Here for the Brontës

A few days ago The Telegraph published information about a January deal at Haworth's The Old Registry. Today the same newspaper features Haworth's The Fleece Inn in its West Yorkshire Pub Guide:

Halfway up a lung-busting hill, The Fleece Inn combines Bronte magic with Yorkshire pudding and winter ales. The Fleece, a no-nonsense three-storey stone pub, is halfway up, or halfway down, the lung-bursting steep hill which is Haworth's main street. Your approach depends on your point of pilgrimage.
Most tourists are here for the Brontës. The Parsonage, now a fascinating museum, is where Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their ill-starred brother, Branwell, lived. That is at the very top of the hill, behind the church. There are those other visitors, however, who are fans of the 1970 film The Railway Children. They head for Haworth railway station, which is at the bottom of the village.
The cream-on-green sign and the handsome etched windows of The Fleece announce a world famous local brewery, Timothy Taylor's, of nearby Keighley. Enter and you find yourself in a comfortable old-fashioned wainscoted interior. The bar has a flag floor, so hikers can safely clatter in. Around the bar are several cosy and carpeted nooks and crannies. There are the expected photos of old Haworth and the Brontës, but down in the dining room, you'll find portraits of the stars of The Railway Children as well. (Arthur Taylor)

If you would rather stay home, Tormented Hope: Nine hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon is one of Elle's February recommendations:

Magnificent maladiesCharles Darwin and Charlotte Brontë are two of the “nine tormented lives” in Brian Dillon’s The Hypochondriacs (Faber & Faber) who undergo the award-winning memoirist’s fascinating analysis of their bizarre and baffling afflictions—both real and imagined—that helped shape their legendary contributions to science, literature, music, art, and healing. (Lisa Shea)

Metro Halifax (Canada) suggests some music too: Basia Bulat’s new album Heart of My Own, which

builds from an academic interest in the written craft of Emily Dickenson [sic] and the Brönte [sic] sisters, but also reaches to the soaring vistas of the Yukon for inspiration.
“History is full of people who are critics as well as creators. I’m probably not very good at either, but am I trying to learn and get better,” said Bulat. “I love poetry and pop songs that have the ability to say so many things in such a short space. (It amazes me when) a writer can use a few lines to open up worlds.”
Written during a leave of absence from her Master’s thesis in English, Heart of My Own reflects a love of literature that began when Bulat’s mother gave her eight-year-old daughter a copy of Jane Eyre. Her favourite Emily Dickenson [sic] poems echo the rhythm of a church choir — a kind of written cadence also reflected in classic Motown, which draws on gospel singing. (Rob MacMahaon)

And Edmunds Inside Line jokes about the many sequels in the Fast and Furious movie saga.

Some day all movies will be Fast and Furious movies. We expect the seventh film will be The Fast and the Furious: Wuthering Heights. (Lee Pray)

A blog, Bosom Buddy (in Catalan) gives 7/10 to Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. And Flickr user SierraRosePhotography has uploaded a picture with Fritz Eichenberg's illustrated edition of Jane Eyre.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Charlotte Brontë, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Music