Singing in a packed cemetery

The increase of the life expectancy in Britain is analysed in this article in The Observer which, nevertheless, begins by talking about times when things were not the same:

One afternoon my daughter and I walked through the cemetery next to the parsonage in Haworth, the home of the Brontë family in Yorkshire. Densely packed tombstones mostly told the same story. Sibling after sibling from family after family buried long before they reached their 12th birthday. In 1850, a public inquiry into sanitation in the village revealed that the average life expectancy of its citizens was 25.4 years, not many months short of my daughter's age, victims of dirty water and inadequate sewage systems. (Yvonne Roberts)

The Boston Globe recommends reading Ray Bradbury this summer with your kids:

As a teenager, I shared books with my mother even during the times we weren’t speaking. We always found a way to talk about “Wuthering Heights’’ or “The Catcher in the Rye,’’ even during the rockiest periods. What you read together enriches your relationship in a deep and lasting way that creates an unforgettable bond between the generations. (Alice Hoffman)

The Deccan Herald reviews The Trip by Michael Winterbottom:

On the way to these upscale restaurants, they stop to visit the houses of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and walk through the Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights, unable to stop themselves from talking about Roger Moore and other people named Moore. (Pradeep Sebastian)

The Guardian covers The Big Chill festival. Talking about the concert of Wild Beasts:

Initially, Wild Beasts fare only slightly better. The face of the heavily hennaed woman at the veggie burger van visible wrinkles in disgust the moment Hayden Thorpe starts belting out his fruity falsetto. "Not very wild, are they?" she observes. But that depends on your definition of the word; at least a decent proportion of the crowd figure that songs about the dark depths of the male ego and premature ejaculation, delivered in the manner of Heathcliff singing up to Cathy's window, are quite wild enough, given the context.

The New Straits Times (Malaysia) discusses teaching Shakespeare:

At STPM (Malaysian Higher School Certificate), things get remarkably dicier. In the first paper, dealing with British writers, we have: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and As You Like It, Keats’ poems and letters, Hardy’s shorter poems, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Huxley’s Brave New World. (U-En Ng)

The Reel Bits and Restless review Jane Eyre 2011; the Brontë Sisters quotes from an article on TheGenealogist about searching for the Brontës in early Yorkshire records; Jane Eyre - Články posts about Emily Brontë (in Czech); Saulo Vaconcelos posts a performance of Sirens (from the Gordon & Caird musical) with Sara Sarres and himself.

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