Boy, Did He Hold a Grudge

Keighley News reports once again how L.M.C. from Abigail's Ateliers is defending herself from the tabloids. What we hadn't yet heard was the Brontë Parsonage Museum's opinion:

Ann Dinsdale, of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: “I think it is great she is so passionate about what she does. She is quite knowledgeable about Bronte costume and extremely pleasant. The stories won’t affect us working with her in the future.”

An article about Jane Austen without quoting Brontë's dislike? No way:

"Why do you like Jane Austen so very much?" Charlotte Brontë remonstrated with the critic George Henry Lewes. "Anything like warmth or enthusiasm, anything energetic, poignant, heartfelt, is utterly out of place… I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses."  (Amanda Vickery in The Observer)

USA Today mentions Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant:

Beaton winningly takes snarky shots at and explores the absolute absurdity of historical figures, literature and pop culture with strips titled "Dude Watchin' with the Brontës" and "Suffragettes in the City." (Brian Truitt)

The good year of British cinema is mentioned in The Times:

More recently, there have been We Need to Talk About Kevin (with a standout turn by the always remarkable Tilda Swinton), Wuthering Heights and My Week with Marilyn. (Richard Brooks)

The Village Voice slips a curious Brontë reference:

Even if don't have a hangover because you spent Friday night with the sisters Brontë (Wuthering Heights, represent!) the whole waking up process -- groggily crawling out of your warm bed into the cruel, cold world just to find food -- will always suck. (Victoria Bekiempis)

Annie Wilshaw in The Telegraph recommends a visit to Broadstairs Bookshop in Kent:

This shop is an essential for bookworms. I love the towering books and have lost hours in there going through musty old editions of Kipling and the Brontës.

Country Life lists 'heart-stopping heroes':

5. Heathcliff  (Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë)
On paper, it doesn't look great. When this wild-eyed wanderer isn't breaking windows or bashing his head against trees, he's kidnapping teenage girls and leaping into open graves. And boy, does he hold a grudge. But, as any Mills & Boon reader will tell you, you simply can't beat a big,bad-tempered brute in breeches. There'll certainly never be a dull moment up at Wuthering Heights. All together now: ‘Out on the wiley, windy moors...'

The Malaysia Star gives the results of a Gift-A-Book online survey:

Of course, possibly the best part of conducting the survey was reading all the reasons readers have for wanting to give or receive a particular book. (...)
And one Wuthering Heights (by Emily Bronte) fan wants the tome simply because she “wants to be buried with Heathcliff”! (Sharmilla Ganesan)

Martin Briggs in The Sunday Times (South-Africa) is a bit confused:

This was also Brontë sisters' country: their father had served as vicar at nearby Blackburn. One could imagine Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights being conceived here.

Maybe he is thinking of the Reverend William Grimshaw who was educated at the free school of Blackburn and Heskin, before being vicar of Haworth.

Jane Eyre is featured in a decorated tile table recently unveiled at the Ballston Community Library in The Saratogian;  The Brussels Brontë Blog publishes an interesting account by Eric Ruijssenaars of two letters by Frederika MacDonald, author of The Secret of Charlotte Brontë 1914, which are relevant to Brontë historiography;  Personality & Spirituality claims that Jewelle St James, author of The Lennon-Brontë Connection, is actually Emily Brontë's reincarnation (literally); I Think, Therefore I Review posts about Jane Eyre 2011;  Stephen Elder's Blog talks about the original novel.