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vrijdag 13 januari 2012
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Just a week to save Bronte church
Published on Thursday 12 January 2012 09:11
“Both men and women of the Worth Valley agreed to take part in calendar shoots entitled Haworth Couldn’t Wear Less - with the male version outselling its female counterpart by a factor of three to one at the moment.
TOURISTS from all over the world may come to visit it but time is running out for campaigners fighting to save the church where Jane and Emily Bronte lie buried.
Fundraisers at St Michael and All Angels, Haworth, say they just have a handful of days in which to raise the money to guarantee builders can start £1.25 million of vital works to the famed place of worship.
English Heritage has offered £100,000 towards the scheme to repair its badly leaking roof but to secure it fundraisers were told they needed to raise a total of £65,000 in match funding.
And although polite Victorian society, including the Brontes, would no doubt have not approved, these are desperate times.
So well-wishers of the church, agreed to bare almost all in charity calendars to raise thousands of pounds to help the appeal.
By Boxing Day the amount needed was £31,000 but with the calendars selling well, John Huxley, who is spearheading the fundraising, said he thought D-Day - January 20 - was within sight.
Read more. You can also look to a video. Yorkshire Post
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A glimpse at the women's calendar
“Both men and women of the Worth Valley agreed to take part in calendar shoots entitled Haworth Couldn’t Wear Less - with the male version outselling its female counterpart by a factor of three to one at the moment.Emily Bronte portrait goes under the hammer
An oil painting believed to be of author Emily Bronte will be the latest item relating to one of the literary sisters to go under the hammer. The piece is being sold by Northamptonshire firm JP Humbert Auctioneers after the sale of another painting of the reclusive writer for £23,836 in December. It also follows the sale of an unpublished manuscript by sibling Charlotte Bronte at auction to a Paris museum for a record value of nearly £700,000 last month. The hitherto unseen painting of Emily Bronte measures 33cm by 24cm and depicts a pensive-looking Victorian woman, auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said. Annotated Emily Jane Bronte, it has more unclear writing, possibly an artist’s name or title, he said. The painting was handed to the auctioneers by a private owner after seeing publicity around the previous portrait, and is expected to fetch at least £3,000. “I am amazed that this second painting has turned up on our doorstep,” Mr Humbert said. “One unknown portrait of Emily Bronte is luck enough but two in two months is quite remarkable. “This painting is definitely mid-19th century and has been attributed to Miss Bronte by the artist at the time of painting.” The portrait is set to go on sale, unreserved, on February 23 at JP Humbert’s sale room in Towcester, Northants, with a provisional estimate of £3,000-4,000.
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Read the comment of Graham Watson:
This portrait is a fake. It's not of Emily Bronte. Given its style, I think it would also be reasonable to doubt that it was painted before the 1960s. For one thing it doesn't match descriptions of Emily Bronte, or resemble the authenticated portraits of her. Ellen Nussey, a friend of the Bronte family, described Emily having dark blue-grey eyes. This blueish colour can be seen in the group portrait painted by her brother and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The woman in this painting clearly has brown eyes. Let the potential buyer of this be warned!
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dinsdag 10 januari 2012
Moorland
The weather is one of the very reasons the moors exist at all. The wet, cool conditions allows peat and other organic soils to develop - this weather stops plants from fully decaying and so the peat builds up over time - thereby storing carbon - and thereby cooling global temperatures by taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Bronte Weather/wiley-windy-moors
zondag 8 januari 2012
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