'I am most distressed about you, I am distraught'

The Yorkshire Post looks at Top Withins:

Top Withins: The derelict Yorkshire farmhouse which is known across the world thanks to Emily Brontë
In her classic novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, Emily Brontë has one of her narrators, Mr. Lockwood, describe the isolated moorland home of the Earnshaws that is famously associated with her romantic anti-hero Heathcliff.
The word wuthering, he says, is a “significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed.
One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving aims of the sun”.
The building commonly held to have been thus described is known as Top Withins, a desolate and now roofless Pennine farmhouse on the east-facing slope of Delf Hill almost 1,400ft above sea level and three miles southwest of the Brontë parsonage at Haworth.
Dating from the 16th century, there is a record of an early owner being one Thomas Crawshaye, who lived there with his sister Anne until it was sold in 1567.
According to a local newspaper report in the 1890s, a thunderstorm caused severe damage with parts of the roof being hurled some distance from the property. It was finally abandoned in 1926.
Whether Top Withins was the actual model for remote Wuthering Heights has never been established.
A plaque placed there by the Brontë Society in 1964 states that “the buildings, even when complete, bore no resemblance to the house [Emily] described, but the situation may have been in her mind.”
It has been suggested that the book’s association with Top Withins resulted from mere speculation by a friend of Charlotte Brontë’s 25 years after her sister Emily’s death. (Roger Ratcliffe)

/Film recommends films "if you like Pride and Prejudice":

Wuthering Heights 2011

Much like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" could be described as a standard of romance literature. Even so, it is not exactly a proper romance novel in the strictest sense. It's appropriate, then, that it was the source material chosen by English maverick filmmaker Andrea Arnold to make a movie that twists and subverts the conventions of the standard period romance film. Arnold's 2011 take on "Wuthering Heights" is not only the best cinematic adaptation of Brontë (sorry, Laurence Olivier), but it's also one of the essential films for anyone who's captivated by the ebb and flow of costume dramas — not least because it adds something wholly unusual and original to that genre.

Dark, somber, moody, and enveloped in gauzy humidity and lurid sensation — like any "Wuthering Heights" adaptation worth its salt should be, yet so few bother — Arnold's film stars James Howson as Heathcliff, the brooding young man who's adopted from the streets of Liverpool into the Earnshaw family on the Yorkshire moorlands, and Kaya Scodelario as his foster sister and eventual lover Catherine. The script focuses on Catherine and Heathcliff's youth and makes some bold deviations from the source material, but regardless of its stricto-sensu narrative faithfulness, the movie — with its trademark Arnold blend of raw handheld shooting and utterly breathtaking visual composition — cuts right to the heart of Gothic fiction as an uneasy yet spellbinding interplay between tenderness and brutality.  (...) 

 Jane Eyre 2011

The tonic of "Jane Eyre" is altogether different from what we usually get out of costume drama films. Adapted from the famously dark, probing, and intense 1847 Charlotte Brontë novel, which revolutionized the literary world with its focus on inner monologue and psychological intimacy, the 2011 adaptation is imbued with a sense of rawness and peril — a feeling that there's always something off, something aching and melancholy, about each scene and each character interaction. At the same time, it's an immensely stylish, moody, and beautiful film, certain to satisfy "Pride & Prejudice" enthusiasts as well as any fans of corset-clad romance who like their love stories a little gnarlier.

A typically entrancing Mia Wasikowska stars as Jane Eyre, an introverted orphan girl who grows up in poverty and eventually finds employment as governess in Thornfield Hall, a large, remote mansion owned by the brooding Edward Fairfax Rochester (Michael Fassbender in one of his best movies). An attraction springs up between Jane and Rochester, which they negotiate cautiously and tentatively for a long time before finally embarking on a passionate romance. Of course, all of this risks being unraveled by the revelation of Rochester's darkest, deepest-held secret. Far from a sunny romance, the film takes after the novel in screening its big, tremulous feelings through a Gothic filter, maximizing the horror, the anxiety, and the sense of impending doom, but also the ardor. (Leo Noboru Lima)

In The Critic, Victoria Smith thinks of Wide Sargasso Sea when discussing how J.K. Rowling is treated because of her views on trans issues:  

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys’ prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, we learn how the first Mrs Rochester comes to be declared insane by her husband. At one point – before the part where he takes all her wealth, renames her Bertha and locks her up in an attic – he tries the “more sad than angry” tack. “I do not hate you,” he tells her, “I am most distressed about you, I am distraught.” Somewhat annoyingly, I can’t now think of this line without thinking of fox-bothering barrister Jolyon Maugham. 

Maugham is also very sad — distraught, probably — about an inconvenient crazy woman who has more money than him. In this case, though, it’s JK Rowling. Rowling, Maugham recently opined, is “unwell”. This is because of her opinions on sex and gender. Before she got into all that, she was totally fine but now she’s not (and it’s not just Maugham who thinks that. Just ask fellow Rochester, Stephen Fry). 

National Geographic lists the 'best bookshops in the UK':

Wave of Nostalgia, West Yorkshire

Located in the Brontë sisters’ hometown, Haworth, this hillside spot specialises in fiction and non-fiction written by or about inspiring women. There are also titles on nature, the environment and inclusivity, plus gifts such as suffragette greetings cards, feminist T-shirts and homemade children’s clothes.

Bookseller tip: Owner Diane Park recommends lifting your eyes from the page to enjoy the panorama: “The view from the top of our hill takes in a winding cobbled street with many independent shops, bars and restaurants, opening out onto moors scenery that inspired the Brontës.” (Sarah Barrell)

The Brussels Brontë Blog posts about the group's recent Haworth trip from the organiser's point of view.