A place 'laike' Yorkshire

BBC News has a clip showing the Chelsea Flower Show, including Tracy Foster's The Brontës' Yorkshire Garden. And The Telegraph (with a slideshow here) mentions it too:

There are some extraordinary exhibits in the Artisan gardens category. The Satoyama Life garden is a peaceful space which underlines the importance of co-existing with nature in modern times. Adam Woolcott and Jonathan Smith's garden is inspired by the Dorset countryside immortalised by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd. Tracy Foster's Brontës’ Yorkshire Garden celebrates the rugged but beautiful Yorkshire landscape which inspired the famous Brontë sisters. (Lucy Jones, Louise Gray and Ed Cumming)

Perhaps people like this columnist from the Otago Daily Times with her preconceived idea of Yorkshire would do well to visit it if they can't go to the real thing.

In 25 years, Jessie Winn, who lived at the end of my street in Dunedin, has never been back to Yorkshire - but she never lets you forget it.
"Oh it were a gran' place, Yorkshire," she says at least once in every conversation.
Or "well yer miss it don' yer, a place laike Yorkshire?"
All I had in my mind's eye was a large batter pudding with the Brontë sisters hovering somewhere in the background and James Herriot delivering steamy calves in mucky barns.
And then I visited Jessie's gran' place and she is right. (Jill Malcolm)

The New Yorker's Page-Turner discusses literary fame:

Herein lies another lesson: the road to literary redemption can be long. Witness the fascinating trajectories of Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Charlotte has always been, as Tom Winnifrith notes in “The Yearbook of English Studies,” “everywhere,” while Emily was more or less “nowhere.” He attributes this not only to the critical reception of their respective novels at the time, but to the fact that “Charlotte was more famous, had lived longer, had written more novels, and had more friends to supply detailed information about her life.” To return to my high-school analogy, Charlotte was the popular one, Emily the retiring wallflower; but, as with John Hughes films, it’s the weirder ones who ultimately prove more compelling. And while different critics with different motives have vacillated between the two over the years, using Google’s Ngram as a proxy shows Charlotte to be much “spikier,” while Emily has had a long, quiet ascent—indeed, in the nineteen-sixties, as critics like D. Crompton and Q. D. Leavis were championing “Wuthering Heights,” they nearly drew “even.” (Tom Vanderbilt)

And the Scotsman mourns the fact that Scotland's favourite novel seems to be The Da Vinci Code (!).

There is, however, no place on the list for any Scottish novels, with English classics including Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Great Expectations helping make up the top ten. (Chris Marshall)

Pinay Traveller has been to Brontë Country.