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Sunday, May 27, 2012

ITV News also covers the Yorkshire Brontës' Garden:
Welcome to Yorkshire has scored a Chelsea hat trick and made Chelsea Flower Show history by becoming the first exhibitor to win the People’s Choice award three years in a row. The Brontës' Yorkshire Garden, inspired by the literary legends and theirbwork, won the 2012 award as voted for by the public – mirroring the success of the tourism agency’s previous two gardens. The win comes just days after the same garden won Gold, capping off a memorable week for the county. The garden is basedbon a particular location often visited by the Bronte sisters, where a bridge now known as The Brontë Bridge crosses a moorland stream. This is now a popular tourist destination, being located on the path to the location widely believed to be a key setting for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Top Withens. Stone from a Victorian quarry near the Bronte’s home in Haworth was also included in the garden; it was transported from Dove Stones moor to London to give the garden authenticity.
Tuscaloosa News reviews The Healing by Jonathan Odell:
Becky dies and Mistress Amanda goes mad, like a character in a Brontë novel. Addicted to laudanum, she staggers around the house with her pet monkey, Daniel Webster, and tries to substitute the slave Yewande for her dead daughter, dressing her up from time to time in Becky's fine clothes.  (Don Noble)
The singer Kelly Clarkson is interviewed in the Daily Mail:
I’m an avid reader now but had to be forced to pick up a book as a child. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë was the first book that really touched me.  (Alan Jackson)
The Boston Globe interviews Kathleen Turner, not the actress but the Massachusetts teacher of the year:
When you read in English, what kind of books do you like?
TURNER: I go from mysteries by James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell to this year rereading “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights.” I also read Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” for the first time. I loved it. (Amy Sutherland)
A reader of the Dallas Morning News is concerned about the absence of new classics:
There have been no recent works, in my opinion, that have been able to rival those magnificent life-influencing characters found in the fictional classics. 
As a sophomore and junior in high school over five decades ago, my life was greatly changed forever by the love of Eppie and her ability to restore life and love to Silas Marner, by Jane Eyre's moral convictions that superseded her own personal desires, by Hester Prynne's bravery and courage to daily face a cruel society in The Scarlet Letter, and by Sydney Carton's sacrificial life and love in A Tale of Two Cities. These are only a few of the fictional characters who have powerfully molded my life. (Marty Walker)
The Danbury News Time lists some favorite sex scenes in cinema, including Wide Sargasso Sea 1992, recommended because of Karina Lombard; Cupcake and a Latte reviews Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of EyreMy Daily Life and My Blog post about Wuthering Heights; Magia... e vida (in Portuguese) devotes an entry to its author and Doll Divas has a doll-related post; deluminators is reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Fascinating-History and Page Turners (in French) posts about Jane EyreSeongyong's Private Place reviews Wuthering Heights 2011.

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