Haworth is a tourist location famous for its connection with the Brontë sisters and the preserved Brontë Parsonage Museum.There have been many period films and TV shows that were filmed at Haworth including Haworth railway station such as The Railway Children, Yanks (starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave), The Wall, Rita, Sue and Bob Too with George Costigan, and Wild Child (starring Emma Roberts).In 2016, the BBC drama To Walk Invisible was filmed in and around Haworth and included a full-scale replica of the Brontë Parsonage, Old School Rooms and Haworth Church at the time of the Brontës on nearby Penistone Hill.(...)This led to a lack of hygiene and disease spread rapidly, so the local parish priest, Patrick Bronte, was commissioned to investigate the village’s high early mortality rate in 1850 along with Benjamin Herschel Babbage.Patrick’s six children, including the writer Emily and Anne Bronte, succumbed to disease, dying by the age of 31.Benjamin’s inspection uncovered deeply unsanitary conditions, including there being no sewers, excrement flowing down Haworth’s streets, waste from slaughterhouses and pigsties being held for months in fenced-in areas.There was overcrowded and poorly-ventilated housing, a poorly-oxygenated and overcrowded graveyard that filtered into the village’s water supply.These conditions contributed to an average life expectancy of 25.8 years and 41.6 per cent of the village’s residents dying before the age of six.The report was presented to the General Board of Health and prompted work to improve conditions in the village.Throughout the late 1800s, Patrick’s daughters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, all wrote novels and as women were unable to publish at the time, they successfully published under noms-de-plume of Currel Bell (Charlotte), Ellis Bell (Emily) and Acton Bell (Anne).Charlotte’s books were The Professor, Jane Eyre and Shirley, Emily’s book was Wuthering Heights and Anne’s books were Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (Liana Jacob)
The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum is hosting 'Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature', which explores Rego's artistic inspiration from literature. (...)The exhibition highlights three of her most ambitious printmaking series: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan, and Jane Eyre, created over a decade. (...)Her work features menacing creatures from nursery rhymes, hallucinatory depictions of Neverland from Peter Pan, and power dynamics from Jane Eyre. (Miranda Norris)
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is one of those books that has been influential in a whole host of ways. Not only has it been adapted to the screen multiple times, but it has also inspired other works that follow its formula. In addition to several silent versions of the story, it has been remade several times during the sound era. Some of the more notable versions are the 1943 version (in which Joan Fontaine co-starred with Orson Welles) and the 2011 version (which co-starred Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender). (Thomas West)
Located in the picturesque Hope Valley, the hotel is close to glorious Peak District walks, including Mam Tor and Stanage Edge, and gorgeous villages such as Hathersage inspiration for the village of Morton in Jane Eyre. (Chloe Lambert)
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJacob Elordi must be a fellow gothic fiction fan because the actor is starring in not one, but two new blockbusters in the atmospheric genre. The second one is Wuthering Heights, which hits theaters on Valentine’s Day 2026 and is highly anticipated among readers on BookTok, Bookstagram and beyond. Based on Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights is a gripping story set on the bleak Yorkshire Moors. Itbegins when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, seeks shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. Here, he uncovers the history of the events that took place years before—events surrounding the intense relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. A dark, complicated yet compelling story about choosing between desire and societal expectations.What readers are saying: “What I love about this novel is the setting; the wilderness. This is not a story about niceties and upper-class propriety. This is the tale of people who aren’t so socially acceptable, who live away from the strict rules of civilization—it’s almost as if they’re not quite from the world we know. The isolation of the setting out on the Yorkshire moors between the fictional dwellings of The Heights and Thrushcross Grange emphasises how far removed these characters are from social norms, how unconventional they are and how lonely they are.” (Melissa D'Agnese)
Mediaset X-Style (Italy) discusses the cultural revival of Wuthering Heights, driven by the upcoming 2026 film adaptation. The article examines how the novel's themes of passionate yet toxic love are influencing contemporary fashion collections by Max Mara and Ralph Lauren, while also boosting literary tourism to Yorkshire's Brontë country.
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