Heathcliff? Take a 90-day break and do not text him. Better yet, run!

A letter to The Guardian tries to do justice in the Brontë Stones project:

Vanessa Thorpe’s article on the Bradford literature festival project to commemorate the work of the Brontë sisters with poems carved in the stones of Thornton and Haworth rightly credits Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson and others, but fails to mention Pip Hall (“Out on the wiley, windy moors, Bush sings new praises to Emily Brontë”, News). She is the artist who has spent weeks in all weathers on the Yorkshire moors carving the commemoration poems on the stones that, as the festival organisers say, will delight visitors for years to come.
Hall has become one of Britain’s foremost letter carvers, following her work at Jane Austen’s house museum, the Stanza Stones project with Simon Armitage and the Sheffield city centre poems-on-seats projects. It is her work on the Brontë project that will endure the wind and rain on Yorkshire’s wuthering heights. (David Boulton)

Also in The Guardian, novelist Anne Tyler doesn't like Wuthering Heights:

Lisa O'Kelly: Is there a classic novel that you feel you should have read but haven’t?I have tried several times to read Wuthering Heights but it just strikes me as silly, so I always quit it. I don’t tell any of my friends this because women have very fond memories of reading it when they’re young and I don’t want to hurt their feelings.

Forbes compiles several recipes inspired by literature:

Caraway Seed Cake (Jane Eyre)
In Charlotte Brontë's magnum opus, little Jane is sent to a boarding school by her cruel aunt. At Lowood boarding school, Jane meets Miss Temple, a kind woman who soon becomes her mentor. "I meant to give each of you some of this to take with you," says Miss Temple as she unwraps a flavorful seed cake that she brought for Jane and her best friend Helen Burns. This Caraway seed cake was ravenously eaten by the little girls. And if you wonder how it tasted, you can bake one yourself by whipping up this Quid Corner recipe. (Noma Nazish)

Kitsap Daily News has some reading recommendations for children and teens:

“My Plain Jane” by Cynthis Hand and Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows
A stunningly imagined version of pre-Victorian England that includes charming ghosts and laugh-out-loud humor in this retelling of Jane Eyre. Adults will enjoy this re-visit to Jane Eyre, too. (Donna Lee Anderson)

Brookville Times reviews the novel The Wild Inside by James Bradbury:

Bradbury, who has an M.F.A. degree from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and has written for this newspaper, has also served in the Peace Corps and worked for two years as an assistant to the novelist John Irving. Irving has praised “The Wild Inside” as “an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel—think of the Bronte sisters and Stephen King.” It is all that—as well as a commentary on the lines we draw between wildness and civilization, between animal and human. (Caroline Biscotti)

Knutsford Guardian announces the September Knutsford Promenades festival:

“So in addition to a fascinating mix of themed and curated events, talks and displays in the town, we have commissioned a new community theatre piece called From Station to Station.”
From Station to Station has been written by Steven Downs, who wrote last year’s acclaimed Regina v Turing and Murray.
Inspired by one of Alison Uttley’s own novels, it imagines Mrs Gaskell and Alison Uttley meeting in the modern world due to a ‘time slip’, weaving into their lives and views the influences of other notable women along the Mid-Cheshire line including Elizabeth Raffald, Mary Fildes, Helen Allingham and Charlotte Brontë. (Ian Ross)

Open relationships as explained by author Melissa Broder in the Daily Mail:

If I were involved in some of my favourite literary pairings, my therapist would firmly advise against them. Mr Rochester? Emotionally unavailable – and he has a woman locked in his attic. Cathy and Heathcliff? If I were Cathy, my therapist would say, ‘Take a 90-day break and do not text him. Better yet, run!’

South Bend Tribune reviews a local production of My Fair Lady:

In the play’s final moments, after Eliza has returned to Higgins, director David Case adds a not-so-subtle bit of acting that suggests Eliza now controls Higgins. It’s a pointed reworking of power dynamics between the couple, perhaps designed to swing the balance of power closer to the ending of “Jane Eyre” and away from “Taming of the Shrew” territory. (Nora McGreevy)

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The New York Times' The Sugars podcast recommends Jane Eyre for the 'Young & Isolated'; Helena Fairfax visits the Brontë Parsonage and posts about the Brontës; the Word Players blog announces the upcoming performances of Jane Eyre. The Musical in Knoxville, TN. The rector of St Michael and All Angels' Haworth Church, Peter Mullins writes on his blog about Haworth, tourists and Emily Brontë. Brontë Babe Blog reviews the Juvenilia Press edition of The Pirate by Branwell Brontë.