Brontë replicas

Keighley News reports that the Brontë Society will receive a grant from Bradford Council to produce replicas of items in the collection.

The Bronte Society is among eight organisations across the district to share in a £50,000 funding pot.

The society will use the arts, culture and heritage grant from Bradford Council to produce replicas of itëms from the Haworth museum for a 'mobile resource'.

A spokesperson said: "We will commission an artist and/or prop maker to create a number of artefacts that replicate, or are inspired by, items in our collection.

"These artefacts will then form a versatile and transportable resource to be used by staff, volunteers and commissioned artists in future creative activities and cultural engagement beyond the parsonage walls.

"In addition, the items will serve as an accessible and tactile learning resource and also create meaningful opportunities for visually-impaired museum visitors to engage with the collections through touch and other senses." (Alistair Shand)

Lancashire Telegraph recommends 'Five walks in Lancashire with a nearby cafe or pub' and one of them is

The Brontë’s Trail, Pendle

If you love walking and you’re a bit of a bookworm, why not head to the Brontë’s Trail in Pendle.

The Brontë sisters spent a lot of their time exploring Lancashire and the South Pennine Moors.

This walking route begins in the heart of the Trawden Forest and allows walkers to see historic farmhouses and woodland.

It will take around five hours to complete and walkers will even encounter the remains of Wycoller Hall on the route.

The walk starts neat The Trawden Arms and The Old Rock Café.

If you want to grab a drink or a nibble for the journey, The Lakeside Cafe on Ball Grove Drive, Colne could be a great stop off point. 

They are open 9am-4pm on Mondays and 10am-4pm every other day of the week. (Chloe Wilson)

The Guide Liverpool features Mooncup Theatre Company's Off Your Bonnet at Shakespeare North Playhouse.

A new theatre piece from Mooncup Theatre explores the themes of isolation, feminism and imagination through the parallel of our modern world, and the world that the Brontë sisters inhabited. [...]

Martyna Puciato said: 

“It is a play about 3 lovely ladies stuck in a flat during lockdown… we all remember that don’t we? And it ends up getting a little bit bonkers to be honest. The ladies start feeling like they are the original queens of isolation, which is Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. 

“If you know that gorgeous bit of literature, you can only imagine what begins to happen in the second act… but we’re not giving any of that away… but just pure madness.” [...]

What’s it about?

Lockdown hit, isolation began, and it was all a bit grim wasn’t it?

When three young women are stuck in the confines of their tiny flat with not much but their imaginations, each other’s company, an Ouija board and costume cupboard to entertain them, they decide to turn to the inspiration of the OG queens of isolation, The Brontë Sisters, and things start to get a little bit silly. Spirits are consumed and summoned as they immerse themselves in Brontëland and before long it’s hard to distinguish between the facts and the fiction….

A contributor to The Washington Post writes about reading Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa: Or The History of a Young Lady because of TikTok, where 'Henry Eliot, a freelance editor and podcaster for Penguin books, is hosting a year-long read-along of “Clarissa.”'

I joined the group in January, and while tackling a book of this size and complexity might have daunted me in the past, this read-along has made the task more digestible and, well, fun. As a writer, I love to read — and talk about — books, and there’s a real infectious joy in Eliot’s “Clarissa” recaps, which offer insight and encouragement along with context. For me, an unabashed lover of the great female novelists of the 19th century, including Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and George Eliot, it’s also a chance to experience a book that would have influenced their writings. (Kristen Hartke)

Tellyvisions features the screen adaptation of The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

“I grew up obsessed with books,” author Sara Collins tells Telly Visions. “And then for a period during my teenage years, obsessed with Gothic romances in particular — Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, all the Brontës essentially. I reread them every summer. But it was this gap that really troubled me — though I’d absorbed all this literature, nothing in that literature had anything to do with someone like me or where I was from. I mean, you could argue Jane Eyre nods at it, but from a completely different perspective.” (Lacy Baugher)

Daily Utah Chronicle has an article in appreciation of the University of Utah Arts buildings.

“If you look at the Arts building, it’s very run down and the sinks don’t work, and then the U will use the funding for the stadium,” she said. “Not even just at the U, in general [the arts] are definitely seen as less valuable.”

This dichotomy can be seen while walking from the shiny Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, down the inaccessible path to the industrial Arts and Architecture building which opened in 1971. There, the doors are two slabs of wood with chipping paint, the walls are all a muted gray and the windows have grown dingy with age. The same can be said of the brown labyrinth they call the LNCO building. It’s almost romantic in a gothic, Brontë novel sense, but it clearly hints at where the U’s priorities lie. (Edie Raines)