The Yorkshire Post asked readers about their favourite, unique-to-Yorkshire sayings and it's delightful. We are also reminded of the fact that,
The dialect has been represented in classic literature such as Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, Charles Dickens’s book Nicholas Nickleby and the book The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. One other way to keep the language alive is by asking Yorkshire residents what their favourite Yorkshire slang words and sayings are and by the power of great memories and a typical Yorkshire childhood, you have come up with some brilliant ones. (Liana Jacob)
A number of distinguished people attended the church during its early days, including Charlotte Brontë, who attended services there while she was teaching at a school for girls in nearby Healds House.
Charlotte also used to attend services at Dewsbury Parish Church where her father Patrick Brontë had been a curate some years earlier. (Jane Chippindale)
Tatler features Westminster Abbey ahead of King Charles III's Coronation on Saturday.
In the south transept, Poets’ Corner honours William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Charles Dickens. (Sam Montgomery)
David Walsh: What about cultural or literary figures? What was important to you at that age?
JC: I had a rather strong Romantic tendency. I read a lot of Dickens, and a lot of Charlotte Brontë. I was very interested in novels like Shirley [1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë], which was one of the first feminist books about capitalism.
This mention in a review of
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story by
Cuatro Bastardos (in Spanish) could have been more accurate.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Jane Austen y hasta la más trágicas de todos, Emily Brontë y sus historia de costumbres, de supervivencia en la sociedad, son el más claro ejemplo de estas construcciones. (Marco Guillén) (Translation)
Redacon (Italy) talks about Emily Brontë commenting on several of her poems.
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