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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Remember that Charlotte Brontë's little book is to be auctioned on Monday. The crowdfunding campaign is at this moment just a little over £10,000 short of the £80,000 target. Please take a moment to donate and be part of Brontë history.

BBC Teach highlights '5 Gothic literary locations in the UK', the first of which is
1. Haworth, West Yorkshire
Emily Brontë and her sisters lived in Haworth, West Yorkshire. The wild moors surrounding the village were the inspiration for Wuthering Heights. The bleak and stormy landscape was the perfect location for a Gothic drama of obsession and violence.
An isolated location is a hallmark of Gothic literature. Think of Dracula’s foreboding Transylvanian castle or the desolate French alps in Frankenstein. Emily Brontë bought the isolated, Gothic location to the UK’s shores. The novel features other hallmarks of Gothic fiction too: a tyrannical 'hero', ghosts and the supernatural, and an imposing and atmospheric building.
Today, visitors can absorb themselves in the atmosphere of the novel by visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. The more adventurous can venture into the moors and seek out Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse reputed to be the inspiration for Wuthering Heights.
Still on the subject of location, The Times reviews Novel Houses by Christina Hardyment.
Novel Houses is a lively literary gazetteer to great imaginative homes, from Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto to JK Rowling’s Hogwarts. If you like nuggets about niches and gleanings about gables, you’ll love this book, written by Christina Hardyment, audiobook reviewer for this paper. Some houses you may visit with a picnic (the Brontës’ Haworth parsonage in West Yorkshire, Vita Sackville West’s Knole and Sissinghurst in Kent), others are the stuff of homesick dreaming (JRR Tolkien’s Bag End) or of dank and endless nightmare (Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast). (Laura Freeman)
Le Journal de Montréal asks author Fanny Britt all sorts of bookish questions.
Au fil des décennies, y a-t-il eu un auteur qui a compté plus que tout autre ? Je triche : elles sont trois. Charlotte, Emily et Anne Brontë, trois sœurs écrivaines britanniques qui ont vécu durant la première moitié du 19e siècle dans le Yorkshire et qui n’ont pas eu le temps de produire beaucoup de livres pendant leur courte vie (Emily et Anne sont mortes à la fin de la vingtaine, Charlotte à 38 ans). Mais leur détermination farouche à franchir les obstacles mis dans leur chemin en raison de leur sexe et de leur situation familiale les a menées à écrire parmi les livres les plus marquants de la littérature anglaise, parmi lesquels Jane Eyre et Les Hauts de Hurlevent. J’admire leur force, leur intelligence, leur solidarité.[...]
Si on vous demandait de dresser le top 5 de vos romans fétiches, lesquels choisiriez-vous ? Jane Eyre – le grand classique de Charlotte Brontë, où l’intelligence, la débrouillardise et la résilience d’une jeune femme courageuse triomphent du monde injuste de l’Angleterre victorienne. (Karine Vilder) (Translation)
Calgary Herald features JoAnn McCaig's An Honest Woman.
There are references to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. There’s a dinner party scene where one of McCaig’s characters confronts a “really famous, curmudgeonly British writer.” (Eric Volmers)
Elite Daily has include a quote by Emily Brontë on its selection of '17 Non-Cheesy Instagram Captions For Your Engagement Announcement'. Women's pen names are discussed in El Periódico (Spain).

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