Yorkshire Day. More gravy than Brontës

The Wharfedale & Aireborough Observer announces an upcoming talk in September by Ann Dinsdale:

The Brontë sisters and their family will be the subject of a September talk at Otley Courthouse.
Ann Dinsdale, the Principal Curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, will discuss the whole Bronte clan when she visits on Friday, September 13.
The Brontës may be best remembered for the three gifted sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and their literary output, but Ann’s illustrated talk will focus on the wider family too.
She will be giving special attention to the patriarch, Patrick Brontë, whose time as Minister in Haworth (from 1820) included much work on trying to improve the health of the residents - who at that time had an average life expectancy of 25 years.
Ann will draw on her experience as curator and share information about the lives of all the family, bringing in some of the details that people may not be as familiar with and using images of items from the museum’s collection as illustrations.
Born in Thornton, Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë are famous for the literary works they had published - often under male pseudonyms - during their short lives. It was Charlotte’s Jane Eyre that first enjoyed popular success but Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Emily’s Wuthering Heights both went on to be hailed as literary masterpieces.
Living with the Brontës start at 7.30pm and tickets cost £8 or £7 for Courthouse Friends. The Courthouse Bar will be open from 6.45pm. (Jim Jack)

Yorkshire Day is celebrated with a survey about Yorkshire icons. The results are not very encouraging, as we read in Big Stamp of Approval:

Millennials are ditching flat caps and the Brontë Sisters as gravy and the Arctic Monkeys are voted the modern icons of Yorkshire.
In celebration of Yorkshire Day (1st August), Yorkshire based communications provider Plusnet have taken a closer look at what really makes the region special by asking the nation what they consider to be Yorkshire icons.
The results show a new generation of icons emerging with a chasm between millennials and baby boomers’ ideas of God’s Own Country.
The Arctic Monkeys’ iconic Yorkshire-ness is set to be a lasting icon of the region, with 21% of 18-24-year olds saying they made Yorkshire what it is in 2019.
The Brontë Sisters are falling out of favour with only 6% of millennials naming them Yorkshire icons compared to 40% of those aged 55+.
Gravy was another rising Yorkshire star with 29% of 18-24-year olds saying they felt the brown stuff deserved the crown compared to a measly 9% of 55+ respondents. (Jodie Taylor)

The Daily Mirror and The Halifax Courier are more traditional in its recommendations:

Drink some Yorkshire tea, down Yorkshire beer, roam the Yorkshire moors, read a book by the Brontë sisters and get Yorkshired *not a word*. (Lewis Knight)

Literature, stage and screen are all well-represented by God’s own county with likes of Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench and the Brontë sisters just a handful. (James Carney)

Or you can visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum as suggested by The Travel:

10 Authors’ Houses You Can Visit (...)
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Built in the 1770s, this is the house where sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë used to live. It is located in England (specifically in Haworth), and these three spent most of their lives here, meaning they wrote some of their most celebrated works here.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum exists thanks to The Brontë Society, which is a well-established literary group, and a trip to this historic destination will showcase items such as Charlotte’s mahogany desk. Yes, this is certainly another home for those who are into literature to add to their to-do lists. (Bri Thomas)

Ian Visits posts about the famous Walter Gilbert’s ornate mahogany doors at 32 Cornhill:

There is a wooden door near Bank tube station that’s worth paying a visit to at weekends, for only then can it be truly admired. That’s because at weekends the doors are closed, and easy to admire, and during the week, somewhat less easy as they’re folded open and people use the doorway for doorway purposes. (...)
The panel depicts Charlotte and Anne Brontë meeting with the satirist, William Makepeace Thackeray at the premises of Smith Elder, who for a while also published Cornhill Magazine.

Blavity lists books 'from black authors that recognize Black History and Heritage':

The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips is an award-winning author, who was originally born in St. Kitts. His novel The Lost Child is a reimagining of the classic gothic romance novel Wuthering Heights. Phillips' adaptation follows Heathcliff, who is a Black character. However, the primary storyline focuses on Monica Johnson, a young girl who is exiled from her British family after she falls in love with a Black man. In both narratives feelings of belonging and alienation are expressed. (Camille Rahatt)

The author Karen Perry is looking forward to the concert of The Unthanks in Dublin, as we read in RTÉ:

The Unthanks bring their Emily Brontë Song Cycle to the National Concert Hall in November and I would love to be there to see it. Their music is so haunting and atmospheric, their vocal harmonies so tender and ethereal. Lending their voices to Emily Brontë’s poetry, it promises to be a very special evening. 

The Nerd Daily interviews the writer Autumn Krause:

Elise Dumpleton: Lastly, do you have any book recommendations for us?Of course! The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey and The Quite You Carry by Nikki Barthelmess. And also because these books changed my life: Brothers Karamazov, Jane Eyre and Les Misérables.

The Huffington Post-India reviews the film Judgementall Hai Kya:

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë writes, “[...] and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it.” Judgementall offers its viewers a choice. We can either look at the ‘mad’ Bobby being devoured by her secret love for Keshav, or we can see her as someone who empathises with his lovers to the point of a dangerous immersion. We can see Bobby as ‘the other woman’ or we can see her wanting to pretend to be ‘another woman’. (Shreevatsa Nevatia)

A passing mention in The Globe and Mail:

By the time I was in high school, the municipal library’s collection of books paled in comparison to our school’s big library where I read books written by authors we were studying in class: Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain and Emily Brontë. During the summer months I was caught up in Gone with the Wind and Anna Karenina or lost myself in the exciting and strange worlds of Ray Bradbury’s books. (Angela Jouris Saxe) 

Prestige interviews personal shopper (am I the only one to feel stupid writing it?) and aspiring writer, Grace Thomas:

She was inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s hit vampire- themed fantasy novel, Twilight, which she acknowledges is “badly written and no Emily Brontë”. But as a teenager, she had found the story engrossing. About a year ago, Grace started to write a coming-of-age story set in college. Much of her book is based on her own experiences, like jumping into the dating pool after attending all-girls schools. (Annabel Tan)

Shounak Reza publishes a tribute to Anne Frank in The Daily Star:

My cousins hardly, if ever, took me into their confidence and although it looks like a minor issue now that I look back at it, it left me scarred. In school, I was bullied for devouring Dickens and the Brontës while my classmates went gaga over action films. I felt out of place and abandoned. Discovering Anne’s diary brought me solace.

Author Link Writers & Readers Magazine interviews Sara Collins:

Diane Slocum: Where did your story come from? What was the first aspect of it that came to you? Is it based on any historical person or event?
Collins: It started with an image: a young black woman shivering on the steps of a London mansion, accused of killing her white mistress, with whom she’d been passionately in love. This led to the first sentence I kept, which became a kind of epigraph: “I wouldn’t have done what they say I’ve done to Madame because I loved her.”
I think novels start with questions. I’d long asked myself why a black woman had never been the star of her own gothic romance, in the style of the classics I’d loved growing up: for example, Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights.

BookRiot is listing bookish roles that Keanu Reeves didn't play:

Keanu Reeves as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Since we’re time traveling, perhaps Keanu at different ages could play Heathcliff at different ages? Yes. I think he could. Please note that I considered both Heathcliff and Jane Eyre‘s Rochester here, but I ultimately went with Heathcliff as extremely and delightfully against type. (Annika Barrnti Klein)

LubimyCzytać (Poland) discusses the author Guillaume Musso:

 Mając dziesięć lat, Guillaume zakochał się w powieściach. Jego matka była bibliotekarką, ale wcześniej książki zawsze go nudziły − właściwie lubił tylko komiksy. Pewnego dnia przeczytał jednak historię, która go zachwyciła: „Wichrowe Wzgórza” Emily Brontë. (Translation)

The writer Berna González Harbour recommends summer reads in Estudios de Política Exterior (Spain) :

Jane Eyre (1847). Lo sé: no es ninguna novedad. Pero la novela publicada por Charlotte Brontë en 1847, firmada con seudónimo de hombre después de ser rechazada por un editor por tratarse de una autora mujer, tiene la vigencia de una obra que dice mucho más de lo que parece. La primera victoria es la verdad, nos viene a decir la niña Jane Eyre cuando, huérfana acogida por una familia que la maltrata, aprende a rebelarse contra su tía cruel. La pequeña inglesa pasa a un duro internado y luego se convierte en institutriz, donde la pasión que le brota hacia el dueño de la casa no convierte el artefacto en una novela romántica al uso, sino en un clamor por la igualdad, por defender su lugar y, en suma, por lo que se ha considerado la primera novela feminista de la historia. Tan entretenida y decimonónica como providencial y actual. (Translation)

Babel XXI (in Spanish) and Books a Week (in German) post about Wuthering Heights. Diluvios de Letras (in Spanish) reviews Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) discusses some French editions of the novel. The Eyre Guide explores the Eyre-esque echoes of the Anatole Litvak's film All This, and Heaven Too 1940.