Not enough Annes

The Telegraph & Argus (EDIT: and the Ilkley Gazette) gives more details about the Soundlandscape: Wild Hauntings on the Moor audio piece commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

The Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth has joined forces with Ilkley Literature Festival to commission Soundlandscape: The Wild Hauntings on the Moor.

Obscura Theatre has created an audio piece and accompanying illustrated maps exploring the landscapes and supernatural themes that run through many Brontë stories.

Produced to tie in with the parsonage museum's Year of the Wild initiative and as part of Ilkley Literature Festival's 50th anniversary celebrations, the piece is in two parts, set across different time periods and landscapes. A Dream of Death is set in Haworth in 1823, and Shadows on Shadows in Ilkley 150 years later.

Both stories have been developed by director Beth Knight with Obscura's writer, composer and sound designer Patch Middleton and director and producer Emily Oulton.

The audio is designed to be downloaded and listened to while walking in the relevant landscape.

Using headphones and a map, people can listen to and be guided by narrative performed by actors Riana Duce and Olivia Sweeney.

Sassy Holmes, programme officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: "Soundlandscape is a mysterious and thrilling audio experience.

"Gothic in tone to mirror the Brontës’ work, the commission ties in brilliantly with our Year of the Wild, tapping into local folklore and venturing out into our stunning Yorkshire landscape. (...)

The project – funded by Arts Council England and Ilkley Town Council – will be launched on Saturday (July 29), Emily Brontë's birth date, and will continue until the literature festival in October. (Alistair Shand)

A book signing in Leavenworth, WA (in A book for all Seasons) by Tim Whittombe is mentioned in The Wenatchee World:

The first of two Leavenworth authors to appear for a book signing wrote works about Anne Frank and Anne Brontë after devoted research.

Tim Whittome joked that he might keep the "Annes" going with Anne Shirley from “Anne of Green Gables” next because “it is another important book for an adopted child,” he said, in reference to his third book series about his adopted daughter, which he calls an instructional memoir trilogy.

The collective book is Walking with Anne Brontë: Insights and Reflections and will be published sometime around 2023 or 2024. By the way, the other signing author, Amy Wolf, has also a Brontë-related past, In 2015 she published The Misses Brontë's Establishment.

The Craven Herald & Pioneer has an alert for you:

There will be an opportunity to take a look round Skipton's closed Victorian burial ground at an open day on Saturday (July 29).

Raikes Road Burial Ground was opened between1846 and 1876, with the last burials taking place in around 1900. It contains the graves of Skiptonians such as Rudyard Kipling’s grandparents and the Reverend William Cartman, who officiated at Charlotte Brontë’s funeral. (Lesley Tape)

Collider revisits the film Haunted Mansion 2003: 

For a movie whose major set pieces hinge on the cheesy jokes typical of early aughts Disney Channel, it’s a surprisingly dark plot, plucked more from the pages of a Brontë novel than a Disney film. (Ironic, given Parker once played a version of Mr. Rochester.) (Maggie Boccella)

Well, yes and no. Nathaniel Parker played a Mr Rochester but in the Wide Sargasso Sea 1993 adaptation of the novel of Jean Rhys,

The Bookseller talks about a new fantasy romance to be published:

Orbit has acquired a new series from S T Gibson, author of A Dowry of Blood and the upcoming dark academia romance An Education in Malice (also Orbit). (...)

The series is described as “Wuthering Heights meets The Cruel Prince (Hot Key Books), a luscious fantasy romance set in the Scottish Highlands featuring fairy bargains, crumbling old mansions and multiple steamy romances". (Lauren Brown)

The Times's My Cultural Fix interviews the musician  Isata Kanneh-Mason:

The book I’m ashamed I haven’t read

Wuthering Heights. It’s my mother’s favourite book and she gave it to me to read years ago. It’s sat on the shelf ever since. I really should pick it up.

Arts Hub describes the recent  Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition (ACVC) in Townsville:

Oozing confidence, and filling the stage with his presence and a demonstrable stage experience, Brisbane tenor Sebastian Maclaine won the competition with a program that saw him sing in English, German, French and Italian. His arias saw him explore various emotional states from the tenderness of Bernard Herrmann’s ‘Now art thou dear’ from Wuthering Heights, to the solemnity of ‘Lieux funestes’ from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Dardanus, to the declaration of love at first sight in ‘Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön’ from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, to the final ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ from Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amore. (Trevor Keeling)

PopSugar is already recommending books for a cosy fall day:

My Plane Jane

Jane Eyre is a superb Fall read, but it's nowhere near as cosy as Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows's clever retelling My Plain Jane. This version still has Mr. Rochester and a Gothic mansion, but it also has Jane communing with ghosts and hanging out with Charlotte Brontë, which is a major upgrade, in our opinion. (Sabienna Bowman)

Ok. Sure.

Corriere del Ticino (Switzerland) and the eternal question, literature and genre:

Di nuovo mi sento in sintonia con il pensiero di Virginia Woolf quando dice: «Nelle mani delle donne la parola romanzo ha rischiato di deformarsi», e lo testimoniano, contro l'opera incandescente di una Jane Austen o di una Emily Brontë, i romanzi di Charlotte Brontë, «contorti» dalla sua rabbia e gli altri, innumerevoli romanzi femminili, inutilizzati nelle biblioteche come «piccole mele marce». (Nicoletta Barazzoni) (Translation)

Eyre Buds reviews in their podcast, the Spanish TV adaptation Jane Eyre 1971. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle features a future bookstore owner and probable Brontëite. Pinkvilla publishes "heart-touching" quotes, including one by Emily. DiLei (Italy) has also a quote by Charlotte Brontë.