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‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum

The Guardian - UK

‘One of the most beloved writers of all time’: the genius of Joan Aiken at 100

From Willoughby Chase to Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken’s tales of plucky orphans surviving in industrial Britain are a keystone of children’s literature

The Guardian - UK

‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?

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‘The UK is invited’: Bradford reveals 2025 City of Culture lineup

West Yorkshire city to host magic, music, film and theatre performances celebrating local talent, plus Turner prize

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians

Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters

The Guardian - UK

Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

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Review: Wuther true or false, 'Emily' weaves a passionate portrait of a Brontë sister

"Wuthering Heights" was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. "Jane Eyre" was published under Currer…

Los Angeles Times

‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm

James Cameron’s sequel to his 2009 fantasy epic continues cinema’s love of imaginary worlds formed in childhood that have produced some of film’s most bankable blockbusters

The Guardian - UK

The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche

The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie

The Guardian - UK

Emily movie review: Emma Mackey blazes but the Brontës deserve better

Frequently scintillating, but ultimately Frances O’Connor’s directing debut disappoints

Evening Standard

I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history

This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking

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