Marriages and cakes

Via Paraphernalia, we have found the following Jane Eyre reference in an article about love on the blogosphere in the New York Times:

Consider the erotic potential between blogger and commenters.
The blogger is boss, a salon host with wit and whip. Certainly a blogger thrives on commenters — who wants to declaim to an empty e-room? But let’s be clear: blogger, sovereign; commenters, courtiers.
That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.
Reader, she is going to marry him.
Ann Althouse, 58, is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who blogs about politics, law and cultural whatnots in a sharp, occasionally ribald tone. She admires Rush Limbaugh, voted for George Bush in ’04 and Barack Obama in ’08. She attracts derision and applause from 500,000 monthly visitors.(Jan Hoffman)

If the happy couple is looking for a wedding cake, we have some suggestions. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel talks about the third annual Edible Book Show at the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee

(Picture source: Petra Press, (left) reads along as Gina Litharland turns the pages of her cookie creation 'Half Baked Withering Heights'. Credits: MaryJo Walicki)

To latecomers, the back room at the book center, 720 E. Locust St., resembled a sugar-fueled cocktail party. Visitors and contestants stood and chatted over dog-eared pieces from "The Half-Baked Version of Wuthering Heights," by the mother-daughter team of Dora and Gina Litherland. Gina Litherland is an artist who usually paints with oils and not on big square sugar cookies. The cookies were the tableau for her favorite quotes from the book.
Her inspiration: "Cathy and Heathcliff have an infantile, childish relationship that's also not good for you."

More tourist initiatives in West Yorkshire. The Telegraph & Argus reports the latest one:

More than 40 UK travel organisers have spent three days in the region to see for themselves what West Yorkshire has to offer visitors.
Their trip was organised by Leeds and Pennine Yorkshire Group Travel, to showcase attractions and boost the £64.5m travel market in the county.
The visit included a trip on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway to Haworth and the Bronte Parsonage.
Other attractions visited included the National Media Museum, Bradford, Salts Mill in Saltaire, Harewood House, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Holmfirth.
Amanda Bond, from Leeds & Yorkshire Group Travel, said: “It is the first time we’ve brought together so many influential figures from the industry. Our aim is for them to provide increased bookings and revenue for a range of attractions, venues and destinations across the Pennine Yorkshire region.”
Judy Vail, of London-based At Home Aboard, which creates group visits for American tourists, said: “By meeting some of the actual providers themselves it gave us first-hand experience of what our potential customers might expect.”

The Quietus reviews the latest album of Bat for Lashes, Two Suns mentioning Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:

If Kate Bush was the most frequent comparison cited in reviews of Natasha Khan's 2006 debut album Fur And Gold, the debt is equally palpable here. Her preoccupation with medieval, swords and sorcery nomenclature survives undiluted too. (...)
Where Bush was lost in Bronte's earthy landscapes, Khan draws on more folksy influences; fairytale, allegory and myth, while similarly reliant on elemental imagery. Dave Kosten (Faultline)'s production is as gossamer-spectral as the shimmer of morning sunshine over a woodland copse. (Alex Ogg)

Naked Haiku publishes a haiku for Anne Brontë and The Whimsy Reader reviews Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth.

Categories: Anne Brontë, Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights