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Sunday 21 October 2012

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The current issue of the online magazine The Junket contains an article devoted to
The Parsonage Museum at Haworth is much too sober to indulge in any of that, and you have to tramp off to Top Withens to get your post-hoc fix. You’re guided up through the moors to this ruined farmhouse by carved wooden signs in English and Japanese, and after a mile and a half you arrive at a patch cleared of heather. From here, the raw sweep of the moors can be absorbed from an incongruous bench, placed near the pile of stones that were supposed to have inspired the Heights. Those determined pilgrims who read the plaque carved into one of the walls might find themselves underwhelmed:
"This farmhouse has been associated with "Wuthering Heights", the Earnshaw home in Emily Brontë's novel. The buildings, even when complete, bore no resemblance to the house she described, but the situation may have been in her mind when she wrote of the moorland setting of the Heights". (My delighted italics)
This is one of the great signs of the world – it writhes with embarrassment. It is not translated into Japanese. (Duncan White(Read more) (Via Sarah Granby at the Haworth and the Brontës Facebook Group)
The Broomfield Enterprise reviews Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy:
Written in the style of Daphne du Maurier, Ruth Rendell or Charlotte Brontë, Margot Livesey has chosen to retell the "Jane Eyre" story in a more modern time period (the 1950s and '60s). (...)
This is one of those old-fashioned books that is a pleasure to read. (Kerry Pettis)
io9 talks about Sydney Padua's webcomic 2D Goggles or The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage and its Brontë references:
"Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Economy" follows the Panic of 1837, which bears a striking resemblance to a more recent economic crisis. In "Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Client," Queen Victoria asks Babbage his actual least favorite question about his engine . "Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Organist" combines Babbage's hatred of street musicians with Lovelace's theories that the analytical engine could be used to compose music, with bizarre and destructive consequences. "Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Vampire Poets" involves the Brontë sisters and the Countess of Lovelace's Byronic blood. (Lauren Davis)
The Star (Malaysia) vindicates the The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase series of books by Joan Aiken:
Now, if you like Dickens, and Jane Eyre, and Philip Pullman’s Lyra from his His Dark Materials series and – according to Michael Dirda writing inThe Washington Post – steampunk, you should read Wolves and the other books. (Daphne Lee)
TeleRead lists websites to download legal DRM-free books and mentions that Wuthering Heights is
My all-time favorite novel. A gothic story of the forbidden love between the beautiful Catherine and the mysterious Heathcliff. (Joanna Cabot)
Il Sito di Roberta (in Italian) posts about Romancing Miss Brontë; Palavras de Navarro (in Portuguese) talks about Wuthering Heights; Upadli (in Polish) reviews Shirley; curiouser and curiouser reviews Agnes Grey; ourjourey2012 has visited York and Haworth; Maxliteratura (in Portuguese) reviews Jane Eyre 2011. Finally, some nice pictures of Haworth in Yorkshire Life and on the I Love Haworth and the Brontës Facebook group and of Ponden Hall reservoir on Thomas's Pics Flickr.

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