'Weak and twaddling'

The Telegraph has a lambasting fest on '14 cultural ‘sacred cows’ that are actually terrible'. The Brontës get out unscathed but get a mention nonetheless.

With her “what, little me?” professions of modesty, it’s pretty easy to see why Esther [from Charles Dickens's Bleak House) drove Charlotte Brontë up the wall. (I had flashbacks to mainlining Jane Eyre in a week, years ago – as stories of poor governesses, they’re often put side by side.) (Tim Robey)

What Charlotte wrote was:

Is the 1st. no. of Bleak House generally admired? I liked the Chancery part – but where it passes into the autobiographic form and the young woman who announces she is not “bright” begins her history – it seems to me too often weak and twaddling – an amiable nature is caricatured – not faithfully rendered in Miss Esther Summerson.

Hyperallergic features the book Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith .

Grouped into categories such as “Poets and Novelists” (including T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and Franz Kafka), “Reformers” (like Martin Luther, Eleanor Rathbone, and Mahatma Gandhi), “Spies and Detectives” (such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, and Dorothy L. Sayers), and many more, the book catalogs letters, diaries, sketches, scientific notes, and professional outreach from a colorful coterie of historic figures. Much like signatures, a handwritten letter indicates the presence of its author in ways that typewritten words never can. Though handwriting analysis (or graphology) has been largely debunked as a science, it’s still fascinating to see how some of the most resoundingly famous writers actually, you know, wrote. (Sarah Rose Sharp)

The city of Wagga Wagga council invites residents to 'wuther' for its inaugural Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever on July 20th. The Brontës Sisters YouTube channel enjoys the To Walk Invisible 2016 highlighting its strong performances, authentic setting, detailed costumes, and well-researched story, while noting some inconsistencies in accents.