"We knew exactly when we’d got lot number 278"

Richard Wilcocks writes on the Brontë Parsonage Blog about the newly-acquired letter. Quoting Ann Dinsdale:

I followed the auction online in the Parsonage library with Sarah Laycock. We watched the auction results as they came in, with some excitement, and we knew exactly when we’d got lot number 278. Because of the high estimates, we bid only for this one.

It must have been a very exciting moment.

The Telegraph has an article on why 'A British film industry enriches all our lives' and director Andrea Arnold is mentioned:

Second, small films are where talent is nurtured. [...] Who knows where Andrea Arnold, about to direct Wuthering Heights, will end up? (Paul Gent)

What we really wonder is where Wuthering Heights will end up, as it's a while since we had relevant news about it.

Big Hollywood reviews the HBO documentary For Neda. Neda's literary choices are briefly commented upon:

Neda Soltan’s subversion of thought also extended to literature. From Wuthering Heights to The Last Temptation of Christ, Neda’s widely varying and mostly illegal collection of books reveals a most curious and searching young mind that wanted to know and experience all the best that humanity had to offer, most of which was and is forbidden in the Islamic Republic. (John T. Simpson)

The Bradford & West Yorkshire edition of BBC News takes a look at recent portrayals of Dewsbury and we are reminded that the place also had good things to offer such as:

"I mean, the house where Charlotte Brontë used to be a teacher is still there, just up from the Dewsbury Moor estate." [says Martin Wainwright, northern editor, the Guardian newspaper]

Sugarscape describes the book Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James as,

a good teen mystery story, with hints of Wuthering Heights and Gossip Girl thrown in (mang0)

YouTube user thomasengqvist has uploaded a couple of videos: one of Anne Brontë's tomb in Scarborough and the other of its surroundings. StephanieVandrickReads posts briefly about Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë.

Categories: Anne Brontë, Books, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brontë Society, Brontëana, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights