And it doesn’t stop here by any means, but we have some of Yorkshire’s, and the country’s, finest tourist attractions in the Brontë Parsonage Museum, The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and the Keighley Carnegie Library; the first ever public library in England.
And
Keighley News reveals that a historic Oxenhope Church will stage a free open day in a couple of weeks:
St Mary's at Oxenhope is staging a free open day on Saturday, September 10, between 10am and 2pm.
The event is being held as part of Yorkshire Churches Day and Heritage Open Days.
Visitors can discover more about the church's stained glass windows, bells and connections to the Rev Patrick Brontë. In 1845 the Rev Brontë sent his curate to Oxenhope to hold services and raise money for a church building. Four years later, the church of St Mary the Virgin was consecrated. (Alistair Shand)
The Wee Review posts about one of the shows seen at this year's Edinburgh Fringe:
Nina in Greenside at Riddle's Court:
There are eleven acoustic songs, with elements of folk, rock, country, grunge, and emo. I could hear echoes of Kate Bush, Courtney Love, Aimee Mann, and Stevie Nicks. The main theme is loneliness and worrying about the future. She tells us she’s finished her English degree and wants to do something with it that isn’t teaching. The subjects range from Red Riding Hood to Charlotte Brontë hopelessly infatuated with a married professor, to blaming herself just to feel in control. (Karen Marquis)
The Pitch interviews Gwendolyn Kiste, author of
Reluctant Immortals:
Nick Spacek: Have you always been someone who read classic fiction? It feels like you have a great handle on these characters from books that are a century old at this point.
G.K.: I’ve known of Dracula and Jane Eyre since I was a kid. I came to them originally through the films when I was young, but then I read the books as I got older and was a teenager and everything. I love the classics and I love how they still resonate and how we can find new themes from them that are still very relevant today. (...)
N.S.: Which versions of the films, specifically, being as there have been so many?
G.K.: The first Jane Eyre I saw was the Joan Fontaine/Orson Welles version. I remember seeing that with my dad when I was a kid and just being like, “This is really creepy.” I wasn’t expecting it to be so creepy as my dad’s describing it as, “Oh, it’s about a governess,” and then we’re watching and I’m like, “This is a horror movie.” It was so wonderfully Gothic.
Angria. Created by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë: Penguin has published the resulting novelettes (Tales of Angria). Nominated by David Crawford. (John Rentoul)
The Guardian publishes an excerpt of
Desi Girl by Sarah Malik:
So that was how it was. I read Austen and Jane Eyre and became mentally colonised by English period literature. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, was my favourite book. She is an Austen heroine who has undergone therapy and developed a healthy anger for the social norms that have forced her into a narrow life unlike what her soul craves.
Jane is acutely aware of the dynamics between herself and Rochester, an older man with wealth and power and her boss. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” Yass girl, I yelled inwardly. It’s only when a fire has destroyed Rochester’s wealth and body, and Jane becomes an heiress, that the dynamics between them are more equal. It is on these terms she accepts him. (Read more)
Trigger Warning: The following paragraph contains criticism of some behaviours of wokeism. Some readers may find it distressing and challenging.
And the
Daily Mail quotes from the upcoming
The New Puritans: How The Religion Of Social Justice Captured The Western World by Andrew Doyle:
With its narrow perception of art and its prudish impositions, is it conceivable that the new puritanism will ever achieve anything of lasting artistic value?'
Doyle continues: 'This is the gang that would happily see Dionysus turn teetotal and Eros fitted with a chastity belt. Artists who are in the grip of this worldview tend to produce bloodless and dispensable plays, books, films and other creative works, which are interlarded with social justice boilerplate. So much of it seems interchangeable, like a mass frenzy of plagiarism. How could such a movement ever give us a Michelangelo, a Bach, a Yeats, a Marlowe, a Brontë? Their half-made bed will not admit such weighty occupants. (Julie Burchill)
Trigger Warning: The following paragraph contains mentions of gay (sorry, LGTBIQ+) behaviour. Some readers may find it distressing. In some cases, reading this material can turn a cisgender heterosexual person gay (sorry, LGTBIQ+):
Key word: diverse. Some parents fighting the book seem to only consider their children. But not William Russey, a father of two.
“Something I have heard at these meetings is the assumption that reading a book will turn a kid gay, and this is frankly laughable. Reading ‘Jane Eyre’ did not turn me into a woman. Reading ‘The Once and Future King’ did not turn my wife into an Arthurian knight. And simply reading a book will not turn you gay — but it may help you better understand your neighbor.” (Nancy M. Preyor-Johnson)
Raindance reviews K.M. Weiland's
Creating Character Arcs:
Weiland takes the reader through the structure of each arc and explains how to shape the protagonist’s narrative through the Three-act-structure and plot points. How these plot points are written and paced is dependent on the arc chosen for the character’s journey.
Each arc is supported with popular cinematic examples, from Classics – Jane Eyre to Hollywood blockbusters – Jurassic Park to Animations – Toy Story and the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Thor. (Hannah Taylor)
There are books about reading. But, despite what inspirational posters at the library may claim, a book is not a physical destination. You can’t literally hide from unfriendly parents, sarcastic teachers or philistine bullies within the covers of Wuthering Heights. Nor can you share communal joy with family and friends in quite the same way. (Donald Clarke)
Books have been an important part of my life from the time I could enjoy just the pictures and listen to Mom read aloud from “Heidi” and the Golden Books. I grew up on The Hardy Boys’ and the Bobbsey Twins’ escapades, somehow missed the Nancy Drew series, and skipped to “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Jane Eyre.” (Barbara McKinney)
Tatler reviews
Mr. Malcolm's List:
The romantic hero of Mr Malcolm’s List is cut from the same cloth as Mr Darcy, Heathcliff et al
Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights (...)
The archetypal Byronic hero and perhaps the most famous, ‘foundling’ Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is described as almost half-man half-beast, with glaring eyes and scraggly beard. Yet behind that rough exterior there is a gentle soul lurking - particularly when it comes to his love for Cathy. Unlike the other heroes on this list though, there is no happy ending for Emily Brönte's(sic) leading man, who instead takes out his misery at losing the love of his life on the next generation. (Rebecca Cope)
Reading is internal, a process of spirt and psychology more than aesthetics, and perhaps because of this, reading allows one type of communion that no other art form allows. It allows a pause, in process, for contemplation and sustained emotion.
We all know the feeling. We're reading along and we get to a moment, the end of a sentence or paragraph, and we pause. Perhaps it's the last chapter of "Ulysses." Maybe it's realizing who Antoinette Cosway Mason Rochester becomes in "Wide Sargasso Sea." (W. Scott Olsen)
Nouveau (Netherlands) presents several Dutch hotels with great views and compares one to
Wuthering Heights exactly for all the wrong reasons:
Denk qua uitzicht aan Wuthering Heights-taferelen: een statige vijver, glooiend groen, koetshuizen en volop rust. (Claudia Wittebeen) (Translation)
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