Express reports that Haworth has been 'named as one of the best staycation spots in the country'.
Famous for its literary connection, one South Pennines village was named as one of the best UK holiday spots by HomeToGo. [...]
The Brontë sisters have made their marks on the region, with their names appearing everywhere in Brontë country.
The village of Haworth’s main attraction is the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
The Brontës lived in this home from 1820 to 1861, and the three sisters wrote some of their most famous novels here, such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. (Sarah Kante)
Book Riot recommends some 'New YA Retellings to Fall Into' including
Within these Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
If Reese and Britney Spears are loving it, chances are it’s a book to pay attention to. This Ethiopian-inspired debut novel is a fantasy reimagining of Jane Eyre, following Andromeda, a debtera. Debteras are exorcists who cleanse the homes of Evil Eyes, and Andromeda has been hired by Magnus Rochester for a job. But…it’s not like any job she’s done before and chances are she herself may not survive what is happening in his household. And yet, Andromeda also knows she can’t leave Magnus to deal with his curse on his own, either. (Kelly Jensen)
El espectador (Colombia) discusses metaphor as a literary technique.
La metáfora permite que Jane Eyre observe en unas fotografías de parajes desolados y tristes de nieve su propia desolación y que Wuthering Heights sea, según Dante Gabriel Rosetti citado por Borges, el Infierno con nombres ingleses. (J. D. Torres Duarte) (Translation)
Indeed, here's how Rossetti described Wuthering Heights in a letter to a friend in 1854:
a fiend of a book, an incredible monster, combining all the stronger female tendencies from Mrs Browning to Mrs Brownrigg. The action is laid in Hell, – only it seems places and people have no English names there.
Finally, this is beautiful:
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