Brontë background, Ingénues and Madwomen

This article about the Indian writer Kiran Desai is not enough to qualify her as a Brontëite, but gives her writings a Brontë background:

Having been brought up in an English-speaking, convent education environment in India, and on a reading habit that included the likes of “Bronte and Austen”, Kiran admits that socially she is closer to the class of Noni and Lola [characters of her novel The Inheritance of Loss]. (Shamik Bag in Kolkata Newsline)

And now for the weird Brontë mentions:

Have you ever thought that Brontë female characters could be classified as ingénues? This funny article in The Age clarifies (in a way) the point:

And what's an "ingenue"?

For years every time I heard it I always thought of Barbara Eden.

That never stopped me using it, though. It was very useful in English literature essays at uni when describing female characters in novels by Emily Bronte and Jane Austen. Nobody ever queried it. (Jim Schembri)

This other mention reveals the Brontëite behind the reviewer (or Jane Eyre-on-PBS late effects). The context is a review of Mike Judge's film Idiocracy:

“Twentieth Century Fox Presents A Ternion Production A Mike Judge Film ‘Idiocracy’”: At least that’s what the official credit block of Judge’s comedy claims. While technically true, Fox “presented” the film in the same sense that Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester “presented” his mad wife – locking it in the attic and pretending it didn’t exist. (Andy Klein in Los Angeles CityBeat)

Finally, our daily dose of BBC's Jane Eyre icons (courtesy, this time, of Behind the Scenes).

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