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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The extraordinary silliness of trigger warnings returns to the Daily Mail:
The work of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie have been given trigger warnings. (Sarah Harris)
The Telegraph includes Wuthering Heights in a list of 100 books every early teen should read:
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
A novel that embeds itself in the memory, and set feminism back 150 years. The human genome has yet to produce a teenage girl who isn't a sucker for Heathcliff.
Fox How, Under Loughrigg, is on the market according to The Mail:
Built in 1834 for Dr Arnold of Rugby School, a reforming headmaster who was a renowned proponent of social reform and who is credited with transforming not just Rugby School itself but the entire British public school system, this is a home steeped in history.
Dr Arnold was a close friend of William Wordsworth and it is reputed that it was Wordsworth himself who identified the Fox How site as the perfect location for his friend to build his family home.
After Dr Arnold's death, Charlotte Brontë also reportedly visited the recently widowed Mrs Arnold at Fox How.

It was in 1851 when Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Martineau visited Fox Hill. 

Not the only thing for sale: a cricket ground in Haworth. CricketYorkshire reports:
Do you like the idea of owning your own cricket ground? Well, now you can, if you’re quick.
The former home of Haworth West End Cricket Club, high above the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire is for sale – by informal tender. (John Fuller)
The most romantic ruins in the UK according to Home & Garden include The Hadrian Wall:
Stretching across Cumbrian fells and Northumbrian dales, Hadrian’s Wall still feels like it’s in frontier country, where you might experience a whole year’s worth of weather over the course of a day. From the North, the wall looks much higher than it is, because it was built partially along a huge igneous outcrop called the Whin Sill. Windswept, bleak and massive, the landscape is the stuff of Jane Eyre dreams. (Thomas Barrie)
Keighley News reports how recently
Some of the Keighley area's leading businesses and attractions have been showcased on a national stage.
Seven organisations spotlighted their offering at an event in Parliament, attended by hundreds of people – including senior Government figures.
Those represented were Keighley brewery Timothy Taylor, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Steeton-based Grandma Wild's, the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth's Wyedean Weaving and Chocolate of Haworth, and Byworth Boilers, whose base is in Parkwood Street, Keighley.
The event was hosted by Keighley MP Robbie Moore, who said it had been a huge success. (Alistair Shand)
The Yorkshire Handmade Pies has obtained some prizes and the Great Taste Awards 2022 and the Daily Express says:
Yorkshire is known for tea, Jane Eyre, the Pennines, conversations with strangers, and - now - a famous pie company. (Mared Gruffydd)
Observer reviews a current exhibition by Portia Munson at the PPOW Gallery in New York: 
According to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in the essay Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism, “feminist individualism in the age of imperialism, is precisely the making of human beings.” Her essay refers to Jane Eyre, but, with its figurines, “Bound Angel“ indicates that imperialist assertions of what’s sufficiently “feminine” still litter our coffee tables. (Ashley Bardham)
Narcity seems puzzled to find a comic retelling of Jane Eyre (in this case the MacDonald+Gelev one):
If you're not a huge classic literature, this retelling of Jane Eyre complete with illustrations might be an interesting way into the genre.
Spoiler alert: the original book has some wild twists and turns (a wife locked in the attic!) so this could make for an interesting summer read. (Sarah Rohoman)
Perspective takes a new look at Jean Rhys's alcoholism:
Drink liberated Rhys by allowing her to vent the anger and hurt that always simmered just below a meticulous protective surface. “Like a hurricane. Like a Creole” as Antoinette Cosway observes of her mother in Wide Sargasso Sea. So it was with her volatile creator. (Miranda Seymour)
El Nacional (in Catalan) is fascinated by the Instagram account of the actress Irene Montalà and discovers for us a Brontëite:
Sensacional va ser una publicació que va fer fa poc quan la va enxampar una tempesta enmig del camp i ella, enlloc de renegar, el que va fer va ser gaudir-ne al màxim i agrair les gotes de pluja que queien damunt d'ella. Una imatge bucòlica que va recordar, com ella mateixa va dir, a Haworth, el poble del comtat anglès de West Yorkshire que s'associa irremeiablement amb les literàries germanes Emily, Charlotte i Anne Brontë. (Darío Porras) (Translation)
El Espectador (Colombia) on myths:
Jane Eyre es cualquier mujer que, a la sombra de cierto poder, es considerada como enemiga al menor movimiento de su voluntad, y también es cualquier alma que intenta escapar de la aspereza del mundo con la contemplación de la belleza. (J.D. Torres Duarte) (Translation)
Rolling Stone (Germany) analyzes and classifies the whole Kate Bush opus:
The Kick Inside. Sie war erst neunzehn beim Debüt, doch ihr Barock-­Pop erschien wie ein weiser Litera­tur­ und Historienführer durch England. Heimatgefühle ohne Großmachtfantasie, ohne Geltungsbedürfnis, das unter­ scheidet Bush von Morrissey. Sie klang gleichermaßen nach Landadel wie nach Landstrei­cher, war Musical­, Operetten­ und Rocksängerin. „Wuthering Heights“ huldigt Emily Brontës Roman, den Namen Heathcliff singt sie, als wäre der ein Gott. (Sasan Niasseri) (Translation)
Udiscovermusic, of course, mentions Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in this list of the best songs based on books: 
Her first single, 1978’s “Wuthering Heights,” was released when Bush was just 19, and retold Emily Brontë’s 1847 story in a mere four and a half minutes. With its unforgettable video, the single effortlessly topped the UK charts. Introducing Bush as an idiosyncratic talent with a unique worldview, “Wuthering Heights” also arguably remains the definitive song based on literature.

Infobae (Argentina) quotes from a letter of Charlotte Brontë to M. Heger. Di Lei (Italy) includes an Emily Brontë quote in a list of nature quotes. Today's crossword in Global Times (China) contains a Brontë question. Heathcliffs Girl is a racing horse as you can read in Paddypower.

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