Are you a Jane Eyre freak?

A Younger Theatre reviews the play We Are Three Sisters:

The play is powerful in that we begin to understand in part why the sisters wrote the novels they did. We can see Jane Eyre in Charlotte, Catherine Earnshaw in Emily, and Helen Huntingdon in Anne. All three are powerful women ahead of their time, complete with strong wills and a common refusal to accept the limitations set by their gender, social standing and patriarchal era. It was intelligently directed, well written and well cast. A definite must-see. (Chloe Ravat)

New York Magazine features Michael Fassbender and makes quite a good point when it states,

Whatever your filmgoing kink, Michael Fassbender has been there for you this year. Jane Eyre freak? He played a brooding, passionate, waistcoated Mr. Rochester seducing Mia Wasikowska. (Kyle Buchanan)

We are not quite sure we agree with The Age:

Opera's cornerstone is music but literature's vital contribution to the art form is rarely recognised. If you take plays into account, the overwhelming majority of operas - as much as 85 per cent - are literary adaptations. However, not all operas have enjoyed success riding literature's coat-tails.
Can anyone recall Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights, or Arthur Sullivan's shot at ''serious'' opera, Ivanhoe? But most operas are in literature's debt. (Patricia Maunder)

In our experience Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights can be - and is - recalled by quite a few people.

The Los Angeles Times Travel section suggests a trip to Oxford:

College life without any tests or papers? Sweet, particularly when it means taking a week of classes at prestigious Oxford University in Oxford, England, on topics such as castles in Britain, the Brontës, King Arthur and the Dark Ages, the History of the BBC and more. (Mary Forgione)

The Times mentions once again young weighlifter Zoe Smith in connection with Jane Eyre:

The pages of Jane Eyre will have to wait, for now Smith is in Brontë Country, pumping iron alongside other Olympic hopefuls at Leeds Metropolitan University. (Ben Smith)

We are saddened by the news of the death of Charlotte Brontë, Houston Chronicle columnist Leon Hale's dog:

We won’t even have a family pet to help eat the leftovers. Our yellow Lab, Charlotte Brontë, last week moved on to whatever reward awaits a sweet old dog. She was 11 years old. Died a victim of Cushing’s disease.
The death of that dog has generated so many tears in our house, I’m surprised the National Weather Service hasn’t posted a flood watch, and declared the drought to be over.

Defyingcomplacency's Blog discusses 'Jane Eyre as an Independent Character' while the 2011 adaptation is reviewed by Kulturalnytorun (in Polish), Tracey's Tasty Tit Bits and I am the Movie. Modéerska Huset writes in Swedish about the 2006 miniseries. And The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon has uploaded the cover of a 1969 Jane Eyre audiobook. Surprisingly Me posts about both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.