What goes on under the Brontës's bonnet

DeHavilland quotes Kris Hopkins (MP for Keighley and Ilkley) which at the House of Commons July 19th Debate said:

Worth Valley railway, Ilkley moor, the Brontë parsonage and the landscape of “Wuthering Heights” are great tourist attractions in my town. I would like to invite the Minister responsible for tourism to come up and talk with businesses in my constituency and listen to them about how we can make their business work better.

The Armidale Express publishes an ongoing contest on the blog A la mode frangouro,

Sophie is offering Entrées a la Mode as the prize for a competition she is running on www.alamodefrangourou.blogspot.com.
Readers are invited to take their favourite Victorian novel and post a recipe for a dish that might convey the atmosphere of the book.
“For instance, in a Trollope novel, you might have something rich and fancy; in a Brontë novel, something more austere; in a Dickens novel, something flamboyant and unusual - and so on,” Sophie says. (Janene Carey)

Antiques and the Arts comments the recent Sotheby's auction which included a Wuthering Heights first edition:

Additional sale highlights include a record for the sale at auction of any edition of any of the Brontë novels with the sale of a rare first edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights , which sold for $388,430. Sold together with Agnes Grey , a novel by Ellis Bell and Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights is consistently among the three best-selling novels in the English language.

Chortle talks about the Sitcom Mission  final event:

What Next? (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards [who where finally the winners]) focused squarely on three ‘sisters’, two of whom were attempting to help/hinder their sibling to prepare for a job interview. Played with gusto and the odd visual gag, it at first looked promising; after all, how many sitcoms have properly explored the sisterhood dynamic? I didn’t think this one did either, relying on showing their pants and ‘dogging’ misunderstandings. There is a sitcom in here, but it was swamped by too much business on the surface. If they were the Brontës, then I’d like to see more of what goes on under the bonnet.  (Marc Blake)

Santina's World vindicates Jane Eyre as a feminist manifesto for the Kenyan society;  Illuminara is visiting Brontë country; The Phantom Paragrapher reviews Jane by April Lindner; Veracruz Press and Poemas del Alma posts about the Brontës in Spanish; A.R.T. on Theatre shows her Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre. The Musical memorabilia; Stepinsidelove posts Jane Eyre 2006 icons; Kirsin kirjanurkka reviews Wide Sargasso Sea in Finnish.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights