Tearoom in the Brontë Waterfall

Filmclub posts a video where Olivia Hetreed, writer of Wuthering Heights 2011, talks about screenplays to a high school audience in this video:

Screenwriter Olivia Hetreed visit - in association with BAFTA
Revealing the secrets of her craft and in a FILMCLUB exclusive reads from her script for new movie Wuthering Heights, in association with BAFTA.

Thanks to the anonymous reader who sent us the link.

Keighley News publishes a very curious photograph taken in the 1920s of a wooden hut used as a tearoom right in the middle of the walk to the Brontë waterfall:

This wooden hut at Enfield Side, known as Metcalf’s tearoom, offered refreshments to walkers along the popular path to the Brontë Waterfall in the 1920s.
Haworth Moor’s Brontë shrines had become well-established by then, though perhaps their authenticity should not be too closely questioned.
An earlier contender for the Brontë Waterfall title had been another at Ponden Kirk, while Top Withins bears no resemblance to the Wuthering Heights of the novel.
In Haworth itself, businesses were making the most of their undoubted literary associations.
The Black Bull Hotel advertised as “close to the church and Brontë Museum”, the King’s Arms was “opposite Brontë Museum and church”, and the White Lion “next door to Brontë Museum”.
The Brontë Café was “opposite the church and close to the Brontë Museum”, and Burra’s Luncheon and Tea Rooms, “close to the Brontë Museum and church,” catered for picnic parties. (Ian Dewhirst)

KVNO talks about the current Brontë festival in Omaha, NE:

“If nothing else, Jane Eyre did deliver me from a life of servitude,” recited actress Jill Anderson performing as the author Charlotte Brontë, in the autobiographical play “Brontë” by William Luce. Anderson performed the one-woman piece as part of the month-long Brontë Festival at the Joslyn Castle, which continues through August 5th.
Surrounded by the Castle’s ornate ceilings and dark wood floors, Anderson transported the audience to the Brontë’s mid-19th century world.
“I speak of being a Governess,” Anderson continued. “Take the Sidgwick family for instance… the children were perfect little brats. I grew tired of tying their shoelaces and wiping their smutty little noses.” (...)
Anderson fell in love with the Brontës, when she first performed the Brontë play in the 1990s. This year, she decided to re-mount it at the Joslyn Castle, and organize a month-long festival around it. Romance at the Castle celebrates each Brontë sister, with readings and discussions on the authors’ impacts on the literary world.  (Robyn Wisch)

The New Zealand Herald discovers Winnie-the-Pooh's Ashdown Forest and mentions other English literary places:

Literary Britain has many sacred groves. There's Wordsworth's Lake District and the Brontë sisters' Yorkshire. (Robert McCrum)

We think that Comic Book Resources is quite wrong when discussing the work of the illustrator Sonny Liew says:

He was dynamite on that – and Liew’s covers were always a regular feature when I judged books by their covers – his work for Marvel on their Brontë and Austen adaptations is nothing less than exemplary). (Brian Cronin)

As as we know Marvel Comics have only issued two Austen adaptations (Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility) and no Brontë. At least for now.

The latest issue of Country Walking (August 2011) contains an article about

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN – Take a walk along the Yorkshire coast and discover a beach that inspired Charlotte Brontë.

We wonder if they are talking about Filey, Burlington (now Bridlington) or Scarborough.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel continues talking about Glenn Duncan's The Last Werewolf:

As [Ron] Charles points out in his review, [Jake] Marlowe's also a literary werewolf, with nods and allusions to Tennyson, Mailer, Charlotte Brontë -- and "Starsky & Hutch." (Jim Higgins)

The Wausau Daily Herald reviews The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn:

With a nod to Edgar Allen Poe, the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens, she creates a heroine to cheer on in Florence, the evil Sophia to scorn, and young sickly Jack to encourage.

Sacramento Bee and other newspapers carries an article about the names on the Brontë novels:

We've talked a lot about Shakespearean literary names and characters in Dickens and Jane Austen, but we've overlooked three of the best namers in literary history - the sisters Bronte. We love their own names - Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and we love their initial-appropriate male pen names - Currer, Ellis and Acton. We even love their surname, which a number of parents have chosen for their daughters.
But it is the particularly rich cast of character names in their novels that we love the most. One of them, in fact, had a considerable effect on baby naming of its era. Though it's long been said that it was Shirley Temple who promoted her given name in the 1930s, she wasn't the first.
In Charlotte Brontë's second novel, following "Jane Eyre," the protagonist of "Shirley" was given that name because her father had anticipated a boy, and Shirley was a distinctively male name at the time. The novel's Father Keeldar made a gender switch that has proven to be permanent. (Read the list) (Nameberry.com)

The Spoof! considers the professional future of Rebekah Brooks:

Last Night I Went To Wapping Again will feature a noisy soundtrack by Urban Myth and has been heralded by some geezer in The Sun as: "a cross between Jane Eyre and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, with a bit of Fanny Hill slung in."

New Yorker interviews the author Robert Coover:

Your story in this week’s issue, “Matinée,” evokes a number of film classics—”Belle de Jour,” “Brief Encounter,” “City Lights,” and “Jane Eyre,” among them—without strictly representing those movies. What made you choose these particular stories and plots to adapt to your own purposes?
All films, and especially genre films, are assembled from a limited set of shared motifs. So is this story. Hopefully, it evokes a great many films, made and unmade, while representing none. (Deborah Treisman)

The Independent talks about the upcoming BBC series The Hour:

By the same token, "established" history has tended to be dominated by one particular type of character: the white man. It's because of this that, ironically, creative licence might in fact produce a more accurate picture of the past. "Many of the most popular period dramas have focused on the role of women," notes Smyth of this. "Whether it's Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights or Upstairs, Downstairs, they show a side of life that isn't necessarily represented in strict historical accounts." The result is that such popular productions have attracted scorn for not being "real" history, while offering a sort of social history that we might not otherwise be able to access. (Alice-Azania Jarvis)

School Library Journal discusses the recent trends in teen fiction:

Society's expectation, combined with publishing trends, are driving the types of books being published," says Megan Fink, a school librarian at Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, NC, who also serves on the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. "The publishing trends are pushing a lot of authors to write books for readers who liked Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005) and The Hunger Games (Scholastic, 2008)." (...)
"There have always been books like Judy Blume's Forever (Bradbury Press, 1975) that readers would have considered the trendy novel of the day," says Fink. "And I agree that Twilight may be the Wuthering Heights of our time."  (Lauren Barack)

The Suffolk Times asked its readers about their favourite books:

My nephew asked if anyone seemed self-conscious over a lack of classics on their list. Well, not that I could see, Huck Finn and “Wuthering Heights” each got three mentions, “War and Peace” two. (Jerry Case)

John Self in The Guardian doesn't seem to be a Brontëite:

So here I am going to list a few instances of a writer being famous for the wrong book, and my suggestions for where their greatest achievement really lies. Below, you can make your own suggestions (someone, please tell me I've just been reading the wrong Peter Carey or Emily Brontë), or let me know just how misguided I am.

Fortunaly, Brontëites are eveywhere. Publishers Weekly coverage of the Thrillerfest is made by 

Sheila English owns Circle of Seven Productions and Reader’s Entertainment. She chairs International Thriller Writer’s Organization Social Media department and is a closet case geek girl. Her favorite book is Jane Eyre and she feels only the 2006 movie adaptation is worth owning. (Barbara Vey)

A personal confession in the Elko Daily Free Press:

It seems when I have to read, I just don’t want to read. This was proven time and time again in college when I was assigned a piece of classic British Literature like “Jane Eyre” and barely managed to crack the cover. (Danielle Switalski)

On the blogosphere: Posts reviewing Wuthering Heights: Por Lourdes!! (in Portuguese), Bookish (who don't like it at all); Posts talking or reviewing Jane Eyre: YA Crush; Bonjour, c'est Fibre Tigre talks about the Brontës' juvenilia (in French) and Cecile's Blog (also in French) reviews Stancliffe Hotel by Charlotte Brontë; Poppyshakes's Bookshelves reviews The Brontës Went to Woolworths. The poet and writer Francesca Santucci talks about the Brontës in a long post on Paperblog (in Italian). Finally, The Mile Long Bookshelf  and Readaraptor! participate on the Wuthering Hearts Tour and review the book.

Categories: Books, Brontëites, Haworth, Humour, Jane Eyre, Juvenilia, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights