Proper Yorkshire, at its impeccable best

Both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights make it onto a list of '10 Must-Read Timeless Romance Novels Filled With Tender Love' compiled by Menafn.

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Secret, suffering, and social pressure were all involved in this triumph of love in the setting of a gothic romance: that of Jane and Mr. Rochester. It is tender yet also uplifting. [...]

5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A wildly passionate but ultimately tragic love affair, the relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine is the depiction of passion, obsession, and complexity in the human heart.

The Yorkshire Post asks all things Yorkshire to Phil Hargreaves, director of Hull’s Freedom Festival.

Name your favourite Yorkshire book/author/artist/CD/performer.

Anything by those remarkable Brontë sisters, because of their wild and unfettered imaginations. They were kicking over traces, and they were wildly innovative before their time. [...]

If a stranger to Yorkshire only had time to visit one place, it would be?

Haworth. For its cobbled streets, sense of community and proximity to the moors. The history, the atmosphere. Proper Yorkshire, at its impeccable best. (Phil Penfold)

Music Radar has an article on Kate Bush's beginnings. AnneBrontë.org has a post on the books George Smith sent from London to the sisters in Haworth.