Swooning over moody moors

National Geographic helps you to plan the 'ultimate literary tour of England'. Not very ambitious, though:

Whether it was Agatha Christie plotting far-fetched mysteries in the seaside town of Torquay, Devon or the Brontë sisters swooning over the moody moors of Haworth, Yorkshire, seeing England through the eyes of its literary greats can offer readers a deeper connection to their favourite works. (Liz Connor)

The Conversation lists some classics to catch up this summer (if you live in Australia, that is):

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea is the last novel by Dominican writer Jean Rhys, who composed it in her late 60s and 70s, after a turbulent creative life in the West Indies and England.
The story is an audacious response to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. It tells the story of Creole woman Bertha Antoinette Mason, who grows up on a plantation in Jamaica shortly after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which ruined her family.
In Brontë’s Jane Eyre, we glimpse Antoinette (or, the madwoman in the attic) incarcerated in Rochester’s house Thornfield Hall. She appears as a deranged being: “it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.” In Wide Sargasso Sea, we see how she came to be married to Rochester and ensconced in his attic – and why she might be deranged.
Wide Sargasso Sea is a book way before its time – and it remains one of the cornerstones in postcolonial literature.
Best line: “Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible – the tree of life grew there. But it had gone wild. The paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell, underneath the tree ferns, tall of forest tree ferns, the light was green.” (Sophie Gee)

This BuzzFeed quiz begins with a question that cannot be easier:

1800s: Which book, published in 1851, opens with the line "Call me Ishmael"?

Great Expectations

Moby-Dick

Wuthering Heights

War and Peace (Angelica Martinez)

E! warns you of books that will be adapted in 2025/2026:

Wuthering Heights

Based on: Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel

Release Date: February 13, 2026

Starring: Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie

Why We’re Excited: Cue the Kate Bush classic, we’re heading back to the moors. Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is reteaming with her Saltburn collaborators—Elordi starred and Robbie produced—for a take on Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff that we’ve surely never seen before. (Meaghan Kirby)

AnneBronte.org discusses Emily Brontë's death and how it impacted Charlotte Brontë ending quoting Emily's The Old Stoic.