Roses in the Loo

Keighley News reports that the Brontë Parsonage Museum has been awarded with a... erm... Loo of the Year Award:

Haworth's Brontë Parsonage Museum was among the winners in the 2026 national Loo of the Year Awards, which recognise best 'away from home' washrooms.

It took the 'top Changing Places' honour.

Museum director Rebecca Yorke and housekeeping team member Zoë Hirst collected the award at a presentation ceremony in Birmingham.

The new fully-accessible visitor toilets and changing provision at the museum opened last year. (Alistair Shand)

Yorkshire Live, Express, and Manchester Evening News talk about the Bradford Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve being recently named one of the seven wonders of the world to visit in 2026 by the travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller:

Spanning 3,148 acres (1,274 hectares) — roughly twice the size of Ilkley Moor — the nature reserve links eight nature sights within the Bradford and South Pennines area, including Haworth’s famed Penistone Country Park, which was home to the Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. (Parul Sharma)

BBC reports the re-roofing of a Grade I listed barn in Gawthorpe Hall: 

The great barn roofing project is the first step in a long-term development plan for Gawthorpe Hall, an Elizabethan mansion that hosted Jane Eyre author Charlotte Brontë in 1850 and 1855. (Emma Stanley)

Boulder Daily Camera announces a new Jane Eyre-inspired theatrical project:

The Dairy Arts Center has announced the second year of its Co-Production Program, a slate of seven artist-led premieres that will unfold across its stages between August 2026 and June 2027, most of them newly developed works that are still ironing out kinks. (...)

“Bertha: A Story of Jane Eyre,” a devised theater work by Olivia Buntaine that re-centers a character whom literature has historically left in the attic. (Ella Cobb)

El Independiente (Spain) lists novels for Valentine's Day:

Jane Eyre

(...)   La novela combina romance, drama y reflexión social, abordando temas como la lucha por la independencia femenina, la igualdad, la moral y la búsqueda de la identidad personal, mostrando la evolución de Jane hacia la madurez y la realización personal.

Cumbres Borrascosas

(...) Entre paisajes sombríos y emociones extremas, la obra refleja la fuerza del amor obsesivo, la desigualdad social y las consecuencias de las pasiones humanas desbordadas, consolidándose como un clásico del romanticismo gótico. (Noemí Vega) (Translation)

Telva (Spain) wonders who Emily Brontë was and how she was able to write something like Wuthering Heights: 

Criatura viva como la pregunta inevitable: ¿de dónde nace esta historia? ¿desde dónde se escribe algo así: no puedo vivir sin mi vida, no puedo vivir sin mi alma? Emily Brontë, como la niebla de los páramos, no termina de mostrarse y solo nos deja rastros. Nada concluyente, nada que permita fijarla del todo. "Sígueme hasta que me enloquezcas", implora Heathcliff a su amada muerta. Quién eras tú, Emily, sino esa pregunta que insiste. No nos la perdamos. (Raquel Bada) (Translation)

La Vanguardia interviews the writer Cristina Araújo Gámir:

Julio Hurtado: El triángulo de Distancia de fuga recuerda las grandes novelas de amor del siglo XIX, como las de Jane Austen o Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë.

C.A.G._ Son las historias que me gustaba leer, y de ellas sacaba la inspiración de lo que escribía en esa época. Siempre tenían un amor imposible, muy fuerte, como sacado de quicio. Y yo quería escribir algo de amor también en algún momento. (Translation)

The Sunday Times describes new fashion trends:

 As a healthy portion of the Style team hail from God’s own county, it’s not news to anyone here that Yorkshire is glorious. Still, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, which after months of hype is released on February 14, may give you a yearning for a wild and wonderful staycation. Though the novel is set near Haworth, West Yorkshire, once home to Emily Brontë herself, the movie was filmed in North Yorkshire, capturing the moody valleys of Arkengarthdale and Swaledale and the village of Low Row. (Hattie Crisell)

Let's begin the Wuthering Heights 2026 section with a reminder of the premiere dates of the film:

 LA: 28 January

 Paris: 2 February at Le Grand Rex 

 London: 5 February at Leicester Square

 Sydney: 12 February at Sydney's State Theatre 

Sortir à Paris talks about the European premiere in Paris. 

Many websites report a hyper-mega-super-duper-romantic gesture of Jacob Elordi on the Wuthering Heights 2026 shooting. On Vogue Australia:

Margot Robbie: “My next question for you. We were shooting on Valentine’s Day. You made my day and, as Heathcliff, filled my room with roses and it was so cute. What did I do for you?”

Jacob Elordi: “On Valentine’s Day?”

MR: “I’m asking ’cause I can’t remember.”

JE: “I don’t think you did anything.”

MR: “I must have done something.”

JE: “No, and you know what? The thing is, I thought you would.”

MR: “I’m so sorry!”

JE: “I think when I did it, I felt like I beat you.”

MR: “You definitely beat me. Yours was so epic… I remember thinking on Valentine’s Day, oh he’s probably a very good boyfriend, ’cause there’s a lot of thoughtfulness in this. You did a lot of very thoughtful things. It wasn’t just the gesture of the roses, it was the thing written from Heathcliff, and that little tombstone thing. I was like, ah, crafts! Love that. It was crafty, it was meaningful, it was dramatic. (Hannah-Rose Yee)

The promotion of the film in Canada (in Toronto, right now) comes with the Steamy Stagecoach:

The life-size Victorian-era stagecoach is designed to look like it’s straight out of the film. Think fogged-up windows, dripping condensation, subtle rocking, and silhouetted hands pressed against the glass, a cheeky, cinematic tease that gives passersby a glimpse of the passion audiences can expect when the film hits theatres. (Mursal Rahman in View the Vibe)

Glamour (Mexico) publishes a clickbait article on the origins of the Wuthering Heights story:

Gran parte de su familia directa fueron sus principales fuentes de inspiración. Su padre Patrick Brontë, un hombre inteligente e inusual; su madre Maria Branwell, quien murió dejando a sus seis hijos muy pequeños; su tía Elizabeth Branwell, quien las crió con disciplina; sus hermanas Charlotte y Anne, autoras de ‘Jane Erye (sic)’ y ‘ El inquilino de Wildfell Hall ’, con quienes compartía la pasión por la literatura gótica y los efectos del sexismo de la época que obligaba a las mujer a publicar bajo pseudónimos; y su hermano Patrick, de quien conocía historias tremendas. (Pamela Vázquez) (Translation)

Other websites unpack some of the recent interviews and information about the film: La Vanguardia, Bollywood Shaadis, The Standard, Ary News, NME, Lifestyle Asia, Screenrant, Bleeding Cool, USA Today, The Express Tribune, Pinkvilla, FandowWire, La V!bra, Netflix Junkie, Primetimer, SoapCentral, MusicMundial, El Decano de Guadalajara, e-Cartelera, Los Tomatazos, Ronda, Revista AD, Antena 3, Meristation, Quién, infobae, El Tiempo, Crónica, Mundo Deportivo, Chic Magazine, Radio Tiempo, Página 12, Minuto Uno, El Sol de México, Excelsior, La Razón, El Imparcial, La Hora, El Pueblo, Telegrafi, Meganerd, Movieplayer, ComingSoon, DonnaModerna, SWR, People, Sports Illustrated...

Artículo 14 reviews Charli XCX's new Wuthering Heights song, Wall of Sound:

La canción se abre con cuerdas orquestales de aire casi terrorífico, como si el romanticismo clásico se hubiera contaminado con un miedo contemporáneo. No hay aquí estribillo de euforia ni la ironía hedonista que Charli XCX sabe dominar. Su voz aparece más cruda, más cercana, casi desprotegida, colocada sobre una producción que empuja hacia lo ritual.  (...)

Lo interesante no es solo que Charli XCX haga un giro estético, sino desde dónde lo hace. En un ecosistema musical que obliga a muchas mujeres a repetir la fórmula que mejor funciona —a mantenerse “reconocibles”, agradables, rentables—, ella se permite lo contrario: incomodar, volver raro lo que estaba claro, poner el cuerpo creativo en riesgo. Y en esa valentía hay algo particularmente feminista: el derecho a mutar sin pedir disculpas, el derecho a dejar de ser un producto estable. (María Serrano) (Translation)

Rock and Pop also talks about Charli XCX's new song. 

Both Mirror and Express, quite amazingly, coincide in something: how good it is To Walk Invisible. Comicbook announces that Jane Eyre 1996 will be on Paramount+ since February. Salamanca RTV Al día describes Wuthering Heights (in the Carmen Martín Gaite's Spanish translation). Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Giornale,  Io Donna (Italy) describe the sad thing that some Gen-Z readers of Wuthering Heights find the book too challenging, and the TikTok tutorials to simplify its reading.

Finally, an alert for today. On BBC Radio 3:

Words and Music

The Victorian World

25 January 2026, 18:00

Marking the 125th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria, a celebration of her reign with readings by Roger Allam and Janie Dee. (...)

The Victorians were greatly taken with matters of the heart, both the familial, which Augusta Webster’s poem ‘Mother and Daughter’ touchingly depicts, and the romantic as expressed in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ or the extract from Victoria’s diary describing her wedding night with her beloved Albert.