King Lear and Jane Eyre meet on the same blasted heath

On the last day of September 2021, The Independent has an article on 'Autumn, that melancholy season of beauty and loss' which starts with 'Fall, leaves, fall'.

“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; lengthen night and shorten day,” wrote Emily Brontë in her short elegy to autumn. With the russet-red leaves crunching underfoot and the flowers of summer fading fast or already past, the days are certainly shortening, the darkness drawing in. (Roslyn Dee)

The Yorkshire Post is looking forward to one of the highlights of the season: Halloween, but with a Yorkshire twist.

Haunted Haworth

Take a trip through the hometown of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne and discover the scarier side of where they lived.

You will be guided by a local ghostologist and student of folklore, Adam Sargant of Haunted Haworth, who will tell you fascinating stories of terrors and tales of the supernatural.

It has been rated five stars on TripAdvisor with nine reviews. (Liana Jacob)

The Times Travel has a Yorkshire travel guide.

West Yorkshire is renowned for its literary and artistic ties. Trail the Brontës in Haworth at the sisters’ Brontë Parsonage house museum, or head to the Hepworth Wakefield gallery and 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park — two key components of the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle. (Lorna Parkes)

Also in The Times, 'hot' theatre artistic directions:

Bryony Shanahan and Roy Alexander Weise were given the job of running the Manchester Royal Exchange in 2019.

Since then their shows have included Shanahan’s edgy and exciting new production of Wuthering Heights, while Weise — who previously had a success directing Natasha Gordon’s debut play, Nine Night, at the National and in the West End — is reviving Katori Hall’s Martin Luther King play The Mountaintop as part of their first jointly programmed season. (Dominic Maxwell)

The Scotsman features the work of Scottish writer Des Dillon.

Earlier this year, Sparsile Press published Dillon’s remarkable novel Pignut And Nuncle, a brilliant fantasy in which King Lear and Jane Eyre meet on the same blasted heath, where their encounter is witnessed and described by a contemporary west of Scotland Fool (Joyce McMillan)