Walking for Branwell

Remember this theatre piece? The Westmoreland Gazette reports that,

A Cumbrian writer will be walking 130 miles next month to promote her groundbreaking new play about Branwell Brontë.
Caroline Lamb, originally from Sedbergh and a previous student of Settlebeck, Sedbergh, and Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, is now the artistic director and resident writer of theatre company Dangerous to Know.
The company will be bringing Caroline’s self-penned play The Dissolution of Percy to unique spaces in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire this November.
The production has the backing of the Brontë Society, and will take place just before the start of the bicentenary celebrations in 2016.
To promote and fundraise for the production, Caroline will walk the equivalent of five marathons from June 20-27, including stops at Broughton-in-Furness, Kendal and Cowan Bridge.
At these venues she will deliver performed readings of work by the famous literary family, as well as pieces donated by friends, colleagues and audience members.
Caroline, now living in Manchester, said: “I decided to write a play with Branwell as the main character because when I started researching the family he just jumped out at me – why did he have no credits to his name when his sisters did so well?
“I wanted to take the opportunity to represent the Brontë family as "real" people - a real family who fight and joke and struggle together.”
For full details of Caroline’s performances go to http://dangeroustoknow.org/latest-news-updates/. (Katie Dickinson)

Interesting because Branwell was a great walker himself.

Both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have been included on Marie Claire's list of books to read before you die.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Innocent, wide-eyed governess turns up in crotchety (but kinda sexy) man's house to look after his young ward. Can they? Will they? And what on earth is in that locked attic?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Headstrong Cathy, brooding Heathcliff, violent weather, Yorkshire moors and a love affair you just know isn't going to end well. If you like your romance with a large helping of tragedy, this is for you. Tissues at the ready...

Ergo (Sweden) thinks that Jane Eyre makes a difficult read from a postcolonial point of view.

Jane Eyre – betraktad som en feministisk klassiker men ganska obekväm läsning ur ett postkolonialt perspektiv. (Karin Lundin) (Translation)

Bustle is 'all about' the BBC's Brontë biopic project and lists '7 fun facts about the Brontë sisters that hopefully come up in the two-hour television drama'. There is a Wuthering Heights Livetweet going on at the @covenbookclub (#WHeightsLT).