California moors

Culture24 has a date to write down in your diary if you are/will be in the UK:

Heritage Open Days, the national weekend of property openings which sees everywhere from castles to country cottages welcome visitors for a weekend of cultural snooping returns again this year, between September 9 and 12 2010.

Culture 24 suggests several outings, some of them literature-related:

Strong themes emerging include houses with literary connections, which include the former home of Jane Austen's brother, at Chawton House in Hampshire, and the Elizabethan North Lees Hall in the Peak District National Park, said to be the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's description of Mr Rochester's House, Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre.

A long, long way away from North Lees Hall, in California, there is at least according to the Marin Independent Journal an inn which

shrouded in fog, is not a too distant cry from England's famous moors brought to life by the likes of Thomas Hardy and the Brontë sisters. (Tanya Henry)

The New York Observer reviews the film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky and describes one of the actors as follows:

Less fully developed as a character but equally riveting as a presence is the Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, a handsome, brooding Heathcliff of a hunk who made a big splash as the dynamic villain in the James Bond movie Casino Royale. (Rex Reed)

And the Yorkshire Post echoes the news of the Charlotte Brontë letters going up for auction next week.

It's Wuthering Heights wednesday again! Check out the posts by Lakeside Musing, Views from the Page and the Oven, Serendipity and She Is Too Fond of Books. Bookphile's Book Blog posts about Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë, cha no ma-ri was inspired by Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë to bake a berry tart and A Curious Magic has used her new silhouette machine to do a Brontë-related creation. Lit Craze! discusses a few things from Mrs Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Les Brontë à Paris writes about Patrick Brontë and translates part of his William Weightman sermon into French. Finally, YouTube user xhemmingsx reads Emily Brontë's poem Remembrance.

Categories: Brontëana, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights