Let's say... Brontë's addiction

The Times Literary Supplement reviews John Mullan's Anonymity. In the book John Mullan tells this well-known story:

Charlotte Brontë’s friend Ellen Nussey watched the proofs of Jane Eyre being corrected in her own house without ever being so intrusive as to ask what was going on. Not only that, but she “passed them to the house letter bag without glancing at the address; perceiving that confidence was not volunteered, it was not sought”. A few years later, when Brontë was enjoying literary society in London, she kept up the pretence that she had no connection to the brilliant Currer Bell – and so did others: “Most people know me I think”, Brontë wrote in a letter; “but they are far too well-bred to show that they know me”. (Matthew Arnold)

In the same TLS issue we found this rather arbitrary Jane Eyre appearance in a review of Rudolf Nureyev: A Biography by Julie Kavanagh:

The fact that he survived his childhood at all was sufficient proof that Rudolf Nureyev was, as Mr Rochester said of Jane Eyre, tenacious of life. (Sarah Churchwell)

The Town Crier announces the Huntingdon performances (next February 29) of the Heartbreak Productions tour with Wuthering Heights:

A brand new adaptation of a wild tale of ill-fated love and vengeance set in the county of Yorkshire - Wuthering Heights - is coming to Huntingdon's Commemoration Hall.
The Emily Bronte classic, adapted by Ros Wehner, is performed by Heartbreak Productions who are returning to the venue after their visit last year with Jamaica Inn.
From the turbulent, sometimes brutal behaviour of Heathcliff to the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love of free-spirited Cathy, Heartbreak promise to evoke the bleak, windswept landscape of the Yorkshire moors and heighten the emotional extremes of each characters' tortured journey.
Using live music and audience interaction, the production guarantees an impassioned and moving evening entertainment to warm the winter nights. (Hazel Slade)

The Portland Mercury reviews the film The Bucket List and includes a bad taste comment:

Soon they've got rich asshole Jack Nicholson (who, frankly, looks like he might actually be dying) coughing blood into a handkerchief like he's one of the Brontë sisters or something, and then rattling off Nicholsonisms that lost their cool about the time that he started to look like Mickey Rooney. (Zac Pennington)

Dysfunctional families as inpiration for literature is the subject of a post on The Guardian's Book Blog. The Reed family is mentioned:

But for every anomaly, there are countless more whose brilliance derives from the author's insight into what goes on between spouses, parents, children. Think of Middlemarch, or Pride and Prejudice, or Jane Eyre: would they be quite as breathtaking, as true, without the self-delusion of the Vincys, or the ambition of the Bennets, or the cruel complacency of the Reeds? (Charlotte Mendelson)

Today we have a news site talking about Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë without confronting them, for a change:

Fans should also consider Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre starring Toby Stephens (who knew a cocky villain from a Bond movie could pull off the darkly brooding Rochester?). It is a lush and evolving film, perfect for viewers who are enthralled by the nuance and design of the Masterpiece series.
Jane Eyre the book makes a good readalike for Austen. Brontë, while darker, had the same wit and rhythm and set her book firmly in a social world she did not hesitate to comment upon. (Neil Wyatt in Library Journal)

Birstall News makes a brief reminder of the Brontë connections of Birstall (through Ellen Nussey's homes there: The Rydings and Brookroyd):

Folk were taken from the Joseph Priestley statue in the market place to various places including The Rydings in the Kalon premises which has connections with the Bronte sisters, the old court room at the Black Bull in Kirkgate, St Peter's graveyard and Oakwell Hall.

Litchfield County Times presents the book by Anna Mae Duane Hope Is the Great First Blessing: Leaves from the African Free School Examination Book with a Jane Eyre reference:

No one can contest that literature has had great effect on the course of history. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was "the little lady that caused this great war," according to Abraham Lincoln, while Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens shook Victorian complacency to the core, setting the way for, among other things, the liberation of women and the end of sweatshop labor for children. (Kathryn Boughton)

More Jane Eyre references, this time through Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, which inspired Los Campesinos!'s Just Don't Read Jane Eyre song:

And Hold on Now, Youngster...'s masterful update of indie tropes goes as far as embracing indie pop's bookish wimpiness for both boys and girls, from the Jane Eyre disses of the colorfully chiming "Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s)" to the "damn extended metaphors" of "My Year in Lists" to, well, there's a song called "We Are All Accelerated Readers". (Marc Hogan in Pitchfork)

This Wuthering Heights reference is a paradigmatic example of its use as a 'romantic' cliché:

The truth is that I fell for someone who prefers a blue toilet bowl to, oh, I don't know, let's say "Wuthering Heights." (Lisa Kogan in Ophra.com)

Some blogs: My .02¢ reviews Jane Eyre:

Charlotte Brontë is amazing. Her prose is the most beautiful I have ever read (and this is no way a diss to Charlotte, but I haven't read many classics, so my fare of prose is fairly low) and the rhythm of the book was spectacular. (Butcept)

Portfolio Pessoal de Juliana briefly comments Abismos de Pasión 1953 in Portuguese.

Finally, via The New Zealand Herald, we have found the following wordplay game with names of bands and books, Booking Bands, on Coudal Partners:

Jane Eyre's Addiction (Michelle Caplan)

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights