A huge role in kickstarting the Yorkshire economy

The Telegraph and Argus quotes from a recent speech by Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive James Mason:

Mason said: "Bradford will play a huge role in kickstarting the Yorkshire economy.
“Tourism is the life blood of much of the county and presently worth £9billion a year.
"In a city like Bradford we have a host of tourist attractions such as the Science and Media Museum, Salts Mill, Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage to name but a few all on our doorstep with the Yorkshire Dales only a matter of miles away.
"West Yorkshire has a huge part to play in the bigger picture of Yorkshire’s tourism economy and we are here to support the city.
"It’s vital that we and our members prepare ourselves to hit the ground running and be ready for the world to enjoy Yorkshire again when we come out the other side of the COVID-19 crisis.
"We chose Bradford as our host city for the Y20, not because I am from there, because Bradford is showing to the rest of the UK how a city can plan together including the university, local authorities and businesses, that a city can be connected." (Mark Stanford)

Many sites are commenting on the Duchess of Cambridge's collection of  Penguin Clothbound Classics in a recent picture of her at her desk. According to Nine,

Kate loves her classic novels
The Duchess is clearly using self-isolation as an opportunity to catch up on her reading.
Bookworms were delighted to spot a selection of novels lined up on Kate's desk, which were quickly identified as Penguin's Clothbound Classics range, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The books retail at $29.99 each.
Examining the spines, one fan determined Kate's collection included such works as Sense and Sensibility, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Mansfield Park, The Odyssey, Shakespeare's Sonnets and Tess of D'Ubervilles.
(Yep, always picked her as a Jane Austen woman.)
While there's more to a book than its cover, the Duchess clearly knows a gorgeously illustrated tome can double as Instagram-worthy decor in its own right. (Kahla Preston)

Grazia also reads into it:

... the books are as follows.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Elliot
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Odyssey by Homer
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
What can we learn about The Duchess from this selection? Well, she clearly enjoys a classic, and clearly has a fondness for literature of the Victorian periods - seven of the twelve books are from the era. Her favourite author may be Jane Austen - three of the twelve are by the author - but, interestingly, there's no sign of Pride & Prejudice, undoubtedly Austen's most famous romance. Genre-wise, it's pretty eclectic: amidst the romances, there are epic adventures (Homer's Odyssey) dark morality tales (Wilde's Dorian Gray) and mysteries (one of the most famous Sherlock Holmes books). In short, it's a wide-ranging catalogue of must-reads, and she's clearly got good taste. (Guy Pewsey)

Writer Patricia Nicol has selected the best books on headmasters for the Daily Mail:

There are plenty of heroic teachers in adult fiction, like Miss Temple in Jane Eyre or the wonderful Mr Chips, but I could think of no heads who set a positive role model.

Spiked recommends 'Literature for the lockdown'.

At the risk of further self-indulgence, I’ll leave you with one more recommendation for this period of national quarantine. In Orwell’s essays he repeatedly borrows GK Chesterton’s concept of the ‘good bad book’. In addition, he identifies a category of ‘perverse and morbid books’ that create a world of their own, into which he deposits Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë and The House with the Green Shutters (1901) by George Douglas Brown. To this I would add Sabine Baring-Gould’s Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes (1880). Comparisons with Wuthering Heights are inevitable and, in the shadow of Brontë’s masterpiece, Mehalah was always likely to be plunged into obscurity. It’s curious to think that the Anglican priest who wrote the famous hymn ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ should have also penned this crazed account of intense sexual obsession. (Andrew Doyle)

Forbes Romania recommends books to read while social distancing, including both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by apparently the same author or the right one depending on which part you read.

În această perioadă în care știrile dramatice ne înconjoară de pretutindeni, cărțile ne pot aduce mai mult decât oricând alinare și ne pot transporta într-o altă lume : lumea aspră și romantică a eroinelor Jane Eyre și Tess d’Urberville sau cea zbuciumată a lui Catherine și Heathcliff. Să nu uităm că multe dintre ele sunt scrise cu mult curaj și finețe de condeie feminine, într-un secol în care destinul unei femei era cel de a fi soție. Toate cele 4 mari scriitoare pe care le veți regăsi în lista noastră și-au trimis inițial la edituri romanele sub un pseudonim masculin, pentru a fi sigure că vor fi luate în serios. Deci iată un motiv în plus să le citim și să le remarcăm sensibilitatea și finețea stilului. [...]
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Romanul care o va face celebră pe Charlotte Brontë va fi publicat sub pseudonimul masculin Currer Bell. Eroina romanului care-i poartă și numele este una dintre cele mai oțelite personaje feminine din literatura universală și nu poți să n-o admiri când refuză dragostea lordului Rochester și părăsește castelul pentru a nu abdica de la principiile sale.
La răscruce de vânturi- Charlotte Bronte [sic]
Va exista vreodată un roman care să descrie cu o dragoste atât de pasională cum este cea din „La răscruce de vânturi”? Forțele care o reunesc pe eroina principală Catherine Earnshaw și pe nemilosul Heathcliff sunt violente și  înrădăcinate într-un devotament total, sădit încă din copilărie. Este imposibil să ne imaginăm acest roman fără dezlănțuirea naturii și violența pasiunii, atât de bine descrise de Emily Brontë. (Translation)

AnneBrontë.org has put together 'Charlotte Brontë’s Guide To Writing A Novel'.