Community leaders in Haworth have expressed their disappointment after the village was snubbed in its bid to become a World Heritage Site.Haworth, the second most visited literary shrine in the country after Stratford-Upon-Avon, has failed to make it into the final 11 nominations. [...]Haworth Parish Council chairman, Councillor John Huxley said: “It is disappointing. Clearly we think Haworth had a good case. We won’t give up.“World Heritage status would have helped gain more recognition worldwide and perhaps attracted more funding to help maintain the area.“We have been working with Bradford Council conservation officers to improve the village. The setts are being renovated and conservation officers are giving advice about how to maintain the heritage of the village. There is lots of work going on.”Brontë Parsonage Museum director Andrew McCarthy said: “It is disappointing but we have to accept there is a lot of stiff competition from some amazing locations.“But Haworth and its environment is a unique place and of national and international interest.”Councillor Anne Hawkes-worth, heritage champion for Bradford Council, said: “Obviously we are disappointed Haworth did not make the shortlist but there is always very tough competition and criteria to meet.“It is essential we continue to support Haworth, as it is such an important and desirable tourist destination due to the Brontë connection and its beautiful setting.” (Clive White)
zaterdag 26 maart 2011
Haworth: not a World Heritage Site but a square in local Monopoly
Community leaders in Haworth have expressed their disappointment after the village was snubbed in its bid to become a World Heritage Site.Haworth, the second most visited literary shrine in the country after Stratford-Upon-Avon, has failed to make it into the final 11 nominations. [...]Haworth Parish Council chairman, Councillor John Huxley said: “It is disappointing. Clearly we think Haworth had a good case. We won’t give up.“World Heritage status would have helped gain more recognition worldwide and perhaps attracted more funding to help maintain the area.“We have been working with Bradford Council conservation officers to improve the village. The setts are being renovated and conservation officers are giving advice about how to maintain the heritage of the village. There is lots of work going on.”Brontë Parsonage Museum director Andrew McCarthy said: “It is disappointing but we have to accept there is a lot of stiff competition from some amazing locations.“But Haworth and its environment is a unique place and of national and international interest.”Councillor Anne Hawkes-worth, heritage champion for Bradford Council, said: “Obviously we are disappointed Haworth did not make the shortlist but there is always very tough competition and criteria to meet.“It is essential we continue to support Haworth, as it is such an important and desirable tourist destination due to the Brontë connection and its beautiful setting.” (Clive White)
Jane Eyre enters into its third weekend (I)
“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,” British poet laureate Robert Southey declaimed in a letter to schoolteacher and aspiring poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë in 1836.
Eleven years later, in October 1847, Brontë refuted Southey’s proclamation when the British publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. brought her Gothic romance Jane Eyre to the Victorian reading public; the novel, produced under the pseudonym Currer Bell, was an immediate critical and commercial success (1847 was a banner year for the Bronte sisters of Haworth, UK: Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey found a publisher, as did Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights).
Today, more than 150 years after Charlotte’s death at a mere three weeks shy of her 39th birthday, her dark and masterfully plotted novel about the ardor between the title character, a strong-willed governess, and her employer, the enigmatic and brooding Edward Fairfax Rochester, not only continues to be widely-read in several languages, but has been translated into feature films and television movies more than 25 times.
26-03- 1839 Charlotte Bronte wrote "Life""
by: Charlotte Bronte
LIFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall?
Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
What though Death at times steps in,
And calls our Best away?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O'er hope, a heavy sway?
Yet Hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair!