The Spenborough Guardian has an article about a housing project in Roberttown, Kirklees, which can be a threat to several Brontë places:ROBERTTOWN residents have vowed to fight the council's proposals to build 2,300 new houses in the village - and have demanded it is designated as a conservation area.The Washington Post reviews Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and quotes Sharon Shinn's Jenna Starborn:
They are angry at the plans which, if approved, would double the size of the historic village - which was a major part of the route of the Luddite march of 1812.
Bicentenary celebrations are planned in three years' time and the villagers are anxious to preserve what they call an "incredibly important historic site" which also has major Bronte connections.
Barbara Lumb, of Hightown, told Tuesday's Roberttown Residents' Committee meeting that option two of the Local Development Framework (LDF) would destroy Roberttown and neighbouring Hartshead's historical importance.
She said: "This area comprises four areas of ancient woodland, an Anglican settlement, the ruins of Hartshead Hall which was the medieval manor house of the Flemming family and it houses the school where Charlotte Bronte was a pupil and then a teacher.
"It also contains the meeting ground and the first part of the route the Luddites took when they attacked Cartwright's Mill in 1812, it features the Star Inn where the wounded Luddites were taken and the whole site borders an incredibly important historic site in Kirklees Hall where Robin's Hood grave is.
"This area houses some of Spen's most important history and is a place of pilgrimage for those interested in Luddite history and the Brontes.
"It should be designated a conservation area as a locally and national valued landscape and this should be achieved now and not in a later LDF assessment when it may be too late."
Mrs Lumb and commitee chairman Colin Smith, said they were planning to join forces with Keep Gomersal Green to form a bigger action group.
She added: "It is important that we all stick together and fight this. We are all working towards the same goal."
Keep Gomersal Green member Richard Sykes said they had organised a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss how to move forward.
He said: "One of the issues we brought up at our first meeting at Gomersal Public Hall was that this LDF consultation wasn't very well publicised.
"There were no consultation sessions held in Gomersal at all and by the time we found out about it there were only a few days left to express our opinions.
"Kirklees did extend the consultation period for another fortnight to give more people a chance to have their say and set up the session at the public hall, but it wasn't advertised on the council website like all the others had been and they only held it between 1pm and 4pm so a lot of people were working and couldn't go.
"We are still going round door to door with the letters of objection and there are still lots of people who don't know anything about the plans for housing in the Spen Valley over the next few years. Whatever we do, we need to act fast."
So far, 500 letters of objection have been signed by folk living in and around Gomersal.
The public meeting for Keep Gomersal Green will be held at Gomersal Cricket Club at 7.30pm. (Olivia Midgley)
Now, a musical interlude. First Paul Morrissey, according to Beyond Chron:Sure, Charlotte Bronte has also received some of this dubious adulation -- check out Sharon Shinn's 'Jenna Starborn,' a.k.a. 'Jane Eyre' on a remote, futuristic planet -- but Bronte's works, and those of other beloved authors, haven't been morphed and mutated to half the extent that Austen's have. (Monica Hesse)
Reading fans’ posts on any of the numerous websites devoted to him, one finds speculation about the artist’s past lives. Some believe that Morrissey has been a famous person in previous incarnations. Some fans believe he was Oscar Wilde, others have proposed that he was one of the Bronte sisters. (Wallie Mason)Faithful readers of BrontëBlog will remember this old post where Morrissey was compared to Emily Brontë.
Each song is carefully formed and worthy, heralding Bat For Lashes as the new standard-bearer for mystical, romantic art-rock. Crack open a Bronte novel and plug in the headphones. (George Lang)Including the following in the musical category is probably quite adventurous. But here it is: South Yorkshire The Star publishes an article about the drag "star" Tia-Anna:
Tia-Anna performs at the Climax Night at Sheffield University tonight. He's also on YouTube singing Wuthering Heights in the style of Kate Bush. (...)We don't know if we can apply Oscar Wilde's saying "If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you” to this Washington Post article about High School Proms:
But Tia-Anna, presently unemployed and living at Park Hill, said: "It's a really professionally shot video but it is a bit weird. I'm not particularly good at Kate Bush songs and I'm trying to distance myself from it."
Imagine if parents invested their $2.7 billion per year in arts education, or in school libraries, or even in over-the-top graduation parties. At least graduation has symbolic resonance. Prom is graduation's vapid sibling. The Bramwell (sic)Bronte. The Billy Baldwin. (John Green)So sad that even when they are talking (badly) about you, they spell your name wrong. Poor Branwell.
However, [Matt] Dittrich added that the presence of sun, while serving as an end to the depression of winter, can actually be a cause for a different type of depression when it is combined with doing homework. “I noticed that people who were reading Wuthering Heights outside in the sun hated it, but the people who waited until nighttime when it was dark and spooky out loved it,” he said. (Sara Levy)The author Daniel Wallace tells the following story to GoTriad. It's not much, we know...but a Brontë reference as told by the author of Big Fish has to be mentioned
Inside, I was completely devastated, but I was very kind to her and told her what a great thing it was. But that night, I took all my writing gear, my computer, all of the pages that I had ever written, and put them out on a curb because I knew it was time for another career, that there's no way there would be two novelists in one family. We're not the Brontës.The Boulder County's Weekly has a very funny (at least when you read it, not so much when you think about it) article by Dale Bridges which talks about working for a corporate bookstore:
At first, I thought stocking shelves would be an interesting exercise. I would get the opportunity to see firsthand what types of booksAnd finally, on the blogosphere today: Luetut 2006-2009 talks about Villette (in Finnish), VioletReads reviews Jane Eyre, Or False Glitter seems to be another victim of Wuthering Heights romantic (not capital R) syndrome. After reading it, she knows it was not that kind of romance. A brief article about the novel can be read on Suite101.
people were reading and adjust my writing accordingly. I imagined customers crowded in the Classics section fighting over Faulkner and Joyce. I imagined myself saying, “Settle down, folks. There are enough copies of Wuthering Heights for everyone.” But that’s not quite how it went.
No one ever purchased books from the Classics section. The Classics section might just as well have been the Herpes section.
On the other hand, it was like rush-hour traffic in the Self-Help section. People were climbing over each other for titles like, Unlock the Secrets of You and Get Rich and Smell Better in 10 Easy Steps. I wittily renamed it the Self-Hell section.
Branwell was spelled right in the ACTUAL newspaper, or at least so I'm told. -John
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