The best things to do in Yorkshire according to an updated entry on Lonely Planet:
Take a Brontë country tour
Yorkshire has some of the most evocative landscapes in England. It was out on the wiley, windy moors that Heathcliff and Cathy of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights roamed. It was the limestone scars of the dales that supposedly gave Tolkien (a professor at the University of Leeds in the 1920s) inspiration for the fortress of Helm’s Deep in The Lord of the Rings. And Lewis Carroll and Bram Stoker found their own fantasies in the myths and legends of the Yorkshire Coast.
In the timewarp town of Haworth, West Yorkshire, make a pilgrimage to the Brontë Parsonage where the three Victorian authors lived, now a house museum crammed with 19th-century literary artifacts. Visit the exquisitely preserved town apothecary where their brother procured his laudanum – today, it's the offbeat store, Cabinet of Curiosities. Afterward, you can strike out over Haworth Moor for the 2.75-mile hike to the Brontë Waterfall. (Lorna Parkes)
The Lineup gives you the chance to win an advanced reader copy of Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste:
For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.
Evolution News & Science Today talks about the divinization of Nature, quoting from Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe by Ronald Hutton:
The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne too conceived of Nature as a mighty female deity, embodying and creating the universe itself. Hutton also points to the example of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre whose eponymous heroine, finding herself one night alone and sleeping rough on a moor, is comforted by the thought of Nature, conceived of as a maternal figure, and by that of a loving God, as Nature’s creator. In such ways did Natura remain “resiliently adaptable” up to Darwin’s day and beyond. (Neil Thomas)
The most iconic women of the 80s according to Honey include Kate Bush:
Her debut album, The Kick Inside launched Bush into pop stardom in 1978. It features the hit song 'Wuthering Heights' where, inspired by the Brontë book, she is depicted as a ghost haunting an English moore. The song topped the UK and Australian charts, making her the first British woman to reach number one on the UK charts with a self-written song. (Nikolina Koevska Kharoufeh)The Times recommends some paperbacks:
How to Be Well Read: A guide to 500 Great Novels and a Handful of Literary Curiosities by John SutherlandScreenrant continues posting about Bridgerton:
John Sutherland has been teaching English literature to university students for half a century. Now he’s put the “common reader” in the classroom in this capacious, witty guide to all the books you should read to claim the epithet “well-read”. You might be surprised by some of the titles that get a look-in: EL James and JK Rowling rub shoulders with Tolstoy and Dickens; Jane Eyre is listed next to Jaws. Each book gets a potted plot summary and a lively squirt of literary analysis, plus intriguing nuggets about the way reading tastes have changed through time (“George Eliot was, my tutor informed me, the kind of novelist evangelicals permitted their children to read on a Sunday”), all told in Sutherland’s breezy, intelligent voice.
There's a rich vein of Regency dramas featuring problematic men who ultimately find redemption, and Page's comments also include praise for how well Simon was redeemed, given that he was the ultimate "Regency f**kboy". In that respect, he would sit alongside Mr Darcy, Heathcliff, and Bridgerton's own Anthony Bridgerton, the true rake in residence. (Simon Gallagher)Les Inrockuptibles publishes the obituary of the producer Marine Marignac (1946-2022), producer among many others of Jacques Rivette and, consequently, of Hurlevent 1985. The Haworth clamper saga is turning disturbing, Daily Mail reports.
