Father of the Brontës

Today marks the 158th anniversary of the death of Patrick Brontë. And Keighley News announces a special offer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for Father's Day on June 16th.

Keighley families are being invited to celebrate Father’s Day with the Brontë sisters’ dad.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum is running a special offer on Sunday June 16 as part of the 200th anniversary of Patrick Brontë’s links with Haworth.
Visiting fathers accompanied by their children – young or old – can have a special ticket price of £5.
They will also receive a 10% discount at the shop in the museum, which recreates the rooms inhabited by the Rev Brontë and his novel-writing daughters.
A museum spokesman said: “Father’s Day is a great opportunity to take a glance into what Patrick was like the father and how he encouraged his children.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, the early biographer of Charlotte Brontë, described Patrick as a “wayward eccentric wild father”.
She added: “He thought children should be brought up simply and hardily; so they had nothing but potatoes for dinner; but they never seemed to wish for anything else; they were good little creatures”.
This simple upbringing certainly did not stifle the creativity of his children, in fact experts think it might have been instrumental in their desire to escape into their own imaginations.
Throughout 2019 the Brontë Parsonage Museum is holding events and an exhibition celebrating the life of the Rev Patrick Brontë, 200 years after he was invited to take up the role of Perpetual Curate in Haworth.
The exhibition, Patrick Brontë in sickness and in Health, explains more about the man who, as a church minister, was expected to know how best to advise and help parishioners who couldn’t afford medical treatment.
For the first time Patrick’s medical textbooks, filled with his own notes, are collectively on display, giving a fascinating insight into his determination to help the sick, even as he lost his own family.
Alongside his books are a collection of the Brontë family’s spectacles and a handkerchief, believed to have been used by Anne Brontë and spotted with blood from her infected lungs. (David Knights)

Book Riot has included Jane by Aline McKenna and Ramon K. Perez on a list of '8 Classic Works of Literature as Graphic Novels and Comics'.

Jane By Charlotte Brontë, Aline Mckenna, Illustrated by Ramón K. Pérez
I’m a sucker for anything Jane Eyre, so when I saw this stunning cover art and the description of this adaptation, I was sold. A modern reimagining of the classic novel, Jane is in the world of the elite and secretive New Yorkers. (Cassi Gutman)

The Scotsman reviews The Lark Ascending by Richard King.

It’s also slightly off-key that in a book that advertises itself as being about music and landscape, there is no mention of Bush’s most famous song, Wuthering Heights, which does align itself with Emily Brontë’s novel in which the heaths on which Heathcliff stalks are, to all intents and purposes, a character in their own right. (Stuart Kelly)

The Spectator quotes Emily Brontë in an article about pets.

Emily Brontë nailed the difference between cats and dogs: ‘We cannot stand up under comparison with the dog. He is infinitely too good. But the cat… is extremely like us in disposition.’ (Wynn Wheldon)

tes thinks that, 'English teachers are addicted to useless terminology' and suggests that,

Terminology is form-specific. If we can get students to understand that the terminology tool-kit is specifically constructed to help us explore certain literary forms then we might be able to combat the misplaced discussion of Dickens’ use of caesura or Jane Eyre’s soliloquy. (Dr Kristina Jackets)

The New York Times recommends '10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend', including Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre ballet. Bergamo News (Italy) mentions the Brontës among the literary influences of local writer Matteo Zanini. Elizabeth Gaskell's House Blog has a post on how Charlotte Brontë began writing Jane Eyre in Manchester.