Nosey Heathcliff

Hebden Bridge is currently hosting the Treasures Revelaed Festival and, being located in the heart of Brontë Country, some Brontë things couldn't help but crop up. As reported by the Hebden Bridge Times:

ORGANISERS of the nine day Treasures Revealed festival with Brontë links at Hebden Bridge's Parish Church are hoping that a good start continues.
The Brontë Sisters documentary and church history tour were of a very high standard and were well-attended with visitors coming from as far afield as Dublin.
Prizes of a family ticket to Eureka and a book token drew in the crowds for the Children's Treasure Hunt, while visitors to the Jane Eyre film night were rewarded with pie and peas courtesy of Liz at the White Swan. A talk by Ian and Catherine Emberson also explained the church's connection to the Brontës.

Keighley News tells a bit more about the Fair Intents eco-festival that took place last weekend in Haworth.

The arts festival based one of its flagship events, the “smallest cinema in the world”, at Fair Intents, in the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s meadow.
In return Fair Intents placed its café in the arts festival’s main venue, the nearby Haworth Old Schoolrooms. (David Knights)

British actress Andrea Riseborough talks to The Independent about her northern origins:

While she speaks with only a faint North-east accent, she still seems very attached to her roots. "The further you creep up North, the palette of the landscape becomes purple and grey, moors and heaths," she says, as if she were auditioning for Wuthering Heights. "And I think that lives in your blood. You can never escape it. I'm always fearful of quaint countryside. I always feel like I'm in Disneyland, because I grew up somewhere so wild. And people are crazy in Newcastle – they don't wear coats! I was always such a crap Geordie. I was out there in my ski-suit. I was like 'It is cold, OK?'" (James Mottram)

Speaking of Wuthering Heights, BBC News is reminded of it on the topic of eavesdropping.

Historically in literature, those who eavesdrop are given a hard time: the stirring of Heathcliff's bitterness in Wuthering Heights was caused by a half-heard conversation; Shakespeare used eavesdropping to, amongst other things, seal the fate of his tragic hero Othello.
Here it seems that acting without full access to the facts can only be a bad thing. (Alex Hudson)

The National (UAE) reveals two of Sayyid Qutb's favourite films:

He also confessed to liking American films; Qutb may have been celibate, [his biographer] John Calvert writes, but he “singled out two stormy romances, Gone with the Wind and Wuthering Heights.” (Frederick Deknatel)

The Philadelphia Inquirer is reminded of Jane Eyre by the Arden Theatre Company's Ghost-Writer:

[Actress Megan] Bellwoar's steely, modest amanuensis has more in common with Jane Eyre than with most contemporary dramatic characters. (Toby Zinman)

EDIT:
A musical alert from Santa Barbara, CA for tonight:

Westmon College
Westmont Fall Faculty Recital
September 17, 8:00 PM, Deane Chapel

Includes: Bernard Herrmann’s “I Have Dreamt” aria from his opera Wuthering Heights. (Source)

Kindle Author interviews Libby Sternberg, author of Sloane Hall; more Jane Eyre trading cards on Vanishing Point; books i done read compares Jane Eyre and its prequel Wide Sargasso Sea; The Literary Lollipop reviews Jane Eyre 2006.

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