Jane Eyre inspirations

A few Brontë mentions on the press not related with the new BBC's Jane Eyre.

A new Brontëite: Children's author Lori Ries.

Growing up, Ries said she always loved to read. Her favorite books when she was young were Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie,” and she later fell in love with classics such as “David Copperfield” and “Jane Eyre” (the latter is her all-time favorite book). (Elena Boryczka in The Tigard Times)

This recent article about classics and teenagers that we mentioned previously has generated the following letter in the Christian Science Monitor:

(...) But I do remember the first time I read a classic, thinking that I would find it so boring. The book was "Jane Eyre," and to this day I am haunted by Jane, Mr. Rochester, and the mad woman in the attic. That novel encouraged me to read other classics and to understand the allusions that can be found throughout literature. (Maeve Reilly)

This article in The Times about the upcoming release of the last album (Ys) by singer and harpist Joanna Newsom brings this enigmatic Brontë reference:

You can already see in her the beginnings of a reaction against what we think we know about her. And who can blame her? No one wants to be perpetually on call as an alt-folk, harp-wielding Brontë with a facility for endless ornithological allegories. (Pete Paphides)

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