A wonderfully moving exploration of the line between creator and creation

Keighley News has Diane Fare's column on the latest goings-on at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Alongside families who braved the elements, we had visits from Keighley Highfield Community Association and Touchstones, Bradford, who brought groups of women and girls to take part in workshops led by theatre-maker Sophia Hatfield.
Sophia and I also visited Together Women Project in Bradford where a small group of women enjoyed a creative writing workshop – and all this work fed into a ‘work-in-progress’ event at the Old School Room in Haworth on February 29.
I was really looking forward to seeing how Sophia entwined the story of the Brontë sisters with the stories of the women she encountered in the workshops. It was fantastic to hear the different ways in which women and young girls today continue to connect with the Brontë story.
If a thriller story is more your thing, we have a treat coming up on April 4. The authors of two of the year’s most talked-about literary thrillers visit Haworth to speak about their new releases: Nuala Ellwood’s The House on the Lake and Jessica Moor’s Keeper.
These novels explore landscape, feminism and abusive relationships in a tradition that harks back to texts like Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, considered shocking at the time of publication in 1848. Tickets cost £8/£6/or just £2 for 16-25 year olds.
Budding writers can also join Nuala on April 5 for a two-hour writing workshop exploring the impact of landscape upon fiction. The workshop will be relaxed and informal, and is suitable both for those new to writing and those with more experience.
Nuala will lead participants through a variety of writing exercises, sharing her expertise on writing landscape from a variety of perspectives. Tickets cost £27.50/£25/£15. Visit bronte.org.uk/whats-on or call 01535 640192 to book.
Skipping further ahead to the end of the month, we’re really excited to be welcoming Andrew Michael Hurley to Haworth to discuss his new novel Starve Acre, set in the Yorkshire Dales, which was Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime at the end of last year. (David Knights)

The Herald (Scotland) reviews Isabel Greenberg’s Glass Town.

Oh, this is good. Isabel Greenberg’s earlier graphic novels The Encyclopedia of Early Earth and The One Hundred Nights of Hero played with the building blocks of storytelling, weaving her own folk tales, myths and legends out of familiar building blocks and coming up with something new and startlingly original.
In Glass Town she inserts her singular story-telling talents into the margins of the lives of the Bronte family, and, in particular, their juvenilia. It’s a fictional retelling of how Emily, Anne, Charlotte and Branwell came up with their own worlds Angria and Gondal and how those worlds at times consumed their creators.
Greenberg has the Brontes interact with their creations. They step from the grey, cold confines of 19th-century Yorkshire into the vivid colour and storybook design of their imaginary worlds.
The result is a wonderfully moving exploration of the line between creator and creation. And mortality and immortality, for that matter.
It is also another reminder that Greenberg is one of the most singular and imaginative graphic novelists we have. (Teddy Jamieson) 

The Big Issue has writer Camilla Bruce share her 'Top 5 gothic novels', the first of which is

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
When I first read this, at 16, I found it unbearably painful, which, of course, made me instantly love it. Flawed, passionate characters making horrible mistakes and a spatter of supernatural ghastliness makes this one of my all-time favourite reads.

The Times shares 'The critics’ choice of what to watch, see and do this week' and one of the theatre recommendations is

Wuthering Heights
There’s a nod to Kate Bush in Bryony Shanahan’s production, a bold mix of the Victorian and the modern.
Royal Exchange, Manchester (0161 833 9833), to Sat 7

Real Simple recommends '9 Literature-Inspired Travel Experiences to Book Right Now' and one of them is

For Brontë Sisters Fans
If you’ve never read a Brontë novel you didn’t love, you’re going to want to head straight to Yorkshire for a trip to the Brontë Parsonage Museum (bookable from $55) in the former Brontë home. Take a journey through Yorkshire’s industrial history and get acquainted with the town of Haworth where all three sisters lived and wrote for much of their lives.
For an even deeper dive into the inspiration behind Brontë favorites like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, there’s the eight-and-a-half-hour The Brontës, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre tour (bookable from $144). Drive through the Yorkshire countryside and experience the beautiful towns and dramatic landscapes that inspired the sisters’ works, including a stop at the gothic ruins of Wycoller Hall (known as “Ferndean Manor” in Jane Eyre). (Maggie Seaver)

The Arts Desk reviews the film Portrait de la jeune fille en feu.

There’s no room for a Mr. Darcy or Heathcliff here. Men are absent between the scene showing oarsmen delivering Marianne to the beach near Héloïse’s home and the scene introducing the courier who has come to collect Marianne’s second Héloîse portrait (she destroyed the first to prolong their time together). (Graham Fuller)

LitHub has published an excerpt from a Kathryn Harlan story entitled Take Only What Belongs to You.

Esther cannot say exactly when she began to fall in love. It’s not a process she wants to minimize by pinning it somewhere specific, to an exact line in an exact story. But, in the titular story of Housecat, Wildcat, a girl, Tabby, goes away to boarding school and makes a friend, Alice, who is angelic, all gold and loveliness. It reads like a chapter of Jane Eyre until the two girls get up one morning and, without any reason, hold hands and walk into the woods. The rest of the story, its majority, comprises descriptions of survival—building fires with callousing hands, felling an injured deer, sleeping curled like pigeons in the trunk of a tree.

Idaho Statesman looks back on Boise’s grand opera house and the praises it received in 1889-90.

On Jan. 4, 1890: “Boise has not yet seen Charlotte Thompson, but it will not do to miss the rare opportunity of seeing one of the most talented actresses of the age, which will be presented on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday of next week in Sonna’s Opera House.” Of the great actress’ portrayal of Jane Eyre, the Statesman called it “a veritable triumph of the dramatic art.” (Arthur Hart)

Ara (in Catalan) announces that they will be selling seven books throughout the week together with the newspaper to mark International Women's Day and one of them will be Jane Eyre. Generally Gothic posts about Jane Eyre and The Letterpress Project posts about Tanya Landman's retelling. Kayla Cropper posts about Wuthering Heights.

Finally, this month's treasure from the Brontë Parsonage Museum shared by The Sisters' Room is a whalebone corset thought to have belonged to Charlotte Brontë and which gave title to Katrina Naomi's poetry collection Charlotte Brontë's Corset back in 2010.