The Suffrage Banner Manifesto

The Prague Post gives more information about the New Victorian Manifesto by the New Victorian Set theatre company which will be performed at the upcoming Prague Fringe Festival:

The New Victorian Manifesto.
Last year, there was a mash-up between Bach and Bukowski. This year, the French company New Victorian Set performs songs inspired by Thomas Hardy and Emily Bronte with the aid of a synth, baroque harpsichord and eclectic (sic) guitar. Vocalist/keyboardist Nick Pagan has worked with the Velvet Underground and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Kavárna 3+1, May 28-30 (Steffen Silvis)

And now several Haworth-related news:

The Morley Observer and Advertiser promotes this weekend's Vintage Train Day/ Old Gentleman Saloon train trip around Brontë Country:

RAILWAY enthusiasts can experience film history, vintage trains and even a butler serving cream teas this bank holiday weekend at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
Hosted in the UK's oldest working railway carriage – famously used in the 1970 film The Railway Children – passengers will travel on the fabulous Victorian 'Old Gentleman's Saloon', which dates back to 1871 with prices from £12 per person.
The classic locomotive will take passengers on a 70-minute tour of Brontë Country, whilst enjoying complimentary cream teas served by an onboard butler. In addition, the train's resident 'Old Gentleman' will give running commentary throughout as it visits all six stations on the railway's route.
Starting at Oxenhope station, passengers will be treated to a brass band on the platform before also stopping at Haworth (for the Brontë Parsonage Museum), Damems, Oakworth, Ingrow and Keighley stations.

The Haworth Village Website has uploaded pictures of the Historical Enactment from the lives of the Brontë Sisters by Park Lane College from last 9th May 2009, like the one on the right (Source, Credits: Ian Palmer) and many others. The same website has also uploaded lots of pictures of the recent Haworth 1940s Weekend. Precisely, a reader of the Telegraph & Argus has a curious remark about it:

I know it makes me look sad but I was upset at the number of women wearing stockings whose seams looked like the path out to Brontë falls, ie, up the side of their legs and everywhere. (Bram Leitch)

The Telegraph & Argus announces several upcoming activities on the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Two discussions in Haworth early next month explore the work of the Bronte sisters and their brother Branwell.
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë brings together leading Brontë historian Juliet Barker and Brontë-inspired novelist Justine Picardie.They will discuss the life and creative legacy of the reprobate Brontë brother, at West Lane Baptist Centre on June 5 at 3.30pm.
The event coincides with the Bronte Parsonage Museum's new special exhibition on Branwell.
The Brontes and Romance, chaired by Justine Picardie, is at the same venue on June 6 at 8pm.
The discussion examines the influence of the Brontes' works on the romance genre.
Taking part are Joanne Harris, author of novels including Chocolat, novelists Jude Morgan and Amanda Craig, and Mills & Boon writer Kate Walker. (David Knights)

And finally, it seems that Haworth will soon be included in the Google Street View initiative (source):

24th April 2009; A car was seen around Haworth this afternoon with the same set up Google use to take their Street View photographs.

Freaky Tigger describes Bonnie Tyler's 1983 videoclip of Total Eclipse of the Heart like this:

[A] big budget remake of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”. Pianos, crescendos, abstraction, abjection. But bigger isn’t always better.

Today's survey of the blogosphere brings the following: Forgetting to Forget to Forget is reading Daphne du Maurier's The Infernal world of Branwell Brontë, The 999 Challenge and Bettina's Book Club post about Jane Eyre (a book which is recommended by In the Life of a Busy Woman), Amy Letinksy shares a Christian reading of Wuthering Heights. Generous Orthodoxy devotes a post to Anne Brontë on universal salvation analysing mainly The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Via Quinquabelle...ou les imperfections parfaites! we have discovered a very curious item (on the right): A suffrage banner from The Women's Library:

Collection Women's Library Suffrage Banners Collection
Date 1908
Description Suffrage banner
Location Creation Site Fawcett Society, Parnell House, Wilton Street, London SW1
Location Current Repository The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University
Location Former Repository Visual Materials Collection, The Women's Library
Measurements 1230 x 870x20 x 20 millimetres
Material Green sateen and cream twill ground with green painted lettering and appliqued rose design.
Rights Owner Public domain. Right of reproduction held by London Metropolitan University

People Reading features a San Francisco reader of Wuthering Heights, no other that @TheBrothers Bell who is tweeting his reading as we posted several weeks ago. And finally, the Brussels Brontë Blog posts a TV alert in Belgium:

For those members living in Belgium and Holland, who haven’t had the opportunity to see the latest TV adaptation of Wuthering heights, Flemish broadcaster één will show the premiere of the ITV version, shown earlier this year in the UK, this Saturday evening.
The film is split into two parts, part 1 this Saturday, 23 May ,starting 21:15, part 2 next week, Saturday 30 May.

Categories: Alert, Anne Brontë, Biography, Branwell Brontë, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights