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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

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Keighley News tells more about TV presenter Julia Bradbury's recent walk on the moors:
Britain’s top TV hiker Julia Bradbury stepped into Haworth to film her latest ITV series.
Staff from the Brontë Parsonage Museum accompanied Julia as she shot an episode of Britain’s Favourite Walks.
They walked together to the Brontë Waterfall, near Stanbury, for a picnic lunch before continuing on to Top Withens with Ben Myers, the author of Heathcliff Adrift.
Rebecca Yorke, head of communications at the museum in Haworth, said: “The walk to Top Withens from Haworth is a very popular route with our visitors and we are delighted that it has made it into Britain’s Favourite Walks.
“The programme will be aired in the spring and will be a great addition to our celebrations for Emily’s bicentenary next year.”
The programme celebrates the UK’s most-loved walking routes.
In 2018 Emily Brontë will become the third Brontë sibling to be the subject of 200th birthday celebrations, following Charlotte and Branwell’s bicentennials in 2016 and 2017. (David Knights)
Daily O (India) reviews Ruskin Bond's Confessions of a Book Lover:
When we encounter Bond's experience of reading Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, we can identify with it completely. It gripped him and he read it through a stormy night when he was a youngster. He read it again this year just to see whether it would hold him in thrall the same way. And he discovered that it did! Emily, "the most gifted of the three Brontë sisters, in her brief tenure on this earth, had put everything into this one sizzling novel and left it behind to haunt posterity" he writes.
However, he does not give us an extract from Wuthering Heights: "You have to take it in one large dose, preferably late at night." (Jaskiran Chopra)
This columnist from The Chronicle of Higher Education tells about finding Wuthering Heights at the right moment:
When I was in college, I could never finish Wuthering Heights. I knew that Emily Brontë was supposed to be (is!) a great writer, and I liked her sisters’ novels well enough, but could not make my way through this book. It was pretty annoying. Then, at some point, I was at a friend’s place for the weekend, and they had a different edition of Wuthering Heights than the tight, crowded discount paperback I’d been failing to read well. The clouds lifted, I was absorbed, and felt better about the universe and my place in it. (Jason B. Jones)
Clearly, though, this other columnist from Medium hasn't yet encountered Jane Eyre at the right time:
I used to blame Charlotte Brontë for my dislike of reading. I thought that being forced to read Jane Eyre and other “literary classics” against my will was what soured me on reading. (Jake Wilder)
The Spinoff (New Zealand) features Fiona Mozley’s Elmet and finds a possible Brontë reference:
There are three characters central to the story: Cathy (possibly referencing the one who smashed windows yelling ‘I am Heathcliff’), her brother Daniel (the narrator) and their father who we generally know as Daddy. (Linda Burgess)
The New York Times features The Letters of Sylvia Plath and here's how her husband Ted Hughes is described:
The other great, governing hunger in her life was for a leading man, a colossus, which she found in Hughes, the hulking Heathcliff of her dreams. (Parul Sehgal)
Fosters makes an interesting point:
Without an education, Hermione may never have met Harry Potter and helped to defeat Lord Voldemort; Matilda would never have discovered her powers; and Jane Eyre would never have escaped a miserable life. 
Kitaab (Singapore) has a a bone to pick with Dr Usha Bande, author of the book Adventure Stories of Great Writers:
In this pantheon of men, Dr Usha Bande includes only one woman – Gertrude Bell. This is disappointing as there have been many remarkable women writers (Sarojini Naidu, the Brontë sisters, George Eliot or Helen Keller, to name a few) across the world who wrote more books and were better known than Gertrude Bell. (Mitali Chakravarty)

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