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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Keighley News has an article on this year's exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The Brontës' Web of Childhood opens next week.
The Brontës Web of Childhood will explore how siblings Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell were shaped as writers during the early years of their lives.
Included in the exhibition, which begins next Thursday (February 1) at Haworth's Brontë Parsonage Museum and will run until New Year's Day 2025, are items never previously displayed in public.
Charlotte’s christening cap, on loan from a private collection, is being exhibited for the first time.
Also debuting at the museum are letters, previously held in the Blavatnik Honresfield Library, which show Charlotte’s intimate thoughts on death and mortality.
Diaries, portraits, schoolbooks and toys belonging to and created by the family as children will be on display, alongside several of the 'little books' – smaller than a matchbox – created by Branwell and Charlotte for their toy soldiers.
Ann Dinsdale, principal curator at the museum, says: "We can clearly see the impact of the real lives of each of the Brontës in their later work, whether that’s in their creation of characters – motherless children, strong independent women – or situations, such as harsh schooling or the death of a child from tuberculosis. The siblings lost their mother and two oldest sisters before any of the four remaining children reached their tenth birthdays.
"Patriarch Patrick Brontë encouraged a rich, if unconventional, education for all his children – significantly for the time including the girls – and this, along with their fantastical imaginations, allowed each of the children to develop their incredible talents."
Alongside the exhibition, a new textile installation – Tactile Turmoil – by artist Ellie Brennan, is being displayed. Visitors are encouraged to touch the artworks, which comprise a collection of large rug-like pieces. The work was inspired by the Brontë sisters’ first impressions of their new home when they moved to Haworth from Thornton in 1820.
Throughout the year, the museum will host a number of events reflecting what's known about the siblings' childhood.
Storyteller Sophia Hatfield will share folk tales inspired by the servants who lived in the house, and the stories they may have told the children.
And the annual Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing in September will centre around contemporary children's and young adult writers, bringing some of the UK’s best to Haworth. (Alistair Shand)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reviews Rachel Hawkins's new thriller, The Heiress, and finds parallels with Wuthering Heights.
Fans of Emily Brontë's “Wuthering Heights” will be drawn into the gothic setting of the iconic McTavish home. Nestled on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, the Ashby House is a “fortress on a mountain made of thick gray stone and tall windows, surrounded by trees on three sides and behind the house, nothing but treetops and clouds and sky.” In disrepair and seemingly haunted, it provides a spooky environment for the McTavish heirs to duke out their legacy woes. (Leah Tyler)
Hey U Guys features the 20th Edition of Glasgow Film Festival (February 28th to March 10th).
The retrospective programme, Our Story So Far, will show classic titles from each anniversary in Glasgow Film’s history including Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights and Young Frankenstein to name but a few. (Thomas Alexander)
A contributor to LitHub writes about his aunt.
My aunt was one of my first idols. She lived and worked in Manhattan—her apartment and office both crowded by long shelves and tall piles of books: books on every table, books under every table, books beside the bed, books on top of the bed. She’d even written the foreword to a leather-bound, gilt-edged, woodcut-illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights, which takes pride of place on my bookshelf to this day. (Zachary Pace)

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