2025 at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Keighley News announces what to expect at the Brontë Parsonage Museum this year:

A packed programme of events begins with the opening of From Haworth to Eternity: the Enduring Legacy of the Brontës, on February 1.

As filming gets underway for the latest Brontë screen adaptation – Emerald Fennell’s version of Wuthering Heights – the exhibition will focus on how the many previous film and TV adaptations of Charlotte, Emily and Anne's novels have impacted the village.

Also being launched that day is improved visitor provision at the museum – its first fully-accessible toilets and Changing Places facility, whose opening will be marked with a free talk about the Brontës' experience of hygiene and sanitation.

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: "2025 is an incredibly exciting year for us as we join the rest of Bradford district to celebrate our time in the spotlight as UK City of Culture.

"As well as a packed programme of exhibitions, events and activities, plus our new visitor facilities, we’ll be taking a closer look at perceptions of the family and its home as seen through the eyes of other writers, filmmakers and literary tourists over the last century and more.

"It’s entirely appropriate that the Brontës and the village where they lived and wrote their world-renowned novels and poetry continue to be celebrated over 200 years after they were born."

Ann Dinsdale, the museum's principal curator, says: "The first literary tourists started to appear in Haworth in around 1851, following the publication of Jane Eyre. From then on, the village became a place of pilgrimage, increasingly so with each and every screen adaptation.

"In From Haworth to Eternity, we can look back on the first of these – filmed in Haworth in 1920 – through flyers and photographs saved in our collection, continuing to one of the most recent, Sally Wainwright’s To Walk Invisible."

The 2025 museum programme will include a range of talks, in person and online.

Amongst those featuring in the online events are author, 'BookTuber' and chair of the Brontë Society trustees, Lucy Powrie; award-winning playwright and theatre director Polly Teale, and Dean de la Motte, author of Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë.

There'll also be family-friendly activities during school holidays. (Alistair Shand)

House & Garden shares 'an extremely comprehensive travel guide' to Yorkshire.

Not far from Salts Mill is the seasonally open East Riddlesden Hall, where the 2009 BBC adaptation of Wuthering Heights was filmed. The Brontës themselves didn’t live far from there – their former family home in Haworth, the Brontë Parsonage Museum, can be visited. (Fiona McKenzie Johnston)

Writer  Layne Fargo has contributed an article to LitHub.

In my latest novel, The Favorites, I wanted to write about this dynamic in a way I haven’t seen much in fiction. My champion ice dancer heroines Katarina and Bella both want to win, and they aren’t shy about saying so.

They aren’t your typical cutthroat frenemies, though. Sure, there’s some sabotage and drama (I mean, it is a figure skating saga loosely based on Wuthering Heights.…), but through it all the two women celebrate their mutual ambitions and drive each other to keep leveling up. Together, they reach greater heights than they could ever have alone.

The Independent is one of those news sites already mentioning the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights as miscast.

Consider, for instance, the forthcoming movie adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, from Saltburn director Emerald Fennell. While the film is still in the early stages of production, fans have loudly criticised the casting of its lead characters, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The famous literary figures will be played by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi respectively.

Audiences will have to wait until the film is out in cinemas to determine whether or not the “miscasting” allegations hold water. (Louis Chilton)

A columnist from La opinión de Murcia (Spain) writes about reading Wuthering Heights.