Brontë Weather

Philip French selects for The Guardian the best films of 2011:

But especially encouraging has been the performance of the British cinema: thoughtful adaptations of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre[.]

Gig City (Edmonton, Canada) reviews the theatre play Hroses: An Affront to Reason by Jill Connell. The reviewer opts for a Brontë metaphor:

Seriously, it was like watching a version of Wuthering Heights where the passion waxed and waned at its own desire and delight. (Adrian Lackey)

The Edmonton Journal reviews Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot and you know the compulsory quote:

Books and what they say about their readers are a major theme in The Marriage Plot, and from the opening line - "To start with, look at all the books" - we come to know the characters through what they read. Madeleine is an English major, and her room is filled with works by Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, the Brontës and Colette. In other words, she is "incurably romantic" at a time when deconstructionism and postmodern relativism have smashed to smithereens such quaint traditional notions as plot, character development and even meaning. (Karen Virag)

A Brontë weather reference is being mentioned in this Guardian's live update of the wind storms in Scotland:

3.43pm: My colleague Jon Dennis appears to have come over all Heathcliff:

This is what Yorkshire-based members of my family call "Brontë-killing weather".

wilfela 3:57PM

Reference Brontë-killing weather - nothing could be further from the truth.
It was always said in Haworth that "a green yule meant a full churchyard," ie a mild winter increased the risk of disease .
For the record: Maria died in May; Elizabeth in June; Branwell died in September; Emily a week before Chriustmas; Anne in May and Charlotte at the end of March.

And Then They Start to Sparkle reviews Jane Eyre 2011; Ma Librairie posts about Wuthering Heights in French; El Refugio en Cielo Abierto does the same with Jane Eyre in Spanish;  Books in the Sun reviews Wide Sargasso Sea; Teen Blog talks about the Brontë team as precursors of the Twilight saga; Bradford, My Town posts Top Withins; Me & my circumstances reviews Dario Marianelli's Jane Eyre 2011 soundtrack (in Spanish); Welcome to my Sketchbook uploads some watercolours inspired by Jane Eyre.