Hysterical Reports: Haworth is not a dump

Haworth Parish Council chairman John Huxley replies to the English Heritage report which considered Haworth a conservation zone at risk:

John Huxley, chairman of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council, said English Heritage had overstated the issues in its Heritage at Risk report.
The report, published last week, included Haworth for the first time. It said some shopfronts were too modern and the Brontë village was cluttered with advertising signs.
Mr Huxley said: “This is a lot of hysteria and rubbish by people who should know better.
“They must be walking around with their eyes closed. Haworth has its share of problems but it is not a dump.
“A place that can bring in 25,000 on a day can’t be dying.
“Some signage might not be appropriate but most of the shopfronts were in keeping.” (Clive White)

The New Zealand Herald interviews author Charity Norman about her first novel Freeing Grace:

"It's what I'd always wanted to do," she explains. "Right from the start if I saw a blank piece of paper I wanted to scribble terrible poetry on it. I used to think I was Emily Brontë. I tried to emulate her in every way."
A vicar's daughter, Norman was raised in a draughty vicarage on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, hence the Brontë fixation. (Nicky Pellegrino)

The Telegraph's Sunday's quiz includes a question which will be easy for our readers:

Which Dominican-born writer published nothing between 1939 and 1966, when she wrote a prequel to Jane Eyre?

Articles about summer readings are typical of these months. Deseret News includes some platitudes:

Suggestions are great, but no two people are the same. Just because you loved "Wuthering Heights" as a youth doesn't mean your teenager will love it, too. (Jessica Harrison)

Seth Lakeman is again compared to Heathcliff in the Guardian:

The fiddle-playing top 10 star is a dark, brooding presence, something like Heathcliff played by Oliver Tobias. (Dave Simpson)

Here comes again... Twilight zone:

And yes, just as you'd promised me, Edward (Robert Pattinson) came across as some sort of James Dean-Heathcliff-Sir Gawain hybrid, all furrowed brow and stormy demeanour and unflinching chastity. (Karl Quinn in The Sidney Morning Herald)

A boutique mall in Cape Town which sells old copies of Wuthering Heights in The Sidney Morning Herald, About.com recommends Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Les Brontë à Paris posts about the Brontës in Brussels (in French) and translates into French a fragment from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Temper der Filmkunst posts about the broadcast in Netherlands of Wuthering Heights 2009 divided in three parts (Check our sidebar for more details). The novel itself is reviewed on The Plum Bean Project, neilson's blog posts about Jane Eyre and several of its adaptations, Little Bonobo's Book Cafe reviews very positively The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Squeee devotes a post to the John M. Burns & Amy Corzine's Classical Comics's Jane Eyre. Finally Joan Slings Words interviews author Cynthia Wicklund:

Who are your writing influences?
I read a lot of Victoria Holt in the day. I think that’s where I learned to love the Gothic-style, darker, moody stories. Of course, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is top of my list in that category.

Categories: Brontëites, Comics, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights