Keighley News takes up the story of the Blue Plaque that will be installed on Mary Taylor's Red House.
Spen Valley Civic Society applied for the plaque at the Grade II* listed former Red House museum in Gomersal to honour Mary Taylor, a radical feminist and friend of Charlotte Brontë.
Dating back to 1660, the property and grounds are considered an important heritage asset.
They are associated with Luddite activities and the Taylor family, particularly Mary.
And the house is revered by Brontë fans. Charlotte was a regular guest at the property in the 1830s and gave it a starring role as Briarmains in her novel, Shirley.
Red House operated as a museum from 1970, but falling visitor numbers and rising costs led to its closure in 2016.
The building, owned by Kirklees Council, is currently empty.
Erica Amende, from Spen Valley Civic Society, said: "We felt Mary’s achievements had not been recognised. We’ve wanted to put up a plaque to her for some time and are pleased that Kirklees Council is supporting us.
"As a pioneering feminist and champion of women’s rights, Mary challenged restrictions on middle-class women’s lives. Her lifelong friendship with Charlotte Brontë was crucial to Charlotte’s success." (Alistair Shand)
Her lifelong friendship was definitely crucial to Charlotte's personal life, but we are not so sure whether it actually was crucial to her literary success. Mary Taylor led an impressive life anyway.
The Telegraph and Argus disagrees with an online survey saying Bradford is in the top 10 worst places to live in England and goes on to list several reasons why this is simply not the case, including
The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is superb if you want to see fantastic scenery like the beautiful Brontë country. (Rowan Newman)
The movie picks up somewhat in the middle of her story, showing how she was always creative but was often stifled. It shows how her voice was always dismissed, and while common at the time, it seems because she didn’t fit the ideal mold like her sister, she was considered worthless. With a bit of a dark sense of humor, a desire to be loved and treated well – Emily highlights not only her struggles but those of any women of the time period who may not be the perfect daughter or wife.
What’s striking about Emily is the tragedies that continued to haunt the young woman, who just didn’t seem to fit her time period well, and seemed to shape every word into her only known novel. The movie is a bit slow at times and does take its own time weaving its version of Ms. Brontë’s life, but fans of her book or historical dramas won’t have an issue with this as they watch the movie. Instead, the movie focuses on what a tragic and short life she had, and how it cut short the career of a great writer. (Becky)
Tom (Justice Smith) is a sweet, withdrawn owner of a New York City bookstore that has, among its treasures, a first edition of Jane Eyre. When Sandra (Briana Middleton), a doctoral student, enters the store and mentions Jane Eyre as the book that changed her life, she obviously stirs something in Tom and romance ensues. (Andy Klein)
Variety reviews the film
Consecration. There is only Grace (Jena Malone), a British ophthalmologist who arrives to investigate the violent death of her brother, Michael (Steffan Cynnydd). Did he murder Father Carroll in the chapel and then take his own life by plunging off a wuthering-heights cliff? That’s the official story. (Owen Gleiberman)
A Little Bit Human has put together 'An Inclusive List of the Most Sensual Romance Movies You Can Watch This Valentines Day' and one of the films is
Wuthering Heights 2011.
7. Wuthering Heights (2011)
What could be more passionate than the original story about love on the moors? Wuthering Heights is about the all-consuming romance between Catherine and Heathcliff as they go on a war path to pursue their love for each other, much to everybody else’s detriment and ruin. What this film lacks in explicit content, it more than makes up for in the passion between its characters so it still makes the cut for one of the most sensual films you can watch. (Allia Luzong)
My Kolkata (India) explores what love means to the younger generations.
But what about those who are not particularly interested in “the one”, for whom love is more about discovery and less about the destination? The sort who, having read their way from Emily Bronte to Sally Rooney, are no longer interested in bending love to their will.
ShefNews features Kirsty Loehr, the author of
A Short History of Queer Women.
Embarking on a ‘lesbian pilgrimage’ to Yorkshire Miss Loehr visited Halifax, Shibden Hall, The Brontë Parsonage and Hebden Bridge. Despite finding the trip “accessible” and “refreshing” miss Loehr found it difficult to find anything queer in Sheffield.
The governess genre dates back to Jane Eyre and beyond but its most recent incarnation is the tell-all memoir. Blythe Grossberg’s I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent (2021) and A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich by Matt Knott (2022) gave us a delicious insight into what billionaire babies have for breakfast and how their glammed-up mummies spend their days. (Melissa Katsoulis)
Oppure le sorelle Brontë – per cui si intende solitamente il duo Charlotte ed Emily; dopotutto qualcuno ha mai letto
La signora di Wildfell Hall della minore Anne?
(Giulio Silvano) (Translation)
One of
The York Press's '18 exciting ideas to enjoy the perfect Valentine's Day in Yorkshire' is visiting Anne Brontë's grave in Scarborough.
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