Wrapping a Dysfunctional Family

Offaly Express lists some of the events of the upcoming That Beats Banagher! celebrations:

The second weekend of the festival, Friday July 21st to Sunday July 23rd, will be devoted to celebrating Charlotte Brontë and her husband Arthur Bell Nicholls of Banagher. The programme includes three films, a tapestry and stitchcraft exhibition, three talks, two poetry readings and two heritage walks. Speakers and readers include Maebh O'Regan, Eileen Casey, Frances Browner, Joanne Wilcock, Michael O'Dowd, Kieran Keenaghan and James Scully.

A news release from Taylor & Francis on their transition to non-plastic wrapping:

Taylor & Francis has taken a significant step in reducing unnecessary plastic use with the introduction of paperwrap for journal print copies mailed in the UK. (...)

Paperwrap will now replace all other packaging for almost all UK journal mailings, eradicating plastic use, with other global regions soon to follow.

Rebecca Yorke, Director of The Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum, whose journal Brontë Studies was involved in the test mailings, commented: “We are committed to reducing our environmental impact at The Brontë Society, so we were thrilled that Brontë Studies was chosen for the paperwrap trial. Posting journals using responsibly-sourced paper packaging is the perfect replacement for plastic. I’m very excited that paperwrap mailings are going to be continued and expanded.”

Daily Kos talks about dystopian homes in literature:

Thrushcross Grange in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, home to surely the UK's single most dysfunctional family; and that's saying a lot.

The unfriendly home of the Gates family on which the orphan Jane Eyre is wished, no home to her. Thornfield Hall where she is hired as a governess seems reasonably satisfactory as a home pro tem at least, but turns out to be goblin fruit. (Clio2)

This column from Times Live (South Africa) contains a Brontë reference behind a paywall:

In my soul and in my heart, I was convinced it was wrong

But I've just had a conversation with Emily Brontë and it wasn't too scary at all. (Jennifer Platt)

El Periódico de España (Spain) lists romances in literature:

'Jane Eyre'

Este clásico de Charlotte Brontë fue publicado en 1847. Aunque a priori pueda parecer una novela romántica más, lo interesante es detenerse en las reflexiones que introduce la autora a lo largo de las páginas. Jane es una mujer independiente que ha crecido prácticamente sola, tomando decisiones por sí misma. Cuando descubre la verdad sobre el señor Rochester, se produce un diálogo muy significativo:

"-¿Ha entendido lo que deseo de ti, Jane? Sólo esta promesa: "Seré tuya, Edward".

-No seré suya, señor Rochester.

Siguió otro largo silencio".

Las hermanas Brönte son únicas porque, pese a lo que el canon literario de la época les exigía, lograron que su mensaje llegara mucho más allá. Por esa razón, aunque el final de la historia se asemeje a otras contemporáneas, en realidad es una novela muy diferente por las propias intervenciones y soliloquios de su protagonista. (Alba Rubio) (Translation)

Diario de Sevilla mentions the recent release of Bernard Hermann's Suite from Wuthering Heights:

Bernard Herrmann, el mejor compositor cinematográfico de todos los tiempos, sólo compuso una ópera, esta Cumbres borrascosas (1943-1951) con libreto de su esposa Lucille Fletcher a partir de la famosa novela de Emily Bronte y su acostumbrado y reconocible sello romántico. Nunca la vio representada en vida (de hecho sólo se ha representado una vez, en 2011, con motivo del centenario del nacimiento del compositor), aunque la grabó en una suite de concierto en 1966 pagada de su propio bolsillo.

Esa misma suite para soprano, barítono y orquesta, en la que pueden oírse pasajes de la banda sonora de El fantasma y la señora Muir, renace ahora de la mano de la Singapore Symphony Orchestra y Mario Venzago en una flamante nueva grabación para el sello Chandos que incluye también un arreglo para orquesta de cuerdas de su cuarteto Echoes. (Manuel J. Lombardo) (Translation)

Tzum (Netherlands) has an article about writers and cats and for some reason includes Charlotte Brontë. We know the Brontës had cats and there are some references in their works to cats (more in Anne and Emily, anyway), but as far as we know that's all.

Over schrijvers en hun katten is veel inkt gevloeid. Ernest Hemingway, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens: allemaal waren ze er gek op en schreven ze erover. (Ann de Craemer) (Translation)

The Telegraph & Argus reports that:

A Community hall in the home village of the Brontë family will be refurbished and extended – with an on-site virtual reality studio being created.

The ambitious plans for Haworth Community Centre on Butt Lane were revealed earlier this year, and have this week been approved by Bradford Council. (Chris Young)

Toscana Oggi (Italy) reviews the film Emily:

Nella sua prima esperienza dietro la macchina da presa, Frances O’Connor si dimostra particolarmente attenta ai dettagli. A partire dalla colonna sonora, impetuosa e onnipresente, capace di accompagnare con vigore ogni inquadratura. Come altrettanto efficace è la fotografia che ci restituisce i chiaroscuri della notte illuminata da fioche candele e la più profonda essenza delle selvagge lande dello Yorkshire. Una terra bagnata incessantemente dalla pioggia, spazio irreale dove soffia forte il vento della libertà. (Lorenzo Pierazzi) (Translation)

Aventuras Na História (Brazil) thinks, quite rightly, that Jane Eyre is a book that you need to buy on Prime Day. La Verdad (Spain) also behind a paywall seems to compare Heathcliff and the Marquis of Valmont. GamersHeroes has an intriguing description for an upcoming game:

A remake of the 2007 flash game developed by Nigoro, The Rose and Camellia Collection is described as “Wuthering Heights meets Punch-Out!” (Casey Scheld)

EyreBuds releases an episode discussing Theology in Jane Eyre with Professor Elisabeth Jay.