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Sunday, January 21, 2024

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First for Women and Kate Bush's greatest hits:
1. “Wuthering Heights” (1978)
Bush’s debut single, “Wuthering Heights,” topped the UK pop charts and remains one of her best-known and most beloved songs. It’s easy to see why: The song shows off Bush’s powerhouse pipes while also featuring evocative, literary songwriting.
The lyrics, filled with angsty romance, are written from the perspective of Catherine Earnshaw, the protagonist of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and it’s hard not to sing along with the “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy” chorus. (Abbey Bender)
Race horses bet tips in Planetsport:
Charlotte Brontë (6) is a three-year-old filly on debut. From a G1 winning family, being by Lancaster Bomber from the stakes winner Demanding Lady.
The Day announces some upcoming new plays to be performed in New London, CT:
Flock Theatre prepares for its 30th annual outdoor summer Shakespeare season and spring show by holding auditions on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 for “Jane Eyre,” “As You Like It,” and “Henry V.
For the spring show, Flock will remount “Jane Eyre,” which had been converted into a Zoom film in 2020. The new production will be presented live at the Shaw Mansion in New London in May 2024. The play, based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, is a new adaptation written by long-time Flock collaborator Julie Butters, who previously adapted “Little Women” with the company also for the Shaw Mansion.
The Daily Express in a glaring display of journalistic research looks into the comments of Tripadvisor users for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway:
Oakworth station is still recognisable from the film the Railway Children. Howarth (sic) is a lovely little town, with many good cafes, and quirky shops, and those selling vintage clothing, and the Brontë Parsonage museum. Great way to travel the Howarth (sic), given that the parking is good at Keighley station (free on a Saturday) (Max Parry)
Tzum (Netherlands) reviews the essay  Over leven, dood en bramenjam; het veelzijdige oeuvre van Anjet Daanje, edited by Thomas de Veen:
Het is opvallend dat in de stukken van twee dichteressen in Over leven, dood en bramenjam de eigen fascinaties belangrijk zijn. Bij Yentl van Stokkum – die met de dichtbundel Ik zeg Emily debuteerde – haar belangstelling voor en zoektocht naar Emily Brontë en bij Iduna Paalman het thema dood. Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris is voor een deel geïnspireerd op het leven van de Brontë-zusters en de dood is een terugkerend thema. In het essay van Maaike Meijer komt de dood als thema ook terug en worden er nog meer verhaallijnen en raakvlakken met andere werken blootgelegd: je ziet meteen de rijkte en de reikwijdte van de roman:
Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris biedt een fascinerende kluwen van verhalen die samen twee eeuwen omspannen, in een mozaïek van stijlen en genres, variërend van spookverhalen tot thrillers, van literaire detectives tot Dickensiaanse drama’s, springend van passages uit biografieën naar brieven, getuigenissen en discussies tussen literatuurvorsers. (Coen Peppelenbos) (Translation)
Digiltaltrends (in Spanish) recommends Emily 2022:
Entre las hermanas Brontë ―algunas de las figuras más importantes de la literatura gótica―, la vida de Emily es quizá la más trágica: jamás llegó a conocer el éxito de su novela Cumbres borrascosas. Esta biopic es un relato ficcionado de su vida, en un estilo que recuerda más a las historias de Jane Austen. Sin embargo, la actuación protagónica de Emma Mackey (Sex Education) es cautivadora. (Miguel A.) (Translation)
The Telegraph & Argus highlights how Haworth's bookstore Wave of Nostalgia was listed in The Times as one of the best independent bookstores in the UK. Listísima (in Spanish) lists the shortest and prettiest love poems, including Emily Brontë's Love and Friendship. Apparently on today's Daily Pop Crossword appears a Brontë-related question.

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