Charlotte Brontë's escapade to New York

Some Brontë mentions on the internet never cease to surprise us and - sometimes - make us literally roar with laughter. If laughter therapy works, then you'll be a very healthy person after reading this.

Our absolute winner has to be read to be believed, not just because of what it says but because of the matter-of-fact seriousness with which it is written. From the January issue of TravelLady Magazine:

Roycroft Inn
The Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, New York, helps me get in touch with my artistic side. In keeping with its designation as an U. S. National Landmark, the Inn retains its original Roycroft style. In 1895 writer-philosopher Elbert Hubbard established the Roycroft Arts and Crafts Community, a self-contained community for craftspeople.
Since it opened in 1905, the Roycroft Inn has hosted a plethora of notables including authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Bronte, Steven Crane, and Henry David Thoreau.
I love sit by the fireplace – possibly in the same chair used by Charlotte Bronte – with my pen poised over my notepad, looking pensive, and hoping people wonder, "Who is she? An author? A poet?" They don’t have to know I am only a wannabe writer making an entry in my journal. http://www.roycroftinn.com/ (Sandra Scott)

The emphasis is ours but apart from that we solemnly swear this is real and hasn't been tampered with. The place may be lovely for all we know but we'd like to encourage Ms Scott to read a biography of the supposed sitter before she uses his/her chair. It's only polite, you know.

The Brontës - keen followers of politics - would be puzzled at usually finding themselves and their work as useful metaphors for the journalists' use. Today's Hillary Clinton's turn. The student newspaper The Phoenix talks about NYT's columnist William Kristol:

And, of course, he's never strayed far from the hyperbolic invective that has alienated many of his colleagues from the thinking public - unable, for example, to decide whether to turn Hillary Clinton into a wailing Brontë heroin or a butch, gravelly character actor, remarking of her awkward breakdown on the campaign trail, "She pretended to cry, the women felt sorry for her, and she won." (Nicholas Gamso)

ABC Newcastle (Australia) reports the discovery of some new Brontë sisters:

A Newcastle writers centres believes it has discovered Tasmania's own version of the literary Bronte sisters, living and working in Hobart 2000kms away.
Project Director with the Hunter Writers Centre Micky Pinkerton describes entries from Hobart's Macdonald sisters as a stand out because of their wide range of styles and wit.
"We imagined these four girls living on a windswept moor somewhere in Tasmania all furiously scribbling and showing each other their work," Ms Pinkerton said.
The work was submitted to micro-fiction website site Onefifty, run by the Newcastle-based Hunter Writers Centre. (Anthony Scully)

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