Celebrating Anniversaries

 On the 209th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë, Times Now News devotes an article to the author:

On Charlotte Brontë’s birthday, we celebrate the woman who redefined female characters in fiction. Her heroines were bold, flawed, and fiercely human, proving that women in literature can be complex, independent, and unforgettable across generations.

On April 21, 1816, in a quiet village in Yorkshire, England, a literary voice was born that would shake the foundations of how women were portrayed in fiction. That voice belonged to Charlotte Brontë, the third of six siblings in a deeply creative but tragedy-stricken family. Today, on her birthday, we remember not just the woman who gave us 'Jane Eyre', but the author who dared to make her heroines complicated, bold, flawed, and fiercely independent—at a time when literature expected them to be anything but. (...)

In a world still learning to accept complex women in life and fiction, Charlotte Brontë remains both timeless and necessary.

Happy Birthday, Charlotte. Your heroines are still walking beside us. (Girish Shukla)

Broadway World publishes some pictures of the current Jane Eyre production in the Little Theatre in Grove City, OH: 

Charlotte Brontë's great love story, Jane Eyre, comes to life with music to lift your heart and set your spirit soaring. This beloved tale of secrets and the lies that secrets create, of unimaginable hope and unspoken passion, reminds us of what it is to fall deeply, truly and completely in love.  (Jerri Shafer)

BBC looks into the Peak District sights featured in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:

Film location scouts agree. Haddon Hall's medieval and Tudor architecture was also featured in Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Jane Eyre, The Princess Bride film, and more recently, Firebrand. (Molly Gordon)

On AnneBrontë.org, Nick Holland explores how the Brontë siblings participated in their local parish, their differing attitudes toward religion, and includes an announcement about the author's upcoming talk on faith and the Brontë sisters (at the upcoming Brussels Brontë Group May Event). The post also mentions the 205th anniversary of the Brontë family's move to Haworth, shares news about the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton opening to the public, and concludes with an Easter extract from Anne Brontë's novel Agnes Grey and birthday wishes for Charlotte Brontë.

Finally, you can watch pictures of the Brontë Birthplace Walk, reenacting the aforementioned Brontë family's move from Thornton to Haworth, both on the Facebook Walls of the Brontë Birthplace, the Brontë Bell Chapel and I love Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage.