Your Memory Lane spread of April 24 featured a picture of the bar at Kildwick Hall Hotel, from the year 1965. Illustrations of the famous Brontë sisters and their brother, possibly made of tiles, decorated the bar frontage. (...)It would be interesting to know what happened to the 'Brontë bar' when items from the property were auctioned off circa 1977-78. (Malcolm Toft, Silsden)
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëToxic love, emotional chaos, and ghostly obsessions - no one told us this wan't romantic.
Jean Marc Ah-Sen: When you were 10 years old, what was your favourite book?I.T.: I’m not sure I had a favourite book when I was 10, but around then was when I first read “Wuthering Heights.” It was the only juicy read on my dad’s bookshelf; all his other books were either self-help ones — Dale Carnegie comes to mind — or the memoirs and biographies of African revolutionaries. Of course, I now wish I had reached for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o or Kwame Nkrumah instead of Brontë. I remember thinking of Heathcliff as boyfriend goals!
When Ian McMillan was tasked with celebrating 20 great Yorkshire folk in verse, the biggest challenge was who to leave out.“We could have included 1,000 people but we had to cut it down to 20,” says the Barnsley Bard, reflecting on his collaboration with Ben Crick, conductor of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra.“Ben called me one day and said ‘Can I talk to you about this daft idea I’ve got?’ What Ben calls a daft idea always turns out to be something epic and magnificent.”The idea led to A Northern Score - 20 poems by Ian, acclaimed poet, playwright and broadcaster, set to a score composed by Ben. Each poem pays tribute to a remarkable Yorkshire-born person, from Emily Brontë to Fred Truman.Ian will narrate A Northern Score accompanied by the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Ben Crick, at a special concert at Bradford Live on Yorkshire Day. (Emma Clayton)´
A Northern Score was already performed in December 2024 in Skipton with the Skipton Camerata.
One of the best demonstrations of this is to be found in Christopher Booker’s Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (2004), a study of the nature and structure of stories, where he dissects the Old English epic poem Beowulf, written sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries, and the American thriller movie Jaws (1975), based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel, showing how both are essentially the same story, or narrative archetype, which Booker calls “Overcoming the Monster.” Even more entertaining was to read how the plot of Jane Eyre (1847) resembles in every detail the plot of Aladdin, a narrative archetype named by Booker as “Rags to Riches.” (Ali Farooqi)
La novia romántica con velo rosa que parece sacada de la novela ‘Cumbres borrascosas’. (...)El tejido del vestido era de organdí de seda bordado. "Tenía drapeados por toda la parte de las mangas, espalda y escote. Era un corte sencillo pero no le faltaba detalle. Creo que era romántico pero sin llegar a excesos. La largura era por los tobillos con un poco de cola. Y lo mejor, el velo era de seda en color rosa palo que me encantaba como combinaba con el blanco". Un diseño que pareció una versión moderna de una protagonista de Cumbres Borrascosas. (Paloma Herce) (Translation)
Lines from Jane Eyre for when you need to remember your worth in Times Now News. Far Out Magazine complains (once again) about the casting of Wuthering Heights 2026. The Brontë Parsonage Facebook Wall and the X account of Pedro Serrano, EU Ambassador to the U.K., post some pictures of the recent visit to the Parsonage of the Ambassador.
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