A Lovely View

The pros and cons of being a tourist attraction in Examiner Yorkshire: 

The village of Haworth attracts a lot of visitors for its rich history and stunning countryside, but with that comes some problems. (...)

"Out on the wily, windy moors'.

I'll never hear the opening line of Kate Bush's classic song 'Wuthering Heights', a track inspired by the Emily Brontë novel of the same name, the same again after visiting Haworth in between Storms Dudley and Eunice.

The West Yorkshire village is a tourist hot spot where visitors flock due to its close association with the Brontë sisters as well its heritage railway line, plethora of events and stunning moorlands where the weather gets, I can confirm, wily and windy. (...)

She also said that she didn't think there was enough recreational activities for the villages as "most things are around the tourists and it feels like it's got more so that way".

"Some community things for the older generation would be nice", she said.

Of course, despite the frustrations she was still able to find plenty of upsides too.

The woman, who had worked in the Brontë Parsonage Museum for 20 years, said: "It's a lovely village. It's quaint and it's got a lot going for it. There's great places to eat down in the centre and some lovely shops. Though, it can get a little bit out of reach for the locals as it's mostly geared towards the tourists.

"We are lucky because out of the back we have a lovely view. If we didn't have that we would lose the plot." (...)

Jo Cashon has been running The King's Arms for just over a year and said that she has "absolutely loved it".

"It's just nice that they've got so many events on", she said, highlighting the 1940s and 1960s themed days, Steam Punk festival and Christmas weekend.

Jo said: "Everyone gets right in to the spirit and helps with decorating the village. It's great to see."

Add to that the constant stream of literature buffs that visit Haworth and it's no surprise that business is good at the pub, which even features a set of Brontë themed beers and sits just around the corner from the Parsonage where the sisters wrote their famous novels. (Charles Gray)

The Sunday Times recommends Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre as one of the best shows in town:

Emma Rice’s production of Emily Brontë’s novel has all this director’s trademark feyness and humanity. She and an energetic cast manage to untangle the book’s sometimes chewy tale about bleakness on the windswept Yorkshire moors. (Quentin Letts)

The Jerusalem Post describes the city of Kars, Turkey, like this:

Urban Kars is dominated by Kars castle built from the local basalt on a precipice akin to Edinburgh Castle. A river curves its way around the base of the castle hill. Half frozen with steep icy banks and abutted by historic buildings with snow-covered roofs and smoking chimneys, it could easily be the setting for a novel by Dickens or one of the Brontës – but this is Pushkin country. Much of the old town is 150-year-old Russian. (David Zev Harris and Mark Gordon)

Herstory interviews romance writer Shravya Bhinder:

Rekha Balakrishnan: Who are your favourite authors?
SB: I admire the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Agatha Christie, Margret Atwood, and Alice Walker. I also love books by Sophie Kinsella, Nicholas Spark, and many more. The list is endless.

De Standaard (Belgium) interviews the artist Peter De Koninck:

Johan Jacobs: Kent u een gedicht uit het hoofd?

PdK: ‘Spellbound’, een gedicht van Emily Brontë over onstuitbaar verlangen. (Translation)

Il Manifesto (Italy) quotes D.H. Lawrence mentioning Jane Eyre:

«Boccaccio quando è più scandaloso [at his hottest] mi sembra meno pornografico di Pamela o Clarissa Harlowe o anche Jane Eyre o un manipolo di altri libri e film che passano indenni il vaglio della censura», scriveva D. H. Lawrence per difendersi dall’accusa di oscenità rivolta tanto al suo romanzo, L’amante di lady Chatterley, quanto ai suoi dipinti, appena esposti a Londra. (Stefano Jossa) (Translation)

Zenda (Spain) reviews La Figlia Oscura by Elena Ferrante:

La playa aquí, como las Cumbres Borrascosas de Brontë o la isla y los demonios de [Carmen] Laforet, es un inquietante personaje más. (Raquel Bada) (Translation)

La Repubblica (Italy) asks several writers about the novel that better describes passion and being in love. The critic and artistic director Steve Della Casa says:

Confesso una passione insana per " Cime tempestose" di Emliy Bronte. Il perché è semplice: è uno dei primi film che ricordo in assoluto della mia infanzia. Mi aveva molto colpito da bambino. In particolare ero stato attratto dalla signora Merle Oberon e dalla fotografa Gregg Toland. L'ho amato a tal punto da rivederlo per ben tre volte in un giorno solo. Avevo appena sei anni allroa e probabilmente non avevo capito molto, ma ero stato rapito, per così dire, da quelle immagini in bianco e nero. La frase che ho scelto, è questa: "La violenza e il tradimento sono a doppio taglio, e feriscono di più chi le usa". Allroa ho letto "Cime tempestose" quando ero più grande a quella citazione mi è tornata in mente. Da adulto, forse, ne ho ho compreso qualcosa in più. (Francesca Bolino) (Translation)

Periódico Correo (México) announces the death of the actor Xavier Marc, who was part of the cast of TV series Cumbres Borrascosas 1964.

Finally, a poem by Veronica Ashenhurst entitled Bulwark: To Jane Eyre is published on Literary Yard and AnneBronte.org has decided to join the Wordle frenzy with a Brontë version: Brontëdle.