More on tonight's episode of Channel 5's Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire in The Yorkshire Post:
The next episode, which will air on Channel 5, will see Jane explore Oakworth Station, where The Railway Children was filmed before taking in the sights of the historic village Haworth, where the Brontë sisters grew up. During her trip to Oakworth, she meets one of The Railway Children cast’s heartthrobs. (Liana Jacob)
The Telegraph & Argus reports how
A new development of homes on a major Bradford site has been launched.
Northbeck Grange is located on the former Grattan factory site, off Ingleby Road, which was one of the biggest unused Brownfield sites in the district.
Bradford Council granted planning permission for Gleeson Homes to build the new estate in late 2019, seven years after Grattan’s Otto House headquarters was razed. (...)An upcoming fourth site of 160 homes, named Squirrel Fold, is due to open later this year in Thornton. All roads on the development will be named after the Brontë sisters, their family and their works, to reflect their close connection with the village. Road names will include Charlotte Brontë Way, Villette Row, Shirley Mews, Jane Eyre Lane, The Professor Close, Brontë Way, Anne Brontë Avenue, Agnes Grey Lane, Elizabeth Brontë Mews, Branwell Brontë Close, Emily Brontë Road, Maria Brontë Drive, Patrick Brontë Court and Wuthering Heights. (Felicity MacNamara)
Reads to read in your commute according to The Sunday Times:
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
If you grew up reading Jane Eyre, this book is a must-read. It’s a kind of prequel, telling the story from the perspective of “Bertha”, Rochester’s mad wife. But when we meet her she is the beautiful Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway — slowly the English Rochester pushes her towards insanity. The writing is lush and evocative, almost poetic at times, and it’s under 200 pages long. (Andrew Holgate and Laura Hackett)
This is London reviews Emma Rice's adaptation of Wuthering Heights:
Adapted by Emma Rice, the performance is a perfect blend of classic story telling and modernism, combining theatre and music to create a production that is simultaneously humorous, tragic, and enlightening. (Lailah Boateng)
Elly Griffiths rediscovers Cold Comfort Farm in The Times:
Flora also encounters Mr Meyerburg (but Flora thinks of him as “Mr Mybug”), who is writing a book called “Pard-spirit” in which he plans to tell the world that Branwell Brontë wrote all his sisters’ books. Flora muses: “There had been increasing discontent among male intellectuals for some time at the thought that a woman wrote Wuthering Heights.”
The Hoover Sun covers a literary workshop where Rachel Hawkins, among others, shared her tricks of the trade:
Rachel Hawkins, a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books for teens who also had her first adult novel, “The Wife Upstairs,” become an editor’s pick for amazon.com, agreed there’s no right way to write a novel.
“Nobody’s journey is the same,” she said. “It’s both a very cool and occasionally frustrating part of our business.”
She was very successful with her young adult novels, particularly the “Hex Hall” series, but after her 11th book was running out of ideas, she said.
Her agent sent her an email from a book packager who was looking for a writer to write a modern version of “Jane Eyre” for an adult audience, and she agreed to take on the task.
She wrote a 10-page proposal, and the book packagers loved it, so she went about the task of working with a team of people to write the book, which ended up being “The Wife Upstairs.”
Putting together a book with a team of people was a fascinating process, Hawkins said. She initially was worried whether the book would feel like her own, but by the end of the process, it absolutely did, she said.
“Every word of the book is mine. I wrote it,” she said. “They helped me plot it.” (Jon Anderson)
Travel Awaits lists romantic gateways in England:
The seaside town of Scarborough greets guests with the most incredible rugged clifftop views and a traditional English beachside town. The romance of Scarborough is in both its history and its modern outlook on life and love. One of the Brontë sisters is buried up on the clifftop, and the romance in the air swirls around the dramatic landscape. (Samantha Priestley)
Agencia Paco Urondo (Argentina) interviews the writer Walter Gómez:
Hernán Casabella: ¿Cuáles son tus libros preferidos de la literatura universal?W.G.: Los diarios de Anaís Nin están por encima de todo. Un libro que no se puede pasar por la vida sin leer es La montaña mágica. La literatura y el mal, de Bataille. Es un libro tremendo sobre el lado maldito de la literatura en referencia a la obra de algunos autores en particular, como Emily Brontë, Sade, Baudelaire, Kafka y otros genios. Otro libro para escritores. (Translation)
Mariana Enríquez reminisces about her first novel in La Razón (México):
Bajar es lo peor fue leída —en unas pocas reseñas— como una novela de realismo sucio. Con los años, algunos críticos, como el también escritor Elvio Gandolfo, escribieron que tenía elementos de terror moderno. Para mí siempre fue una novela fantástica con noche y drogas. Con el romanticismo de Cumbres borrascosas y la geografía del sur de la ciudad, porque la conocía y, sobre todo, porque por ahí transitan Martín y Alejandra en Sobre héroes y tumbas de Ernesto Sabato, mi novela favorita en esa época (Facundo tiene algo de Alejandra y el trío que acecha a Narval es un poco la Secta de los Ciegos). (Translation)
The Turkish actress Melis Sezen likes Wuthering Heights according to Dnevnik (Croatia). Delirious Documentations posts about Jane Eyre 1934.
