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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Keighley News reports an upcoming astronomical event at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
Museums At Night returns to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth this week.
Bradford Astronomical Group will visit the village on Thursday, October 26 for a special event accompanying the monthly late-night opening of the parsonage.
Reflecting the Brontë family’s interest in astronomy, members will be speak about astronomy in the 1800s and show off an antique brass telescope from the 1820s.
Visitors can learn about light pollution, use computers to look at the night sky during the Brontës’ time, and observe the sun and stars through telescopes.
The museum is open until 8pm, and admission after 5.30pm will be free to anyone providing proof of residence in the BD22, BD21 and BD20 postal areas.
Museums at Night will on Friday, October, 27, welcome Grant Montgomery, production designer for the BBC’s acclaimed TV film about the Brontës, To Walk Invisible.
He will provide an intimate look behind the scenes of the reimagining of Branwell Brontë’s studio for the current parsonage exhibition Mansions in the Sky. (David Knights)
Dame Jenni Murray explains in the Yorkshire Evening Post why Charlotte Brontë didn't make it into her A History of Britain in 21 Women:
The book tells the stories of 21 iconic British women whose struggles and achievements in life helped with the emancipation of women in general and changed the course of social history in the UK, although she admits that when it came to a toss-up between including Charlotte Brontë or Jane Austen, it was the latter who won.
“It breaks my heart that Charlotte Brontë was not in there but in the end I had to make a decision and it came down to her or Jane Austin (sic). The publisher said we cannot do any more than 21, we just cannot fit it in.” (Neil Hudson)
Do you want a tintype picture with ghost incorporated? Observer explains how to obtain one, with Jane Eyre as a bonus:
This wolf-falcon watched my face as I produced my beat-up copy of Jane Eyre, a prop I wanted in the photo. “What do you like about the story?” she asked, obviously fishing. I told her I loved Charlotte Brontë’s descriptions of a mad first wife chained up in an antic.  (Ann Votaw)
Daily Express interviews actor Robert Duncan:
Among my early stage roles were A Deep Man and a favourite, Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. Alongside theatre, I did TV and my most high-profile role was Gus Hedges in Drop The Dead Donkey. “Gus was a shy and hopeless newsroom boss who was bereft of people skills. (Tony Padman)
The same newspaper interviews Jay Aston from the originals Buck Fizzs and now a member of The Fizz:
I loved [Kate Bush's] Wuthering Heights but this album had the most impact on me. I had left Bucks Fizz and was going through a difficult time but this took me to another place. She uses her voice to paint a picture and because I was hugely into dance I loved the fact that she used mime in her performance. (Caroline Rees
Talking about Kate Bush. She is one of 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees. The Young Folks discusses it:
God, I hope Kate Bush gets in. Just because I’d love the induction performances to be something like “Creep,” “Personal Jesus”, “WUTHERING FRIGGEN HEIGHTS”. (Katie Gill)
Daily Post list 'haunted hotels' in North Wales including The Castle Hotel in Conwy:
Over the years, the hotel has been host to some famous guests including Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Brontë and William Wordsworth. (Lydia Morris)
The Weekend Australian talks about Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse :
She notes that “the icons of romantic literature — Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester, Heathcliff or Rhett Butler — were mostly, in the first instance, products of the female imagination”. These characters, along with real celebrities such as Lord Byron, established a template that has been used in countless fictions in literature and film and in establishing the carefully contrived images of leading men and male rock stars. The first Hollywood heart-throb, the dashing and exotic Rudolph Valentino, was the discovery of June Mathis, a powerful female studio executive. (Simon Caterson)
Vox discusses the impact of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle among book lovers:
Cassandra and Rose think of themselves as two sisters from a 19th-century marriage plot book, “two Brontë-Jane Austen girls,” Cassandra writes, “poor but spirited, two girls of Godsend castle.” (Constance Grady
Gazzetta di Parma reviews the film Viceroy's House:
Iniziano gli scontri sanguinosi tra hindu e musulmani e la Chadha prima fa scoppiare una lite tra i servitori in cucina, poi accenna il meno probabile dei “Romeo e Giulietta” e infine ci racconta la spartizione dei libri nel ricco palazzo che dà il titolo al film: «Se “Cime tempestose” va in Pakistan, allora “Jane Eyre” resta qui, e tutta Jane Austen». Il viceré annuisce salomonico.
Ecco, meritiamo qualcosa di più, sia noi che gli indiani. Per non dire Jane Austen. (Michele Zanlari) (Translation)
Infobae (Argentina) is happy to see To Walk Invisible in the Amazon streaming content. On yelp, a happy visitor to the Parsonage. Jewish Women, Amplified shares 'When Brontë Gave Me Wings'
by Dorrit Corwin.

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