My earliest reading memory The headteacher in my village primary school used to recount terrifying Cumbrian ghost tales to the class, which I’m sure was formative. I can also still hear my mum sing-so...
04.03.2026 Theguardian.com and 1 sites
When Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847, British women writers were not free to write. When Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar wrote The Madwoman in the Attic , inspired by the character of Bert...
03.31.2026 Elpais.com
You’re reading Open Questions , Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. The Roland TR-808, a dictionary-size drum machine released in 1980, weighed eleven pounds, cost twel...
04.03.2026 Newyorker.com
The flavors of the foods we make for ritual holiday meals depend on what came before: So much about cooking rests on nostalgia, Martha Stewart-level Instagram influencers, or what we seem to remember ...
04.03.2026 Chestertownspy.org and 1 sitesEleanor Houghton, in conversation with Duncan McCargo and Alexis Wolf Meet the real, thinking, feeling woman that was Charlotte Brontë, as told in this biography by the surviving witnesses to her life – the clothes that she once wore. These garments were present as she penned Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of Haworth, and as she stood with her fiancé at the altar in the summer of 1854. Yet, until now, their testimonies had remained unheard. Renowned Brontë scholar and dress histori...
04.05.2026 Newbooksnetwork.com
Aimee Lou Wood’s ascent feels less like a calculated climb and more like a series of deliberate leaps. From the biting social satire of “Sex Education” to the darkly comedic tension of “The White Lotu...
03.30.2026 Time.news
Some 16m records have been released online for the first time, as part of a project between the University of York and Ancestry UK. And alongside the wills of famous figures from Charlotte Brontë to d...
04.04.2026 Yorkshirepost.co.uk and 1 sites
Brontë’s Enduring Legacy: A First Edition Resurfaces as New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Adaptation Hits Screens The University of Buffalo’s Rare Books Collection has revealed its possession of a first British...
04.02.2026 World-today-news.comEmily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is an astonishing work of art. Its wild intensity has attracted many filmmakers, with adaptations by directors as varied as William Wyler, Jacques Rivette a...
04.01.2026 Wsws.org
Phoning it In Last month marked a fairly significant anniversary: March 10, 2026, was the 150th anniversary of the invention of the telephone. Via BU Today , at the time, Alexander Graham Bell was a professor at Boston University. Bell taught three c...
04.03.2026 Whattheythink.com