'These little books are enormously important to both visitors and scholars'

It's only a few days until Charlotte Brontë's little book is auctioned in Paris. Please remember that you can still help bring it home to Haworth. The Telegraph and Argus talks about the last few days of the fundraiser.

On Monday one of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘little books’, written in 1830 when the author was 14-years-old, will go to auction in Paris.
It is expected to sell for at least £650,000, and the Brontë Parsonage has been gathering support and funds to buy the artefact.
The tiny manuscript, which features three intricately hand-written stories, has remained in private ownership since it left Haworth following the deaths of the Brontës. It came to light when it came up for auction at Sotheby’s in 2011 when the Museum was outbid by a now non-operational investment scheme. [...]
Kersten England, CEO City of Bradford Council, is supporting the bid to bring the book back to the District. She said: “The Brontë sisters have had a huge influence in my life - not just as authors of great literature but as pioneering women who paved the way for so many others.
"The Brontës’ connection to Bradford is very precious and to have Charlotte’s little book where it was first created would only strengthen the Bronte story and its ability to inspire future generations to pursue their dreams.”
Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, comments: “These little books are enormously important to both visitors and scholars. The four that we are fortunate enough to own are some of our most popular exhibits and to see this volume of The Young Men’s Magazine reunited with the others in our collection would be wonderful.
"If we are successful, it would be one of the most important things to happen in the 30 years I’ve worked at the Parsonage; a real highlight.” (Michael Black)

The fun touch is courtesy of LipService:


The Guardian gives '15 great reasons to visit the UK's most-improved city'. One of them is

Haworth
The Brontë’s association with Haworth has made it world famous and the cobbled streets in the city often feature in the numerous cycling events that have visited Yorkshire since the Tour de France’s grand départ in 2014. Bradford was included in the route for the UCI World Championship’s this year, and Howarth (sic) regularly features in the Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Britain. The small market town doubles as a great place to watch the peloton fight for position and, as a great base to explore the Dales and Brontë Country. The Brontë Parsonage museum is an excellent place to start. (Lanre Bakare)

Forbes features the show Letters Live:

Other past performers at Letters Live have included Sir Ian McKellen, Sally Hawkins, Laurence Fishburne, Anjelica Huston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hiddleston, Juliet Stevenson, Jarvis Cocker and Kylie Minogue, plus live music from artists ranging from Nick Cave, Laura Mvula and Jamie Cullum to Benjamin Clementine, Tom Odell and James Rhodes. Letters read at previous shows have included ones written by David Bowie, Marge Simpson, Mohandas Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Kurt Vonnegut, Charlotte Brontë, James Baldwin, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, John Steinbeck, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Dorothy Parker and Che Guevara, as well as by many remarkable people who are lesser known. (Joanne Shurvell)

El Periódico (in Catalan) reviews the novel La teva ombra by Jordi Nopca.

De la novel·la sorgeixen referents com les germanes Brontë i ‘Cims borrascosos’, la pel·lícula ‘Gremlins’ i la música anglesa dels 90 (Oasis, Blur...), tot i que Nopca, explica, es rendís a Tolstoi abans de fer-ho amb Dostoievski –en especial, al seu ‘Crim i càstig’– i a Philip Roth i la seva ‘Pastoral americana’. (Anna Abella) (Translation)

The New York Times shares an excerpt from Essays One by Lydia Davis.

I was in my early teens when I first laid eyes on a page of Beckett. I was startled. I had come to it from books that included the steamy novels of Mazo de la Roche— though not too steamy to be included in a very proper girls’ school library—and the more classic romances of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, as well as the social panoramas of John Dos Passos, the first writer whose style I consciously noticed and relished.

Bold (India) celebrates being single with a selection of book that includes

5. How To Be A Heroine by Samantha Ellis:
Author Samantha Ellis finds herself fascinated by Cathy Earnshaw of ‘Wuthering Heights’, soon enough realizing that she should have been Jane Eyre. In this literary piece, Samantha writes a story about the role of different heroines from the literature and how each one of them aspires us to be what we are today. While aptly capturing the usual shift of idealism from March sisters of ‘Little Women’ to Sylvia Plath, that book shows how we all grew up. In this book, Ellis also shares humorous stories from her real-life which she experienced while living in the Iraqi Jewish community in London. (Arshiya Gauhar)

On National Review, John J. Miller discusses Wuthering Heights with Lorraine Murphy of Hillsdale College.