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The Yorkshire Post has an article on Yorkshire's oldest museums which of course includes the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
While some of these museums were originally founded with the sole purpose of educating visitors of the history of cities, towns and villages of Yorkshire, others were built as residential homes for various historic figures. Shibden Hall was the home of famous diarist and ‘the first modern lesbian’ Anne Lister, who inspired the BBC drama Gentleman Jack and Brontë Parsonage Museum was originally the home of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was almost a source used to illustrate life in Yorkshire showing the type of people that live here, their characteristics and elaborating on the stormy Yorkshire moors. [...]
Brontë Parsonage Museum
This writer’s house museum has been maintained by the Brontë Society, one of the oldest literary societies in the world, in honour of the Brontë sisters. It is the former family home of the sisters, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, where they spent most of their childhood and wrote their famous novels.
The parsonage was built between 1778 and 1779 and in 1820, Patrick Brontë moved into the residence with his wife Maria and six children. The stunning moors had a profound impact and influence on the writing of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
The building is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England and was used as a location in the 1970 film The Railway Children, where it featured as the home of Dr Forest.
The museum was opened to the public in 1928. (Liana Jacobs)
MovieWeb ranks Andrea Arnold's works.
2 Wuthering Heights (2011)
In an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights, Kaya Scodelario and James Howson star as Cathy and Heathcliff. The story begins when Cathy’s father brings home the orphaned Heathcliff to become part of the family. Cathy and Heathcliff then develop an intense relationship that impacts the entire family for generations to come. With Arnold’s stamp on the script and in the director’s chair, it isn’t just any old period drama. She avoids cliché and opts for focusing on the characters’ interiority and intoxicating romance. It’s no wonder that Arnold as a director works so well with this material that centers around a desolately marginalized family. (Josie Greenwood)
Geographical reviews climber and writer Anna Fleming's memoir Time on Rock:
Managing stress, headspace and focus is, of course, critical, yet Fleming reminds us constantly that climbing is multidimensional. Her own thoughts range over topics as diverse as the Highland clearances, the long-extinct reptile genus Gordonia and the passion of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. (Joanna Grochowicz)
The Critic has an article on pseudonyms which mentions the Brontë sisters.

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