Tea with Miss Brontë

If you are in Yorkshire, The Telegraph and Argus suggests a lot of outings and things to do in the area, such as the following:

At Red House Museum in Gomersal you can imagine taking tea with Charlotte Bronte – who visited there – watch a TV programme on a screen only nine inches wide or relive post-war schooldays, Teddy Boys, dance marathons and street parties through the pictures and mementoes of local residents. (Sue Ward)

Needless to say, taking tea with Charlotte Brontë and watching a TV programme on a screen only nine inches wide belong to completely different eras.

The Yorkshire Post has an article on a place not very far from there:

ITS dramatic setting is windswept and romantic and only a mile from where the Brontës penned their stories of love and longing.
But remote Scar Top chapel in Stanbury, near Haworth, is rarely the scene of much romance these days. The congregation is stuck at about eight regular worshippers, many of them widows in their seventies and eighties.
But the 200-seat chapel, which was built in 1818 at the time of the Brontës, was packed on Saturday as Lianne Silson married Gary Dobson.
Patrick Brontë, the minister at Haworth Parish Church, was a supporter of the construction of a chapel in Stanbury.
A subscription list was raised, helped by Reverend AB Nicholls, who later married Charlotte Brontë.
It is thought that Charlotte taught at the school in Stanbury from time to time.

Publishers Weekly reviews Joyce Carol Oates's forthcoming book Little Bird of Heaven. As a Brontëite, we believe Ms Oates would like the following bit:

Oates unfolds the central gothic intuition—that beauty and the beast are complements—in a way that Charlotte Brontë would highly approve.

The New York Times devotes an article to the problem with Wikipedia images, that is, the fact that portraits, particularly, are very bad quality or non-existent due to copyright. Here's the latest controversy:

Recently a Wikipedia user, Derrick Coetzee, downloaded more than 3,000 high-resolution photographs from the British National Portrait Gallery — to serve, in essence, as the head shots for important historical figures like Charlotte Brontë or Charles Darwin.
The gallery threatened legal action against Mr. Coetzee, saying that while the painted portraits may be old and thus beyond copyright protection, the photographs are new and therefore copyrighted work. The gallery is demanding a response by Monday from Mr. Coetzee, who is being represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In an e-mail message on Friday a gallery spokeswoman, Eleanor Macnair, wrote that “contact has now been made” with the Wikimedia Foundation and “we remain hopeful that a dialogue will be possible.” (Noam Cohen)

As for blogs, In the Frame reviews Jane Eyre briefly and Lectura del Saber posts about Wuthering Heights in Spanish.

Categories: Books, Brontëana, Haworth