The Brontë Shield

iNews talks about the filming locations of the TV series Gentlemen Jack:

As well as taking viewers on a grand tour of Yorkshire’s sumptuous stately houses, series two visits the home of Halifax’s new Anne Lister statue, and the moors where the Brontë sisters roamed.  (...)

An Elizabethan manor house near Batley, Oakwell Hall, was used for the Green Man Inn, Black Swan Inn and a Parisian bedroom. Charlotte Brontë visited the hall – which is said to be haunted by the former owner – and wrote it into her novel Shirley. A cosy brasserie in Bingley also doubled as the Green Man Inn. The Old White Horse has been serving punters real ale since the 1800s.

Amble through Brontë country

Who needs the Alps when you’ve got Yorkshire’s world-famous moors? Mont Blanc was recreated in Bradford’s Penistone Hill Country Park, with the help of fake snow. This heather-blanketed moorland is near the cobbled town of Haworth, where the Brontë sisters lived – just 10 miles from Anne Lister. (Claire Webb)

Mariella Frostrup has some reading recommendations for  'young readers struggling to get over a breakup' in The Sunday Times:

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Plain and seemingly passive Lucy Snowe discovers her own power after being forced to move far from home and work as a teacher. Pitted against adversity, she learns to relish independence. Widely regarded as Brontë’s best novel, it became a blueprint for many other books where a heroine discovers that freedom is far more valuable than an imperfect partner.

The Guardian presents What Happened to Baby Jane Austen?, next week on BBC Radio 4:

David Quantick’s smooth, swift script is peppered with jokes, old and new: the sisters are both nominated for a literary prize, the Brontë Shield – the Brontës are “the Osmonds of books”; the awards’ backstage area is “just another tent. (Miranda Sawyer)

Firstpost (India) interviews the comedian Cyrus Broacha:

Lachmi Deb Roy: Do you have a special love story that you would like to share with us?

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with my teacher. She was 49. I told my mother that I want to marry her and we should go talk to my teacher’s parents, but she just flatly refused. Now, many years later, I saw the same teacher and realised that I may have made a mistake because he just had long hair, I just mistook the gender but you know you are seven and impressionable and you know you're reading Mills & Boon and Jane Eyre and all these things and your mind is all crossed up. 

The gorgeous Peak District in the Manchester Evening News:

As well as legends, the village also has literary associations. Charlotte Bronte was said to have visited Hathersage and North Lees Hall is apparently the inspiration for Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre. (Liv Clarke)

Tribuna de Querétaro (México) devotes an article to Wuthering Heights:

Dicen que el amor cambia a las personas, para bien o para mal. No es un sentimiento que deba tomarse a la ligera, y es que hay personas que harían lo que fuera por amor. La televisión, las novelas, las películas y la música se han encargado de transmitir los ideales románticos, en donde el afecto es incondicional y puede ser la cura de todos los males. Las narrativas que giran en torno al amor casi siempre hacen parecer que una relación afectiva es el equivalente a un final feliz, a la culminación satisfactoria de cualquier propósito. Sin embargo, en Cumbres Borrascosas el amor no es más que el motor que impulsó, generación tras generación, una cadena de odio. (Rick Trejo) (Translation)

Göteborgs-Posten (Sweden) reviews the novel En ny gud by Zara Kjellner:

Spelplatsen är ett samtida gods vars pampiga salar och maktfullkomliga patriark kunde platsat i vilken Brontë-roman som helst. (Translation)

Alicia de la Fuente in El Periódico de España (Spain) makes a vindication of Emily Brontë although her data is a bit wrong:

"Pasaba todo el tiempo. Un caso muy llamativo es el de una autora que ahora es muy reivindicada, Emily Brontë. Cuando escribe Cumbres borrascosas lo publica con seudónimo y tiene un gran reconocimiento, pero cuando se descubrió la autoría real se la empezó a despreciar: que no era decente, que no lo podía haber escrito una mujer… Se buscaron mil excusas para negar su autoría".  (Ángeles Castellano) (Translation)

Finally, Ellwood City has an alert for tomorrow, April 11:

Ellwood City Area Public Library

 6:30 p.m. – “Classics Book Group,” will be discussing the book “Agnes Grey” by Ann Bronte through Zoom.

Spirituality & Practice reviews Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan.