Grand sweeping gestures

The York Press presents the new exhibition at the Ryedale Folk Museum, Art Happens Here:

Serena Partridge will show work previously exhibited at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. These pieces, created for Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary, include leathers, fabric and threads fashioned into curious accessories, such as map gloves, hand-stitched with minuscule landmarks and a pair of mourning slippers, darned with wispy clouds of human hair. (...)
Art Happens Here is open daily from 10am to 5pm, until Sunday, July 7. It is free to visit the art gallery. (Karen Darley)

Anjelica Huston answers the Proust Questionnaire for Vanity Fair:

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction? Scarlett O'Hara, Lily Bart, Jo March, Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland, Bertie Wooster, and Jane Eyre.

Harper's Bazaar recommends the new collection, Modern Library Torchbearers:

If catching up on the classics is one of your summer to-dos, Random House's Modern Library Torchbearers collection will add some essential checkmarks to your reading list. Filled with women writers who defied convention centuries before the dawn of Instagram activism, this collection highlights must-reads ranging from Charlotte Brontë (no, not Jane Eyre) to Dakota writer and activist Zitkála-Šá, along with contextual commentary from contemporary writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Naomi Alderman (and museum-worthy covers, to boot). (Julie Kosin)

Yorkshire Evening Post talks Ginger Whale Delicatessen, at Cleckheaton:

Their shop sits on Oxford Road, a stone’s throw from historic Red House, which was the childhood home of Ellen Nussey, friend to Charlotte Brontë. Oakwell Hall is just half a mile away and yet it’s close enough to the motorway not to feel too far off the beaten track.

Irish people can't dance, according to Caroline O'Donoghue in The Times:

The Irish, however, will either be in a circle vaguely kicking their legs into the middle, or dancing with their shoulders locked, their elbows glued to their ribs, the panicked expression of a people who are used to singing in public, shagging in private and dancing as little as possible.
The only exception seems to be Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, a song that demands you make grand sweeping gestures with your arms and legs and that nobody can laugh at you about.

Gothic tales in The Australian:

The juxtaposition of decay and youth is a frequent tactic of the gothic (think Wuthering Heights or even the Cure) and Womersley uses it to excellent effect.

Country Life’s guide to England’s 10 breathtaking national parks includes

Yorkshire Dales
USPs: The Three Peaks (Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent) and 40-odd dales, brown long-eared bats, Dales ponies, Pennine Way and Pennine Bridleway, Settle-Carlisle railway, Malham Cove, Aysgarth Falls, Swaledale, Wensleydale cheese, Wuthering Heights. (Kate Green)

TG Verona (Italy) announced a talk that took place yesterday in Verona (Italy):

Boni e la letteratura in palcoscenico
31/05/2019 09:18
Dopo il successo di pubblico delle prime serate, oggi, venerdì 31 maggio alle 21.30, il Teatro Romano di Verona ospita l’attore e regista Alessio Boni con Letteratura in palcoscenico, terzo appuntamento della VI edizione del Festival della Bellezza – i Maestri dello Spirito.Un incontro in scena con personaggi archetipici, nel confronto-scontro con le molteplici fantasie. L’epica ironica di Cervantes, l’epica ossessiva di Conrad, l’epica etica di Tolstoj, l’epica familiare di Brontë, l’epica epica di Omero.
Boni racconta l’interpretazione di grandi personaggi letterari da lui portati in scena tra cinema, teatro e televisione. Con l’intensità e la maestria d’interprete, l’indole innata d’attore e l’innegabile fascino, ci trascina nelle sequenze dei suoi film, tra i meandri della Bellezza e la passione romanzesca de La meglio gioventù. (Translation)

El País (Spain) mentions a biographical fact of the photographer Berenice Abbott:

La niña que nació en una familia con pocos recursos y que ya mostraba su rebeldía devorando en la biblioteca de Springfield (Ohio) las páginas de Jane Eyre, se convirtió en uno de los más grandes fotógrafos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. (Manuel Morales) (Translation)

Expresso (Portugal) is reading Edward W. Said's Culture & Imperialism:

Mesmo quando passa o tempo e concluo não ter ainda conseguido acabar de ler o livro de que aqui falei no meu último Curto, “Cultura & Imperialismo”, de Edward W. Said, que na fase em que vou, ao falar da criação artística no século XIX, e de autores como Jane Austen, Charles Dickens ou as irmãs Brontë diz que "formas culturais como o romance ou a ópera não fizeram com que as pessoas saíssem a conquistar impérios. (...) Mas é autenticamente perturbador comprovar quão pouco se opuseram à aceleração do processo imperialista das grandes instituições inglesas, apesar de todas essas ideias humanistas e esses monumentos que ainda hoje celebramos e aos quais atribuímos o poder ahistórico de exigir a nossa aprovação. Estamos obrigados a perguntar-nos como e porquê este corpo humanista coexistia tão comodamente com o imperialismo, até que surgiu a resistência ao imperialismo nos próprios domínios imperiais (entre os africanos, os asiáticos e os latinoamericanos)" (Valdemar Cruz) (Translation)

Guido Vitiello writes in Internazionale (Italy):

Il tuo compito non è abbandonare i pregiudizi, ma trasformarli in giudizi, acuminarli, affilarli, renderli potenzialmente letali. Ti affido alle cure del Vladimir Nabokov di Intransigenze. Ti sta antipatica Cathy Earnshaw? Benissimo. Il supremo giudice del tuo gusto ha emesso il suo verdetto, ora si tratta di stendere le motivazioni. Se non ne hai voglia, archivia pure il fascicolo e passa oltre. Oppure leggi tutto Cime tempestose tifando apertamente contro Cathy, augurandole ogni sventura. Potresti averne delle belle soddisfazioni. (Translation)

Cadena SER's El Placer de Escuchar (Spain) posts a reading of the first paragraphs of Jane Eyre in Spanish. Bookriot quotes Emily Brontë allegedly celebrating the JOMO way of life.