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A strong-willed vicar’s daughter is thrown into a new life of strikes and unrest when her family relocates from rural southern England to a factory town where an industrialist rules his cotton mill with an iron hand in this premiere adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic 19th-century novel North and South.
Adapted for the stage by BAFTA-nominated writer and actress Janys Chambers, North and South is the final of six productions to open at Pitlochry Festival Theatre this summer. (...)
[Elizabeth] Newman commissioned Chambers to adapt North and South upon her arrival at PFT last year, and will direct a large cast which sees members of the local community joining the theatre’s professional ensemble.
Newman came to know the Victorian writer and educationalist’s work through her biography of Charlotte Brontë. (NadineMcBay)
LancsLive suggests possible romantic venues for weddings in Lancashire:
The Alma Inn (Colne)
The historic Alma Inn still boasts tons of stunning features like exposed beams, stone floors and real fires as well as stunning moorland views.
Situated near to Wycoller Country Park, you are officially in Brontë sister territory, making your wedding just as romantic as Jane Eyre. (Dominic Moffitt)
We don't know if Jane Eyre's wedding qualifies as... romantic.

Another list on LancsLive has Wycoller Hall on it:
Wyvoller Village & Country Park
Labelled one of the prettiest country parks in Lancashire, it's worth a visit - especially for its spectacular history.
The ruins of Wycoller Hall and old bridges across the beck still stand today - even though they may be 1000 years old.
The village has been restored and is between Colne and Haworth and the Hall is thought to feature as Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre.
You'll surely get lost in time in Wycoller Village & Country Park. (Olivia Baron)
Local politics in The Press and Journal:
I heard a woman the other day bemoaning the new system and refusing to pay up for the same reason – she spent all her time filling her bin with “council leaves”. They were their leaves, so she wouldn’t pay. As far as I can tell, leaves are ultimate free spirits which can roam at will and take up residence wherever they fall with impunity. I doubt if any court would assign ownership after they fell off a tree.
In a poem, Emily (Wuthering Heights) Brontë wrote dreamily, “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the Autumn tree.”
She obviously didn’t have a bin permit. (David Knight)
ABS-CBN (Philippines) reports the death of the actress Mona Lisa (1922-2019) who
She starred opposite Leopoldo Salcedo in “Hanggang Langit” (1947), one of Mona Lisa’s favorites which was a Tagalog adaptation of “Wuthering Heights.” (Leah C. Salteiro)
We have been unable to find another independent source of information which confirms that the film is indeed an Emily Brontë adaptation.

Listelist (Turkey) compares actors who played characters younger than their real age at the time. Like Zelda Clarke in Jane Eyre 1983:
10. Zelah Clarke (29 years)  – Jane Eyre (18 years)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’ın 1847’de yayımladığı bir roman. Film de aynı isimle mini TV dizisi olarak yayımlandı. Dizinin çekildiği tarihlerde Clarke, pansiyonda çalışan 18 yaşında genç bir hizmetçiyi canlandırdı ama bu sıralar oyuncu 29 yaşındaydı.  (İrem Kabak) (Translation)
Svenska Yle (Finland) interviews Sanna Tahvanainen who is considering a possible Brontë project:
Sanna Tahvanainen har bjudit in mig till sin lägenhet i Helsingfors.
Hon står och lagar kaffe åt oss i sitt vackra kök, ur högtalarna strömmar Abbey Lincolns djupa röst, som Tahvanainen säger att hon just nu spelar på repeat, och vi talar om syskonen Brontë.
Tahvanainen plockar fram flera biografier om syskonen Brontë och säger att hon känner ett behov av att eventuellt skriva om dem i framtiden. (Vilhelmina Öhman) (Translation)
TuttoNapoli (in Italian) posts an Emily Brontë quote. Izzy Reads reviews Jane Eyre. A discussion on Wuthering Heights is going on on Reddit. The novel is reviewed in Spanish in El Diario de Nathan Zuckerman. Eccentric England travel and events posts about the Wuthering Heights Hearbreak Productions UK tour. AnneBrontë.org posts about the Red House importance, present status and future possibilities.

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