Witchy Vibes and Windswept Hills

Manchester Evening News looks into the social networks to find the perfect autumn village in the UK: Haworth.

There’s one place which perfectly encapsulates the autumn spirit, and luckily for us it’s only an hour away from Greater Manchester. Haworth, a small village in West Yorkshire is fast-becoming a must-visit destination for an autumn day out. (...)

Haworth was also included in @Yorkshirefi’s “autumn bucket list for Yorkshire” video. She recommends visiting The Cabinet of Curiosities in the village, which is full of “witchy vibes” and heading for an “autumnal walk in the Brontë countryside at Haworth”. Another video she shared features a “cosy autumn day in Haworth”, pointing out that it’s perfect for book lovers. (...)

Since autumn is a popular time to curl up with a good book, a visit to the Bronte Parsonage Museum is a must for literary fans. It was the home of the Bronte family and you can experience the sisters’ day-to-day lives at the museum, which boasts an impressive collection of furniture, clothes and their personal items.

Add a literary twist to your autumn walk and head up to Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse near to Haworth which is said to inspire the Wuthering Heights house. It lies on the Pennine Way and it is a challenging walk located four miles from the village, but worth it for the breathtaking views. (Liv Clarke)

The New York Times lists some unexpected spooky books for the Halloween season.

“I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys,” by Miranda Seymour (...)=

Although almost every aspect of Rhys’s life has been, in the biographer’s words, “pitilessly scrutinized” and eagerly conflated with those of her often tricky antiheroines, Seymour was the first to travel to the Caribbean island of Dominica, where Rhys grew up as the descendant of British colonials whose sugar-plantation-based fortune had long since dissipated. Yes, this informed her masterpiece “Wide Sargasso Sea” in the most literal sense: She knew the people, the land, the social hierarchies, the tangled racial and social politics. But she also knew what it was to be the outsider, the villain, the minor character. (Sadie Stein)

The Bolton News visits Wycoller Hall and its surroundings:

According to records, Jane Eyre author Charlotte Brontë would often trek over the Pennines from her home in Howarth (sic) to visit the hall and the rest of Trawden Forest. (Liam Milton)

Chelsea News recommends Dark Ladies, still being performed in New York:

Did you know that Halloween was invented in Ireland? That’s what the Irish Arts Center is claiming. Families wishing to find out if that’s true (or who would like to celebrate Halloween the Irish way) should get tickets to Dark Ladies, a play based on ghost stories by Victorian female writers like Emily Brontë and Edith Wharton that is running until November 3rd. (Alex Dolansky)

The Sunday Times recommends the reboot of Frasier:

Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s old friend Alan, Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew David and Toks Olagundoye as Roz analogue Olivia promise to become more than makeweight substitutes for the original cast, while jokes about Oedipus and the Brontë sisters prove there’s been no shedding of wit. And if the reboot is not for you, all 11 series of the masterful original (1993-2004) are also available. (Tim Glanfield, Joe Clay and Seren Morris)

Le Point (Frace) and many French media quote from the press conference of Isabelle Huppert after being awarded the Lumière Award 2024 in Lyon:

 Je pense que l'on peut être actrice un peu comme les sœurs Brontë qui ont écrit Les Hauts de Hurlevent et Jane Eyre et tout ce qu'elles ont écrit sans jamais être sorties de leur presbytère", a ajouté Isabelle Hupert, se félicitant de la mission de "mémoire" qu'entretient le festival Lumière de Lyon. (Translation)

The Brussels Brontë Blog describes a presentation given by Joanne Wilcock to the Brussels Brontë Group about Brontë-related places in northern England.  Joanne Wilcock shared images and commentary on locations significant to the Brontë family, including schools, homes, and landscapes that inspired their novels. The presentation covered biographical details of the Brontë siblings and their parents, as well as places like Hathersage in Derbyshire, which inspired elements of Jane Eyre.

A local reader of Wuthering Heights in Diari de Tarragona (Spain). Yesterday's Vox crossword contained a Brontë-related question: "Author of Jane Eyre". The Westmeath Examiner publishes some poems by Brendan Mahon, including one: A Moor's Tale with plenty of Brontë references.