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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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It's Book Week in Scotland and Scottish Field reports that,
As part of this year’s celebrations, the Scottish Book Trust has teamed up with Waterstones to provide exclusive book lists from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and bestselling author Maggie O’Farrell.
Ahead of their sold-out event at Stirling Castle on Thursday, 22 November, the First Minister and Maggie O’Farrell have provided five titles each that feature their favourite rebellious characters. [...]
The First Minister’s recommendations: Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; The Secret History by Donna Tart; She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir; Autumn by Ali Smith.
Maggie O’Farrell’s recommendations: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg; Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns; The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy; The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (Kenny Smith)
Bustle has an article on 'Reading Elizabeth Gaskell In The Age Of #MeToo Made Me Realize How Little Things Have Changed' and describes Mrs Gaskell as
One of the most active and prolific writers of the mid-1800s, she pioneered the social justice novel alongside peers like Charles Dickens. Now, she's more like an overlooked younger sister of better-known contemporaries like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. Her heroines are less quippy than Austen’s and less odd than Bronte’s; her narratives are overtly religious and often moralizing, and they don’t easily translate into the modern adaptations. (Irene Connely)
Gaskell (and Brontë) are not exactly contemporaries of Austen, though.

FE Week interviews Judith Doyle CBE, Principal and CEO at Gateshead College.
Have you got a favourite book of all time? Everybody asks me that. I like Wuthering Heights, because it has very sentimental … connotations. It’s one of those things that as an English student kind of hooked me in. The idea was all very romantic and passionate, that kind of thing. I was of that age. I like Jane Eyre as well. (Cath Murray)
The Guardian features comic duo Lazy Susan:
We pushed the boundaries of our friendship quite early on, getting drunk and dancing to Kate Bush, taking our clothes off and running around to Wuthering Heights. (Chris Wiegand)
A contributor to Mutha Magazine discusses whether to be or not to be a mum:
I have heroes: Annie Dillard, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, Anne LeBastille, Henry David Thoreau, Patti Smith, etc. They were or are writers, naturalists, explorers, psychonauts, priests. I use them as maps for my own life. WWVD (what would Virginia do)? She did not have a child. She, and the others, whether they had children or not, were devotees, saints of art. Saints don’t falter in devotion. And artists are notable for their individuality, and not their human offspring. (Shannon Greene)
The London Economic (and others) has an article on Skipton Building Society celebrating reaching the million-member mark and recalls the fact that,
When it was established in 1853, Charlotte Brontë was the only surviving Brontë sister, and Vincent Van Gogh had just been born. (Jack Peat)
Secret Escapes recommends a stay at Wood Hall Hotel & Spa, which
 is located just outside the quaint market town of Wetherby, in the West Yorkshire countryside – the kind of countryside that probably inspired Emily Brontë to pen Wuthering Heights. 
Oh, in all certainty!

Book Riot has selected '25 of the Best Book Quotes About Falling in Love', including a couple from Wuthering Heights. On The Sisters' Room we meet Haworth local Margaret Hartley, who, among other things, is distantly related to Martha Brown.

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