A jigsaw puzzle published by Penguin in the US:. The World of the Brontë Sisters: A Conversation Puzzle500-Piece Puzzle: A Jigsaw Puzzle for AdultsBy Jacqui OakleyClarkson Potter, ISBN 9798217034550July 21, 2026. This unique 500-piece jigsaw puzzle has ...
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  1. The World of the Brontë Sisters: A Conversation Puzzle
  2. The connection between the landscape and literature cannot be ignored
  3. Brontëan Abstracts in London
  4. Carrying Jane Around like the Bible and Going for a Pint with Charlotte
  5. Female Readers in the Victorian Novel
  6. More Recent Articles

The World of the Brontë Sisters: A Conversation Puzzle

 A jigsaw puzzle published by Penguin in the US:
By Jacqui Oakley
Clarkson Potter,
ISBN 9798217034550
July 21, 2026

This unique 500-piece jigsaw puzzle has a mystery at its heart! Read the clues and figure out the logic to build the final image, featuring timeless characters from Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë’s greatest stories.
With characters from Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and more, The World of the Brontës: A Conversation Puzzle invites you to explore the worlds of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë and build a whole new story as you piece it together.
This 500-piece, 20″ x 27″ jigsaw puzzle is a unique experience for puzzle lovers. The pieces can be arranged in any order, but you have to read the conversations between characters in order to understand how the puzzle goes together.
First, put together the vignettes. Just like with any other puzzle, you use the visual clues to build each scene.
Then read the conversations in each vignette to help you solve the puzzle and put it together in the correct order. Each vignette has a similar border so you can’t just “see” how they fit together unless you read the clues.
To check your work, look at the back of the puzzle. If you’ve done it correctly you’ll reveal a quote from Charlotte Brontë herself!
See you favorite characters in a whole new light as you read the conversations and work to unravel the mystery of this delightful style of puzzle.
   

The connection between the landscape and literature cannot be ignored

Voice of Emirates (UAE) lists women's novels "that sparked controversy and brought about major transformations":
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Charlotte Brontë presented an independent heroine who refused to submit to social constraints, a bold proposition at the time. Despite initial criticism, the novel later became one of the most prominent and influential English novels.

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (1847)
The novel caused widespread shock due to its complex characters and gloomy atmosphere, but over time it has become one of the greatest romantic and psychological novels in world literature. (Medhat Elsheikh)
The Yorkshire Post publishes the frontal opposition of the Brontë Parsonage to the Calderdale Energy Park proposal:
Calderdale Energy Park: Brontë Parsonage 'totally opposed' to wind farm proposal
The director of Yorkshire’s Brontë Parsonage has said the group behind the museum is “totally opposed” to plans for the Calderdale Energy Park development.
Located in Haworth and previously home to the prolific family of writers, the Brontë Parsonage Museum is one of the region’s most well known attractions for tourists.
But according to the museum’s director, the proposed Calderdale Energy Park wind farm scheme could put tourist numbers at risk of dropping. The project would see the creation of around 34 wind turbines between Haworth and Hebden Bridge, standing at a maximum height of 200m.
In a statement given to The Yorkshire Post, Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: “The Brontë Society is totally opposed to Calderdale Energy Park.
“The location is environmentally sensitive, and we believe the development would have a significant and detrimental impact on an iconic local viewpoint and world-renowned landscape.
“People walk the moorland between Haworth and Hebden Bridge for reflection, inspiration and to understand how the natural surroundings influenced the Brontes’ work; it’s a unique place which allows the literary tourist to physically travel through the landscapes of the Brontës’ imaginations and the worlds of their novels and poetry.
“The Museum welcomes over 75,000 visitors each year and for many of them, the walk to Top Withins from Haworth is a form of pilgrimage: the connection between the landscape and literature cannot be ignored.” (Michael Crossland)
Deadline mourns the death of Joe Caldwell, co-creator of the character of Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows
The vampire saved the show from imminent cancelation, prompting a spike in ratings and a new direction away from a moody Jane Eyre-like gothic romance style to outright supernatural (if unintentionally campy) horror. (Greg Evans
The Illawarra Flame interviews the writer Shady Cosgrove:
Elizabeth Heffernan: What is one book that changed your life?
Shady Cosgrove: I can’t limit it to one! My life was transformed by Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.
Cookie-Cutter psychology advice in Cosmopolitan (Spain): 
Si vives tu amor en plan Heathcliff y Catherine en 'Cumbres Borrascosas', como una tormenta de arrebatos emocionales y montándote una película mental 24/7 y conviertes un 'crush' platónico en 'ups & downs' anímicos para que tu objeto de deseo te corresponda, toca pararse a reflexionar sobre dónde está la línea entre una relación sana y una obsesiva. (Rosa Alvares
The Sunday Times TV picks of the week include:
Britain’s Favourite Railway Stations (C4, 5pm)
The rerun More4 series chugs along, with Siddy Holloway taking a trip on West Yorkshire’s “Brontë line”, as seen in The Railway Children. Si King experiences the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and Damion Burrows extols the architecture of Wemyss Bay station. (John Dugdale)

Some more articles about The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Dublin and other places: The Irish TimesThe Journal, DPA Inernational... 

Livejournal user drush1891 reviews Wuthering Heights 1992. 

   

Brontëan Abstracts in London

Twenty years ago, Cornelia Parker presented at the Brontë Parsonage Museum the exhibition Brontëan Abstracts. Now, some parts of the exhibition can be seen this summer in London:
3 Jul - 7 Aug 2026
Frith Street Gallery
17–18 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JJ

Multiple Narratives brings together works by eight gallery artists. The pieces are linked through their use of repetition, series and classification; some are narrative-driven, while others focus on visual exploration. Spanning drawing, sculpture, photography and found objects, the exhibition ranges from the minimal and abstract to the richly figurative.
The show includes Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Anna Barriball, Tacita Dean, Shilpa Gupta, Cornelia Parker, Raqs Media Collective, Thomas Schütte, and Dayanita Singh.

Adjacent is Parker’s Brontëan Abstracts (2006) – photographs of Charlotte Brontë’s original manuscripts for Jane Eyre which are held in the British Library. These images give us a direct insight into the immediacy of the progress of the celebrated novel. Here Parker invites the viewer to be present at the author’s elbow, we enter Brontë’s consciousness as she edits her masterpiece and become privy to her ideas as they emerge and recede. 
   

Carrying Jane Around like the Bible and Going for a Pint with Charlotte

The Clare Champion is excited about the visit of Ann Disndale to the Kilkee Brontë Festival:
One of the world's leading Brontë experts is to attend the 2026 Kilkee Bronte Festival, which will take place this coming weekend. 
Ann Dinsdale, principal curator at the Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England will be joining the festival in Kilkee, the place where Charlotte Bronte honeymooned, and where the Atlantic coast made such an impression on the famous author. 
Ms Dinsdale who has 36 years' experience caring for the museum's collection, organising exhibitions and working on important acquisitions will be making her first visit to the festival in Kilkee. 
Speaking to The Clare Champion this week, Ann said she is really excited to visit the West Clare seaside town, "I have been reading biographies about the Brontës for years - since I was a child really - so all these names of places in Ireland are really familiar to me.  (...) (Sharon Dolan D'Arcy)
ArtsHub recommends a visit to the Summer Show of the Frith Street Gallery - Golden Square in London:
Multiple Narratives brings together works by eight gallery artists. The pieces are linked through their use of repetition, series and classification, some are narrative-driven, while others focus on visual exploration. Spanning drawing, sculpture, photography and found objects, the exhibition ranges from the minimal and abstract to the richly figurative.
The show includes Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Anna Barriball, Tacita Dean, Shilpa Gupta, Cornelia Parker, Raqs Media Collective, Thomas Schütte, and Dayanita Singh. (...)
Progressing further into the gallery, the corner features two works by Cornelia Parker. White Cliff Crossings (2024) (...) [and]  [a]djacent is Parker’s Brontëan Abstracts (2006) – photographs of Charlotte Brontë’s original manuscripts for Jane Eyre which are held in the British Library. These images give us a direct insight into the immediacy of the progress of the celebrated novel. Here Parker invites the viewer to be present at the author’s elbow, we enter Brontë’s consciousness as she edits her masterpiece and become privy to her ideas as they emerge and recede.
A new installment of the Behind the Glass podcast is online:
Sam and Mia are joined by their colleague Murray, who is one of the Museum's curators! Before taking on the role, Murray worked at other Museums and historic houses and undertook a PhD specialising in architectural history.
In this episode, we ride the highs and lows of Britain's railways during the 1840s, looking at Branwell's time as a Railway Clerk and the investments the family made into this booming industry..
Collider is a bit extreme when listing Wuthering Heights 2026 among pointless movie remakes that have no reason to exist: 
Wuthering Heights is a novel that has never been perfectly adapted, as even the Best Picture-nominated 1939 classic was only based on half of Emily Brontë’s novel. Instead of taking the opportunity to make a more thorough adaption, Emerald Fennell reduced the material even further by cutting out major characters and inserting more raunchiness; this is a complete misreading of the source material, as it is the unfulfilled longing between Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) that is supposed to heighten the sexual tension. 
Fennell’s film casts actors who are far too old to realistically be playing their characters and uses shock value to visualize Catherine’s sexual awakening; the result is a film that feels made by someone who had only skimmed the novel and didn’t understand what it was actually trying to say about loss and love. (Liam Gaughan)
The Bromsgrove Standard reports a variation on the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever: 
The Synchro StingRays will be performing to three Kate Bush tracks in the water at Lakeside Adventures in Hartlebury tomorrow (Saturday, July 18).
That will be ahead of Kate Bush Day next Sunday, July 26.
StingRay choreographer and swim coach Ray Farr will then lead the official Wuthering Heights dance on land before inviting wannabe Kates into the lake to perform the dance there. (Tristan Harris)
Frank Miller describes Rebecca, his favourite Hitchcock, like this in New York Magazine's The Strategist:
 It’s classic Hitchcock, but not as a twist but as a pivotal, shocking revelation. When it first came out, I believe it was considered almost a poor man’s Wuthering Heights, but I think Rebecca actually was the more truly gothic one. It’s a masterpiece.
The Hollywood Reporter interviews Samantha Morton, who remembers her Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre 1997: 
David Canfield: How would you describe that interpretation? I’m curious how you conceive of this character, this scene, when he first presents you with the role, and how it then evolves once you start digging in.
Samantha Morton: I did a bit of research into the source material and I bought the Madeline Miller book [Circe]. But I opened that book and then something just stopped me from reading it. The thing about me and my work is, my relationship to a movie script or a play or a TV episode or whatever I’m doing — that’s my special thing. Research is incredibly important for me, but it also depends on who I’m playing. Years ago, I was about 19 years old and I was playing Jane Eyre. It was a big ITV production. It was a TV movie, but they’d spent a lot of money on it. I remember literally carrying the book around with me like the Bible, with passages highlighted and all my notes, and talking to the person who adapted it and going, “Why isn’t this there? This doesn’t make sense.” I was almost in conflict with the script, which was very good, because I had issues with the choices. I vowed to myself moving forward that, while you have to do your research, you have to know what you’re doing, I didn’t want to be bogged down by everybody else’s interpretation, view, opinion, anything. 
The Irish Independent interviews Maggie O'Farrell:
Aoife Rooney: Who would you most like to go for a pint with?
Maggie O'Farrell: I’d like to go for a pint with Charlotte Brontë. I think she’d be very interesting, and it’s probable that she died of extreme morning sickness, so I’d like to talk to her about that. I feel like we lost so many books because she died so young. I’ve also read that she had an Irish accent, and I would love to know if that was true. Her father was Irish and her mother died when she was young.
   

Female Readers in the Victorian Novel

This is a recent Romanian scholarly book with Brontë-related content:
Mădălina Elena Mandici
ProUniversitaria
ISBN: 978-606-26-1773-8
2023

In this study, the investigative focus is given by the typological analysis of the female reader postulated by three Victorian novelists – Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and George Eliot – in Jane Eyre (1847), Wuthering Heights (1847), Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Middlemarch (1871-1872). The act of reading performed by fictional women in the English novel of the Victorian period undoubtedly requires clarifications and delimitations. The internal chronology of the texts places the biography of the female reader in the five emblematic mother texts for the Victorian period in a broader historical, cultural, educational and social process that involves, in 19th century England, the proliferation of books of all kinds, the diversification of the reading public, the relativization of the taste for reading, but also the polyvalence of the types of pleasure and instruction offered by it. The central intention of the book is, therefore, to formulate a comprehensive description of the notion of "reading", revolutionized in the Victorian era, when the author-book-reader relationship became impossible to account for, and the female audience became increasingly refined.
The book is addressed not only to English scholars, but – thanks to the exegetical methodology used – also to the general, non-specialized public. What new breath can be added to iconic figures of 19th-century English literature and to the female characters created by the pens of the novelists of the time, already turned on all sides? The answer represents an opportune occasion for this work to bring into discussion, through a reader-oriented analysis, the function of reading (active, productive, ultimately propelling the recipient's desire to write and rewrite any complex phenomenon that wins the approval of the text label) – on the scene of identity changes – in the life of the woman-reader/intellectual/educated and, by extension, in the psycho-cultural destiny of the woman who reads, a woman attested historically and culturally. In the Western world, the methodological interest in the act of reading (performed by fictional and historically attested women alike) has reached, in recent decades, countless nuances and refinements. Since the interest in the female reader as represented in the Victorian novel is quite weak in the native space, the indirect aim of the work to contribute to the enrichment of the poetics of reading cannot be ignored either. The choice of the five reading examples discussed at length in the work is not at all arbitrary. In the complex game of reading within the five novels, we can discover the expansion of the English textual consciousness (in the sense of cultural anthropologists): each text refers ad infinitum to other texts, forcing the external reader to (re)read both the mother text and the embedded texts belonging to the predecessors. The ultimate goal of the woman-reader's reading is, as each bundle of hypotheses advanced in the last three sections of the book will indicate, self-reading – the scrutiny of the self through new forms of self-knowledge and legibility.
The book contains the following chapters:
The Governess and Textual Reinterpretation: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Readers on a Social Spectrum in Wuthering Heights
   

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