Haworth Brontës. Ha Noi Brontës

Paul Edwards, from The Sydney Morning Herald, has written about Bradford:

Novelist, playwright and favourite son J.B. Priestley is commemorated in a statue outside the Media Museum, while a century before, the tragic Brontë family lived not far from the town centre before moving a few miles to the moorland village of Haworth, now one of Britain's genuine tourist honeypots.
The village straggles up a steep main street, lined with old houses built from the local millstone grit. Many have been converted to B&Bs while others have had the ground floor converted into shops selling anything that visitors will pay for.
The parsonage where Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë lived with their parson father and drunkard brother stands stark among the mouldering graves. Next door is the Black Bull pub, where I sit in the chair once reserved for Branwell Brontë, who wasted his time, money and health here.
Leave the main street and you're soon in the rugged moorlands that crown this part of the Pennines. From a vantage point called Penistone Crag, you can see across the industrial towns of the Aire valley to Ilkley Moor, the subject of a largely unintelligible folk song that is the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire.

Another stroll quite far from Haworth, also brings the journalist from the Viêt Nam News into contact with the Brontës.

You can find people of all ages circling Dinh Le Street [in Ha Noi] at any hour to find a literary treat for the week. [...]
Walking into one of the 20-something bookstores in Dinh Le Street, I was surprised by the sheer variety of books on display. On both sides as well as in the middle of the cramped room were three gigantic shelves with what seemed to be every genre of books there is, from the great love stories of Wuthering Heights and Gone with the Wind to the valuable business lessons from Rich Dad, Poor Dad or What They Don't Teach You in Harvard Business School. (Nguyen Le Hung)

Broadway World features the new DVD collection, Literary Classics, which includes Jane Eyre 1944.

Les Brontë à Paris commemorated yesterday William Weightman's death (in French). Mental Floss includes Wuthering Heights along with six other '7 One-hit Wonders in Literature' and YouTube user Mugabe69 has uploaded a video filmed at Ponden Hall where Cathy and Heathcliff can be seen. Tsipak (in Estonian) has written about Jane Eyre. Amused, bemused and confused reviews The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Gutenberg links to a rare 1857 copy of Shirley for sale.

Categories: Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Shirley, Wuthering Heights