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Monday, August 13, 2012

Keighley News announces some of the most interesting events that will take place at next month's The South Pennines Walk and Ride Festival:
Brontë Country will feature heavily in a 16-day festival designed to encourage people to make the most of the stunning South Pennine landscape. (...)
On September 11 there will be a three-hour walk starting at 10am from Penistone Hill Country Park to Top Withens and Brontë Bridge. The same day will also feature a short, one-hour ‘health walk’, starting and ending at East Riddlesden Hall. This will begin at 2pm. (...)
On September 22 Brontë fans can take advantage of an eight-mile walk exploring the landscape made famous by the literary sisters. This begins at the Brontë Parsonage Museum at 10.30am. (Miran Rahman)
Other regional newspapers recommend different Yorkshire locations. The Derby Telegraph suggests Haddon Hall:
Described as one of England’s oldest and most romantic houses, Haddon Hall has played the part of Thornfield Hall, the home of Mr Rochester in three adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre and this summer there’s a special costume exhibition featuring costumes from all three versions. The exhibition runs until September 2 and there are also behind the scene tours on specific days.
Yorkshire Post goes for Mirfield:
The Mirfield Show is held annually at the Huddersfield Road Showground on the third Sunday in August. (...)
Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë were educated at Roe Head School in Mirfield. Charlotte was both pupil and mistress there. Anne later became governess to the Ingham children at Blake Hall in Mirfield.
The Stuff gives ten reasons to visit England:
2. The moors and heaths.
The purple heather, the blustering gales (or wuthering winds if you're an Emily Brontë fan) and the winding, intersecting paths that encourage all day dalliance - what's not to love? (Amy Roil)
USA Today's Happy Ever After interviews the author Diana Gaston who talks about her new projects:
My next book after A Not So Respectable Gentleman? will be a December release from Harlequin Historical. Born to Scandal is my homage to Jane Eyre, my governess story complete with secrets and betrayals. And the book I'm working on now will be released in June 2013, if all goes well. And I have two more books to write after that, so I'm not sure when I'll find that time! (Kathy Altman)
We see in this picture at the NorthForkPatch that at the Mattituck Historical Society Annual Antique Show (Long Island), copies of the Fritz Eichenberg illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights could be found:
Book collector Gianna Volpe was stoked to have found historic prints of some of her favorite classic books — "Wuthering Heights," "The Last of the Mohicans," and "Robinson Crusoe."
"I've read them all, I just really love the animations in these," she said. (Erin Schultz)
Examiner is very realistic about being a freelance writer:
Don't even go into the depths of the freelance world with the notion that you're going to be in the next Hemingway or Brontë... ain't gonna happen, buddy. You're a nobody in the writing world and will probably be a nobody at the end of your writing career, so having a few articles published or writing something that you are extremely proud of... that's huge... that's cause enough to celebrate. (Elizabeth Burke)
Teenage Fiction compares Jane Eyre to Twilight:
You would think that after so many decades of feminists and so much fighting for the rights of women (and it goes on!), we'd have stronger female protagonists. You'd think that we'd have made progress from the days of Jane Eyre. But clearly not, and it's kind of shameful that in YA, feminism seems to be going backwards. (...)
Because let's face it: even though Jane is a 19th-century Victorian orphan, she's still way more badass and fun to read about than Bella Swan is.
The Celebrity Cafe compares Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights to Lana Del Rey's Blue Jeans; Julie's Chick Lit reviews Agnes Grey; The Literary Omnivore reviews Sherri Browning Erwin's Jane Slayre (Wordstream, in Danish, seems a bit shocked by the novel's premise); Mr Movies and İyisinek (in Turkish) review Wuthering Heights 2011; Pyxurz is posting screen captures of Jane Eyre 1983; LTC-La Tour Camoufle (in French) reviews Jane Eyre 2011; Grădina cu magnolii (in Romanian) posts about the original novel; kaio113 publishes a video with the rehearsals and behind-the-scenes of  the ballet Stürmische Höhen, premiered last year in Magdeburg.

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