Torrid and Orgasmic

The Northampton Chronicle & Echo talks about the upcoming release of Sarah Freeman's Brontë in Love:

Sarah Freeman, a former features editor at the Chron who now works at the Yorkshire Post, has written her debut book studying the life and work of the legendary Victorian author.
'Brontë in Love' lifts the lid on the author's past, revealing the real-life inspirations behind her ever-popular novels and exploring her labyrinthine love life which had seen her reject two marriage proposals by the time she was 23, including one from a man she had known for a matter of hours.
Sarah said: "The book came about by chance when I was researching a story for the paper and came across details of Brontë's torrid love life.
"I had studied her at A Level and at university and I thought if I wasn't aware of this then plenty of other people wouldn't be either.
"She led a fascinating life and wrote letters almost every day of her life so there was plenty of material to go from.
"Her husband thought he had destroyed all the letters but there are so many that he missed.
"That sort of thing wouldn't be possible in the modern day, the art and romance of letter writing has been replaced by the convenience of email.
"It took me about six months to write and I'm really pleased with it.
"It's great to have the chance to research and write something on your own from start to finish."
The book contains a foreword from renowned playwright Kay Mellor, which reads: "This book is an absolute page turner. I defy anyone to put it down. Sarah Freeman knows how to tell a story just as compelling as Charlotte told hers."

Torrid love life?

The Herald covers the presence of Margaret Drabble at the Edinburgh Festival and quotes her as saying:

Landscape, she suggests, was to the British romantics what sex and revolution were to the French and the Germans. If you want to find orgasmic writing in Charlotte Brontë, read her passages about the sea. (Teddie Jamieson)

Orgasmic writing?

The Telegraph talks about BBC's Top Gear and mentions the issue of anonymity:

It is a definite quirk of literary history that Jane Eyre is not now sold as the work of Currer Bell, and Middlemarch not as the work of Mary Ann Evans. (Philip Hensher)

Martin Wainwright is travelling through the M1 motorway in order to find the best British views for the Guardian. Today it's Derbyshire stately homes:

Those who like really hard-to-visit relics can add a fourth to their list: the magnificent ruins of Wingfield Manor which Franco Zeffirelli used in his version of Jane Eyre.

Not the first time that Frisky and Mannish's parody of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is mentioned. Now in the Telegraph covering the Edinburgh Festival:

So far there have been surprisingly few issues concerning artists’ rights - and they’ve even had a hearty endorsement from Kate Nash, who gets royally spoofed in a demented version of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. (Dominic Cavendish)

The Telegraph & Argus talks about an exhibition of paintings by local artists in Haworth:

Local artists who met in a Keighley shop are exhibiting together in Haworth until this weekend.
The "Cavendish Group" is made up of customers of Conway's arts and crafts show in Cavendish Street. /...)
The artists have had individual exhibitions at the Tourist Information Centre in Haworth.
Now for the first time they exhibiting their work together at the Main Street venue, until this Saturday. (Aug 21) (...)
Julie [McManus]'s work is influenced by ancient stories and folklore, including her studies of how wolves, hares and owls are linked with mystical beliefs and and pagan tradition.
A prizewinner at the Bradford Open Show in 2007, she uses oils on canvas, and parcel and mixed media on paper. Julie is currently working on drawings and paintings inspired by Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, for a possible exhibition with fellow painter Amanda Hunter next year. (David Knights)

The Independent publishes the obituary of the poet and translator Edwin Morgan (1910-2010) who, among many other things, is described as follows:

Demure and learned, he was a closet Romantic whose favourite novel was Wuthering Heights. (Angus Calder)

Red and Black is quite harsh describing Twilight:

These books take classic creatures of horror and classic stories like Romeo and Juliet and Wuthering Heights and turns them into trash. (Garrison Copeland)

The Haworth clamper makes a comeback in The Telegraph & Argus.

Mark Charan Newton interviews author Alden Bell who says:

Yes, Alden Bell is a pseudonym – “Alden” being my middle name (after my ancestor John Alden of Mayflower fame) and “Bell” being the pen name that all the Bronte sisters used.

Viaggi D'Inchiostro posts about Jane Eyre (in Italian); A Poesia Suicida talks about Emily Brontë (in Portuguese); Melodramatic Sunflower continues reading Wuthering Heights; Spectatia visits the Brontë Parsonage (in Swedish).

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontëites, Fiction, Haworth, Jane Eyre, References, Wuthering Heights