While browsing the links over at When Fangirls Attack, I ran across a reference to Dame Darcy's rendition of Jane Eyre. I clicked through--not to a comics site, as I had imagined--but to the Bronte Blog. In addition to offering an interesting write-up on Dame Darcy's endeavor, I was pleased to run across a Bronte fan site on the web. It seemed well-stocked, too, with links to free e-book versions of the Bronte's works, and quite a lot of information about the upcoming BBC production of Jane Eyre.

I don't know why, but I somehow got it in my head to check if there were any more Bronte fan blogs out there. And as it turns out, there are Bronte blogs to suit many styles and occasions. For example, there is Bronteana, heavy with news regarding adaptations; and Bronte Studies Blog, more in the academic vein; and the surprisingly hip Bronte Parsonage Blog, with its recent report on a Wuthering Heights graphic novel.

Just a few days later, I ran across Heathcliff in the news. In the BigBagRead poll held by Bloomsbury Press in the UK, Heathcliff came in 17th in a list of top villains in literature. I don't usually think of Heathcliff as a villain, so that really surprised me. I mean, what's so wrong with digging up your dead ex just so you can hold her in your arms and scream at her one last time about how she ruined your life?