Things are not what they seem

The Guardian publishes the obituary of the actress Freda Dowie (1928-2019) who played Aunt Branwell in The Brontës of Haworth 1973.
EDIT:  The Times adds:

She continued working into her eighties and voiced a number of audiobooks of classic novels, including Wuthering Heights. She was surprised and amused when one review credited her as the book’s author. 

Also in The Guardian, a review of the latest poetry book by Simon Armitage, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic:

It was an unwritten law of postwar Britain that all large parks should contain a commissioned Henry Moore sculpture and, as chance would have it, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic – a gathering of new poet laureate Simon Armitage’s own bulging file of commissioned work – features a series of “Henry Moore Poems”.
From the outset of his career Armitage’s great exemplar has been a fellow Yorkshireman – Ted Hughes – but that laureate approached the commissioned poem in a very different spirit. He rose to the challenge of hymning the Queen Mother by painting her, in Rain Charm for the Duchy, as godmother of the salmon. Armitage by contrast opens a sequence on Branwell Brontë by comparing him
to Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba. (David Wheatley)

We Are Green Bay announces the upcoming performances of Jen Silverman's The Moors in Sturgeon Bay, WI:

Isadoora Theatre Company will present its second production of the 2019 season, Jen Silverman’s “The Moors,” starting next week.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 30-31; 2 p.m. Sept. 1; 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6-7; and 2 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Inside/Out Theatre at the Margaret Lockwood Gallery, Michigan and S. 7th St.
Directing is Richard Carlson. In the cast are Margi Diny, Haley Ebinal, Donna Johnson, Amanda Sallinen, Katie Schroeder and Vance Toivonen.
According to a press release: Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path.
“The Moors” is a dark comedy about love, desperation and visibility. Things are not what they seem. (Warren Gerds)

And Crain's Chicago Business reports the October performances of Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre in Chicago:

Jane Eyre
Oct. 16-27 | Joffrey Ballet | Auditorium Theatre
Readers of a certain sensibility are mad for Jane Austen, but the Brontës run a close second when it comes to storms of the heart. Emily's "Wuthering Heights" may be the most cherished (thanks, in part, to the film version starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon), but Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" is a deeply satisfying tempest of dark romanticism, too. British choreographer Cathy Marston has demonstrated a penchant for fashioning ballets from literature ("Lolita," "Dangerous Liaisons"), and with Jane Eyre, she's taken on a character who would never (and doesn't) don a tutu. (Thomas Connors)

Keighley News reports some of the sites that can be visited in the upcoming Open Heritage Days:

St Gabriel’s Church, Stanbury, will open its doors on September 21 from 10am to 4.30pm. The 19th century schoolroom, used for worship by modern-day villagers, was built by the Rev Patrick Brontë and contains an 18th century pulpit from Haworth Parish Church. (David Knights)

The Philadelphia Inquirer and what to do in Philadelphia this week:

Fonthill Castle Beer Festival
Doylestown’s own Wuthering Heights-esque estate, Fonthill Castle — a concrete behemoth that blends medieval, Gothic and Byzantine architecture, with Moravian tiles thrown in for good measure — lightens it up with a beer festival.

Screen Rant lists some of the most memorable lines from the sitcom Frasier:

"You've got a vulnerable woman and an unstable man in a gothic mansion on a rainy night! The only thing missing is someone shouting 'Heathcliff!' across the moors!"

It takes the series seven long seasons to finally get Niles and Daphne into a romantic relationship with one another, but as early as the first season, the series presents opportunities for the two to get into plenty of romantic trouble together. The first season episode, "A Mid-Winter's Night Dream," finds Daphne and Niles trapped alone in the middle of a storm at Niles's home.
And predictably, this scenario sends Frasier into hysteria, ranting and raving about the Wuthering Heights romanticism of all that is going on, and his need to stop all that could happen - even if it means running across the metaphorical moors, screaming in the rain for the two of them to stop. (Katerina Daley)

Bookreporter reviews The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea:

In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca comes The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea, in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.

La Nación (Argentina) mentions the story of the Charlotte Brontë mourning ring (with a blunder):

Un anillo. Adentro de la caja había eso: un anillo de metal. La mujer pasó días tratando de ordenar el legado del último de sus suegros y las cajas heredadas ya se habían convertido en su pesadilla. No era para menos: cada una estaba cerrada con llave y las llaves -las contó- no solo eran centenarias, sino también centenares. Tuvo suerte: después de un par de intentos una caja se abrió y ahí estaba el anillo con una inscripción interna: Brontë, marzo de 1855. Demasiado tentador como para no seguir investigando. Dio así con un dispositivo de apertura y descubrió -adentro del anillo, pegada al metal- una trenza de pelo y -afuera del anillo- una historia notable. Aquella sortija sería, según los expertos, parte de la joyería funeraria que rodeó la muerte de la autora de Cumbres borrascosas (!). En esos días, conservar los cabellos del muerto amado era de rigor. Existía, además, un código de materiales: si la muerta era una virgen, los anillos eran de esmalte; si se trataba de un niño o niña, se usaban perlas. Cada muerte exigía las joyas adecuadas.
La anécdota del anillo de Charlotte Brontë habla, entre otras tantas cosas, de nuestra relación con el pasado por obra y gracia de los objetos. (Fernanda Sánchez) (Translation)

Público (Spain) talks about George Eliot:

George Eliot, seudónimo de Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), la más cultivada intelectualmente de entre los novelistas de la época victoriana, no fue la única en tener algún nexo con la poesía romántica. Otros novelistas contemporáneos suyos también tuvieron esa misma influencia: Dickens, de William Blake; las hermanas Brontë, de Walter Scott; y concretamente Emily, en Cumbres Borrascosas, de Lord Byron, por ejemplo; sobre todo cuando no hubo ningún tipo de fractura entre el romanticismo y la época victoriana. (José Antonio Ricondo) (Translation)

Cubaencuentro (Cuba) interviews the writer Dolores Labarcena:

Carlos Espinosa Domínguez: ¿Qué libro te gustaría haber escrito?
Cumbres Borrascosas. (Translation)

Number 9 reviews the Edinburgh performances of Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights. Shanna Swendson posts 'In Defense of Jane Eyre'. Fuego Helado (in Spanish) reviews Wuthering Heights.

Finally, an alert from the Shelter Island Library:

The Library hosts a gathering of the Brontë Book Club at 11 a.m. to discuss “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (Shelter Island Reporter)