• Film rights to Reading Lolita in Tehran have been sold.

• Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina’s biography of The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett has reached the States. Dinitia Smith calls it “[t]horoughly researched and a good read,” and says the new biography “gives a harsher portrait of Burnett’s ambivalence as a mother and of the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her second husband, Stephen Townesend” than previous books about the author’s life.

• The Victorian Internet recalls the making of the telegraph.

• A website features funny speculations about the use Victorians might have made of the Internet. (Via Things.)