In Brontë footsteps A walk that’s full of history as one that the Brontë sisters would have been familiar with on the wild moors. Start at Stanbury bus terminus and walk uphill on Back Lane. At the first road junction, continue following the road as it changes from a hard surface to a rough track. Just beyond a parking area, the rough track divides. Here, take the right-hand track uphill to the gate and cattle grid at the top of the incline. Go through the gate and on to open moorland to where the track divides into three – follow the right-hand track and continue uphill all the way until you reach the ruin of Top Withens farm, thought to have inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. At this point, you can head back down to Stanbury or go a little further for some incredible views. Walk to the rear of the building and take the narrow well-defined path leading steeply uphill and slightly to the right, in a north westerly direction. Follow this narrow path across moorland and keep right when you reach a point where another narrower path bears left. You will shortly see the Delf Hill trig point ahead. At the trig point take in amazing views all around, from Boulsworth Hill and Pendle Hill to the left, across the Yorkshire Dales, and beyond. Back in Stanbury, head to traditional village local, Wuthering Heights Inn. The pub also has a campsite with spectacular views. Top Withens Distance: Around two miles Start/finish: Stanbury bus terminus, Hob Hill, at the western end of Stanbury Main Street Difficulty: Suitable for most reasonably fit occasional walkers Parking: Limited parking near the bus terminus, but there is an informal parking area 300 yards up Back Lane, where the walk route passes. Parking is also available in Haworth village, around 1.7 miles away Pub: Wuthering Heights Inn, Stanbury (Kathryn Armstrong)
A columnist from The Edinburgh Evening News is sad and indignant the Meadows Festival has cancelled next year's event, which includes The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, because of the lack of volunteers and the sad state of affairs when it comes to funding art-related things.
A Christmas Carol is part of the Victorian gothic literary tradition, which includes some of history's most adapted and influential works, including Stoker's Dracula, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Brontë's Jane Eyre. (Marko Djurdjić) Forbes has an article on the forthcoming Wuthering Heights musical which will premiere in Seoul during January. Screen Daily reports that the first awards contenders taking part in Screen International and the Barbican’s ‘Screen FYC London’ event have been named and one of them is Wuthering Heights 2026.
A new alert from the Bronté Parsonage Museum for tomorrow, November 14: Sat 14 Nov, 2:00pm Brontë Event Space in the Old School Room
Best-selling authors Dorothy Koomson and Araminta Hall both began their writing careers as journalists. Hear from them in conversation with Sharon Wright - who met them when they worked on a national women's magazine - for a lively discussion about why journalists write books.
Dorothy Koomson is an award-winning, global bestselling author of 23 novels. Her novels include the Sunday Times bestsellers I Know What You’ve Done, Tell Me Your Secret, The Brighton Mermaid and My Best Friend’s Girl. Her new novel, The Quiet Girls, was published in March 2026. Her novels The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach were both shortlisted for the British Book Awards in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2021, Dorothy featured on the Powerlist as one of the most influential Black people in Britain. She has appeared in GQ Style as a Black British trailblazer, and was a judge for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She believes passionately that everyone should have the opportunity to tell their story and regularly mentors aspiring authors. Unreliable Narrator is her latest and was published in March 2026. Two of her novels, Everything & Nothing and One of the Good Guys, have been Richard and Judy picks. Her 2020 novel, Imperfect Women, is a major series on Apple TV starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara. She also teaches creative writing and sits on the board of the Beyond the Book festival in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and various iterations of her three grown-up children. Journalist and Editor of the Brontë Society Gazette Sharon Wright is the author of The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts; Mother of the Brontës: The Life of Maria Branwell and co-author with Ann Dinsdale of Let Me In: the Brontës in Bricks and Mortar. She writes for national magazines and newspapers including The Times and Woman & Home and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and Today programmes. Research for Let Me In led to her winning a correction to the Brontë memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Tomorrow, Saturday 14 November, the Biblioteca Central de Gandia (Spain) holds the second session of a free creative writing workshop on emotional management, led by writer Andrea Carratalà as part of the Tardor Literària 2026.
The three Saturday sessions (10:00 h) pair a classic novel by a woman with one emotion: fear with Frankenstein (7 Nov), anger with Wuthering Heights (14 Nov) and sadness with Jane Eyre (21 Nov). On the 14th, participants explore how Heathcliff turns heartbreak, exclusion and lack of belonging into destructive fury, and then write about their own anger through guided exercises. On the 21st, Jane Eyre closes the cycle with sadness, seen as a source of lucidity and dignity rather than weakness. Via Levante.
Variety has shared their predictions for next year's Academy Awards and, according to them, Wuthering Heights 2026 would only be nominated for Costume Design and wouldn't even win.
The never-ending story that is the wind farm at the heart of Brontë country continues as The Telegraph and Argus reports that, Calderdale Wind Farm Limited (CWFL) said its Development Consent Order application for Calderdale Energy Park on Walshaw Moor, previously expected in November 2026, will now be submitted in July 2027. Reacting to the news on Facebook, Calderdale Windfarm Action Group said: "CWFL have now admitted their peat landslide hazard and risk assessment was wrong." The developer says the revised timetable followed a review of responses to its statutory consultation which identified “a number of matters requiring further consideration”. Christian Egal, project director, said: “We’re grateful to everyone who took the time to take part in the statutory consultation. The feedback we received has been invaluable, and it’s clear that some areas need more work before we’re in a position to submit. “Taking this extra time is the right thing to do. It means we can complete the further assessments needed, refine the design and submit the most robust application possible.” (Callum Cuddeford)
To be honest, we don't want it to be more robust; we want it gone. BBC News features how the campaigners against it are reading the delay: A delay to a planned wind farm in Bronte Country could spell the end of the project, campaigners have said. [...] Nick Mackinnon, from Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Wind Farm, said while the project had been forced to pause because of safety concerns around the land, the campaign was not yet over. The developers would have needed to transport heavy machinery and turbines along a half-mile (1km) long path near Crow Hill, which has a history of bog bursts – one of which nearly killed famous 19th Century author Emily Brontë when she was six years old. Mackinnon explained: "They knew there had been instability on Crow Hill but they had concluded it had all finished in 1824. "That bog burst was absolutely colossal. The effects were felt in Leeds – they had to turn off the reservoir pumps at Leeds – and you could still see the peat stain in the Humber." But Mackinnon said he believed those connected to the project were unaware there had also been a "huge bog burst" in 1989. "It is the only place in mainland UK where bog bursts happen and they're vast," he said. "They are between 100,000 and one million tonnes and it all comes down at the speed of pressurised water, so they're explosions," he explained. "There's been at least eight and they're spread over two centuries." (Grace Wood and Callum Cuddeford)
Funny how something lived and documented by the Brontë family could serve to put a stop to the project.
Several sites are reviewing the film adaptation of Victorian Psycho. From But Why Tho?Ruth Wilson takes to the material with a zeal that will particularly delight those who know her from “proper” literary adaptations like Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina. (Brogan Luke Bouwhuis)
Victorian Psycho, despite its in-period aspect, isn’t Jane Eyre. (John Kirk)
ScreenRant reviews another Gothic thriller: A Jealous Tongue. What unfolds in A Jealous Tongue isn’t exactly the stuff of horror novels. Instead, Tyndall departs from contemporary, horror-centric trends and harkens back to classics like Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and, yes, Rebecca, to build a story that rests on suspense rather than jump scares. They wield that suspense with razor-sharp precision. (Paulina Rodriguez) “Wuthering Heights” Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is commonly referred to as the “greatest love story of all time.” But, while it is fundamentally a love story, it also functions as a tale of obsession, revenge and generational trauma. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, as well as other characters within the novel, are extremely complex and unlikable, reminding us that love can be twisted and depraved. So when Emerald Fennell announced her 2026 adaptation of Brontë’s novel, fans of “Wuthering Heights” were skeptical, to say the least. How could one possibly portray the intricate details and complexities depicted on the pages? One of the biggest criticisms of the film was Fennell’s casting of Jacob Elordi, a white man, to play Heathcliff. Considering that a large part of the novel is centered around the racial “othering” of Heathcliff, which plays a significant role in his storyline, viewers expected to see similar themes explored in the adaptation. Not only was Heathcliff’s race erased, but his complicated relationship with Cathy was simplified to an overly emotional relationship, completely disregarding the abuse and trauma tainting their story. The nail in the coffin was the film being promoted as a “friends-to-lovers” trope prior to its release. Even so, “Wuthering Heights” is exactly what Fennell intended it to be; she never claimed to make a faithful retelling of Brontë’s novel. If anything, she expressed her desire to create a work that reflected her personal experience with “Wuthering Heights”: reading it for the first time when she was 14. So if this is a feeling you’d also like to relive, you may just find what you’re looking for in this film. For anyone interested, however, in watching an honest and thoughtful adaptation — look elsewhere. (Meagan Ismail and Lorenzo Norbis)
Among the newcomers is Teresa Flavin, whose work caught David’s eye at the Brontë Birthplace in Haworth. A former lecturer at Leeds Arts University, Teresa is an artist, illustrator and author. Her mixed-media paintings draw on history, folklore, fashion and landscapes, combining rich colour and texture. Her lyrical depictions of imagined Victorian women bring together representational imagery and expressive abstraction. Inspired by Victorian fashion plates discovered in Leeds City Libraries’ Special Collections, Teresa’s paintings give their subjects a personality of their own. “My current paintings have been inspired by real-life Victorian women such as the Brontë sisters and their world,” she explains. (David Starley)
Another alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum: Sat 14 Nov, 11:30am
The first Brontë 'publications' were tiny magazines, produced around the Parsonage table. The family were devoted readers of Blackwell's Magazine and read newspapers aloud to one another. Join Sharon Wright, Editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, to hear why poring over the press was vital to their literary life.
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