Victorian-inspired nightgowns/nightwear in Financial Times:
The Australian label Sleeping with Jacques (sleepingwithjacques.com), which is stocked by Net-a-Porter and worn by the likes of Cindy Crawford and Elle Macpherson, has a Victorian aesthetic, with added sexiness — its Brontë collection includes cropped velvet halter-neck tops with puffed sleeves and corsetry lacing (£280, net-a-porter.com), while its Bon Vivant robes (£299) are a take on the more gentlemanly smoking jacket. (Kate Finnigan)
This columnist from Fergus Falls Journal is planning on reading Jane Eyre this autumn.
Maybe I’ll start with a little Charlotte Bronte. I have had “Jane Eyre” on my shelf for a number of years, but I keep putting it off in the interest of shorter titles. I will still have my audiobooks and book club titles to keep a little bit of variety in my “currently reading” list, so why not start there? (Heather Kantrud)
Wicklow reports on a recent special showcase of music and song to celebrate this year’s Culture Night in Arklow.
Naoimh Penston sang Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ while Denise Brennan dedicated her take on ‘What Colour is the Wind’ to her parents.
Adventure Bike Rider recommends '5 of the best roads to ride in North Yorkshire'.
It took me 28 years to visit North Yorkshire. I intended to blast through on my way up to Scotland, but a simple question struck me as I rode through. Why haven’t I ridden in this beautiful part of England before?Perhaps it was a dash of southern naivety that had kept me away. Or maybe it was the descriptions of a bleak, unrelenting landscape from Wuthering Heights. As the old saying goes, ‘it’s grim up north’… isn’t it?Happily, I discovered that I’d got it all wrong. Far from spending my time avoiding ghostly figures calling out for Heathcliff, I discovered excellent road after excellent road. I’d been missing out on a motorcycling paradise this whole time. (Ollie Rooke)
