Haworth, N.J.

A contributor to Gibraltar Chronicle reminisces about Scarborough.

There was a panoramic spot that offered views of the sweep up to the impressive clifftop ruin of Scarborough Castle, which waits patiently to greet the tourists prepared to pre-book tickets before hiking up. It is worth the climb to gaze over North and South Bay, and because the youngest Brontë sister, Anne, is buried nearby in St Mary’s Churchyard. (Natalie Bowen)

Writer Rachel Mann has written about her new book The Gospel of Eve on Female First.

So, perhaps part of the reason that I, like my fictional heroine Evie, became a book-obsessive is because books represent a way to connect with a bigger world. One of the greatest things about fiction is how it enables you to inhabit other worlds. As both a child and an adult I’ve adored the chance to escape into the worlds of Lizzie Bennet or Jane Eyre or anyone one wants to be.

Secretolivo (Spain) interviews one of the people behind the Málaga Film Festival, Cristina Consuegra.

J.G.: Has ejercido la crítica literaria, musical y de cine… ¿De dónde te viene el amor por la música y por la gran pantalla? ¿De qué manera influyen estas disciplinas en tu producción escrita?

Cristina Consuegra: Mi familia. Una familia de clase trabajadora donde la cultura fue primordial. Me educaron para ser curiosa, para atesorar todo el conocimiento posible y amarlo, con auténtica devoción —a lo Jane Eyre—, especialmente, mi hermana mayor y mi tito. Mis primeras lecturas vienen de ellos. Los vinilos de mi padre y madre, los casetes de mis hermanos mayores, las pelis en familia… (Javier Gilabert) (Translation)

SyFyWire reviews The Haunting of Bly Manor.

From the Victorian era on, Gothic fiction dwindled in popularity, but several authors continued to write stories that would both reinvigorate and revamp the long-running genre. Edgar Allan Poe was one such name who combined both the horrors of the psyche and the element of decay among physical structures and mental capacities alike. But arguably, it was the Brontë sisters who informed much of the feminine perspective in Gothic fiction around this same time — it's impossible not to think of the genre without considering how both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (published in the same year of 1847) took inspiration from authorial influences that came before them while also emphasizing newer themes of female repression, the rejection of the patriarchy, and the often tragic consequences faced by the women who attempted to subvert established gender roles. (Carly Lane)

Finally, The New York Times takes us on a tour of the other Haworth, the one on the other side of the Atlantic in New Jersey.

In the 1870s, John S. Sauzade, a landholder with a love of literature, bestowed the name Haworth on the local train station, in honor of the English hometown of the novelist Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The borough, incorporated in 1904, is also associated with the actress Brooke Shields, who lived in a rambling Tudor house on Haworth Avenue as a child. (Jay Levin)