Swiping right for love would have baffled Mr Rochester

Financial Times finds the implications of a new Tinder features quite age-old.

Swiping right for love would have baffled Mr Rochester but the brooding anti-hero might have found one new dating feature all too familiar. This week, some 170 years after the publication of Jane Eyre, Tinder announced that the dating app would add Matchmaker, which enables parents and friends to scour profiles and recommend a selection for dates. Or, as Tinder put it in words that would have made Charlotte Brontë blanch: bringing “your circle of trust into your dating journey”. (Emma Jacobs)

Entertainment Weekly mentions the first uses of flashback images on the big screen.

"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Billy Wilder crafted this story of fraud and murder with crime writer Raymond Chandler. Another film that gave the genre a new language, Double Indemnity is a confession by shotty insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) told mostly in flashbacks, detailing his involvement with a killing and cover-up that saw him pose as the dead man on a train. While retrospective scenes were not new to cinema (having been used in the 1939 adaptation of Wuthering Heights to great effect before), this was one of the first instances in a crime story. (Eric Farwell)

The Sun describes Haworth (or Howarth in their own bad spelling) as a 'tiny UK village that’s like a ‘1940s film set’ with retro shops and very famous former residents'.

Haworth in Yorkshire was the home of the Brontë sisters in the early 19th century and has retained a lot of its historical charm.

Between them, the sisters made significant contributions to the world of literature, including famous novels like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

People visit the small village from all over the world as a result - and many feel like they've stepped into the past, with the Brontë Parsonage Museum among the village's best attractions.

Yorkshire.com explained: "Home of the famous Brontë sisters, Haworth is an undisputed literary mecca, attracting visitors from all around the world. [...]

Yorkshire net wrote about the train and said it could help people "step back in time in the Pennine village of Haworth".

They added: "Wander around Haworth’s cobbled streets and lanes, or take a walk on the surrounding moors, including Top Withens, the inspiration for Wuthering Heights, and feel the atmosphere which inspired the Brontës." (Ryan Gray)

Still locally, The Telegraph and Argus claims that, 'in Haworth Branwell Brontë is said to haunt The Black Bull pub'. And The Yorkshire Post features the Yorkshire Sheepdog Society president.

“The man who took me under his wing and showed me how to train dogs was a feller called Sam Dyson from Ponden Hall, that was the inspiration for one of the farms in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights owned by Heathcliff.

“I remember getting a good bollocking from Sam, he probably took after Heathcliff in that way, but it was because he was a perfectionist. We used to go every night up into the fields and up on the moor. (Chris Berry)

HipLatina features writer Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo.

Unlike many writers today, she describes herself as not “a big reader,” preferring instead to listen to her cousins read to her or recount the plotlines of books they’d read. By preferring this oral storytelling over the reading that was valued in school, she later experienced a lot of shame and frustration in writing circles and classes where names of prestigious authors and titles were thrown around and expected to be known.

“That’s always the first piece of advice writing instructors give you when you ask how do you become a better writer, to read more,” she explains. “But what if you’ve never been that big of a reader because of language acquisition, learning difficulties, not finding books that reflect you?”, referring to her assigned school reading of books like Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Letter, both considered classics by white writers. (Sofía Aguilar)

The Anne Brontë Society Twitter X Timeline alerts us of an Anne Brontë TV appearance: 

Anne Brontë’s A…… G……. (1847) made an appearance on @BBCOne #Pointless today! Alexander & @richardosman, please know The Anne Brontë Society greatly appreciates you spreading the word!!!
Answer: Agnes Grey pic.twitter.com/f05FnCT9jz

— Anne Brontë Society, Scarborough (@AnneBronteScarb) October 27, 2023

Finally, an alert from Biella (Italy):

A proposito di “ContemporaneA”, sabato da Bi-BOx Art Space, alle 16, è in programma il primo appuntamento della seconda stagione de “Le Scomposte”: Maria Laura Colmegna terrà una lezione dedicata a Charlotte Brontë attraverso il suo romanzo più famoso, “Jane Eyre”. (Prima Biella) (Translation)