This date was brought to you by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

The Business Desk carries a curious piece of information concerning the upcoming new TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights:

THE Topping Pie Company of Doncaster has produced a number of pies for scenes in the new classic adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which is being produced by independent production company Mammoth Screen for ITV1.
Large 2.5kg Yorkshire Farmers pies and traditional pork pies were supplied for filming and were made in special tins with fluted edges and hand crimped to give them an authentic period look.
Contemporary screen and television writer Peter Bowker has been commissioned to adapt Bronte's world famous love story and two 90 minute episodes are being filmed in Yorkshire.
Managing director Roger Topping said: "We were approached by the props buyer from the tv production company and asked if we could create genuine 18th Century pies for selected scenes in ITV's Wuthering Heights. Maggie Topping, our product development director and managing director, Roger Topping were delighted to rise to the challenge. We sourced special tins and are likely to use these for Christmas product lines".

A new, and we are pretty sure controversial, hotel project for Haworth is discussed in The Telegraph & Argus:

A businessman has revealed plans to build a £15 million hotel and more than 100 retirement homes on green-field land.
The 65-bedroom hotel in Haworth would include leisure facilities such as a swimming pool and health spa for hotel guests and residents of the retirement village.
Behind the scheme is Pervez Abbas who has applied to Bradford Council for permission to build the hotel, an initial 18 flats and a 99-space car park on land off Weavers Hill. A second planning application will be put forward in the next few weeks to build 160 homes on the remaining land, said Mr Abbas.
Mr Abbas said the hotel would provide some of the best facilities in the area for the three million tourists who visit Bronte Country each year.
He said: “If we are going to put Haworth on the international tourist map, we are going to need something of a better standard than just B&Bs.
“It will provide local jobs and facilities for people who live in Haworth.”
The businessman, the director of Barkers UK, based in Sunbridge Road, Bradford, admitted he expected some objections but said: “We will try to work with the local community to find the best way of overcoming any problems.”
Developers have tried to build on the land in the past but Bradford Council refused permission because it was designated a village green in 2005.
Councillor Glen Miller (Con, Worth Valley), said: “The village is in dire need of hotel accommodation to get people to stay and spend their money, rather than sit on a coach in a car park and leave when they have finished their visit. But this is not the first time plans have been put in for development on that site and they have come up against strong opposition. I am not sure if this area is the place for this hotel.”
The application will be discussed by the Council’s Keighley Area Planning Panel at a meeting next month. (Mark Meneaud)

Another development project somehow associated with the Brontës takes place in Luddenden Foot according to Hebden Bridge Times:

A new homes development being built in Luddenden Foot by Britannia Developments is set to appear in one of ITV's most popular television series after the cast and crew visited to shoot scenes for a forthcoming episode of A Touch of Frost.
Star David Jason and production staff arrived at Branwell Court, off Burnley Road, to film a plotline in which the show's lead character, Detective Inspector Frost, investigates the discovery of a body buried beneath a building site. (...)
Now that filming is complete, the detached and town homes at Branwell Court are on offer from just £169,995. Situated a few yards from the Rochdale Canal, Branwell Court is located on the site of a former mill which was once the workplace of Branwell Brontë, brother of the famous literary sisters.

The Telegraph (or The Penguin Blog) announces a very curious economic alliance: Penguin + Match.com:

Quiet, bookish types will have the chance to plot their own romantic stories as publisher Penguin launches a dating website in conjunction with online dating giant Match.com.
The service, which goes live today, can be accessed via Penguin's website, where users can also seek inspiration from classic novels such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice or Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
Penguin says the site, which will be promoted in the final pages of more than 2m paperback novels, will offer readers "a place to meet and indulge in the age-old art of writing love letters". (Sarah Butler)

The place if you feel interested is right here.

Several US newspapers publish an article about Senator Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham who apparently:

In 1939, when Simon & Schuster introduced the U.S. to paperbacks with its Pocket Books series, Madelyn subscribed. She devoured titles like James Hilton's "Lost Horizon," Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," "Five Great Tragedies" by Shakespeare and "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie -- which fed a lifelong love of murder mysteries. (Allen G. Breed)

The Salem News announces an interesting course for next year at the Salem Athenaeum:

Next spring, a senior associate at Harvard University will present "The Bronte Sisters and Their Novels." Students will read and discuss four Bronte novels: "Jane Eyre" and "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte, and "Wuthering Heights " by Emily Bronte.
Myths about the sisters will also be explored, as well as appearances of their work in pop culture.
The course runs on Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. for six weeks from April 9 through May 21.
The Athenaeum is a membership library, chartered in 1810 and located at 337 Essex St. (Chris Cassidy)

The Daily Republic reviews the whole Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer:

This is a good time to add that the writer adds literary references throughout her books and even starts each with a piece of poetry or prose that underlines the theme of the book — both things I loved, and I think that even if you’ve never read Shakespeare or “Wuthering Heights” (shame on you) you will still understand every reference. (Mari Olson)

More absurd (or not) surveys, now the turn is for

A survey carried out by hearing aid firm Amplifon has come up with a list of the top ten most hilariously misheard pop lyrics, with Sting topping the chart with the song 'When the World is Running Down'. (...)
In the 10th place was English singer Kate Bush, whose 1978 hit was heard as, "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm a tree, I'm a wombat", when the actual lyrics were, "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy I've come home", reported the Sun. (BBC News)

Das Literaturblog reviews Agnes Grey (in German).

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