The Yorkshire Post reports about the traditional Auld Lang Syne fell race around Brontë country:
High winds met high spirits on Haworth Moor as the annual Auld Lang Syne fell run got underway on a challenging course New Year’s Eve.
The challenging course sees competitors, often in fancy dress, run a 6.7 mile course from Penistone Hill Country Park up to Top Withins - believed to be the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Victoria Finan)`
I can’t tell you whether Middlemarch is the greatest novel ever written. I’m not even sure you could plausibly declare any one novel “the greatest.” But I think you could make a convincing case that Middlemarch is the novel that best integrates all seven of those layers. Compare Middlemarch to earlier classics from Austen or the Brontës, and the difference is almost immediately apparent. The emotional and familial layers in, say, Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are fully developed. But the geo-political or technological forces that were transforming English society in the first half of the nineteenth century do not propel the narrative in any material way. (Steven Johnson)
Scroll.in teaches you how to fight against brain rot:
Reading has proved to be a time-tested defence against my brain’s weakest impulses. But reading classics becomes a fun challenge while also providing an escape into a world and stories where there is no internet or phones. After reading the Brontë sisters, you get to feel like a (catty) literary snob too. (Divya Aslesha)
Yardbarker lists "iconic books that are a must-read":
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë
If there’s one thing the Brontë sisters could do, it’s writing. Jane Eyre was published just months before Wuthering Heights, making it a great year for the family. Both books have remained lasting favorites among literature fans. (...)
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë
A book considered greatly ahead of its time, Wuthering Heights made major waves when published thanks to its intense themes. Although it was once a banned book, modern readers know that it’s an important piece of literature. (Acacia Deadrick)
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Parade shows the "101 best young adult books of all time":
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
The cursed and blessed Brontë sisters–so talented, so doomed–did it all, at least between them all. Anne died at 29, but produced the feminist classic The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Charlotte Brontë died at 30, but produced the towering masterpiece Wuthering Heights. Charlotte lived to the ripe old age of 38 and is rightly remembered for her classic novel Jane Eyre. Featuring our young heroine, it follows Jane from an abusive childhood to an abusive boarding school to a suffocating job as a governess to a disheartening stint with a cousin and finally well earned happiness. Since it captures a girl’s coming of age and blooming into womanhood, it well deserves a slot in the Best Young Adult Novels of All Time. Like Charles Dickens and other contemporaries, Brontë tells a gripping tale but illuminates social issues and grapples with weighty ideas. And always call it by its full title Jane Eyre: An Autobiography for its greatest accomplishment is the novel’s ground-breaking first person narration. It’s alive with a burgeoning consciousness and events are seen and distorted and enlivened by Jane’s perspective in ways third person narration could never achieve. Certainly Dostoevsky was paying attention. (Michael Glitz)
Wuthering Heights: The Read with Vinette Robinson. January 5, 7.00pm . BBC4's classy The Read series (a sort of Bedtime Stories for adults) continues with actor Vinette Robinson's dramatic reading of Emily Brontë's timeless classic.
Note the date of “Brigadoon” mid-January, and it wasn’t even the first show of the year. The year opened with the Black Swamp Players’ “The Moors,” which I described as “this twisted, darkly humorous tribute to the gothic fiction of the Brontë sisters.” (David Dupont)
The Scotsman reviews an installation by John Akomfrah in Glasgow:
Mimesis: African Soldier . Her film Plantation (1994) uses film footage from her own abdominal surgery (there is a lot of this, and it’s a hard watch if you’re squeamish) to explore, ultimately, the story of Bertha Mason, the “mad woman in the attic” in Jane Eyre, who is implied to have been Jamaican Creole.(Susan Mansfield)
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