Rather Unhinged

The Times, The Standard, and The Herald report a charity auction taking place at the Shelter Scotland shop in Stockbridge:

Shoppers have flocked to a charity shop for its annual January extravaganza where items on sale included a collectable Barbie doll by the fashion designer Bob Mackie and an antique edition of Wuthering Heights.

The Shelter Scotland shop in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, gathers donations over the previous year to create the event in the new year, in a tradition that dates back 23 years. (...)

Among the items on sale were  (...) [a] “new edition” of Wuthering Heights dating from 1858 — just over ten years after Emily Brontë’s novel was published under the pen name Ellis Bell — was for sale for £150. (Sarah Ward & Carla Jenkins)  

The Guardian has a list of readers' favourite learning holidays:

Write where the Brontë sisters were inspired, West Yorkshire

I can’t think of a better place to attend a creative writing course than Arvon Lumb Bank near Hebden Bridge. If the course is not an inspiration, the setting certainly is. It’s the former home of poet Ted Hughes, and his wife, Sylvia Plath, is buried across the valley in the churchyard at Heptonstall. Walk across the moors at the top of the valley and you will reach Top Withens, the farmhouse (now ruined) which inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Dropping down from there, you reach Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage. Lumb Bank reopens in 2025 after a refurbishment, so go and be inspired to write your own great poem or novel. (Chris Allen)

Also in The Guardian, an interview with the writer Ferdia Lennon:

The book I came back to

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I was 16 and perplexed. It’s one of those novels so famous you think you know it before you’ve read it. I’d anticipated an archetypal romance between Heathcliff and Cathy, whereas, in fact, it turned out to be a rather unhinged story about disturbed and traumatised characters, with a truly inventive narrative structure. When I later came back to the novel and took it on its own terms, I loved it. 

On The Atlantic, a list of Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise:

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was the first adult classic I tried to read. At 12, I loved its righteous protagonist, but the context of 19th-century Britain, powered by plunder from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, went over my head. Later, I learned to see the role that empire plays in the narrative: The madwoman haunting Jane and her beloved, Mr. Rochester, his Creole first wife, Bertha Mason, is shut up in the attic and compared to an animal. Cast aside in the original novel, she animates Rhys’s 1966 response: In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery. Rhys was British but born and raised in colonial Dominica, and she used her knowledge of the Caribbean and its dynamics to fill in the details of her main character’s life, defined by tensions between the planter class to which Antoinette belongs and their formerly enslaved neighbors. The prose jumps among narrators and flows dreamily from one moment to another, detailing how Mr. Rochester uses Antoinette’s Creole heritage and her family history of mental illness against her. Rhys’s project deals with Jane Eyre specifically, but her intervention asks us  to consider other great literature in its historical and political context as well. (Compiled by Ilana Masad)

Country Living ranks the best UK holiday destinations:

 4. Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales offer spectacular rural scenery where you can truly soak up the beauty of England in the north of the country. This is a land of rolling hills, scenic rail journeys, quaint market towns and bracing walks. Travelling by heritage railway is one of the best ways to explore the gorgeous Dales, and the Pennine Bridleway offers fabulous routes for taking in the scenery by foot.

Walking is an excellent way to take in the Yorkshire Dales’ breathtaking views and charming villages. You’ll also want to hop aboard the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, and steam through the landscapes that inspired the Brontë sisters. (Roshina Jowaheer & Jo Blyth)

HJCK selects "essential" books for 2025:

"Cumbres Borrascosas", de Emily Brontë

Esta novela gótica de 1847 sigue siendo una de las más audaces exploraciones de la pasión, la venganza y el amor destructivo. Emily Brontë construye un universo oscuro y tempestuoso en los márgenes de los inhóspitos paramos de Yorkshire. La historia de Heathcliff y Catherine desafía las normas victorianas y escarba en las sombras más profundas del alma humana.

Brontë, quien vivió una vida aislada junto a sus hermanas en Haworth, publicó esta novela bajo el seudónimo masculino de Ellis Bell. Cumbres Borrascosas es su única obra, pero su intensidad emocional y estructura narrativa no lineal siguen siendo estudiadas como un hito del romanticismo tardío y la novela psicológica. (Translation)

Zee News posts Emily Brontë quotes that "will stir your soul". The Brontë Sisters publishes a video about Patrick Borntë's eye surgery in Manchester.