Quintessentially Yorkshire

BBC follows the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever event in Birmingham:

A government minister was among dozens of women in Birmingham who took part in an event celebrating writer Emily Brontë and singer Kate Bush.

The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever also raised funds for women's charities as the group joined thousands of people across the world recreating the video to Bush's 1978 song Wuthering Heights.

Birmingham's inaugural event earlier was organised by The Heath Bookshop, in King's Heath.

The proceedings were opened by Home Office minister and Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips.(...)

For the first time this year the event was set to take place on moorland on Penistone Hill, not far from the famous Brontë sister's home in Haworth. (Vanessa Pearce)

The MP story also appears in Birmingham Live and The Telegraph.

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Yorkshire Life anticipates ways to celebrate the upcoming Yorkshire Day:

Follow in the footsteps of the Brontës
From the family home in Haworth where the famous literary siblings lived with their local vicar father, came some of the most celebrated works in English Literature. Now known as The Brontë Parsonage Museum, you can take a tour and explore the rooms in which Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. (Emma Ryan)

The Yorkshire Post interviews the artist and designer (and Yorkshire resident) Catriona Stewart:

Which Yorkshire person past or present would you like to have lunch with?

Branwell Brontë, the Brontë sisters’ wild and mysterious brother. He was a poet and artist who died, apparently from drugs and drink, at 31. But with the same DNA as three of the most brilliant women in English cultural life, how can he not have been fascinating? (...)

Who is your favourite author?

It has to be Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, both a masterpiece and quintessentially Yorkshire.

AnneBrontë.org analyzes Anne Brontë's poem Farewell, which the author believes was written about William Weightman, an assistant curate who died of cholera in 1842. The puzzle is whether the poem was written before or after Weightman's death, with the author arguing it's likely a mourning poem written after he died.