Jane Tea Sandwiches

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights will be screened at yet another film festival: Denver's Women + Film Voices Film Festival (6-11 March), as reported by the Denver Post:

Women + Film opens with a romance of historic ramifications begun on the ski slopes of Mont Tremblant in Canada and ends (as it did last year) with a volatile love affair unfolding on misty moors when it closes with "Wuthering Heights." (Lisa Kennedy)

Seemingly out of the blue, the Doncaster Free Press posts about the young Brontës today:

As the world’s most famous literary family and authors of some of the best-loved books in the English language, the formative years of the six Brontë children and their mature writing careers blossomed in Haworth, North Yorkshire amid the dramatic landscape of the surrounding moors.
In many ways a typical middle class family in the 19thC, their clergyman father educated his children at home placing them socially above most people around them.
With the early loss of their mother, they began to read avidly and to create their own stories of childhood lands of Angria and Gonda.
They also began to paint from an imagination fired by John Martin’s engravings and the contents of periodicals of the day such as Blackwell's Magazine, depicting the exploits of Wellington, Napoleon, darkest Africa and explorers of the Arctic.
All was grist to their fantasy world which in adulthood resulted in the paintings, poems and novels rooted in the themes of the early writings of their childhood and adolescence. (JH)

ChicoER looks back on the exhibition Women Writers: Works From the 17th Century to the Present which was held by the Rare Book Room in the Willis Library of the University of North Texas, Denton Campus in 1999-2000.

While many of the works of the early women writers noted in the exhibition are rare, if surviving at all, some of the most popular fiction written include "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly (1797-1851), "Sense and Sensibility," "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (1775-1817); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) and "Agnes Grey" by Anne Brontë (1820-1849), and are all still being published. Many of these, their biographies and commentaries are in the novel or non-fiction 800 section of the libraries. (Ruthmarie Ferris)

The Huffington Post's Kitchen Daily shares a (sadly, just virtual) round of Jane Eyre-inspired sandwiches:

We adapted a recipe for tea sandwiches that Cheryl McHugh of Antioch, California, has made for her East Country Mother’s Club, a recipe she found on whatscookingamerica.net. “Charlotte Brontë drew the reader into the life of Jane Eyre,” says McHugh. With bread and cream cheese, you may indulge your book club with these delicate sandwiches, of which Mr. Brocklehurst would never have approved.

The recipe appears in the recently published The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelmen & Vicki Levy. 

According to Parade, Kate Beckinsale and her daughter wouldn't say no to those sandwiches:

"I loved all the E. Nesbit books like Five Children and It and The Enchanted Castle. As I got older, we had a real craze in our country called The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, which everybody was really into. I was reading Jane Eyre when I was 11 and I loved that. Actually, my daughter read Jane Eyre when she was 11, too."

The Haworth clamper is again in the news in the Daily Mail. And also locally, Grough reports something for which no car is needed:

A mountain rescue team is challenging walkers to complete a 45-mile route to help it raise funds.
Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team Pendle Way in a Day event will see entrants tackle the 72km length of the trail non-stop – a route that typically takes three or four days. [...]
The Pendle Way is a circular route ranging from limestone meadows to rugged millstone grit moorland. It passes through hamlets, villages and towns associated with the Pendle Witches and the literary Brontë sisters. (Liz Roberts)

MOster & The Woman posts briefly about Jane Eyre 2011 and Miss Moss posts about several 'costume dramas' locations including Haddon Hall and the moors.