Emily and Ian knew

Keighley News reports some of the Keighley Festival activities that will take place next week. Charlotte Brontë makes an unexpected appearance:

Dozens of famous figures will descend on the town centre again next week during Keighley Festival.
And more than a thousand schoolchildren will go along to meet them at Keighley Arts Factory. In attendance at the art gallery will be Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Elvis Presley, Henry VIII and Queen Nefertiti.
They’ll be joined by Robin Hood, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Daleks.
The figures, both real-life and fictional, have all been made by pupils of local schools.
They will be brought together for the festival’s annual Madame Two-Swords waxwork exhibition.
The exhibition is just one of several events to come as the festival enters its second and final week.
Madame Two-Swords this year adopted the theme Time and Time Again, and looks at the history of mankind.
Exhibits also include a woolly mammoth, Stone Age people, Jonah and the whale, St George and Noah’s ark. There will be a family of street urchins, along with Henry Isaac Butterfield, the original owner of Cliffe Castle.
The exhibition is the result of a challenge issued to schools and children’s activity groups by festival co-ordinator Malcolm Hanson.
Mr Hanson said: “We did something similar last year and it was mind-blowing then.”
The public can visit Madame Two-Swords, at Keighley Arts Factory, from July 13-17, in the North Street building of Keighley college campus.
Open daily 10am-4pm, more details are available from Mr Hanson on 01756 709275. (David Knights)

Jude Rogers writes in The Quietus about the trivialisation of the legacy of Joy Division. Talking about the late Ian Curtis, references to Emily Brontë's quotes (from Wuthering Heights) appear:

The strange, spindly man with the piercing eyes who made that mindset matter again could have come from a novel fully formed, after all. He also knew, as well as Emily Bronte, that "terror makes us cruel", that "proud people breed sad sorrows", and that the land revealed an "existence of yours beyond you". He knew what shadows meant to the world, and to its humans, and how to translate and transport them.

The Daily Express asks actress and writer Sue Perkins about her favourite books:

Wuthering Heights
I love this because it’s an antidote to the mass of fiction written during the Victorian age which was largely society driven and revolved around the comedy of manners. In contrast this is gutsy. It’s not a very heartening love story but it’s the kind of love story I enjoy. I like my love stories rare rather than well-done.

The Colusa County Sun Herald discovers another local Brontëite, the Southington Library recommends some summer readings in The Hartford Courant including Jane Eyre and this curious description:

Amazing read about life in the Victorian era, learned lots of different words.

Des mots sans bruit reviews Wuthering Heights (in French), the LJ community Reading Good Books Together proposes a summer reading of Jane Eyre, a book which flickr user ruthette2 is reading again.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights