“To be Disposed of: six dozen fine fat cats”

Many newspapers from all over the world are still reporting the news of Charlotte Brontë's little book returning to the Brontë Parsonage. The Guardian was one of the first to report it and now one of its readers has written intrigued about part of what we saw on the pictures:

• If I read the photograph of Charlotte Brontë’s mini work correctly it says: “To be Disposed of: six dozen fine fat cats” (Report, 19 November). I’ll vote for that!
Colin Pickthall
Ulverston, Cumbria

The Mancunion shares some ideas for a day trip to Bradford.

In addition, the Brontë sisters’ hometown of Haworth is located within the borough of Bradford and is an essential visit for literary fans. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is perched on the edge of extensive moorland that inspired the settings of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. (Alex Ferguson)

The Hitavada (India) features a group of four young, local girls who have won the Oxford Big Read Competition at Asia level.

Ananya Sheorey of CDS School and Saara Sen from Centre Point School, Wardhman Nagar secured first and second spot at middle level. They chose books like Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Three Muskateers (sic) by Alexander Dumas. Did they ever think of writing such reviews or did they practice it in the past? Saara Sen, a Class VII girl replied, “I am habitual of discussing about the books but I have never wrote review. But I did write poems and stories. In fact my poem was published in ‘The Hitavada Twinkle Star Magazine’. I was in Class VI when I appeared in the competition.” “It was an Asia level competition and I was confident. But I was not expecting that I would win the competition.
I really liked the review I wrote and satisfied about my performance. I enjoyed the whole exercise. I chose book Jane Eyre and wrote the review. Actually I wanted write on Great Expectations but I did not find my copy,” said Saara. [...]
“I read quite a books. Only two books were new for me-- Jane Eyre and The Moon Stone by Collins. Book review is a creative writing. What I liked about the book Jane Eyre is, the idea of book, the characters. The book was set in old times. It was showing me the way. How a young girl grows. (Vikas Vaidya)

Expats (Czech Republic) has a list of '10 Christmas festivals in Czech castles that are straight out of a fairytale', including

Hrádek Nechanice
November 30-December 15
A variety of advent-related festivities will take place in this so-called “Jane Eyre” castle, a 19th-century Gothic-style Romantic château near Hradec Králové. During this event, the chateau kitchen is open to the public, where guests will be able to taste English Christmas punch and other holiday treats. Includes night tours. (Katrina Modrá)

It is actually somewhat reminiscent of Thornfield Hall.

The Outline reviews Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite.

Bong Joon-ho has given us a story that demands its own category, a genre we might call Revolutionary Gothic. In Revolutionary Gothic, the classic elements of the gothic are in place — a fixation on haunting and ghosts, the overbearing influence of past sins and curses, grieving for what’s lost, as well as a looming sense of foreboding and dread for what might come. Gothic storytelling has always had a strong interest in class, seen most strikingly in Heathcliff’s rejection and revenge in Wuthering Heights. Novels as different as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! have been classified as gothic at the same time as they’ve provided generations of readers with a rich vein of material analysis. (Connor Wroe Southard)

Finally, an alert in Cremona, Italy:

Libreria Convegno Cremona
Venerdì 22 novembre alle ore 18:00 Paola Tonussi presenterà il libro, "Emily Brontë". Nella vita di Emily Brontë accadono pochi fatti reali, tutto accade nella sua immaginazione visionaria e nei silenzi invalicabili dietro a cui osserva l’esterno: il «mio mondo interiore» delle grandi liriche, da cui hanno origine la saga infantile scritta con la sorella minore Anne, gli stessi versi, quel romanzo unico e sconvolgente che è Wuthering Heights. Con un attento studio delle fonti e una puntuale rilettura di corrispondenze, testimonianze e dichiarazioni di contemporanei che l’hanno conosciuta anche fuori dalla cerchia familiare, di là dal mito letterario costruito dopo la sua morte, questo libro mostra al lettore moderno la vera Emily Brontë: l’intreccio tra vicenda biografica e concezione dell’opera, l’equilibrio tra realtà e passione, l’attualità di una giovane donna che lotta per essere «se stessa» e «libera», emotivamente e spiritualmente. La sua vita breve, difficile, estatica, ci racconta un senso di perdita, il desiderio d’amore, d’immensità e forza senza eguali. Perché Emily Brontë sussurra al nostro orecchio l’aspirazione alla felicità e il fuoco delle paure: «Con le dita sporche/d’inchiostro, sorregge mondi illimitati», ha scritto Rosie Garland. E quei «mondi illimitati» Emily Brontë ha saputo – questa biografia lo dimostra – annodarli alla terra mortale e farcene dono.