Things you never knew about Emily Brontë

Let's begin with some Yorkshire items. First of all, Keighley News celebrates the launch of Screen Yorkshire's new film office.

Filming in Keighley district for major movie and small-screen productions is set to receive a massive boost.
The town and its surrounding areas is already something of a magnet for crews, which have shot everything from timeless family classic The Railway Children to gritty BBC drama Peaky Blinders.
The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Dalton Mills, the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth and historic East Riddlesden Hall are among locations regularly used for filming.
Now even more credits could roll for the area as Screen Yorkshire expands its support of the industry. (Alistair Shand)

Art Fund recommends a trip to Oakwell Hall.

Charlotte Brontë was so inspired by Oakwell Hall that she featured it as Fieldhead in her classic novel Shirley. The glorious period gardens have been painstakingly restored and are well worth a visit, along with over 100 acres of Green Flag award-winning country park which includes a visitor centre, gift shop, café, nature trail, picnic sites, play area and countryside centre.

Lancashire Evening Post's weekend walk suggestion if the Brontë Way.

Two hundred years ago a remarkable family came into being – the Brontë sisters: Charlotte (born 1816), Emily (born 1818) and Anne (born 1820). Though their lives were brief their legacy in the world of literature is enormous – their novels have never been out of print. To commemorate that legacy here is a walk that follows the Brontë way from Lancashire into Yorkshire. (Bob Clare)

The Westmoreland Gazette recommends another walk:

Visit Yordas Cave, which is uphill on the left. This former Victorian show cave is reputedly the lair of an infant-devouring Norse giant and may have provided inspiration for the Fairy Cave in Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Adrian Mullen)

As far as we can recall, there was a fairy cave in Wuthering Heights, not Jane Eyre.

Paranormal Daily News is - as you would expect - full of inaccuracies and openly mistaken facts when enlightening readers about 'the Christmas ghost of Emily Brontë'.

The Christmas Ghost Of Emily Brontë
The haunting manifestation of Emily Brontë is reported to recurrently appear in the grounds of her famous, bleak Yorkshire abode. Emily was raised by a grim and brooding father [!] and lived a lonely, dreamy life [!]. Her novels [sic] shocked Victorian Society and many don’t know that she was actually three months pregnant when she died [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]. Sadly from excess vomiting she finally refused to move from the sofa in the dining room of The Parsonage where she eventually died.
Her sister Anne and their brother Branwell also died within a few months of each other. The ghost of Emily has her head bowed, as if in deep thought and meditation. She suddenly vanishes if anyone comes too close. The apparition may appear several days either side of the 19th December. (Amanda Jolliffe)

No wonder the ghost looks as if 'in deep thought and meditation', she must be wondering why she died her sister Charlotte's death and not her own.

Evening Standard interviews playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Which playwrights have influenced you the most? In my formative years, theatre wasn't hugely in my psyche - TV and cinema and books were my primary influence. Pennies From Heaven, Betty Blue, the Brontës: these blew me away. The first playwright who fascinated me and still does was Samuel Beckett. (Jessie Thompson)

Broadway World Pennsylvania interviews actress/director Jennie Eisenhower.

PB: What have you two not played that you'd like to play? Or...what's on your radar for the future?
JE: I love the crazy divas and the intense leading ladies and am dying to tackle some more of those including Lady of the Lake (Spamalot), Little Edie (Grey Gardens), Diana (Next To Normal), and Mary (Merrily We Roll Along). I'm also very eager to direct the musical Jane Eyre - a favorite of mine. (Pati Buehler)

Flaunt has spoken to actor Callum Turner.

He contends that his ten days on set, with Jeff Bridges for 2017’s The Only Living Boy in New York were far more valuable to him than any acting course could ever be. “I’m hungry for information. Whether that’s reading Jane Eyre or a book on spirituality or space. I’m just hungry for as much culture as possible. Acting allows that to happen quickly,” he tells me. This desire for knowledge may not have flourished during his time in school, but on set it is at its peak. (Tori Adams)

Phys.org interviews Melissa C. Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Focused Inquiry in Virginia Commonwealth University's University College, who has just published the paper "Wands or Quills? Lessons in Pedagogy from Harry Potter".

How true to life do you think Rowling's depiction of the classroom dynamic is? What did she get right and wrong? Rowling's depiction of the classroom dynamic is exaggerated, but is likely based on her own educational experience in English schools in the 1970s and British literary depictions of boarding schools such as that in "Jane Eyre." (Tom Gresham)

According to Tone Deaf,

There is only one thing in this world better than the song ‘Wuthering Heights’, and that’s other people trying to sing ‘Wuthering Heights’. Watch as host Julia Zemiro glides through a rendition of the 1978 classic with such bravado it would send Kate Bush herself into hiding. (Geordie Gray)

On YouTube, Lucy Powrie discusses 'Women and the Brontës'.