Post on Christmas morning

The York Press reviews the recent concert of The Unthanks in Leeds presenting their Emily Brontë song cycle:

There had been a low-key warm-up in Northumberland, but Leeds was the apogee of the project, marking not only the "one-off" debut of The Unthanks Sing Emily Brontë but also Becky Unthank's first show proper since having a baby.
Quietly spoken sister Rachel admitted to feeling nervous, but was quickly put at ease by deadpan McNally quipping: "It's safer in here than outside," in reference to Black Eye Friday kicking off on the Leeds streets.
McNally had written tunes at Emily's piano over one long night at The Parsonage, and a piano would be the sole accompaniment to the songs that now feature on Part Three of The Unthanks trilogy of Lines recordings.
Rachel and Becky sometimes sang together , sometimes separately, switching the lead voice in the shared songs to suit poems rooted in death, female frustrations and the Yorkshire landscape. As ever, their harmonies were a thing of wonder, despite the absence of light and shade, and one selection each from their Lines projects rooted in the First World War and Hull fishing industry revolutionary Lillian Bilocca provided contrast. A singalong a cappella rendition of a New Year ballad written by the sisters' father provided a festive finale. (Charles Hutchinson)

A funny thing happened in the Daily Mail on the way to Christmas:

Using the hashtag #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, social media users have shown off the sofa beds and cramped studies they have been relegated to this festive season.
Clinton Davey looked like he was staying in the red room from Jane Eyre at his father's house for Christmas. The spare room is apparently Mexican themed and comes with a sombrero. (Diane Apen-Sadler)

SheKnows likes the Jane Eyre 2006 TV adaptation:

BBC’s 2006 adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is perhaps the least creepy of them all, and trust us, there are many. With Ruth Wilson as Jane and Toby Stephens as Rochester, this four-episode miniseries crafts a love story that, while vastly different from the book, is actually quite lovely. (Samantha Puc)

Literary characters in a Christmas morning in The Boar:

Catherine Earnshaw, the vivacious protagonist of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, would spend Christmas day surrounded by anyone who survived the novel. From her tribulations and indecisiveness in the text, we know that Cathy has a natural tendency towards being egotistical. This inherent selfishness would lead her to opening her own presents first, possibly without even waiting for anyone else to wake up, but she would enjoy buying Christmas gifts for her daughter (had she survived, of course). (Katie Stokes)

Northern Soul's best reads of 2018 include Ill Will by Michael Stewart:

Heathcliff. He was a devil wasn’t he? That’s as may be but he regularly tops lists as the world’s favourite literary character. Not bad for a psycho hell-bent on revenge. But what happened to the stable boy who left Wuthering Heights on that fateful rainy night and returned as a rich and suave man of the world? the last romeo. Ill Will by Bradford-based author Michael Stewart takes on the story, and it’s an adventure tour de force giving us new insight into the tortured soul of Heathcliff. Stewart has imbued new layers in a 200-year-old character which may change the way you read the Brontë classic for ever. (Helen Nugent)

The Christian Science Monitor reviews Sue Townsend's On Christmas. A Seasonal Anthology:

At any rate, I found myself nodding in solidarity as Townsend recalled finding a trove of treasured volumes under the tree, craving a little solitude to savor them all. “I would always be given lots of books from the Woolworths Classic book collection,” she writes. “It was in those books that I first read 'Little Women,' 'Kidnapped,' 'What Katie Did,' 'Tom Sawyer,' 'Jane Eyre,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,' etc.” (Danny Hetiman)

La Tribuna de Valladolid (Spain) reviews the performances of the Spanish tour of Jane Eyre:

Me encanta Ariadna Gil. La manera que tiene de encarnar su personaje, de adherirse al aliento de Jane Eyre, de ocupar todos los espacios, todo lo hace bien; le sienta muy bien meterse en la piel de Jane Eyre. Su espontaneidad, su belleza es producto del trabajo, de horas y horas de ensayo. Y es este el resultado. Un resultado brillantísimo. (Translation)

Qué Leer (Spain) interviews the author Isaac Rosa:

Mis autores favoritos en prosa.
Virginia Woolf, Emily Brontë, Max Aub. (Translation)

Il Messagero (Italy) publishes the obituary of the professor Roberto Mertinetti (1955-2018). He was the author in 1982 of the book  Le rovine circolari: S.T. Coleridge, E. Brontë, H. James : immagini dell'artista nel XIX secolo. Whatson (Switzerland) has a quiz with a Brontë question. The Rush Log posts a Wuthering Heights 1992 photo gallery.