A couple of alerts for tomorrow, July 10, both part of the Bradford Literary Festival:
10/07/2026 at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Bradford-born heritage champion Steve Stanworth shares his remarkable 26‑year journey restoring and celebrating Thornton’s extraordinary Brontë legacy. From transforming the Old Bell Chapel, where Patrick Brontë served as perpetual curate from 1815 to 1820, to creating the St James’ Church Brontë exhibition, which includes the font at which all the Brontë children, except Maria, were baptised. Stanworth explains how he helped to return the Brontë Birthplace on Market Street to its Regency character, Steve brings together the story of three landmark Brontë projects and the passion that has driven them. Patrick Brontë himself wrote that his happiest years were spent in Thornton, a sentiment that underpins Steve’s lifelong dedication to preserving this remarkable heritage.
Saturday, 11 July 2026 | 09:00 – 17:00 The Midland Hotel, BD1 4HU
Bradford Literature Festival’s much-loved Brontë tour returns for another unforgettable journey into the lives and legacy of one of literature’s most celebrated families. Led by broadcaster and Brontë enthusiast Christa Ackroyd, this specially curated experience includes travel by vintage coach to the Brontës’ childhood home in Thornton village and lunch at Branwell Brontë’s favourite haunt, The Lord Nelson pub. Journey through the dramatic Yorkshire moors that inspired Wuthering Heights while uncovering fascinating stories from your expert guide. The tour also includes entry to the Brontë Parsonage Museum and an exclusive talk from museum staff exploring the enduring brilliance of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
CrimeReads has an article by writer Isabella Valeri. In trying to explore the nuances of narrative theory I naturally gravitated to Joseph Campbell’s 1949 work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and the concept of the “monomyth”, a template for the “Hero’s Journey” in dramatic writing, a critical structure that has been applied to works as varied as the Epic of Gilgamesh, potentially the oldest surviving written epic, to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, to Star Wars. Great British Life recommends some weekend stays in Yorkshire for summer breaks including this one: Brontë Wilds is perfectly positioned close to Haworth, where the Brontë sisters lived and wrote their famous books. The stylish lakefront lodges – one with three bedrooms and the other with two – offer a serene haven with stunning views. Step out onto the private deck, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and soak in the tranquillity of the surrounding countryside. You can also watch steam trains pass by from the nearby Keighley and Worth Valley Railway – made famous by The Railway Children film. Haworth, with its charming cobbles and Brontë history, is nearby. A 20-minute drive away in Thornton is the fascinating Brontë Birthplace, where the sisters and their brother Branwell were born. Brontë Wilds, near Haworth.
An alert for tomorrow, July 9, in Crediton:
Thursday 9 July, 2026 at 19:00 The Bookery, 21 High Street, Crediton
The Bookery is delighted to welcome Amelia Blackwell for an evening of literary mystery and historic intrigue as she discusses her new novel, The Haunting of a Brontë with Devon crime writer Stephanie Austin, promising a lively evening of murder mystery, literary history and the enduring fascination of the Brontës. Tickets £5, ticketholders will receive 15% off purchases of The Haunting of a Brontë on the night.
Via The Moorlander. Halifax Courier lists '9 filming locations in Todmorden and Cornholme' such as 2. Wuthering Heights Filming has taken place on Bridestones Moor for a number of projects over the year's including BBC's The Gallows Pole, Riot Women and most recently the recent 2026 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. (Abigail Kellett)
A columnist from La Vanguardia (Spain) writes about the Gothic mansion trope. El tropo de la mansión gótica viene de lejos y se sustenta sobre todo en dos novelas con asombrosas concomitancias, aun separadas por un siglo: Jane Eyre (1847), de Charlotte Brontë, y Rebecca (1938), de Daphne du Maurier, en la que se inspiró Alfred Hitchcock para su celebérrima película. En ambas obras el hogar adquiere un papel protagónico, ya sea la casa solariega de Thornfield Hall, coronada con almenas, o la finca de Manderley, a la que se accede por un sendero bordeado de enormes rododendros que estallan en flores rojo escarlata. Dos heroínas jóvenes e inexpertas irrumpen en las vidas de dos caballeros de pasado turbio (el señor Rochester y el viudo Maxim de Winter). En ambas obras, algo extraño ha sucedido con las respectivas primeras esposas: Berta Mason se ha vuelto loca y su marido la mantiene encerrada en el desván de un torreón; en la segunda, Rebecca ha muerto en un supuesto accidente de navegación. De igual forma afloran coincidencias en sendos finales: el fuego purificador y el triunfo del amor romántico; o la idea de él. (Olga Merino) (Translation)
Zenda (in Spanish) reviews Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic. An alert in New York for tomorrow, July 8:
Afterword Bookshop, 216 East 6rh Street, New York NY 10003 July 8, 7pm
Join Deborah Lutz as she discusses her new book This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life, in conversation with Amanda Vaill. Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë―an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers. Drawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and manuscripts, This Dark Night constructs a portrait of Brontë, her famous writing sisters Charlotte and Anne, and the effect of their sisters’ and mother’s tragic deaths. In the first full-length biography in over twenty years, renowned scholar Deborah Lutz sketches the days of a woman crafting otherworldly fiction while running her father’s parsonage: writing interweaving with household work, daydreaming, and exploring the rough-hewn outdoors. As she traces the influence of Brontë’s life and work, Lutz follows how Brontë’s fantastical early poems of the night sky, women rulers, and outsiders and rebels grew into the stormy, transcendent Wuthering Heights. Lutz also illuminates the overlooked ways that the legendary writer addressed debates of her time that still resonate today, including questions of gender and sexuality, race and class, and rapid industrialization set against the natural world. From her menagerie of dogs and birds to the beloved moors that Brontë wandered and later emblazoned in her novel, Lutz depicts the passions of an author at odds with convention. Uniting the domestic and the cosmic, This Dark Night plumbs the life and writing of this idiosyncratic woman, dark soul, and monumental genius.
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