Oasis-Brontë vs Blur-Austen... or vice versa?

The latest episode of The History Chicks podcast is devoted to Charlotte Brontë:

After a life of starts and stalls trying to find a way to support themselves, Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne finally hit on the career that paired their lives of heartbreak, horrors, love, and challenges with their vivid imaginations (and a heavy dose of Lord Byron.)
We focus on Charlotte in this episode, but we couldn’t tell her story without a heavy assist by her sisters.

Matt Haig in The Guardian:

The book I’m most ashamed not to have read
I am never ashamed not to have read a novel. Reading isn’t a duty. I have never read a single Jane Austen novel all the way through though. I don’t really “get” Austen the way I get, say, the Brontës. I suppose it’s like Oasis versus Blur. Also War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I am waiting for a free year to come up.

Keighley News Memory Lane reminisces about the time when the Parsonage was gifted to the Brontë Society:

The parsonage in Haworth opened its doors as the Brontë Parsonage Museum on August 4, 1928.
The house was built in the 1770s as a place of residence for the minister at the adjacent St Michael and All Angels Church.
It was occupied by the Brontë family from 1820 to 1861.
The building was gifted to the Brontë Society by Sir James Roberts in 1928 and the society moved its museum from the upstairs of what was the tourist information centre at the top of Main Street, in Haworth.
The extension to the rear of the building (that now houses the ticket office and shop) was added in the late 1950s and the entire roof was replaced in 1976.
Images are provided by Keighley and District Local History Society. Information is compiled by chairman Joyce Newton and archivist Tim Neal. (Alistair Shand)

The Telegraph reviews the book Anglican Women Novelists, edited by Alison Shell and Judith Maltby:

The novelist P D James “writes about prayer the way the Victorians wrote about sex, with the utmost delicacy and indirection.” This well phrased observation comes in an essay by Alison Shell in a new collection that she has edited with Judith Maltby called Anglican Women Novelists.
It looks at 13 writers ranging from Charlotte Brontë to Rose Macaulay and Barbara Pym. P D James’s forerunner as a detective novelist, Dorothy L Sayers, is there too, and Iris Murdoch, categorised as “Anglican Atheist”. (Christopher Howse)

Sheila Hancock, who back in 2015 hosted Perspectives: The Brilliant Brontë Sisters, shows again her Brontëiteness in the Daily Express:

Comparing her love with John to Emily Brontë’s heart-wrenching lovers Cathy and Heathcliff, she told The Radio Times: “Emily writes extraordinarily about the depth of Cathy and Heathcliff’s desperation, with him actually grabbing her body as she’s dying to try to stop her going, as it were. (Kaisha Langton)

Eastern Daily Press retraces a visit to Switzerland in the fifties:

I was almost tempted to treat myself to a copy of Wuthering Heights as a reminder of how hard it can be to go up in the world. Then I realised good old Eric Ambler had already summed up my experiences in Journey into Fear, Cause for Alarm and The Dark Frontier. (Keith Skipper)

Diario de Mallorca (Spain) talks about Franco Zeffirelli:

Esos elementos podemos encontrarlos tanto en los guiones de sus colaboradores como en sus propias adaptaciones de William Shakespeare o en su versión de la obra cumbre de Charlotte Brontë, «Jane Eyre», en donde seguramente se encuentra, créanme, una de las declaraciones de amor más hermosas y desoladas de toda la historia del cine. (Josep Maria Aguiló) (Translation)

Letralia (Spain) and books in a brothel:

En la primera caja incluí algunas novelas de Corín Tellado, Bárbara Cartland y esas noveletas de quiosco denominadas Jazmín, Julia y Bianca. Incluí, claro, novelas de las hermanas Brontë, de Jane Austen, los Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, de Quiroga, y El monje, de Matthew Gregory Lewis. Para interesarlas detallaba de los libros las partes románticas, tétricas y de horror. (Carlos Yusti) (Translation)

France Info (France) mentions an upcoming auction in Tours, France:

Hôtel des ventes Giraudeau à Tours
Livres et documents anciens 2ème partie

Lot 10:
Léon Masson
183 dessins originaux (v. 1950), à l'encre de Chine, rehaussés de lavis, exécutés en vue de l'illustration lithographiée d'une édition du roman Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë, restée à l'état de projet. Tous les dessins sont signés, et presque tous légendés avec indication de titre, du chapitre et de la page auxquels ils doivent se référer. Dim. à toutes marges : 30,5 x 24 cm. Ensemble relié en 2 vol. grand in-4, maroquin amateur avec pièces de maroquin insérées. 4 dessins (parmi les 183) ont été montés sur les plats et les contreplats. Un point de colle entre 2 ff. Notice détaillée sur demande. (Translation)