Literature's most famous dysfunctional family

The Dewsbury Reporter has a reminder of the Dewsbury Brontë Festival activities:

A GUIDED tour around Dewsbury explores the town in the era of Patrick Brontë.
The free event is part of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of his arrival in the town this weekend.
The walk concludes with a guided tour of the Brontë connections at Dewsbury Minister, where food will be served.
Graham Hardy leads the walk from the town hall at 2.30pm.
He said: "I'll talk about how Dewsbury was when Patrick Brontë was curate at the Minster in the early years of the 19th century.
"At that time there was an open beck at Crackenedge Lane and Longcauseway.
"We'll look at the markets and talk about how they were in Patrick Brontë's day, before moving on up Grove Street to see Grove House. This was home of the Halliley family – Rachel Halliley was married to the Rev John Buckworth, who was vicar of Dewsbury at the time Patrick Bronte was curate."
The tour concludes at the minster, where Mr Hardy hands over to the Rev Elizabeth Lee who will give a tour of the building.
For information on the event call 01924 466076 or 457057.
Meanwhile a treasure hunt takes place in which Brontë fans can solve the Brontë puzzle by finding answers hidden in Dewsbury town centre shops.
Treasure Hunt clue sheets are available at the library, local shops now and to print click here . There will be a prize for the winner drawn from the correct entries. The closing date for entries is Monday October 5.

The Daily Mail reviews the Vintage Classics's Brontë Collection:

This beautifully designed box-set of four acclaimed novels by the Bronte sisters had me engrossed in Wuthering Heights for the first time since my school days.
The absolute wonder is how a shy and sheltered vicar's daughter could have conjured up such passion, violence and psychological torment from imagination alone.
Literature's most famous dysfunctional family endures child-abuse, kidnapping, wife-beating, marital rape, anorexia, alcoholism, forced marriage, madness, borderline necrophilia and the rantings of a monstrous anti-hero with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
One infant casually hangs puppies from a chair and a corpse is dug up for a final kiss. Having read this spooky and undisputed masterpiece, you sure wouldn't want to be roaming across the Yorkshire Moors on a dark and windy night. Marvellous. (Val Hennessy)

The Wuthering Heights Northern Ballet Theatre's tour is coming to Norwich. EDP24 has a reminder of the production:

It's a timeless tale of obsessive love that's captured the imagination and tugged on the heart-strings of generations of romantics. Set against the brooding backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors, Emily Brontë's classic Wuthering Heights tells the story of Cathy and Heathcliffe. It's been told many times on screen, and back in 2002, Northern Ballet Theatre's then newly-appointed artistic director David Nixon collaborated with renowned composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, well-known for his West End hits Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, to bring the story to the stage.
It's become a popular piece in NBT's repertoire, and this autumn it's being re-staged as part of the company's 40th anniversary celebrations.
On Tuesday the tour arrives at Norwich Theatre Royal, a venue which has long had links with NBT.
And former principal dancer Charlotte Talbot, who originally created the role of Cathy, has returned, this time working behind the scenes.
It's a ballet that is special to Charlotte in more ways than one. Not only did she get the chance to play one of literature's great romantic heroines, but she also met Claude-Michel, who became her husband.
“It's interesting for a dancer to go on the other side of the wall,” Charlotte says. “You have to know everything about the production - before I just had to know my part, but with this you have to deal with the bigger picture. When you re-stage the show you have to start from scratch and fit it all back together.”
And she's pleased with the result.
“It was a lot of hard work and we didn't have very long to re-stage it, but I think the dancers have really taken it to the next level,” she says. “I really enjoyed it. Hopefully I will be able to do something similar again.” (...)
Are there any characters in particular which she enjoyed playing?
“I've got a real soft spot for Cathy. It's a very demanding ballet, physically and emotionally. You've really got to portray the love story and make it realistic. It's exhausting. (Emma Lee)

The Telegraph engrosses the list of reviews of Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs which quote Jane Eyre:

Moore has been described as writing in the tradition of 19th-century realism, but her characters’ hyperaesthetic sense of the strangeness of life would make that an unlikely categorisation, even without the highly mannered concatenation of events that forms her novel’s climax. Moore herself mentions Jane Eyre as an influence on her novel, and certainly she has an interest in the Gothic tendencies of domestic life. (Jane Shilling)

The power of a name is analysed in the Telegraph-Journal:

An unusual name is more difficult to remember. Why is this? You would think it would be more memorable. When I meet an Emma, however, I can endow her with the characteristics of Jane Austen's Emma. My great-grandmother was Emma, and from the stories I have heard, I can conjure up the new Emma as a feisty female. Emily has the characteristics of Emily Dickinson, Emily Carr and Emily Brontë: a spinster artist. (Nancy Bauer)

NotiCine (Spain) reviews Aaron Schneider's film Get Low:

Como en "Cumbres borrascosas", el fantasma de su amada, le espera en el camino... (Patricia Sanmartín) (Bing translation)

Der Westen (Germany) presents the German DVD release of Wuthering Heights 1998 and also has a giveaway right now offering three copies. Kristianstadsbladent quotes Charlotte Brontë talking about the handball player Jesper Larsson.

Knack (Belgium) reviews De Bloemen by Koen Peeters and links together the Yorkshire moors and the Dutch campine.

De 'moors' van Emily Brontë zijn de Kempen van Conscience. (Karl Van Den Broeck)(Google translation)

The Jamaica Gleaner attributes to Emily Brontë (!) and Jane Austen the origins of the bodice ripper genre, the Liverpool Echo maybe goes too far quoting the Brontës as writers who have been inspired by Liverpool, Book Sanctuary and Chez Tom-tom (in French) reviews Jane Eyre, Becky's Book Reviews posts about Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, books i read, why i like them and why i dont vindicates the two novels by Anne Brontë, the (in)famous opinions of Charlotte Brontë about Jane Austen appear again on A Season with Austen and Paixão por Livros (in Portuguese) compiles several Jane Eyre editions and movie adaptations.

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