Lancaster Guardian gives 3 out of 5 stars to
What the Brontës Did at the Fringe as seen during the Morecambe Fringe festival.
What the Brontes did at the fringe/Pauline Vallance
Storytelling and music Pauline an Award-winning singer-songwriter provided originality in this her first scripted show. Her undoubted love and knowledge of the Brontes added a fine lustre to her performance. What gave great interest to the show was the clever introduction of the lives of the Brontë Sisters to the modern World. The character of Charlotte Brontë narrated this journey along with her reaction to the literary scene. What raised this whimsical fantasy was the introduction of some wonderful themed songs accompanied by the Harp. The delivery was pitched light enough to stop the sadness of their lives from being mordent. Enjoyable and enlightening.3/5 (Bryan Griffin)
The Telegraph highlights 'The secret corner of rural Yorkshire that's perfect for staycations'.
There is superb walking on either side of the valley. South, along the Pennine and Calderdale Ways, are the characterful villages of Lumbutts and Mankinholes, and Marsden Moor, owned by the National Trust. North, the Pennines have a clear run all the way to Malham, to Scotland really. The cleft of Hardcastle Crags and the moor-hopping route to Haworth can be combined into a good day walk, with Top Withens (aka Wuthering Heights) en route. (Chris Moss)
The Telegraph also wonders why
Wuthering Heights is still so popular today and asks readers to submit their opinions.
This month, our readers voted to celebrated Emily Brontë’s birthday by reviewing her only novel Wuthering Heights, which tells the doomed love story of Cathy and Heathcliff's self-destructive relationship amidst the wild, feral atmosphere of the Yorkshire moors. First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was considered strange and immoral by many of its reviewers, but it is now a popular classic of English literature.
To send us your review of Brontë’s classic novel, fill in the form below to tell us what you liked or disliked about the book, what ideas and moments stood out for you and why you think the book is so popular today. Don’t forget to give your star rating out of five. We will publish a selection of the best responses in a Telegraph article. (Rachel Avery)
The idea of unreliable narrators wasn’t new even in 1938, when Daphne Du Maurier wrote the novel on which the films were based. Back in 1847, Emily Brontë introduced us to Nelly, the biased, gossipy and ultimately villainous servant girl, on whose story Mr. Lockwood depends for narrating “Wuthering Heights” . (Barbara Lane)
The Past features the complicated times that the BBC went through during the Second World War.
Winston Churchill was no friend of the BBC in the 1930s, as it repeatedly kept him off the airwaves because his view of the need for rearmament was out of line with government policy. He called Reith, the tall, high-minded, and haughty Director-General, ‘Old Wuthering Heights’. (Taylor Downing)
La Razón (Spain) reviews the book
Muy al norte en el turbio mar by Toni Montesinos, a look at British literature.
No se descuida el creciente protagonismo autoral femenino, abordando tan significativas escritoras como Jane Austen, las hermanas Brontë, Mary Wollstonecraft o Virginia Woolf. (Jesús Ferrer) (Translation)
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