
- Let’s Talk About Jane Austen (a single page listing of all the articles The Atlantic published on the anniversary of Austen’s death) – The Atlantic
- Jane Austen died 200 years ago. Her classic novels live on, as do books celebrating her – Fresno Bee
- 200 Years After Her Death, Why Are People Still So Obsessed With Jane Austen? – People
- On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen – The Atlantic
- Jane Austen’s 12 Most Delightful Insults – A Love So True
- Which Jane Austen Character Are You, Based on Your Zodiac Sign? – The Mary Sue
- Jane Austen anniversary event a success – The Advocate-Messenger
- NYU Professor Presents Multi-Media Jane Austen Retrospective – The Patch
- Jane Austen, a truth universally acknowledged – RTN Online
- No, Jane Austen Is Not Your Bestie – The New York Times
- Future Austen Adaptations – The New Yorker
- Austen Updated – The Institute of Religion and Public Life
- Kickstarter Alert—’Polite Society: The Jane Austen Board Game’– Geek Dad
- (Read in trailer voice) Jane Austen meets Downton Abbey in a true story with an Aussie twist that reminds us escaping your roots might just bring you home – ABC News Australia
- Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied – The New York Times
- Was Jane Eyre Written as a Secret Love Letter? – Lit Hub
- It’s time to bring Branwell, the dark Brontë, into the light – The Guardian
- #teambrandwell – Twitter
- Jane Austen News – Issue 73 – Jane Austen Centre
- A Jane Austen Festival Is Coming to Bath, England – Conde Nast Traveler
- Regency week kicks off in fine style – Alton Herald
- Atwood, Ishiguro and McEwan come clean about Jane Austen – The Guardian
- Here are 5 things you might not know about Jane Austen – Charlotte Observer
- Britain’s New £10 Note Will Feature Jane Austen – Town and Country
- Major Jane Austen Exhibition Opens – Fine Books Magazine
- You can now live like a Jane Austen heroine as Pride and Prejudice home goes on the market – Bath Chronicle
- The best radio this week: Jane Austen and the art of improvisation – The Guardian
- Branwell Brontë and bicycle in Haworth wins Tour de Yorkshire prize – BBC News
- PICTURES: Excitement as TV property shows visit Brontë museum in Haworth – The Telegraph and Argus
- Brontë Society’s £930,000 windfall to increase work across the world – Keighley News
- Excitement as TV property shows visit Brontë museum in Haworth – Keighley News
- Brontë Parsonage Museum is shortlisted for an award in prestigious Yorkshire-wide competition – Keighley News
- Hever Castle’s In Bloom week celebrates literature from Brontë and Austen to Harry Potter – Kent Online
- Bicentenary of the birth of Brontë sisters brother Branwell will be held in a Calderdale pub – The Examiner
- Jane Austen News – Issue 74 – Jane Austen Centre
- Reading group: which Jane Austen book should we read to mark her bicentenary? – The Guardian
- The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures – The New York Times
- Jane Austen Letter Reveals the Author’s Guilty Pleasure — Yes, It’s a Kind of Book – Electric Literature
- Writing was Jane Austen’s first and true love – The Independent
Still alive!
My diverting friends:
Yes, we are still alive! The Mr. handles the backend of the site and we have the admin page only accessible by our home IP to prevent hacking. When we traveled to the family cottage in early June, we assumed he could easily get into our web provider’s site to add our cottage IP. No such luck! Turns out the web provider’s site itself was having issues and as my websites (to the Mr.) are way down the list of things to do, he was only able to work on it when he had some free time. With my mother-in-law visiting for the first three weeks and guests for the next five weekends, downtime was hard to come by! But it’s fixed now and all of your Austen and Brontë needs will be met again. Huzzah!
Austentatious Links will kick off again this weekend (there has been so. much. Jane these last few weeks!) and the near daily posts will start next week. I’m going to be updating the Austen/Brontë daily quote list to start back up again soon as well.
I hope everyone is having a good summer! Let me know how you’ve been!
Lisa
P.S. While I wasn’t able to make it to the JASNA Louisville Jane Austen festival this year, I heard it was a huge success!