The Halifax Evening Courier publishes an article about
[T]his year's programme of heritage walks, which has been released by Calderdale Heritage Guides.
It is the biggest-ever programme, running from late April to September, and includes eight new walks. (...)
The well-researched and well-presented walks aim to explain the history and features of towns and villages in Calderdale.
New walks for this summer take in the Brontes in Luddenden (...)
Most walks are on Sunday afternoons, with some on weekday evenings and bank holidays.(...) The full programme of walks is available from tourist information centres, libraries, museums and council offices in Calderdale. (Cathy Neligan)
More information on the Brontës connections with Calderdale,
here.
Other Brontë mentions in the press today include
1) A new author that admits to his Brontëite background:
Adrian McKinty (The Bloomsday Dead) says in
The Wall Street Journal:
My eyes were opened in high school by 19th century Victorian fiction: Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy and William Thackeray and the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen for light reading.
2) A supposed review of Jane Eyre that, as a matter of fact, is a long summary. In the
BanglaDesh Financial Express.
3) And finally, a new singer attempts to cover Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. We read on
Chartattack how in the recent South by Southwest Festival
Rachel Fullerwent on too long and then teased us with a bit of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” without taking it all the way, which pissed me off. (Steve McLean)
Categories: Brontëana, Jane Eyre, Music, Wuthering Heights
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