The point is to make sure we have lots of fun

 Haworth local (waste) news. We read in Keighley News:

Man fined £1,000 after fly-tipping at Penistone Hill

A Rogue waste carrier has been fined for dumping rubbish.

He was working without a licence and left a large pile of waste at Penistone Hill Country Park.

Bradford Council’s Environmental Enforcement Team was alerted to the fly tip in early May 2025 in the park's car park, a popular spot in Haworth known for its Brontë heritage and scenic views.

The dumped rubbish included household and commercial waste such as furniture, timber, doors, cardboard, black bags, and general refuse. (Harry Williams)

Hathersage, one of the UK's most beautiful places to visit, according to Derbyshire Times:

Literary connections

Hathersage has strong literary connections - having inspired Charlotte Brontë while she was writing Jane Eyre. The nearby North Lees Hall also became the main inspiration for Thornfield Hall. (Tom Hardwick)

Ranker proposes to list a list of film adaptations according to the biggest changes they made to their original material:

There Are No Sex Scenes In Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights,’ But Plenty In The 2026 Movie Adaptation.

Emily Brontë’s book is not steamy. It’s tragic, gothic, almost asexual - in fact, the star-crossed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff are soulmates, no sex needed. When society doesn’t allow them to marry because he’s poor, things become tragic and toxic, and with time love becomes obsession, and its beauty becomes withering. 

The movie has some of those elements, but it’s not interested in the yearning, but the lust between Cathy and Heathcliff, especially once she’s married Edgar, showing them having sex numerous times (there’s also a scene with the servants having S&M sex, for some reason).

Director Emerald Fennell has said the film is inspired by how she felt reading the book when she was 14, so it makes sense that the yearning, in her eyes, involved lust. In turn, it logically follows that one of the things she was interested in adapting was creating this much more sexually forward version. (Rafa Boladeras)

The Booker Prizes interviews classicist and Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judges, Mary Beard: 

What book made you fall in love with reading as a child? How and why did it capture your imagination?   

I don’t think I ever ‘fell in love’ with reading. And I don’t feel ‘in love’ with it now. Reading has always been much more embedded in my life than that (as necessary as eating and sleeping… and most of us aren’t ‘in love’ with sleeping). What books do I remember from all those years ago? Any number… Beatrix Potter’s Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, Jane Eyre and the Guinness Book of Records.

Cinemanía (Spain) recommends Wuthering Heights 2011, which is fine. The piece about the film and the novel is spotless and insightful. The only thing: the author seems to confuse Emily with J.K. Rowling in the use of napkins to write her novel.

"Yo soy Heathcliff", dijo Catherine Earnshaw. Y la historia de la literatura tembló. Emily Brontë acababa de escribir (en servilletas, apenas tenía papel)(????????)  una de las novelas más emblemáticas de la tradición anglosajona, una de las historias de amor más infelices y arrebatadoras de todos los tiempos, 260 páginas de crueldad y desencuentro, de desamor desabrigado y escarpado como el abismo que la propia autora creó y colocó entre Heathcliff y Cathy, el kilométrico páramo que separaba Wuthering Heights de Thrushcross Grange, el salvajismo de la civilización, el corazón de la razón.

Podría parecer que una historia así no debería suscitar el interés de una directora como Andrea Arnold, más inclinada –ya lo demostró en Wasp o en Fish Tank– hacia el drama urbano, el realismo social y la brutalidad infantil. Y sin embargo, la directora sorprende con una lectura fiel, que aunque prescinde del armazón más aparatoso de la obra (elimina el juego matrioskal de narradores) apunta a su más pura esencia, dispara al corazón mismo de la novela y empata con ella, consigue lo que Cumbres borrascosas logró en su momento: que al leer aquella historia de amor nos doliera el cuerpo.

Pero su verdadero acierto es que para transmitirnos la esencia de Cumbres borrascosas no renuncia a su estilo, a su manera de contar las cosas. Su versión del clásico es casi muda (las palabras que intercala –"me has roto el corazón, me has matado"– son como puños golpeando en el estómago), la violencia y el barro y la mugre se hacen más explícitas, el lenguaje está inspirado en el de las barriadas de Essex, y su banda sonora son los animales, los gritos, el viento, las palmadas, el dolor… convirtiendo la adaptación en algo más parecido a un poema. Que Heathcliff sea más negro que en la novela quiere decir que la directora tampoco ha abandonado los temas que la inquietan y en los que le gusta ahondar: ¿qué sucede cuando un niño crece rodeado de violencia y sin amor? "Emily Brontë era Heathcliff", diría Andrea Arnold, "y todos podríamos ser él". (Andrea G. Bermejo) (Translation)

Some Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever events: Kent Online, Kent Live, The Cumberland News,.. The New York Times includes the event among the things that bring you joy and delight:

In the video for her 1978 song “Wuthering Heights,” Kate Bush wears a red dress and red flowers in her hair as she twirls, swoops, beckons and poses through a grassy plain. She’s mesmerizing, acting out the aching lyrics — “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy / I’ve come home, I’m so cold” — in indelible gestures that I’ll admit I’ve stood in front of the screen mirroring more than once.

Each summer, locations around the world host “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever,” where people get together in cherry-colored dresses and recreate the dance. Here are gatherings in Melbourne, Atlanta, Edinburgh and the original performance that inspired them all in Brighton, from 2013. Many events are scheduled for this weekend, including one in the English coastal town of Folkestone, whose organizers have put together a tutorial for how to do the dance.

It looks a little intimidating when you see Kate Bush kicking her leg up near her ear on each refrain, but, as one of the instructors in the tutorial says: “The point isn’t to look brilliant; the point is to make sure we have lots of fun.”

Thanks to Ann Shaller, a reader from Orange County, Calif., who’s been known to dance her own Nelken Line, for the recommendation. ( Melissa Kirsch)

Freie Presse (Germany) asks some local booksellers for recommendations, and Wuthering Heights is one of them. Uncommon Content thinks that The Other Bennet Sister is closer to Jane Eyre than Jane Austen.