Have a go at singing Wuthering Heights on the moors

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The Sunday Daily Express has an article on the moors around Brontë Country.

Then cresting my final hill, I reached the remote, abandoned farm Top Withens, believed to be Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the setting of Wuthering Heights.
Some years later the novel inspired Kate Bush to pen the song of the same name. I am sure I won’t be the last to be inspired to have a go at singing it.
Even the wind, my steady companion for the weekend, beat a hasty retreat, thankfully sweeping my caterwauling away with it before I scared too many of the resident sheep.
I ended my walk following the Brontë Trail down into Haworth, the birthplace [sic!!] of the world-renowned Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne and where they wrote their classic novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.
I couldn’t resist a Brontë tour with guide Johnny, who brought their lives and eventual tragedy to life around the buildings and gardens that inspired them as much as the wild moors.
The Brontë Parsonage is now a fascinating museum documenting their life and novels. Costumes from last-year’s big screen adaptation of Jane Eyre are displayed throughout.
Haworth is a charming village. The cobblestoned main street has an abundance of gift shops, delis and tea-rooms ideal for resting tired feet while you tuck into a plate of scones with jam and cream and a big restorative pot of tea. (Claire Hewitt)

The new US trailer for Wuthering Heights 2011 is still being talked about. See for instance Screen Invasion. And the Atlanta Blackstar looks at the film Belle (still in pre-production):

Like Andrea Arnold’s upcoming “Wuthering Heights,” in which black actors play the young and grownup Heathcliffe (sic), “Belle” will bring some urgent racial consciousness to the WASPy world of the British heritage drama. (Stan)

The Boston Globe reviews the screen adaptation of The Crimson Petal and the White.

If you’ve read Dickens, the Brontës, or Trollope you know there are things they didn’t mention overtly in their novels. Things such as — shhh! — sexuality and prostitution. The social and romantic ills they took on — especially Dickens — were explicitly cruel; but the kisses they mentioned were passionless, polite, and rare, and the sex trade only existed between the lines. Nancy in “Oliver Twist”? She really would do anything, and I’m not talking crochet. (Matthew Gilbert)

The novel is reviewed by Prettybooks and Femguide. Read, Write, Be is currently reading it. Tasha's Books writes in French about the 2006 BBC adaptation. Audrey_e gives a 4.5 out of 5 to Wide Sargasso Sea.