With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
Fortune reports how Audible's #AudibleVoices clips, which feature several well-known names reading excerpts from classics, have 'struck a cord' by not making 'blatant political statements or reference any current politicians by name. Audible lets the excerpts speak for themselves. Two of the clips are from Wuthering Heights, read by actress Lameece Issaq.
This columnist from The Tiger doesn't seem to enthusiastic about the novel:
Although many of today’s college students stopped reading books for fun with the Junie B. Jones series in 2004, Vonnegut’s work holds the potential for change. His writing holds incredible value for students force-fed monotonous classics, including but not limited to Gulliver’s Travels, Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen. Not to assert that these books have no value- every book holds something for someone out there. However, when every book requiring analysis follows the life of an out-of-touch, rich white man, books seem to repeat themselves. (Wesley Skidmore)
'Rich white man' is a description of Heathcliff (we suppose?) that we had never expected to find.
La nación (Argentina) also broaches the subject of young readers but from a different point of view: by claiming that awful as it may be, Twilight has brought many young readers to classics.
Por ejemplo, se podrá decir de todo sobre Crepúsculo, de Stephenie Meyer, pero Bella Swan es fanática de Jane Austen y Emily Brontë y es sabido que muchísimos fans descubrieron y se animaron a leer a estas autoras gracias a ello. (Fabiana Scherer) (Translation)
The Guardian Books Blog asks readers about their current read and one of them asks an interesting question:
Elsewhere, Alex42 poses a fascinating question:
Still plodding through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. 30% of the way through and the author has finally remembered to introduce the title character, who wasn’t even mentioned up until that point. Does this book hold the record for the longest time it takes an eponymous character to appear?
Smart Bitches Trashy Books is giving away copies of the paperback edition of Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye. On the Brussels Brontë Blog, Marina Saegerman tells about a house connected to Arthur Bell Nicholls's family in Ireland is now up for sale.
Where Was The Real Thornfield Hall?
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Spring has not yet sprung and we are still enjoying dark nights where you
can snuggle up with a good book. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is one of
those bo...
Member talk: The Brontës and fake news
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There have been wild speculations and baseless theories about the Brontë
sisters and their novels virtually since the books were first published in
1847. J...
Celebrating Anne Brontë
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Wishing a happy belated birthday to Anne Brontë, born on 17th January 1820
in Thornton. She was an English novelist and poet and her works include the
prot...
Goodbye, Jane
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As two wonderful years come to an end, Piper and Lillian reflect on what
we've learned from Jane Eyre.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Happy...
The Calderdale Windfarm
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*The Calderdale Windfarm*
Sixty-five turbines, each one of them forty metres taller than Blackpool
Tower! All of them close by Top Withens. This is what ...
Hello!
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This is our new post website for The Anne Brontë Society. We are based in
Scarborough UK, and are dedicated to preserving Anne’s work, memory, and
legacy. ...
Final thoughts.
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Back from honeymoon and time for Charlotte to admire her beautiful wedding
day bonnet before storing it carefully away in the parsonage.
After 34 days...
Charlotte Bronte and the Great Exhibition of 1851
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A Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, celebrating industrial advances,
had been promoted from July 1949 by Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole, the
sam...
Ambrotipia – Tesori dal Brontë Parsonage Museum
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Continua la collaborazione tra The Sisters’ Room e il Brontë Parsonage
Museum. Vi mostriamo perciò una serie di contenuti speciali, scelti e
curati dire...
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kcarreras:
I have an inward *treasure* born with me, which can keep me alive if all
extraneous *delights* should be withheld or offered only at a price I...
Livre «Quel Brontë êtes-vous ?»
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Un nouveau livre en français au sujet des Brontë est paru le 20 février
2020 aux éditions Librinova : Quel Brontë êtes-vous ? par Anna
Feissel-Leibovici. ...
Brontë in media
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Wist u dat? In de film ‘The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’
gebaseerd op de gelijknamige briefroman, schrijft hoofdrolspeelster Juliet
Ashto...
Researching Emily Brontë at Southowram
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A couple of weeks ago I took a wander to the district of Southowram, just a
few miles across the hills from Halifax town centre, yet feeling like a
vil...
Handwriting envy
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The opening facsimile of Charlotte Brontë’s hand for the opening of the
novel is quite arresting. A double underlining emphasises with perfect
clarity tha...
Html to ReStructuredText-converter
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Wallflux.com provides a rich text to reStructredText-converter. Partly
because we use it ourselves, partly because rst is very transparent in
displaying wh...
Display Facebook posts in a WordPress widget
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You can display posts from any Facebook page or group on a WordPress blog
using the RSS-widget in combination with RSS feeds from Wallflux.com:
https://www...
5. The Poets’ Jumble Trail Finds
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending with some friends a jumble trail
in which locals sold old – and in some instances new – bits and bobs from
their ...
How I Met the Brontës
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My first encounter with the Brontës occurred in the late 1990’s when
visiting a bookshop offering a going-out-of -business sale. Several books
previously d...
Radio York
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I was interviewed for the Paul Hudson Weather Show for Radio York the other
day - i had to go to the BBC radio studios in Blackburn and did the
interview...
CELEBRATION DAY
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MEDIA RELEASE
February 2010
For immediate release
FREE LOCAL RESIDENTS’ DAY AT NEWLY REFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM
This image shows the admission queue on the...
Poetry Day poems
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This poem uses phrases and lines written by visitors at the Bronte
Parsonage Museum to celebrate National Poetry Day 2009, based on words
chosen from Emily...
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
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Firstly, I would like to thank the good people at Avon- Harper Collins for
sending me a review copy of Syrie James' new book, The Secret Diaries of
Charlot...
With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
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