Charlotte Bronte

A tiny poem written by a teenage Charlotte Bronte has sold for more than $140,000 , the Guardian reports. Called "I've Been Wandering in the Greenwoods," the poem, composed when Bronte was 13 years old, is handwritten on a piece of paper just three inches square. It is difficult to read without a magnifying glass. The manuscript is dated Dec. 14, 1829, and signed " C. Bronte . " Written in a minuscule hand on the scrap of paper (easy to hide, one imagines, from one's siblings or clergyman father)

A tiny poem written by a teenage Charlotte Bronte has sold for more than $140,000 , the Guardian reports. Called "I've Been Wandering in the Greenwoods," the poem, composed when Bronte was 13 years old, is handwritten on a piece of paper just three inches square. It is difficult to read without a magnifying glass. The manuscript is dated Dec. 14, 1829, and signed " C. Bronte . " Written in a minuscule hand on the scrap of paper (easy to hide, one imagines, from one's siblings or clergyman father)

This is a tale of sound and fury, emanating from the walls of a lonely Yorkshire parsonage--a story that has been told innumerable times since Elizabeth Gaskell first published her classic biography of Charlotte Bronte in 1857. Now Rebecca Fraser, daughter of English biographer Antonia Fraser, tries her hand at retelling one of the great sagas of English literature in a new biography that focuses almost exclusively on Charlotte Bronte.

The book is called "Jane Eyre" but when it comes to its numerous movie versions, whether it's Orson Welles in 1944 or Michael Fassbender right now, the actor playing Edward Rochester often ends up with the lion's share of the attention. That's because the brooding master of Thornfield in Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel is one of literature's archetypal romantic heroes, a complex and troubled individual who is sensitive, poetic and, as Lady Caroline Lamb famously said of Lord Byron, "mad, bad and dangerous to know.

The book is called "Jane Eyre" but when it comes to its numerous movie versions, whether it's Orson Welles in 1944 or Michael Fassbender right now, the actor playing Edward Rochester often ends up with the lion's share of the attention. That's because the brooding master of Thornfield in Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel is one of literature's archetypal romantic heroes, a complex and troubled individual who is sensitive, poetic and, as Lady Caroline Lamb famously said of Lord Byron, "mad, bad and dangerous to know.

The life of English novelist Charlotte Bronte is depicted in "Bronte," a one-woman show starring Julie Harris and having its television premiere Sept. 6 on KCET Channel 28 (9-10:30 p.). As the story unfolds, Harris also tells of Charlotte's sisters, Emily and Anne, and their life with their austere clergyman father and dissolute brother. The script is by William Luce, who also wrote "The Belle of Amherst" starring Harris as Emily Dickinson.

Charlotte Bronte, author of 19th century romance "Jane Eyre," has just published a new book. "Stancliffe's Hotel," a 34-page novella written by Bronte in 1838 and until now read only by a handful of scholars, was printed in full in the London Times newspaper Friday. " 'Stancliffe's Hotel' is very sardonic, very racy, very witty, not at all like 'Jane Eyre' -- it's not a passionate story about lovelorn heroines," Heather Glen, editor of the new edition of the novella, told BBC radio.

Julie Harris, with no fanfare, has quietly been unfolding a one-woman dramatization of Charlotte Bronte in one-night stands at colleges and selected theaters around town for the last several weeks. It's rare to see Harris on stage here, and it's rarer still that a major performer has been playing to big houses with such scant press attention.

Despite the fame that the novel "Jane Eyre" brought Charlotte Bronte, she was far from happy in the early summer of 1849. Her siblings were dead, and she was "a lonely woman and likely to remain so" as she cared for her infirm father in the Yorkshire village of Hayworth, "a perfect misanthrope's heaven."

Charlotte Bronte offered to rewrite parts of "Jane Eyre" after a legal threat from the headmaster of the institution on which she based the infamous Lowood School, newly discovered letters show. The letters have raised the prospect that somewhere, tucked away in a dusty attic or a pile of musty papers, could lie an amended manuscript of the 19th century classic, toned down by the British novelist to avoid a libel lawsuit.

Marking the March 11 opening of the new film adaptation of " Jane Eyre " from the novel by Charlotte Bronte, VisitBritain has created a free Jane Eyre/Bronte Country destination pocket guide. "Jane Eyre," which was published in 1847, tells the story of a young orphan who suffers injustices, grows into a young woman of strong moral character and eventually weds her true love. It has been made into numerous movies and TV miniseries, including a 1910 silent film and a 1996 big-screen version starring Anna Paquin, William Hurt, Joan Plowright and Geraldine Chaplin.

Unto every generation, it seems, comes a new "Jane Eyre." (Sometimes you do not have to wait even that long.) The latest, a BBC production premiering domestically Sunday night on "Masterpiece Theatre," comes a scant decade after an ITV adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel, seen here on A&E, as well as a more or less contemporaneous theatrical version by Franco Zeffirelli.

Charlotte Bronte offered to rewrite parts of "Jane Eyre" after a legal threat from the headmaster of the institution on which she based the infamous Lowood School, newly discovered letters show. The letters have raised the prospect that somewhere, tucked away in a dusty attic or a pile of musty papers, could lie an amended manuscript of the 19th century classic, toned down by the British novelist to avoid a libel lawsuit.

When Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins asked hundreds of British female academics, teachers, writers, publishers and literature students what book had changed their lives, many respondents wondered whether there would be a male version of the survey as well. Jardine and Watkins complied: The results were fascinating in their own right, and more intriguing when juxtaposed with the findings for women. Not only did men and women find different books to be meaningful, but they approached reading in divergent ways.

Four years ago, novelist Clare Boylan innocently asked a question at a literary festival in England that led to, of all things, her co-authoring a book with Charlotte Bronte. Yes, that Charlotte Bronte, the one who wrote "Jane Eyre" and died 149 years ago. What Boylan, 55, asked was whether Bronte would have continued writing after her 1854 marriage if she hadn't died only nine months into it, at age 38.

The response to the film "Sylvia," recently out in Britain, was marked by some extraordinary invective. Although critics were engaged by the popular retelling of Sylvia Plath's tragic story, they seemed compelled to deride her poetry as adolescent and overrated. Similarly, every filmgoer and memoir addict now knows about Iris Murdoch's Alzheimer's, but hardly anyone will confess to having read her novels.

Marking the March 11 opening of the new film adaptation of " Jane Eyre " from the novel by Charlotte Bronte, VisitBritain has created a free Jane Eyre/Bronte Country destination pocket guide. "Jane Eyre," which was published in 1847, tells the story of a young orphan who suffers injustices, grows into a young woman of strong moral character and eventually weds her true love. It has been made into numerous movies and TV miniseries, including a 1910 silent film and a 1996 big-screen version starring Anna Paquin, William Hurt, Joan Plowright and Geraldine Chaplin.

When Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins asked hundreds of British female academics, teachers, writers, publishers and literature students what book had changed their lives, many respondents wondered whether there would be a male version of the survey as well. Jardine and Watkins complied: The results were fascinating in their own right, and more intriguing when juxtaposed with the findings for women. Not only did men and women find different books to be meaningful, but they approached reading in divergent ways.

Charlotte Bronte, author of 19th century romance "Jane Eyre," has just published a new book. "Stancliffe's Hotel," a 34-page novella written by Bronte in 1838 and until now read only by a handful of scholars, was printed in full in the London Times newspaper Friday. " 'Stancliffe's Hotel' is very sardonic, very racy, very witty, not at all like 'Jane Eyre' -- it's not a passionate story about lovelorn heroines," Heather Glen, editor of the new edition of the novella, told BBC radio.

Can a plain and penniless 19th century orphan girl find happiness and success as a Broadway-bound musical? Nothing is ever easy for Jane Eyre. In Charlotte Bronte's 1847 classic novel, she undergoes many trials and tribulations before ending up in the arms of her beloved Rochester. And "Jane Eyre," the musical, hasn't had an easy time of it either. But if the novel's story is precedent, perhaps there's a happy ending in sight.