Shaping the landscape with a pen

The Amarillo Globe-News says the following about the DVD/Blu-ray release of Wuthering Heights 2011:

Director Andrea Arnold's rough-hewn adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic takes the story down to its rawest elements, injecting a perfectly appropriate racial element (Heathcliff here is played by James Howson as an Afro-Caribbean man who was born a slave). It's incredibly atmospheric, though sometimes a little too slowly paced and dreary. (Chip Chandler)

Speaking of Wuthering Heights, via @BronteParsonage and @AJacksonArtist on Twitter we see that a 1970s picture of Ashley Jackson at Top Withins was featured yesterday in the Yorkshire Post. Besides that, Ashley Jackson adds on Twitter,

they shaped the landscape with a pen, I hope to do that with a brush. Heritage needs to be saved for the future #Inspired

A.V. Club dates language by writers' usage when picking '13 Arrested Development quotes to summarize reactions to the new episodes':

Or you can put it in all caps (“I’M AFRAID I JUST BLUE MYSELF”) to represent a Bluth-prompted ejaculation—in the dated, Jane Eyre sense of the word. (Erik Adams, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Will Harris, Steve Heisler, Ryan McGee, Josh Modell, Kyle Ryan, Oliver Sava, John Teti, and Todd VanDerWerff)

Female First interviews writer Sierra Cartwright and describes her previous work as follows:

Last year, she was delighted to be among the launch authors for the exciting Clandestine Classics imprint from Total-E-Bound. The project generated international interest, and her contribution, the expanded Jane Eyre, was featured in segments on such shows as Jimmy Kimmell and Anderson Cooper Live. Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and numerous other online sites also wrote features about the provocative new book. (Lucy Walton)

The Brontë Parsonage Facebook Page and News section share more pictures of the 1940s events at the museum this past weekend.

The Mankato Homeschooling Examiner links to a December 2011 issue of the free educational magazine Early Knowledge for Kids which featured a poem by Emily Brontë. Covers of Brontë novels are among the top ten picked by The Nerdy Reader, So Obsessed With and Lace Vintage Book Reviews. J_on_tour writes about a recent trip to Haworth.