Haworth. Not easy to spell

BBC Radio 3 has author Jacqueline Wilson recall the first time she read Jane Eyre. It's lovely to hear her!

And more audio as KPBS features Jen Silverman's play The Moors. There's an audio (and transcript) available with Kim Strassburger, who plays Agatha and Whitney Brianna Thomas, who plays Emilie as guests.

Diversionary's artistic director Matt Morrow stated in the press release, "This play will have you laugh out loud and keep you intellectually stimulated for days. Although it takes place in 'the moors' of the English countryside, it is noted in the script that the characters all speak with American accents. The story is really revealing sexual and social politics for women stateside, which could not be more timely or important. The social satire is heavy on the humor and will shock and delight even the most seasoned theater-goer. Jen Silverman is a white-hot talent on the rise, and has multiple productions being produced at the most reputable theaters across the country. This is only the third production of this fierce new play."
Lisa Berger directs the play and employs a set design that places the wild moors right on the edges of the prim and proper parlor of the spinster sisters Agatha (Kim Strassburger) and Huldey (Hannah Logan).
"In this very small space we needed to create two very distinct spaces," Berger said. "It was important for us that you saw there were these two things juxtaposed against each other. This very formal parlor and this wild moors, and that they exist together, that they both exist here in this world. The moors we talked about it during rehearsal as being a living breathing entity and how can we do that with lights and how can we do that with sound. The moors are something dangerous, a place where you can be harmed or hurt but the moors are also a place where magical things can happen." (Beth Accomando)

Bustle recommends '11 Fascinating Nonfiction Books To Give The Reader Who Has Already Has Basically Everything On Their Shelves', including

A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
The world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. But Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have proven this wrong, through never before published letters and diaries detailing the friendship between Jane Austen and playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, often portrayed as bitter foes, but who enjoyed a complex relationship. For readers who love to know more about the lives of the authors they love, A Secret Sisterhood has inside info galore. (Kerri Jarema)

The Hollywood Reporter announces that the rights to the novel Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne are available. The novel, to be published in May 2018, is described as

 Jane Eyre in space: This YA Gothic romance novel follows a bored 17-year-old who has spent her life on a spaceship orbiting the ice-covered Earth until she's hired as a governess aboard the Rochester, a ship helmed by a rebellious 19-year-old captain. (Andy Lewis and Rebecca Ford)

The Globe and Mail tells about the Victorian railway shares bubble.

By the mid-1840s, British Railway Mania was nearing its zenith. In 1845, total railway revenues were £6 million (already about 1% of GDP and 10% of government spending) yet British investors were expecting them to grow to £60 million by 1852! Even prominent intellectuals such as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and the Brontë sisters were enveloped in this collective delusion—they had invested heavily into railway stocks even though none of them knew much about rail. The ending of this story should not be surprising: the mania created a bubble, the bubble eventually burst, and railway investors suffered extensive losses. (Kara Lilly)

La Razón (Spain) reviews the Spanish translation of Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet, giving it a 10 (out of 10?).

Ideal para...
todos aquellos amantes de los libros de las hermanas Brontë que disfrutarán con esta inmersión en sus vidas, sus obras y su época, escrita de una manera tan minuciosa y documentada que satisface leerla (Sagrario Fdez. Prieto) (Translation)

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Keighley News tells the story of an artist's spoof railway posters featuring Keighley and Haworth.

Spoof rail travel posters mocking places including Keighley and Haworth are proving to be just the ticket with the public.
Sales of the posters, which artist Laura Nicholson admitted were produced as a joke, have rocketed.
New print runs were being reeled off this week to keep up with demand.
"It's been beyond amazing," said Ms Nicholson. [...]
Keighley is described as "that scary place on the way to the Dales", while the Haworth message declares "it killed the Brontes".
Ms Nicholson said the posters were not meant to offend.
"The idea came about when we were organising a pub crawl and a friend kept making rude remarks about places!" she said.
"We made a few posters as a joke – I'd never done anything like it before.
"I printed out a set for the CraftLocker gallery at Elland and put one on Facebook, and it just took off – it was incredible.
"Orders have flooded in and I'm constantly adding to the range."
Ms Nicholson, 45 this week, said the posters were proving popular with locals in the featured places.
"I was at the Haworth Steampunk Weekend and they went down really well there," she said. [...]
And Worth Valley ward district councillor Rebecca Poulsen – who lives in Haworth – said if the posters were intended as a bit of fun, she didn't see any harm in them.
"If people treat them in the light-hearted way they are meant I can't see anyone taking offence – and she's spelt Haworth correctly, which is a positive!" (Alistair Shand)

We love Councillor Poulsen's remark about the spelling.

This columnist from Deseret News recalls growing up

in a “wobbly” family. At times we resembled the von Trapps, all dancing and singing around the house. Other times we were straight out of "Wuthering Heights." (Tiffany Gee Lewis)

Actor Ian McShane has joined the cast of American Gods and Looper looks back on his most famous roles, such as

Wuthering Heights (1967)
In one of his earliest roles, McShane appeared in the 1967 BBC miniseries adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, in the main role of Heathcliff. He starred opposite Angela Scoular, who plays the role of his doomed love Catherine Earnshaw with particularly deranged intensity. The young McShane offers everything you could hope for in a Heathcliff—wild-eyed and rugged handsomeness, and a convincing performance as the man who brings misery to everyone around him with his hellbent course of revenge. (AJ Caulfield)

Beco Literário (Brazil) features Wuthering Heights. Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany) features a book on Anne Lister and mentions Emily Brontë's 'connection' to her. Littlest Bookshelf reviews Manga Classics' take on Jane Eyre.