Bradford has it all!

The Guardian has an obituary on Angela Crow:

In retirement, living in West Yorkshire, she was a keen member of the Brontë Society, gave talks about the Brontë family and wrote the book Miss Branwell’s Companion (2007). (Anthony Hayward)

Also in The Guardian: 'Top 10 mirrored lives in fiction' and one of them is

10. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The mirroring of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in Jean Rhys’s 1966 prequel holds up a mirror to the legacies of slavery, the inequalities within marriage, and the interlocking oppressions of race, class and gender that are lurking in Brontë’s cherished work. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys tells the story of Antoinette Cosway, Mr Rochester’s first wife, Brontë’s “mad woman in the attic”. Beginning in Jamaica and ending in Rochester’s British home Thornfield Hall, the overlapping narrative restores complexity to a character who in Brontë’s world is expelled as the dangerous, sensuous other to Jane Eyre’s pragmatism and restraint. (Alex Hyde)

The Telegraph and Argus has an article on Bradford's UK City of Culture 2025 bid.

Speaking in the House of Commons today, Boris Johnson replied to Bradford West MP Naz Shah's call to back the bid by saying: "I congratulate Bradford on being shortlisted in the way that wonderful city has been." [...]

Ms Shah said: "It would bring immense benefits and kudos to Britain's youngest city.

"We have over 120 languages spoken across Bradford, its unique cultural heritage, diversity.

"And let us not forget the amazing food, the birthplace of David Hockney and the Brontës.

"Bradford has it all! Apart from government support. [...]" (Rowan Newman)

The Spectator reviews Margaret Willes's book In the Shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped London.

The area is historically most associated with Paternoster Row and the genesis of the publishing trade, with all its attendant non-conformity and outbreaks of pornography. Willes gives a diverting account of searing political pamphlets, sexy literary scandals such as Fanny Hill and the first printing of literary sensations such as Lyrical Ballads, with walk-on appearances from Charlotte Brontë and Mary Wollstonecraft. There are also fascinating insights into the pioneers of children’s literature and the intricacies of copyright, all of which arose in the shadow of the churchyard. Many publishing houses, including Cassells and Oxford University Press, were still to be found there right up until the second world war. (Sinclair McKay)

Infobae (in Spanish) recommends Jane Eyre for Aries.