An alert for tomorrow, May 13 in Keighley:
Keighley and District Local History Society presents May 13, 2026 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm Keighley Civic Centre
May’s History Society meeting is on Wednesday 13th May 2026. It will include a talk from Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Principal Curator, Ann Dinsdale. Ann lectures and writes on aspects of the Brontës’ lives and social conditions in mid-nineteenth century Haworth. But on this occasion, her talk will focus on how the museum operates – a subject she is well-versed to talk on, having been working at the museum for over twenty years. The meeting will take place upstairs in the Civic Centre, on North Street. Doors open at 7.15pm and the meeting will start just before 7.30pm. Entry is free to History Society members, or £3.50 for anyone else who wants to just come along (booking is not required). Members can also choose to join the meeting via Zoom if they wish.
A contributor to CinemaBlend thinks we need to 'Talk About All Of Cathy's Red, White And Black Fits' after having watched Wuthering Heights 2026 on streaming. Wuthering Heights may be a love it/hate it type of movie considering all its polarizing opinions, but no matter what you think about it, one thing is pretty undeniable. It’s got style, and it’s got vision. After having a blast watching it in a theater packed with women earlier this year, I revisited it on streaming with an HBO Max subscription, and one thing I noticed even more this time is how Cathy’s fits stay true to one color palette the whole time, and I think it’s worth diving into. Of course, I couldn’t take my eyes off of all of Cathy’s clothes going full bodice core during both viewings, but this time all the coordination was impossible to look away from. [...] So, what’s up with these particular colors? While I would have theorized it would have something to do with red being the shade associated with passion and desire, when CinemaBlend spoke to writer/director Emerald Fennell, she had some interesting thoughts about why she dressed Margot Robbie in the same palette throughout. In her words: "When it comes to the color palette of the clothes, for example, it made sense that Cathy makes an imprint on the world that she's in. Cathy kind of like burns an image onto any space. And so, we wanted to make sure that her clothes were very graphic. So they're black, white, red and occasionally like a silver, because she's always sort of an indelible shape." Now this is interesting. Cathy needed to “burn” through every moment on screen. During the filmmaker’s chat with us, she also spoke about how the expression of a character’s personality through something like clothing is very specific to Gothic cinema. The genre often evokes intensity that we wouldn’t see in other movies, so the lavish use of red is all part of it. You can check out her full thoughts below: As she says, it’s not just about the costumes. It was also through the textures she decided to use throughout the sets. I know I’ll never forget this movie’s skin wall, which was actually fashioned out of actual scans of Robbie’s own skin to represent what it feels like for Cathy to be a “collector’s item” to her husband once she gets married. Fennell’s explanation of the Gothic genre also helps make sense of some of the objects in the movie being exaggerated sizes or how long we have to wait for Cathy and Heathcliff to kiss. Everything is more dramatic and hyperbolic than you’d expect from other movies. I don’t know about you, but I really appreciate Emerald Fennell’s eye for making her films very distinct, and Wuthering Heights knocks it out of the park in that respect. (Sarah El-Mahmoud)
For a contributor to El Debate (Spain), Jane Eyre 2011 is one of the best eight period films currently available for streaming. 'Jane Eyre' (Cary Fukunaga, 2011) – Filmin Apasionado drama de Charlotte Brontë que tiene en ésta la mejor versión cinematográfica que se ha hecho de su obra cumbre, Jane Eyre. Mia Wasikowska en la piel de la importante heroína está espléndida, frágil y poderosa a partes iguales. Impecablemente realizada y profundamente poética, la presencia de Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell y Judi Dench elevan el filme a otro nivel. Una joya indiscutible del cine de este siglo. (Belén Ester) (Translation)
An alert at the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton:
Speaker: Irene Lofthouse (dressed as Nancy Garrs) Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026 6:30pm Brontë Birthplace / Zoom
Join nursemaid to the Brontës, Nancy Garrs, on a virtual walk to see Keighley through Brontë eyes. *PLEASE NOTE* Due to popular demand this talk will now be streamed live on Zoom. Please choose Standard for an in-person ticket and Digital for an online ticket. A recording will be sent out afterwards to all attendees.
Why did the Brontës go to Keighley? How did they get there? Who did they visit? What was the town like at time: the people, the shops, the buildings? When would they make the journey? Discover where they shopped, heard and learned about music, found out about electricity, whooped with glee, developed drawing and painting skills, met and mixed with Keighley’s movers and shakers as well as the swelling number of migrants to the town. Based on Keighley Library’s ‘In the footsteps of the Brontës’ trail-booklet by Keighley Local Studies, Nancy Garrs will add her own comments on the Brontë family she knew at Thornton and Haworth.
Irene Lofthouse is a first-generation Yorkshire lass of Irish heritage who has been telling tales since childhood. She has careered around many incarnations: caver, consultant, shoe-seller, storyteller, petrol-pumper, publisher amongst many others – but stories have been integral to them all. A cultural historian/researcher, writer, actor, Irene has appeared in a Ken Russell film, at the Edinburgh Fringe, featured on Radio 4, BBC Sounds, TV, stage, and at art/literature festivals performing her one-woman plays or giving talks. She’s particularly interested in making visible, invisible or forgotten lives and voices, in exploring new ways of seeing old stories and collaborating with literacy, historic agencies and universities to create accessible and fun learning resources. Co-founder of two community theatre groups, her poems and prose feature in many anthologies and she is a trustee of the JB Priestley Society, a trustee of the Undercliffe Cemetery Charity, a member of 26 Writers and The Friends of Bradford’s Becks.
Scroll.in presents Deborah Lutz's new Emily Brontë biography, This Dark Night: Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art. This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister). Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.
Atmospheric and empathetic rather than revelatory, Lutz goes beyond recording events and facts to immerse readers in Brontë’s way of seeing the world, where imagination and the moorland landscape merge into one continuous vision. A thoughtful, imaginative portrait that brings fresh interpretation to familiar ground.
This columnist of Europa Sur (Spain) talks about readings in general: Lo esencial para aficionarse a la lectura es tener la inquietud de adentrarse en mundos y experiencias diferentes y, por lo general, es más satisfactorio que los libros elegidos sean resultado de una búsqueda intuitiva antes que de una recomendación. Por pura casualidad, el primer libro que -inapropiadamente- recuerdo haber leído de muy niño fue Cumbres borrascosas. El espíritu atormentado de Heathcliff, junto al carácter caprichoso de Catherine, y el áspero y desabrido paisaje en que se desarrolla la acción me impresionaron tanto que llegué a sentir como las palabras de Emily Brontë despertaban en mí confusas -y a veces terroríficas- emociones. Aunque en mi librería desentona un poco junto a La isla del tesoro o Cinco semanas en globo, sigue siendo uno de mis libros preferidos. (Manuel Sánchez Ledesma) (Translation) More Polly Teale. But not a new production of one of her Brontë plays. This time is the introduction of this new edition of a book first published in 1912:
Edited by Grace Milne Rae Introduction by Polly Teale Bodleian Library ISBN: 9781851246748
This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Brontë’s novels.
‘Cheerfulness is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.’
From Jane Eyre to Lucy Snowe, Charlotte Brontë’s heroines think deeply on how to live a fulfilling life, often expressing passionate beliefs, heartfelt advice and pragmatic philosophy. This inspirational selection of short quotations, revealing their – and their author’s – innermost thoughts on early Victorian times, remains surprisingly relevant to us today. Drawn from Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Professor, the quotations cover a wide range of themes including happiness, love, feminism, work, truth, feelings and prejudice. This thought-provoking book, first published in 1912, is a delightful gift for anyone who loves to read Brontë’s novels.
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was the eldest of the Brontë sisters. Grace Milne Rae (1885–1987) was the daughter of Scottish novelist Janet Milne Rae. Polly Teale was the former artistic director of Shared Experience Theatre Company for whom she wrote and directed an award-winning trilogy of Brontë themed plays: Jane Eyre, Brontë and After Mrs Rochester (Nick Hern Books). She is now an arts psychotherapist.
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