'Before me rose a lofty hill, Behind me lay the sea'

The Yorkshire Post has an article on Oliver's Mount in Scarborough.

But what of its connection to the famous literary family? Well, in 1840, Anne Brontë wrote about visiting Oliver’s Mount in her poem The Bluebell, which includes these lines:
“That day along a sunny road
All carelessly I strayed,
Between two banks where smiling flowers
Their varied hues displayed.
Before me rose a lofty hill,
Behind me lay the sea, . . .”
(Chris Bond)

Keighley News reports that Haworth Church may close to the public during its renovation works, which have just begun.

A major programme of rewiring and lighting work will begin this month at Haworth Parish Church.
Church bosses promise dramatic improvements following the £40,000 project, which starts in September 13 and will last nine weeks.
They warn that during the work it may be necessary to restrict access to the church for members of the public.
The Rev Peter Mullins, the Rector of Haworth, said the only downside to the work was that the church – at the top of Main Street – might not be open as much as usual.
He said: “St Michael’s Church is visited by thousands of people every year. Many come as tourists because Charlotte and Emily Brontë are buried here while others come because they know they can find an open church in which to sit or pray.
“We can have a hundred different requests for prayer pinned on our prayer tree in a single week.
“The church apologises that it may be necessary to restrict access at times to keep the public and contractors safe. There may even be occasional days when it could be essential to close the church completely.”
Haworth Parish Church has been engaged in a major building restoration programme since 2011 and the rewiring and lighting improvement work, which is expected to cost around £40,000, is the latest development in the project.
Since the restoration programme began, the church’s roofs have been repaired, a new heating system has been installed, and servery and toilet facilities have been created. (David Knights)

Still locally, The Telegraph and Argus tells about the recent Keighley Pride events, which included the following:

The Keighley Pride event at Ingrow station was held in conjunction with the launch of Keighley’s National Heritage Days events and also celebrated novelists Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontë sisters. (David Knights)

The Monitor features the new Museum of South Texas History CEO Francisco Guajardo.

“I got this fellowship to study at Oxford, to study Shakespeare and the Brontë sisters and Dickens,” he said. “I wanted to walk the streets like Dickensian characters did in London, I wanted to go to the moors in Howarth [sic] to see the Brontë Parsonage, I wanted to go to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the Shakespeare theater, and I got to do all that.” (Matthew Wilson)

The New York Times reviews the novel Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson.

Again and again, in rich detail, Woodson gives life to Iris’s growing desires: Iris immerses herself in her high school studies, reading Shakespeare and the Brontës while Aubrey sleeps, infant Melody on his chest. “The desire was like nothing she’d ever known,” Woodson explains. (R.O. Kwon)

While Johns Hopkins Magazine discusses Rachel Monroe's new book, Savage Appetites, which 'explores women's infatuation with murder stories through her own obsessions'.

And women, if asked, will point out that their criminal interests aren't new. In 2018 The Sewanee Review had crime novelist Megan Abbott comment about the "recent" success of women thrillers such as Gone Girl: "Yet these books have always existed. Shirley Jackson in the 1950s, Daphne du Maurier in the '30s and '40s—all the way back to, say, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' or the Brontës. These are quite subversive works, filled with complicated notions of female desire and often full of female rage." (Bret McCabe)