The Brontës were a weird and wonderful bunch

The Telegraph and Argus looks into some of the forthcoming projects in the Keighley area.

Other projects funded by the Towns Fund will include the refurbishment and extension of Haworth Village Hall and improvements to the roof of Haworth’s Old School Room – a historic building in the heart of the village with Bronte connections. (Chris Young)

The Brontë Parsonage Museum is one of '10 British Houses with Insane Literary Connections' according to Listverse:

3 Haworth Parsonage—The Brontë Sisters

The Brontës were a weird and wonderful bunch. Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne grew up in the northern village of Haworth—a quaint, picturesque little place edging onto the wild Yorkshire moors. Their mother died of cancer in 1821, and they had two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who sadly both died of tuberculosis a few years later.

As their father was a clergyman, the sisters grew up in the village parsonage. Along with their brother, Bramwell [sic], they spent their quiet and isolated childhood entertaining one another with stories. But life was hard, and tragedy was never too far away. Bramwell died of tuberculosis at age 31. Emily passed away not long after. Anne died in the seaside town of Scarborough while working as a governess [sic], still in her twenties. That left Charlotte, who lived until she was 38. Sadly, their father outlived all his children.

The Brontë Parsonage is now a museum open to visitors, as is the nearby school room where Charlotte worked as a teacher. (Susanna Holloway)

Still locally, Yorkshire Live recommends 'The stunning Yorkshire drive with incredible views that is not Buttertubs or Snake Pass'.

This road will take you to the edge of Haworth where you'll turn onto the A6033 Hebden Road which will take you through the village of Oxenhope and fabulously bleak Brontë Country before you descend gradually into Hebden Bridge. (Dave Himelfield)

Whittier Daily News interviews Susanna Hoffs.

Q. Do you have a favorite book or books? 

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. (Erik Pedersen)

Spin features her too.

Songs are also part of the inspiration for This Bird Has Flown, whose chapter titles are taken from song titles—not to mention the title of the book itself. Hoffs namechecks two classics in particular, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca as reference points for her novel. This Bird Has Flown’s protagonist is Jane Start, somewhat of a has-been, one-hit wonder. Jane is kind of a mess when we meet her, doing private performances of her song in the fetish-y outfit from its video. She is whisked away to the UK by her British manager and meets Tom, the romantic interest in This Bird Has Flown, on the flight over. Things proceed in patented romantic-comedy fashion, and in the process, Tom is not the only person falling in love with Jane, as she is an irresistible character to the book’s readers as well. (Lily Moayeri)

Megacurioso (Brazil) has an article on laudanum which lists Branwell as an addict.