Challenging, Unsettling but Memorable

The Telegraph & Argus devotes a whole article to promoting a YouTube channel that has recently posted several Haunted Haworth videos. A sort of low-cost version of Most Haunted for this world of social networks and influencers. Well, if this kind of silly Victorian creepypasta wannabe is your kind of thing, there are certainly worse things you can watch.

A ghost hunter says he has realised a lifelong ambition in launching a four-part series exploring paranormal activity in a historic Bradford district village.

Jacob Haw-Wells, just 20 years old from Bradford, has created Haunted Haworth.

It's a documentary-style series on YouTube that delves into eerie legends and supernatural reports in the iconic village of Haworth. (...)

The series explores some of Haworth’s most intriguing locations, including Church Street, Haworth Old Hall Inn, the Old White Lion Hotel and Spooks.

His investigations combine historical research with first-hand interviews.

He said: "First I like to go to the location and speak to the owners, talk to people that have knowledge on the area, local businesses, people living in the surrounding area, I like to get them people on the show for interviews.

"The series follows real investigations into these locations while also highlighting Haworth's fascinating heritage and ghost stories." (Freya Thomson)

Libertad Digital (Spain) reviews Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but the reviewer cannot avoid quoting (not in a nice way) a previous Jane Eyre adaptation (this one):

No me llamen exagerada, que yo con estos ojos que se ha de comer la tierra presencié en el Teatro Español de Madrid un brutal atropello teatral de Jane Eyre, la obra de Charlotte Brontë donde una mujer –bastante 'odiseica', por cierto– construye su destino y sus sentimientos de espaldas a los corsés de la época y asumiendo cierta humana imperfección, tentativa de poligamia incluida. Intentar convertir eso en un cántico a la sororidad, con la protagonista lanzando salvas solidarias a la neurasténica esposa del hombre que ama y que la ama... en fin. (Anna Grau) (Translation)

City News Service (China) announces a new Jane Eyre musical which opens in a couple of weeks in Shanghai:

Jane Eyre: A New Musical, The Journey to Self

August 13, 2026  to  August 16, 2026

889 Dongdaming Road 东大名路889号

Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" has been given a brand-new musical adaptation, which will be presented to Shanghai audiences from August 13 to 16 at AIA Grand Theater.

This story of freedom, dignity, selfhood, and love is familiar to many. Jane's poignant question – Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? – has moved countless readers over the years.

This new musical unfolds Jane's story in nine chapters. It is as if she has traveled across 180 years to the present, showing audiences through her actions that one can be plain, poor, or even unloved, but must always stay true to oneself.

"Many people tend to see Jane Eyre as a symbol of the nineteenth century; a textbook icon of the 'independent woman,' or a romantic legend," said director and musical singer Jin Shengquan.

"In fact, her dilemmas are our dilemmas, and her defiance is exactly what we long for. Her wholeness lies in her ability to remain self-possessed while also daring to love deeply," he added.

Jin hopes that the musical, created in a contemporary theatrical language, will give this "female epic" a fresh look and inspire today's audiences.

The Big Rapids Pioneer announces an upcoming meeting of the Novel Tea book club at Artworks :

Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, at 3 p.m. in the lower level of Artworks, 106 N. Michigan Ave., Big Rapids, MI

Wuthering Heights

"Wuthering Heights" is a challenging but memorable read because the novel does not offer a simple love story or a clear division between good and evil. There is a dark atmosphere surrounding "Wuthering Heights" and Thrushcross Grange. The reader is pulled into a world shaped by obsession, pride, revenge, class expectations, and emotional suffering. (...)

Reading Wuthering Heights is unsettling because many of the characters are difficult to admire. Brontë does not ask readers to approve or condemn them. Instead, she asks us to think about how love, pride, class, and suffering shape people’s choices. It is a story that stays with the reader because it shows both the destructive power of obsession and the possibility of healing through compassion. (Barbara Ross)

We are not sure if this article in The Telegraph does more harm than good to the fight against the windfarm project threatening Calder Valley's landscapes. This is a list of "historic villages threatened by Labour’s net zero obsession". To align Haworth's fight with a political side is ill-advised and wrong:

Haworth

Handsome, cobbled Haworth, former home of the Brontë sisters, is threatened by the construction of England’s largest wind farm.

If approved, the Calderdale Energy Park will sit on the moors above the village where the Brontës wandered and composed. A total of 34 turbines – scaled back from an initial 61 – will blight the skyline, ruining the special atmosphere of places associated with the sisters such as Top Withens, the remote ruined farmhouse that inspired Wuthering Heights. “People come to Haworth to see the landscape and it will have a hugely negative impact on that,” said Robbie Moore, the Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley, whose constituency includes Haworth. (Christopher Winn)

And just for the record, there are local Labour politicians clearly against the project: Josh Fenton-Glynn, Labour MP for Calder Valley (BBC), Kate Dearden, MP for Halifax (The Yorkshire Post), or, at least, urging for a revision: Anna Dixon, Labour MP for Shipley (UK Parliament, Hansard)

AnneBrontë.org posts about Patrick Brontë's 1850 thank-you letter for portraits of Charlotte and the Duke of Wellington