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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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The Tour de Yorkshire will be cycling around Yorkshire towards the end of this week and the Yorkshire Post lists all the stages in detail.
Stage 4 - Halifax to Leeds
The fourth and final stage of the men's race encompasses a distance of 175km (108.7 miles) and includes more inclines than any of the previous three days.
Beginning at The Piece Hall in Halifax at 12.35pm, the riders will head into Brontë Country and up Haworth's cobbled Main Street (1.10pm), which is one of the most iconic locations from past years. (Claire Schofield)
Not far from there, author Tracy Chevalier will launch the new Quaker Way on Pendle as reported by Pendle Today.
Novelist Tracy Chevalier, author of worldwide bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, is visiting Pendle and the Ribble Valley this week to climb Pendle Hill and explore the area’s Quaker connections.
The historical novelist, who was born in Washington DC, will be following in the footsteps of George Fox who climbed the hill in 1652 and had a compelling vision which led him to found the Quaker movement.
Her visit will form the basis of a new Quaker walk , a footpath trail highlighting the area’s unique history and landscape.
Tracy Chevalier came to Wycoller in 2016 when she was the Creative Partner for the Charlotte Brontë 200th and saw Pendle Hill in the distance.
She pledged to return to climb it and said: “You don’t understand the power of the place until you come and witness it yourself.” (Edward Lee)
Textile Artist interviews Mandy Pattullo, who is
a textile artist based in rural Northumberland. She sources local vintage quilts, embroidery and other fabrics, collaging them together into exciting new pieces, each telling their own story. [...]
TextileArtist.org: How did the idea for the piece come about? What was your inspiration? Mandy Pattullo: I am an avid reader and I live in a house filled with books. Even with my busy life I manage to read a novel every week and have non-fiction and short stories on the go all the time too. I was brought up in a household where books and reading for entertainment and knowledge were valued. I am ashamed to say that sometimes we used read through meal times and secretly I would like to do that even now!
I love how novels conjure up a little world which you are plunged into. Stories are not all about the narrative drive but about allowing the reader to use their imagination and conjure up colour, texture and context around the characters.
The time-worn textiles I collect also have their own stories and life. When I mix them up a kind of magic occurs. I see my colour stories and collages like the collage of different elements that a writer brings to the page using words.
This link between vintage fabrics and their stories led to me making fabric books. They are not about the words but still ‘speak’ to the viewer. They tell a story about a project I might have been working on. In fact, they are usually made at the end of a project using tiny left-over scraps.
My inspiration started with seeing the Brontë Juvenilia, children’s tiny little books, at Haworth parsonage. I really coveted them and recognised their preciousness and want people to feel the same way about mine. The Brontë Juvenilia are unique one-off productions. I like the idea of this; the fact they are irreproducible. (Heidi Ingram)
BookTrib features Sara Collins and her novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton.
“On the small Caribbean island where I grew up, I reread Brontë and Jane Austen, trying to imagine windswept moors and drawing rooms draped in silk, sighing women, and men dashing about on horses – corrupting or taming or rescuing.
“My own world stretched to coconut trees and white sand. Nothing from it ever made an appearance in those pages. At some point, there came the realization that those books I loved didn’t love me back. And that they had left questions in their wake.
“Why couldn’t a Jamaican former slave be the star of her own gothic romance? Why couldn’t she be complicated, ambiguous, complex?” (Neil Nyren)
Stylist has an article on 'How women are rewriting the literary canon'.
The literary canon, that list of books and writers considered the most important or worthy, is dominated by men. Authors including Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Homer and William Shakespeare are generally always found on lists of the best books ever or the books you need to read before you die, while Jane Austen or a Brontë sister get the odd token nod.
Even when we look at modern books, writers like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Safran Foer are cited as writing state of the nation books, while many novels by women – especially those dealing with relationships – are dismissed as domestic. (Sarah Shaffi)
Which is something Virginia Woolf was already saying when she published A Room of One's Own in 1928.

Your Tango has included a quote from Wuthering Heights on a compilation of '50 Perfect Quotes About Love Anyone Who's Fallen Head Over Heels Can Relate To'.

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