Great British Life recommends a 'Peak District walk: Hathersage, Stanage Edge and North Lees Hall'.
In 1845 Charlotte Brontë arrived in Hathersage from Haworth in Yorkshire, an arduous 50-mile journey by coach through the Pennines.
From the coaching inn of The George, she made the rest of the way on foot to her friend, Ellen Nussey, who lived at the vicarage next to the Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels.
The Pennines, whether in Yorkshire or Derbyshire, were a great source of inspiration for Charlotte’s Gothic stories.
It’s safe to say, Jane Eyre, set in an around Hathersage, is Charlotte’s most popular romantic novel. While in Hathersage, the idea for her book was born – the name lifted from prominent local family, the Eyres.
This is a walk that takes in the church, a rock-strewn Stanage Edge and the tower house of North Lees Hall, where a branch of the Eyre family once resided.
Its Gothic splendour, set beneath the moors was in Charlotte’s vivid imagination, the perfect location for Mr Rochester’s trials and tribulations at Thornfield Hall. (Helen Moat)
Stuff (New Zealand) lists several reasons 'Why you should consider visiting Europe in winter' including
Hike the Yorkshire Dales
Walk the wild moors, including the Brontë Way. This circular walk starts at the Bronte sisters’ Parsonage Museum in Haworth, then heads to the Brontë Waterfall and on up to the ruined farmhouse at Top Withens. Breathtaking winter views over the moors and you can even stop for a whisky at the Wuthering Heights Inn at Stanbury. (Michael Lamb)
She let slip small quotes from books and confessed a love for Jane Eyre. And when Tom showed her a signed first edition of Charlotte Brontë’s classic, she almost swooned into his arms then and there. (Paul Asay)
The Irish Times features the TV programme
Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer.
We learn that Gregory was born into a baroque Anglo-Irish family in Roxborough. All the cliches are ticked off: they lived in a big house, her father was a dreadful landlord, she was eventually married off to an aristocrat 35 years her senior. It’s all a bit Wuthering Heights: Galway Edition. (Ed Power)
El País (Spain) quotes write Rosa Montero describing one of her books.
El peligro de estar cuerda es un relato sobre la relación de la creatividad y la locura. Tiene tintes autobiográficos y está plagado de historias sobre genios de la escritura y el arte: desde Jane Austen a Emmanuel Carrère, de Van Gogh a Silvia Plath, de las hermanas Brontë a Bukowski. Es también una interesante mezcla de estilos. Según la autora, “es un ensayo poco convencional, una autobiografía muy poco fiable, una biografía poco ortodoxa y un espolvoreo de ficción”. (Noelia Núñez) (Translation)
Sussex Express reports that copies of
Wuthering Heights are among the '5,000 books missing from libraries in East Sussex'.
Residents are being asked to look for any unreturned library books. From February 13 - March 31 if you return an overdue book you won’t be fined.
Missing books include Moby-Dick, Wuthering Heights, and War Horse. (India Wentworth)
There’s little detectable Blumenthalian influence at Fallow, save perhaps for a general dark and brooding muscularity. I’ve been trying to find a way of describing the prevailing aesthetic. This is not the England of Cecil Beaton and tea parties on the lawn, it’s Heathcliff and Gabriel Oak, oiled and wrestling in a gale. It’s the type of “British” where a dark, clubby luxury meets polite Goth, strained through the sexy-interesting bits of medieval. Without the buboes. (Tim Hayward)
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