A house, a film and the last Classics major

Halifax Courier reports that the former home of Dr Phyllis Bentley (who also wrote about the Brontës) and where Patrick Brontë also lived for a while is now for sale.

The Grange and Coach House is a stone-built Grade II listed period residence set within established mature grounds, offering the unique proposition of purchasing the main detached home along with a one to two bedroomed detached stone build coach house.

Previous occupants of The Grange have included writer Dr Phyllis Bentley and Patrick Brontë, father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë. (Abigail Kellett)

Time features the story behind the film The Outrun.

Not long after her memoir was published in 2016, Liptrot was approached by numerous filmmakers about securing a movie option for her recovery tale. “It was something I thought quite seriously about: Is this a process that I want to enter into?” Liptrot says. “I remember going for a long walk and considering it all.” She ultimately perked up when eventual producer Sarah Brocklehurst sent her a love letter about the book, offering some ideas about how to adapt it and sharing some movie references, including Andrea Anrold’s Wuthering Heights and the Scottish film Movern Callar, to describe her vision. “The other thing that she was quite clear on was that she would like me to be involved in the process,” Liptrot says. (Jake Kring-Schreifels)

The Lawrentian reports that the last Classics major at Lawrence University is expected to graduate this coming spring.

This year will be a monumental one for Lawrence’s humanities department; senior Delia Lipkin, our university’s last Classics major, is expected to graduate this coming spring. A long string of happy coincidences led her to Classics, a major that she described as antiquated because of the ambiguous nature of the term “classics” — they’re a little farther back than Jane Eyre, she joked — explaining it instead as a field of study on the history, culture, art and beyond of the ancient Mediterranean. (Blair Vandehey)