Their Lives Fascinate and Resonate

This month's Diane Fare's Chapter & Verse section in Keighley News discusses the immediate events at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

The school holidays are looming and we have lots going on at the museum to keep families entertained, as well as the return of our popular Poetry at the Parsonage summer event.
As we’re celebrating Patrick Brontë this year, we thought it appropriate to acknowledge his Irish roots.
As a result, in an event called ‘Crossings’ our writer-in-residence Zaffar Kunial will be joined by some of the most exciting contemporary voices in Irish writing.
They all all on one as you will come together in order to celebrate the Irishness of the Brontës, and the journeys that played a significant part in defining the family.
Zaffar will be joined by Nicole Flattery and Colette Bryce.
Nicole Flattery is an award-winning short story writer whose work has been published in the Dublin Review, BBC Radio 4, Irish Times, and will appear in a forthcoming Faber anthology of new Irish writing.
Colette Bryce is a poet from Derry, Northern Ireland, and has published four poetry collections.
Selected Poems, drawing on all her books, was winner of the Pigott Prize for Poetry 2018.
Crossings will take place at 5pm on July 20, and tickets cost £7/£5 or just £2 for 16-25 year olds. Please book in advance using at bronte.org.uk/whats-on or call 01535 640192.
Prior to the evening event, there’s an opportunity to take part in workshops led by Nicole and Colette.
Nicole’s workshop, at 11am on July 20, will explore voice in fiction, whilst Colette’s, at 2pm, is a close-reading workshop where you will be able to hone your own poetry.
Please don’t hesitate to call if you’d like more information about either of the workshops.
Tickets cost £20 for adults or £10 for 16-25 year olds and are bookable via the website or by calling the number above.
Throughout the school holidays, there will be plenty of activities to keep families busy.
Join us on any Wednesday for our free drop-in craft workshops which run from 11am-4pm and are free with admission to the museum.
Coming up in the next few weeks are Sun Print and Hapa Zome workshops.
On Wednesday 24 July you can make a sun print by arranging grasses, leaves and stones onto photographic paper and letting the sun work its magic to create an intriguing negative print.
Fingers crossed for good weather!
And the following week, on July 31, you can try your hand at Hapa Zome, an unusual technique that has its origins in Japan, and which uses a hammer to transfer natural dyes directly from leaves and flowers onto cloth or paper.
You’ll be able to make a unique, natural picture to take away with you.
And finally, put a note in your diary for Wednesday August 7.
We’re hosting a holiday extravaganza in our new Learning and Event space, housed within The Old School Room on Church Street.
Local artists will join us and there’ll be an opportunity to draw in the churchyard and make mono prints, and there’ll also be storytelling and a wonderful flying display by SMJ Falconry.
It should be a great day, so save the date in your diary!

The Mumbai Mirror reports a social media incident concerning the fashion designer Sabsayachi Mukherji:

In the book ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’, writers Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar examine the novels of women writers of the 19th century (Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Mary Shelly). They find the writers were made to have their female characters either embody the ‘angel’ or the ‘monster’, a cliché that stemmed from male writers’ tendencies to categorise female characters as either pure, angelic women or rebellious, unkempt madwomen. (Namrata Zakarai)

Hello Giggles lists stylish dresses linked to literary heroines:

We rounded up the best outfits that will make you look like you’re straight out of your most beloved book. Whether you keep it simple like Jane Eyre or you’re crazy for Claudia Kishi’s bold style, here’s how to dress like your favorite literary characters. (...)
The Cotton Weave Collarless Shirtdress (Everlane)
Plain Jane, but make it fashion. (Elizabeth Entenman)

Refinery29 interviews the author Kit de Waal:

Frankie Mathieson: Are there any other books you’ve read more than once?
A few: City of Bohane, The Old Man and the Sea, The Heart of the Matter, Jane Eyre. I wrote a short story, The Old Man & The Suit, as an homage to The Old Man and the Sea after listening to Donald Sutherland narrate it as an audiobook. I listened to it maybe 20 times just to get the music of the language and the sentence structure right, then wrote my story straight after. It was amazing how easily it flowed.

Dance Magazine interviews American Ballet Theatre principal leader Isabella Boylston:

Courtney Escoyne: Do you read as research for specific roles? Whenever the ballet is based off a book, I turn to the original source—for example, Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. I go through and highlight anything I want to use. It's fun and incredibly helpful to give yourself lines or key words. I read Jane Eyre this spring in preparation for the ballet. I also enjoyed reading Apollo's Angels and learning about the origins of several older ballets.

The London Economic interviews the author and entrepreneur Cometan:

Jess Young: What author(s) and/or book(s) most inspire you, and why?
I love reading about the lives of other writers. Biographies about Arthur Conan Doyle, Enid Blyton, and even the Brontë sisters particularly catch my interest. For me, their lives fascinate and resonate more than their books. I look to them for inspiration as I continue along my own literary journey. It’s always comforting to learn about the struggles of other writers because I relate it directly back to myself and my own struggles.

New titles on the GCSE English Literature, according to the Daily Mail:

Poetry collection Belonging brings together Amy Blakemore’s Peckham Rye Lane, Grace Nichols’s Island Man, Imtiaz Dharker’s In Wales, Wanting To Be Italian and Raymond Antrobus’s Jamaican British with the works of Emily Brontë, John Keats and Alfred Lord Tennyson. (Sarah Harris)

3 Quarks Daily talks about old fashioned words:

What about the physical realm? Just as most of no longer concern ourselves with sock garters, most are unlikely to have an attack of the vapors or a case of fantods, at least as imagined by a Brontë. What are the vapors? As you may have guessed, they tended to affect women in the form of exhalations of bodily organs that caused nervous conditions marked by depression or hysteria (from the Greek word for uterus, so limited to women, natch). This usage came about in the early 17th century. (Gabrielle C. Durham)

Svenska Dagbladet lists the best of local theatre so far:

Med skådespelarna Lotta Östlin Stenshäll och Sofia Rönnegårds underbara tolkning av Emily Brontës ”Svindlande höjder”. En uppsättning som inte kunde vara mindre – eller kortare: utspelad på bara tolv minuter, i en liten låda. Med rum för enbart fyra publikplatser. Större än så behöver inte en stor teaterupplevelse vara. (Ylva Lagercrantz Spindler) (Translation)

The Kingston Wicked Local recommends the latest podcast of The History Chicks devoted to Charlotte Brontë. More The Most Wuthering Heights Day snippets: Fosters, Only Melbourne and Illawarra Mercury. The final instalment of The Eyre Guide's Eight Days of Jane Eyre has been published. On Facebook, the Brontë Parsonage Museum shares a video of the installation of the Anne Brontë stone.