The Brontë Parsonage is a must-visit and will help you learn more about the sisters’ lives through immersive exhibitions.If you are up for a walk, the Brontë waterfall and bridge that was often visited by the sisters is a 45-minute walk away.To explore more of the surrounding area, you can get a Day Rover ticket for the heritage steam train that runs along the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.For food, you might want to stop at Cobbles and Clay for either some breakfast or a hearty sandwich for lunch.The café also serves a range of hot and cold drinks alongside plenty of homemade cakes to choose from.If you are looking for somewhere to treat yourself, you could try the Hawthorn restaurant that offers seasonal dishes created using local ingredients. (Amy Britton)
Different eras posed different challenges. For instance, trying to represent the whole of 20th-century literature by means of 10 books felt like trying, in Emily Brontë’s words, to plant an oak tree in a flower pot (...) [The quote is from Chapter XIV and goes like this:He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!]Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The first reviewers were horrified – “How a human being could have attempted such a book… without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery,” declared one American critic – and poor Emily Brontë died at 30 within a year of publication, not knowing her only novel would come to be seen as the masterwork of Victorian fiction.What raises Wuthering Heights above other love stories, including Emily’s sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, is the way it conveys passion as a physical force, as irresistible as gravity and potentially as dangerous. Adaptations never do the book justice, because capturing the elemental essence of “imp of Satan” Heathcliff and his lover/possible half-sister Cathy is trickier than taming tigers. (Jake Kerridge)
[FR] Leavis was correct that Gwendolen is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature, more tragic and impulsive than Elizabeth Bennet, more dashing and winsome than Jane Eyre. And he was also right that the book’s Jewish chapters can be mawkish in places. But what he missed was how insightful they are. (Josh Glancy)
The play takes a few liberties with the historical Brontë sisters — Emily, Charlotte and Anne — who were never simultaneously at the Roe Head School for Girls. But that matters little for the purposes of the charming ghost story that Zolidis has created. Emily (Taylor Curtis) seeks to understand why her mother died young and spins a series of tales aimed at relieving her sense of loss. (For Brontë enthusiasts, there will be the added poignancy of knowing that Emily herself would live only to age 30.)At the final dress rehearsal seen by The News-Gazette, director Emily Ritter’s production appeared to need more rehearsal time given the challenges faced in performance. Although the playwright estimates a 90-minute performance, the Twin City production adds 45 minutes to that. In comedy, less can often be more, and the trick is to know when to simplify. (Jeffrey Eric Jenkins)
Maybe my surroundings influenced me a little? After all, there are the Brontë ladies, and The Railway Children – that part of Yorkshire is steeped in literature, and there’s a lot of creativity around. (Phil Penfold)
2. Kate Bush - Wuthering HeightsOne of the most famous literary-influenced pop songs, young Kate’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s dark romance from 1847 made the UK Number One spot in 1978. Kate chose the song because she realised that she shared a birthday with the writer: 30 July.
Saltmoore’s greatest strength, though, is how deeply rooted it feels in Yorkshire. Rather than shutting the landscape out, it welcomes it in full force. The dramatic coastline is only moments away, while the moors, wild, untamed and romantic, provide a backdrop that changes. It’s no surprise these are the landscapes that not only inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights but also welcomed a new generation of visitors when Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi brought the story back to the big screen earlier this year. If you want to explore further and find out more, you can drive around to see the filming locations, but you might need some welly boots for rambles across the heathers. (Soraya Gaied Chortane)
13. "I loved listening to Thandiwe Newton reading Jane Eyre even more than I loved reading it myself, and it was already one of my favorite books."
Weeks after the 2025 release of the remastered version of Buckingham Nicks, Nicks appeared on the music podcast Song Exploder to discuss the concept of the album’s hit track “Frozen Love.”The song is about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this relationship that seemed to be like a gift,” Nicks said.“I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations — a modern day love affair, tragedies,” she added. “Because nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey. (Inga Parkel)
BBC Four reairs tonight (21:40 h GMT) The Brontës Live Here: Writer's Houses with Margaret Drabble visiting the Parsonage in 1973. The influencer and writer Carolina Müller recommends Wuthering Heights in Alternativo (México). The Sunday Guardian (India) lists ficional character with powerful life lessons, including Jane Eyre.
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