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Pies in Cowan Bridge
The Doncaster Free Press publishes some more information related to the the pies suppliers of the new Mammoth Screen Wuthering Heights production for ITV:Topping's Pies were chosen to produce 18th cen...
Beauty-disadvantaged Janes
Shirley Dent in The Guardian complains about why all Yorkshire literary festivals happen to take place in the same few weeks:Despite Yorkshire's distinguished literary history (everyone from The Bront...
Susannah York as Nellie
As we informed, last week artist Lesley Martin worked with Brontë Parsonage visitors to create a giant artwork on the Parsonage front lawn, made of natural materials. Keighley News reports the result...
"A really, really terrible ‘Wuthering Heights’ musical"
The Argus has an article on a temporary exhibition at the County Museum, Dundalk, Ireland.The first [exhibition] celebrates the county’s connection to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte in the exhibit...
"Carried away by the romance of the landscape"
The Guardian asks 'why everything about life in the north of England is the best in Britain' and several writers answer the question. Jenni Murray gives an important reason: Our favourite book was Wut...
Wuthering Heights at Oakwell Hall
As promised, the Brontë Parsonage Blog posts further information on the shooting of Wuthering Heights (the one produced by Mammoth Screen for ITV) along with three pictures, one of them reposted here...
Reads tolerably - Writes indifferently
Several British newspapers carry a survey commissioned by the commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors (CIEA):Almost six in 10 schoolchildren believe they have to work harder n...
Emily Brontë in an Aga and Shirley in Stalag Luft III
Let's begin our newsround with Jeannette Winterson's article in The Times with the irresistible title of Jeanette Winterson leaves her mobile phone in the Aga - and blames it on Emily Brontë:IT HAS B...
Wuthering Heights, the flagship
It looks like ITV is going through a rough time economically speaking. In order to try and better the situation, their new Wuthering Heights will be the season's flagship, according to the Guardian:He...
Summer's Brontë Blunder
The Guardian's MediaMonkey section has discovered a huge Brontë blunder in an article about Naomi Watts in The Times:Naomi Watts is no bimbo, so Monkey was surprised to find the list of "Naomi Loves"...
Dressed as the Brontë sisters
Yesterday was Yorkshire Day (check previous post). The Halifax Evening Courier covers some local related events... including this one:There was also a quiz to test people's knowledge of their region a...
A rare power
Catherine Bush, best known as Kate Bush, was born in a day like today fifty years ago in Bexleyheath, Kent (now part of Greater London) (and 140 years after the birth of the author of the novel on whi...
Haworth. There are some lovely cemeteries up there
The Observer describes a trip on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway through Yorkshire:With pistons thrusting and steam hissing, it has featured in dozens of TV dramas and films, most famously The R...
Caged like a go-go dancer
The Guardian reviews The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland, edited by Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins. There's an Emily Brontë reference:Mining for such nuggets is one of the book's chief ...
Charlotte Brontë, the pioneer
The Telegraph & Argus presents some of the participants of the 35th Ilkey Literary Festival next October (3 to 19):Biographies feature strongly, with a range of authors and subjects including the ...
Crazy things are going on
The Independent (Ireland) has an article on hyperemesis gravidarum which mentions Charlotte Brontë's death: "It is so much worse than ordinary morning sickness. Researchers now believe that Charlotte...
Wuthering Heights escapees
The New York Times Travel section has an article on Lisbon which contains this weird Brontë reference:As for fairy-tale waifs, coy Lolitas and escapees from the pages of “Wuthering Heights,” they...
The Duke of Kent at the Parsonage
Keighley News reminds us of the temporary exhibition of the Gondal Poems manuscript and Branwell's portrait of Emily Brontë at the Brontë Parsonage Museum: Poems written by Emily Brontë have return...
Charlotte, the ugly troll
Poor Charlotte. We know she was quite sensitive about her looks and this comment in a restaurant review of The Times goes in that direction:Vogue is having a writing competition. There’s probably ju...
Wuthering Heights: the book of a lifetime
The Independent asked author Patrick McGrath about his 'book of a lifetime'. He has picked Wuthering Heights and has written a very perceptive short essay on it: To select the book of a lifetime is no...
Dark, romantic, violent, cruel, passionate...
Today's news bring us several new Brontëites. Natasha Trethewey is interviewed in Newsweek:Poet Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize for "Native Guard," her latest book of prose inspired by histo...
If passion is what you want, read Jane Eyre
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reviews (very) briefly Wide Sargasso Sea 2006 DVD: Less sensational than the 1993 film version, "Sea" manages to be sensual and harrowing as Antoinette descends into mad...
Wide Sargasso Sea is Jane Eyre fan fiction
Film.com reviews the recent DVD edition of Wide Sargasso Sea 2006:I don't care what anyone says, Wide Sargasso Sea is Jane Eyre fan fiction. Literary critics can play up Jean Rhys's classic 1966 novel...
What Jane Eyre could stomach
The Times carries an article about literacy levels in Scotland and use a Charlotte-to-Charlotte reference:Rankin has pointed out that he spent much of his childhood reading comics, and it wasn’t unt...
Inverted or not, a snob is a snob
The Arena Stage's performances of The Mystery of Irma Vep continue to generate reviews around:Ludlum's creation, which borrows with abandon from such varied literary sources as Shakespeare, Edgar Alle...
R.I.P. Olive Emily Kellett
The Spenborough Guardian reports sad news. Olive Emily Kellet, great-grandaughter of Rose Ann Heslip (Patrick Brontë's niece) died a couple of weeks ago. The tomb of Rose Ann Heslip was rediscovered ...
Alongside the Brontë past
Haworth is trying to have more on offer than 'just' the Brontë sights. Here's one interesting, non-Brontë initiative as reported by the Keighley News: Haworth people will become painters this summer...
The biggest mistake of my life
Peter Kosminsky is interviewed by Laura Barnett for The Guardian and admits to something that takes us rather by surprise:Is there anything about your career you regret?Doing a remake of Wuthering Hei...
Jane Eyre's spork
Another Brontëite. From the Tampa Tribune, writer Linda White-Francis:"They still talk about those stories," she said, adding, "When I decided to become a serious writer, I went to the library and st...
DVD Reviews and more
The upcoming US release of the Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) DVD (by Acorn Media) gets reviewed on BlogCritics Magazine:Wide Sargasso Sea — based on the 1966 novel by Jean Rhys, originally aired by the B...