Even as talented families go, the Mitford sisters are remarkable -- the most brilliant pride of literary lionesses to have emerged in England since the Brontës, who also had little or no formal education. Four of the sisters were published writers of wit and substance, and, as this collection of their letters to one another demonstrates, all six could write evocatively, even hauntingly. (Mindy Aloff)The Star (Malaysia) asks several authors and book reviewers what their favourite books are. Some Brontë-related ones are chosen:
Sharon Bakar (Lit-blogger, teacher and book critic)
I have too many and the list varies from day to day! Some of them, anyway, are Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.Bernice Chauly, Poet, teacher and actress
My favourite authors from past to present: Jules Verne, Leon Uris, Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, the Bronte Sisters, Marguerite Duras', Salman Rushdie, Herman Hesse, Paul Theroux, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Wolf, Donna Tartt, Anne Michaels, Kate Chopin, Jeannette Winterson, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels is one of my all-time favourites. Hauntingly beautiful, it can only have been written by a poet. (Tan Twan Eng)
Keighley News reports some concerns about the descending number of passengers of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway which connects (among others) Haworth and Keighley:
Now some blogs with diverse Wuthering Heights allusions. Blizzard of Letters talks about the dénouement of Wuthering Heights, Hedonette discusses Heathcliff's character, L'espace d'un instant analyses Philippe Hersant's opus including Heathcliff, his suite for orchestra in six movements (2005). Agencia Órbita reminds us of the new broadcast this weekend of a Peruvian radio adaptation of Wuthering Heights (check this previous post and the TV/Radio alert section in the sidebar for more information).Mr Smith, a K&WVR life member, said marketing and publicity were all-important in the modern world.
He said passenger figures had gradually dropped from more than 150,000 in the late 1980s to an average of 110,000 in the past decade. (...)
Mr Smith praised recent improvements to the K&WVR's publicity efforts, including an "extremely good" website.
But he said more could be done, such as featuring in the railway press and linking with other local attractions. (...)
He suggested improving catering facilities, particularly at Haworth station, and tidying up the Haworth yard. He said the K&WVR should capitalise on its links with the Railway Children, TV's Sherlock Holmes and the Brontë family.
He said: "The Brontës did travel by train and Branwell was a railway employee briefly."
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