The Brontë-oil spill connection

It seems as if there's a Brontë connection to most things, even the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to The Globe and Mail.

Visitors to the Yorkshire Moors are attracted to the heather-covered fields, gentle green valleys and charming market towns – the backdrop to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. It’s hard to imagine a lovelier spot in England.
The moors are also the unlikely setting for a key effort to help stop the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, where BP’s rogue oil well is into its third leaky month. In the unspoiled countryside just outside Kirkbymoorside, about 40 kilometres north of York, lie a clutch of old industrial sheds, where the famous Slingsby glider aircraft were made. The same sheds now make subsea robots, known as ROVs – remotely operated vehicles – used by oil companies in the Gulf and elsewhere in the deepwater frontiers. (Eric Reguly)

Writer Catherine Gervais says who her favourite author is on Hattiesburg American:

Who is your favorite author? Charlotte Brontë
For new fans, is there any author that you would compare your style to? Perhaps a combination of Charlotte Brontë and Janette Oke. (Mary Lett)

A well-known Brontëites is actress Sonam Kapoor who once again mentions Wuthering Heights in an interview on Masala:

Tell us about your favourite real-life love story and your fave movie love story
Real-life would have to be my mum and dad (Anil and Sunita Kapoor). From the movies, ‘Gone With The Wind’, ‘Wuthering Heights’, and ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. Wait a minute, none of them end very romantically, do they? What movie love story do I like that has a happy ending? There has to be something! (Thinks for a while) I’ve got it! ‘My Fair Lady’! (Nazia Khan)

And finally there might be Brontëites in the making in the Rauhauser family, featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Categories: Brontëites, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights