The Red House saga continues and it's looking ever grimmer and grimmer. From
Dewsbury Reporter:
Plans to turn Gomersal’s Red House into a short-term holiday destination and intimate wedding venue have been scrapped, with Kirklees Council now proposing to sell the site to raise funds.
Back in 2021, councillors gave the go-ahead to transform the Grade II* listed Georgian mansion – which has Brontë connections – into luxury holiday lets, which it said would “ensure it has a long-term future while remaining in public ownership”.
However, after a failure to receive any viable community asset transfer (CAT) applications, the former museum has now had the required funding allocation withdrawn following a recent review of the council's capital programme.
Without the funding allocation, the commercialisation proposal is no longer viable. (Dominic Brown)
Mail + includes a Brontë-related picture among the Pics of the Day which shows 'Conservators David Everingham and Alison Aynesworth restor[ing] 12 oil-painted panels on the Apostle's Cupboard, which is described by Charlotte Bronte in
Jane Eyre, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth'.
Bustle recommends '7 Books To Read This Month, From New Releases To Modern Classics' and one of them is
The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle
C.A. Castle’s debut is a modern queering of Jane Eyre, which inserts a genderfluid protagonist, Brontë Ellis, into a literary tradition usually reserved for heteronormative, white elites. The orphan Brontë was ruthlessly bullied during his tenure at an all-boys school and hopes his new job as a governess at the lavish Greenwood Manor will be a fresh start. The idyllic estate is hiding some dark family secrets, though, and as he becomes more enmeshed in the family, his relationships with each of them grow complicated. It’s a lush, affecting retelling from a writer who clearly loves the source material. (Arianna Rebolini)
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
Every 50 years, a dark witch takes a new companion, never to be seen again. This time, 20 years-old Mina volunteers; her future looks bleak either way, but at least here she has agency in her decision. She travels to a fantastic German gothic castle, where doors open to random seasons and moments in the past. The witch’s only request: that she doesn’t visit her tower. A stunning meditation on loneliness, with nods to Jane Eyre, Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent and Naomi Novik’s Uprooted. (Lucie Goulet)
Q: Who are your literary inspirations?
My favorite living author is Curtis Sittenfeld. She writes with the sort of crystalline simplicity that is nearly impossible to do well, and her characters are so well drawn it hurts. She wrote a book called “Eligible” which is a modern retelling of “Pride and Prejudice” and served as a bit of an inspiration for “Christmas Karol.” My favorite author of all-time is Charlotte Brontë. In my stories, I’m always going for the level of passion and emotional resonance that Brontë gives us in “Jane Eyre.” (Amanda Harding)
While Spurzheim toured Britain—a celebrity lecture series of sorts—phrenology found a new home. Everyone from Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot to Arthur Conan Doyle bought into it. Between 1823 and 1836, phrenologists established twenty-four dedicated societies with 1,000 members, and published a whopping fifty-seven books and pamphlets, amounting to 64,250 volumes. (Akanksha Singh)
“I don’t care if you’re Charlotte Brontë, James Joyce, or Steve Jobs,” says writer Kenneth Womack. “Nobody does it alone.” (Christian Kriticos)
And now for one of the best blunders we've ever had courtesy of
StarsInsider. Its slideshow 'These historical figures were incredibly good looking' includes Charlotte Brontë and the text:
Charlotte Brontë
The English novelist and poet, who was also the eldest of the famed Brontë sisters, was definitely a stunner.
Oh, poor Charlotte.
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