Why did the book have to come to an end?

Now that the swine flu is big news, the Financial Times talks about the diseases of Victorian times:

One cannot avoid illness, just as one cannot avoid life. And, as Jane Austen reminds us in Emma, “Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.”
Austen and her contemporaries also now remind us how many more diseases were life-threatening in the 19th century. In Louisa M Alcott’s Little Women Beth March narrowly survives scarlet fever – though her heart is weakened. Fred gets through typhoid in Middlemarch, but his treatment causes a rift between two local doctors. In Jane Eyre consumption proves fatal; cholera kills in The Painted Veil. (Rosie Blau)

Carolyn Hitt writes The Western Mail about the risks of imitating romantic movies/novels:

Yes, Charlotte Bronte’s uber-male is brooding, enigmatic and has a granite-faced beauty. But he also keeps his nutty, pyromaniac ex in the loft extension.
Kind of detracts from his dating potential.

The Halifax Courier reports about the £50,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund received by the Pennine Inheritance Project which includes projects related to the Brontës:

The trails which the Inheritance Project team is trying to develop link with public transport and existing public rights of way.
Each is being carefully designed to cover subjects such as work and religion, art and culture, the impact of the textile industry, power in the landscape, philanthropists, authors such as Ted Hughes and the Brontes, the development of roads, railways and canals. (Michael Peel)

The Indian actress Roshni Chopra is interviewed in the New Kerala and seems a bit confused about who's the author and who's the character:

Which bookish character do you identify with?
I love Emily Brontë of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and also, Estella in ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens.

Bitten by Books interviews author Annette Blair:

BBB: Do you find it difficult to switch between paranormal and straight romance/historical romance?
AB: Sometimes when I’m switching between the mysteries, in first person where I’m the sleuth, I have a hard time moving back to third person stories where both hero and heroine have a point of view. As for switching between contemporaries and historicals, I tend to switch my television and movie habits, too, to help me get a feel for the language. (...) For Regency romances I go back to my first loves, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, etc.

Jane Austen's World reviews positively Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë:

For fans of biographical tales and romance, Syrie’s story of Charlotte offers it all: longing and yearning, struggle and success, the searing pain of immeasurable loss, and the happiness of a love that came unbidden and unsought. I did not want this story to end. (Vic)

And Feminist Review does the same with Denise Giardina's Emily's Ghost:

The challenge in writing a novel about a historical figure is presenting the facts in story form with a freshness that allows the reader to forget what they already know, or at the least push it to the side. Ms. Giardiana accomplishes this with ease. I found her characters believable and endearing. In her capable hands, Emily and her sisters come to life. I was swept away by the story and only posed one question: why did the book have to come to an end? (Ann Hite)

A 1930’s illustrated hardback of Wuthering Heights in the West Palm Beach Literature Examiner, Zuzu Concept recommends the novel (in Romanian), The Rocky Horror Picture Blog complains about the Wuthering Heights edition targeted to Twilight fans, Honey, put down the harpoon! posts about Jane Eyre.

Categories: Brontëites, Fiction, Jane Eyre, In the News, Wuthering Heights