Universal appeal across the generations

Read Express (Washington Post) interviews Judith Thurman, author of Cleopatra's Nose, a collection of essays including one on Charlotte Brontë:

» EXPRESS: What kind of research do you do when you're reviewing a biography?
» THURMAN: Well, I read everything I can find about the subject. I will read other biographies. In the case of the Brontes, for example — there's a huge amount of literature on the Brontes, but I read about five major biographies on the Brontes. I knew the fiction, but I reread a lot of it.
You're not going to have the kind of authority of somebody who's spent 20 years studying the subject, but you have to get enough authority to be able circumscribe the subject with enough reading, so that you can compare the book you're talking about to other works.

The Independent provides reasons to visit Leeds and surroundings:

15 Countryside
Among the finest landscapes in Britain lie close to the city's doorstep. The Yorkshire Dales National Park is just a short drive to the north, where those seeking a fix of rolling Pennine hills, sheep and dry stone walls can luxuriate in bucolic splendour. Elsewhere, the countryside immortalised in Wuthering Heights, complete with the Brontës' home at Haworth, provides a more literary experience. (Jonathan Brown and James Macintyre)

This academic blog contains several essays on Jane Eyre taken from different sources. Darque Reviews interviews Marta Acosta, author of Happy Hour at Casa Dracula:

What genre do you enjoy reading when time allows? Do you have any favorite authors?
(...)My favorite writers are all dead: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, and P.G. Wodehouse.

Another unexpected Brontëite is Diana Rigg. In this article in Easy Living magazine (October 2007) she describes Jane Eyre like this:

Jane Eyre was the book that led me to discover literature. As a novel, it has universal appeal across the generations - my daughter loved it as much as I did when I introduced it to her via a talking book. It particularly appeals to adolescent girls. It's the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester: oh my God, it's so romantic! He's deeply attractive, such Byronic appeal. I read it when I was very young -12 or 13. I was a bookish child; books were my launch pad to a world elsewhere. Every Saturday, my dad and I used to go to Leeds Library and I was allowed to take three books out, and the afternoon was glorious with all the promise that lay between the covers of those three books.

Thanks to Diana Rigg, ... where we have found this information.

Categories: Brontëites, Haworth, Jane Eyre