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 century delicacies for the forthcoming TV adaptation of the classic 'Wuthering Heights', that will be screened later this year.
The popular pie-makers used their skills to produce a range of pies made from period recipes which were used in several scenes of the TV programme.
The TV production company contacted Topping's to find out if they could rise to the challenge after visiting their website, making the family-run company's 'Pie in the sky' dreams of TV stardom a reality.
Topping's general manager Lynda Povey said: "We did our research and found that some of the pies from that time were fantastic, with stuffed pheasants on the top and all sorts. It really opened my eyes.
"The TV company said they'd been on our website and had had a look at our pies. Lots of them are speciality, hand-crimped pies so they obviously thought we were the right people for the job." (Kate Mason)

The Birmingham Post reviews the recent film adaptation of Winifred Watson's novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day:

Of course, my film-going companions would want the subtlety of the book, which sits along side the likes of Jane Eyre in its depiction of the desperate plight of middle class women who didn’t find a husband. (Sarah Evans)

The Guardian analyzes the London 2012 appearance at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics 2008. The Brontës are mentioned:

Or, should you prefer, consider the middle and long-distance runners: Sterne, Fielding, Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, Trollope, a brace of Brontes, Austen, Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Bennett, Galsworthy, Maugham, Forster, Waugh, Greene, through to Penelope Fitzgerald. There are 20 more, standing on the podium, though I grant that Polish-born Conrad was a "double international". (Michael Henderson)

The Independent's obituary of Betty Wainwright (Alfred Wainwright's widow) unveils a curious Brontë connection:

She was 43, petite, warm, lively, cultured, with lots of friends and very well-spoken. She'd been to boarding school at Casterton, in Kirkby Lonsdale, the school where the Brontë sisters had been educated. (Hunter Davies)

And The Japan Times interviews the widow of former Indonesian leader Sukarno, Dewi:

Even if we are poor, literature can make our lives rich.
My uncle had lots of books and I borrowed them all: Stefan Zweig, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Andre Gide, Emily Bronte, all of Shakespeare and more. I created a world in my head that was fair, just, fun and full of color. (Judit Kawaguchi)

António Sousa Homem begins his article in the Portuguese Correio da Manhã like this:

A minha sobrinha Maria Luísa ficou chocada com um dos capítulos terminais do ‘Monte dos Vendavais’, quando ‘Heathcliff’ consuma a sua vingança e maltrata o filho de ‘Hindley’ – ela Acreditava que ‘Mr. Heathcliff’, por ser um personagem de Emily Brontë, devia ter sentimentos nobres ou, pelo menos, mostrá-los aos leitores.

La Stampa interviews Italian model Agyness Deyn:

«E adoro rileggere “Cime tempestose” di Emily Brontë.» (Antonella Amapane)

The University Language Centre Blog has pictures of a recent visit to Haworth, Naked Translations also posts about Haworth, BookBath has read Wuthering Heights. Finally, the Austrian news portal CHiLLi has an article about Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (in German).

Categories: Brontëites, Haworth, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights