Alive with the Morning Sun

Lucasta Miller presents her new book L.E.L.: The Lost life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’ in The New York Times:

We tend to think of women poets of the 19th century as unworldly creatures: Emily Dickinson, all in white, running away at the sight of strangers, or the equally reclusive Emily Brontë, writing out her poems in microscopic handwriting in tiny private notebooks. Neither wrote poetry for money or even with an eye to publication. As Brontë put it, “Riches I hold in light esteem / And love I laugh to scorn, / And lust of fame was but a dream / That vanished ere the morn.” (...)
Landon’s death was followed by the general retreat by women writers from the public eye. Many chose to live in personal retirement and publish under male pseudonyms such as Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë) and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).

The Telegraph & Argus interviews the photographer and writer, Mark Davis:

Tell us about your favourite pictures
Top Withen's [sic] - Haworth Moor
This image was taken at four am on a glorious May Morning in 2016. The two hour hike across the misty moor at pre dawn to get there was a small price to pay to see this wonderful scene come alive with the morning sun. Top Withen's is believed to be the inspirational model for Emily Brontë's classic love story, Wuthering Heights. This image features in my book 'The Brontë's Through Time.' (Claire Earley)

Two updates on upcoming graphic novels about the Brontës. Kirkus Reviews posts about Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes:

This graphic biography presents Charlotte Brontë and her family as they persist through abundant struggles.
Readers see Charlotte grow from a cynical child in a family of six to an adult writer searching for a publisher. In telling her story, Fawkes includes lighthearted moments, like the reading posture necessitated by her nearsightedness or the dramatic fantasy world she and her siblings collectively imagined over the years. These temper the predominant, unavoidable melancholy over things such as the deaths of her two older siblings and the indentured drudgery of time as a teacher. Most successfully, Fawkes communicates the threat of poverty should Charlotte and her sisters be unable to secure financial independence, with few options available for Victorian women. Fawkes deftly weaves narration from Charlotte’s writings into appropriate biographical scenes. Despite setting notations, scene changes are sometimes jarring, and the ending is especially abrupt, cutting off at the moment of Charlotte’s success, as the title suggests. Fawkes’ illustrations appear as black-and-white, shaded pencil drawings in a style that cartoonist Alison Bechdel aptly describes in the introduction as “crisp and engaging.” A postscript by Fawkes explains her artistic and textual choices and personal “love” for Charlotte’s “persistence” and “imagination.” Sources for much of the narration and selected bibliography close.
A biography that goes beyond static history, inspiring respect for Charlotte and encouraging writers and artists to defend their work through adversity.

And Isabelle Greenberg posts on Instagram:

Hurrah! I have finally finished my graphic novel Glass Town. Here’s the three sisters themselves.

Daily Trust (Nigeria) recommends some books for this June:

Lauren Acampora, ‘The Paper Wasp’
Abby and Elise are girlhood best friends in Michigan (“like the Brontë sisters, we’d created our own womb of imagination”).

Travel & Tourism News Middle East quotes Peter Dodd, Welcome to Yorkshire commercial director, at the recent ExploreGB event that took place in Harrogate:

“We have a wealth of arts and culture including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, home to pieces by Damien Hirst and Henry Moore and other internationally renowned dance and theatre production companies, including the Northern Ballet Phoenix Dance. Famous museums include York's National Railway Museum, the National Science and Media Museum, and for those for a knack for literary history, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth and more.” (Rashi Sen)

The Daily Mail reviews the TV Series Summer of Rockets:

He sounds awful on paper, does Mr Petrukhin, but the fact is I love him. He is just so wonderfully endearing and touching somehow. He is beautifully written, and beautifully performed by Stephens who, you may remember, made the best Mr Rochester ever. (In that adaptation of Jane Eyre co-starring Ruth Wilson – ‘Jane, Jane, where are yoooouuuuuu?’) (Deborah Ross)

Livemint (India) describes a trip around England and Wales:

From Keighley in Bradford, the Worth Valley steam engine sweeps through the glorious stretches of purple heather that are the Yorkshire moors, to take you to the postcard-pretty village of Haworth. You will find graceful antiquarian bookshops, charming tea rooms, and colourful confectioners in Howarth (sic) . As well as the Brontës, of course—all the lore, and the locations in which their lives and stories played out with such intensity. (Shreya Sen-Handley)

Maybe you have read that Shakespeare could have been a woman. The Imaginative Conservative has its own theory about it:

Additional evidence that Miss Austen’s novels were written by Coleridge can be found in the way in which his example was followed by others. Emily Brontë, for example, was probably inspired by Coleridge when she decided to disguise herself as a man named Ellis Bell when publishing her own novel, Wuthering Heights. Unfortunately, Miss Brontë was exposed or outed when it became clear that she could not depict men sympathetically or realistically. In Chesterton’s words, “Heathcliff fails as a man as catastrophically as he succeeds as a demon.” In making “the other sex a monster,” as Chesterton further remarked, Ellis Bell proved himself to be a woman.
In conclusion, let’s reiterate the facts. Shakespeare is a woman pretending to be a man; Jane Austen is a man pretending to be a woman; and Emily Brontë is a woman pretending to be a man who is outed as a woman. Such is the mad trajectory on which the Winklerist school of literary revisionism takes us. In the midst of such madness, might I suggest that we stop distinguishing in this sexist manner between men and women and settle for the much simpler solution of declaring all writers to be intrinsically transsexual? (Joseph Pearce)

LOL.

Deccan Herald (India) interviews the poet, novelist and essayist Tishani Doshi:

Chethana Dinesh: Your favourite book...
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

Todo Literatura (Spain) describes an ongoing event at the recent Feria del Libro de Madrid:

Uno de los momentos más esperados de la cita ha llegado al mediodía con la celebración de una Gymkhana Literaria en la que los participantes han tenido que recorrer el parque para encontrarse con algunos autores clásicos como Francisco de Quevedo, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Benito Pérez Galdós, H.P. Lovecraft, Emily Brontë, Virgina Woolf, Julio Verne y George Sand. Estos han sido transportados hasta la actualidad para intentar acabar con sus obras. Bajo la premisa de ayudarles a recordar lo que han olvidado, los distintos grupos han tenido que superar diversas pruebas para conseguir que su legado literario permanezca. (Translation)

Jane Eyre's Library presents a Jane Eyre edition in Greek.