Heathcliffe in Howarth (sic and sic)

The Independent lists several places to go one hour from Manchester. Brontë country is among them:

Brontë Country

In the isolated Pennine upland area of West Yorkshire, Charlotte, Emily and Anne lived and wrote their classics at the Parsonage at Haworth. The quaint village has top tea-shops and the usual book-shops, restaurants and pubs. Play at Cathy and Heathcliffe (sic) on Top Withens moor, then cross impressive National Trust woodland, Hardcastle Craggs, to Heptonstall village.

By car: take the M60 to junction 21, then follow signs for A6033 Howarth (sic); 55 mins. (Ian McCurrach)

From time to time, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Brontë inspirations appear in the press. Today's comes from The Calcutta Telegraph:

Author Stephenie Meyer finds her inspiration from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. She writes in her blog: “For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades. Charlotte Bronte’s Mr Rochester and Jane Austen’s Mr Ferrars were the characters that led me to the name Edward.”

And... Brontëites in The Morning Call (PA), Wuthering Heights in the Frisco district reading lists (as seen in the Dallas Morning News, a quote from Charlotte Brontë in an article on Psychology Today.

The Dark Streets of the Cardboard City reviews Wuthering Heights 1970, off the hook, baby ♪ posts about Emily Brontë's novel in Portuguese, Lumière d'août posts about La Prisonnière des Sargasses, that is Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Jost a Mon has a very complete post about Sylvia Plath's Wuthering Heights following the recent broadcast of Owen Sheer's A Poet's Guide to Britain in BBC4.

Both the Brontë Parsonage Blog and the Brussels Brontë Blog publish accounts of the recent Brontë Society AGM (including a couple of pictures more on the Brussels blog):

One of the joys of the annual Brontë weekend in Haworth is the encounters with the other members who converge on the village each year. They (we) are a very diverse group of people ranging from academics who have devoted their lives to researching the Brontës to local people who grew up with them, so to speak, and have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the family and of local lore. Some even have family links with Brontë connections, like Audrey Hall, who has inherited a scrapbook of Ellen Nussey's containing newspaper cuttings about Ellen's beloved friend Charlotte Brontë. (Read more) (Helen MacEwan)

Categories: Brontë Society, Haworth, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights