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The Telegraph & Argus gives further details of the auction of a rare Patrick Brontë photograph (more information on previous posts):

The miniature has been sold by auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers to a woman in the south of England for £1,476.
Now she wants it to return to the Bronte Parsonage Museum where it will go on permanent loan.
Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, confirmed the Bronte Society had made a bid for the item.
He said: “This is great news and a very generous and wonderful offer. She telephoned us straight away and said she wanted it back in Haworth.
“We had people ringing up and making significant donations, which was hugely appreciated.
“They said in the event of us not getting the photograph, the money should go into our collections fund.
“We believe there are some significant Bronte items coming up for sale this year and we are hoping those donations will help us.”

EDIT: Also in Keighley News.

Also in The Telegraph & Argus an article about Bollywood which mentions Deepak Verma and Tamasha recent Wuthering Heights adaptation and another one about the locations of Wuthering Heights 1992:

There have been various movie adaptations of Emily Bronte’s only published novel.
Sam Goldwyn at MGM had a go at it in 1939, and then in 1991, American International Pictures spent a reported $9 million on a remake, written by Irish playwright Anne Devlin, with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff and Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy. The film was released through Paramount Pictures.
Director Peter Kominsky rejected Haworth as a location because of the prevalence of TV aerials, pylons and power cables. But scenes were shot at Keighley’s East Riddlesden Hall and Shibden Hall, Halifax, between September and October, 1991.
Casting French actress Juliette Binoche as Cathy seemed unusual, but no more so than Merle Oberon starring opposite Laurence Olivier 52 years before.
Ralph Fiennes, Simon Ward, John Woodvine and Sinead O’Connor as Emily Bronte were among the cast.
Seventy-room Broughton Hall, near Skipton, was the base for crew and cast. It also doubled as Thrushcross Grange, home of Edgar and Isabella Linton. Ralph Fiennes went to art school with the wife of the-then owner, Roger Tempest.

The Guardian asks several writers about their favorite escapades. Marina Lewycka (A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans) chooses the Peak District and North Lees Hall:

So I love to go out walking all day. When friends visit, we'll often walk close to Sheffield, down by North Lees Hall, near the gritstone cliff of Stanage Edge. Charlotte Brontë visited the house in the 1840s, and it's supposed to have inspired Mr Rochester's house in Jane Eyre. From there, you go down into the valley at Hathersage, where you can get a great cream tea, then you walk up by a little stream and a mill pond and take an old drover's track up along Stanage Edge to Robin Hood's Cave.

And the Edinburgh Evening News asks some of Edinburgh's best-known names what they loved reading as youngsters and why:

Mary Contini, 48, is an author and co-owner of Valvona and Crolla
"I remember loving Little Women, The Secret Garden, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and all those kinds of books when I was around 14, the age my daughter Olivia is now. They were such good reads – you were immediately pulled into the story. (Mark McLaughlin)

Russ Williams discusses Gothic vs Horror in the LA Writing Careers Examiner and thinks that The Sixth Sense is Brontë material (!):

An essential element of the Gothic is almost always romance. Just as Baldick leaves out the supernatural, which surely "haunts" much within the Gothic territory, he omits romance as well. Nowadays, if you want to write a good Gothic story, especially one that sells, you must have a strong romantic interest to animate your plot. Doomed love is the Gothic romantic theme par excellence, but you can also have it both ways, as does Emily Brontë in Wuthering Heights. Her main story is about a tragic romance, but she manages to insert a subplot romance with a happy ending. Volumes have been written about he relation between the Gothic and Romantic. All you need to know is, to write a successful Gothic story, in the words of the song, "You can't have one without the other."
If Emily and Charlotte Brontë typify the Gothic romantic end of the Gothic spectrum, authors like Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft champion the horror side. (...)
In film, an excellent example of a "purely" Gothic tale is The Sixth Sense. Referred to by Hollywood as a "supernatural thriller," this story is actually Gothic in the best sense of the word. Without retelling the whole story (the film is available on DVD if you haven't seen it), I want to emphasize the Gothic elements. The main character feels trapped by what happened to him in the past and senses a disintegration and isolation in his life, all of which he cannot understand. The theme of the supernatural is established early on by the boy with strange visions. The romantic element predominates, and in fact this entire story turns on the main character's love for his wife. In the end, the tragic reason his life has "fallen apart" stunningly reveals itself. Death has triumphed over love, but there's a final hope that love can be stronger than death. This is authentic Gothic stuff and could have easily been penned by an Emily or Charlotte Brontë of the 1990s. The real writer-director, M. Night Shyamalan went on to establish himself as one of the Gothic masters of Hollywood film.

The Stonington Times has an article about dogs and Keeper crops up:

“Bull’s Eye,” the very loyal and true pet of his very unworthy master Bill Sykes, is a character we’ve all met outside of Dickens. And when we read Emily Brontë’s novels we can easily imagine her roaming the moors, accompanied by the large and aggressive canine “Keeper.” The two of them, wind whipped and still wet, braving the Wuthering Heights, must once have been a familiar sight on those bleak, Yorkshire hills. (Penny Parr)

The Seattle Post reviews Stephen Frears new movie Chéri (adapting Colette) and makes the following remark about Rupert Friend:

And the couple at its center, Michelle Pfeiffer and the very Heathcliff-ish Rupert Friend, don't look so bad either. (Moira McDonald)

ArtDaily remembers the upcoming auction of the painting Wuthering Heights by L.S. Lowry.
Check this previous post for more information.

The blogosphere brings today Karine et ses livres reviewing The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in French, Cup-Bound and Scalding posting a poem devoted to Branwell Brontë and a short piece about Grace Poole. New posts with lots of pictures on the Brontë Sisters: Oakwell Hall, Gawthorpe Hall, the moors, Elizabeth Gaskell and Brookroyd. Posts about Jane Eyre on Emma in Oz and The Maiden's Court.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontëana, Brontëites, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Patrick Brontë, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall