"Very disappointed"

Many, many sites are echoing the news of Charlotte Brontë's unpublished manuscript going to a French museum, but the only one seemingly posting something new is BBC News, which has a video interview with Andrew McCarthy and shows images from the auction as well as of the manuscript.

MTV's Hollywood Crush has asked Cary Fukunaga about Michael Fassbender:

Interestingly enough, there was almost more of Michael added to "Jane Eyre," according to director Cary Fukunaga, with whom MTV News recently chatted with about the success of the film and a few of the bonus features on the DVD/Blu-ray.
"There was lots of talk about that scene when he gets out of bed, when his bed is on fire, about how naked he was going to be in that scene, and I swear to God all the ladies at BBC and Focus were really pushing for that to be a somewhat naked scene," Fukunaga revealed. "If that would have happened we would have had a lot of set visits that day as well. He’s definitely a lady-pleaser." (Kara Warner)

They also have an exclusive clip of

young Jane (Amelia Clarkson) doing some stunt work and pretend-pummeling her co-star, after which the feisty young actress gave a particularly excited interview to the behind-the-scenes cameras in which she describes how "good" it was to get to beat up a boy. (Watch the clip after the jump!)
Fukunaga revealed that the best part about Amelia's interview is that she was speaking with a slightly foreign accent to her.
"We were going through the footage that my friend Rob shot behind-the-scenes and he said, ‘Oh, I have to show you this interview,'" Fukunaga recalled. "Milly is from Leicester and she’s actually speaking with the equivalent of a thug accent in that little vignette. I thought it was so hilarious because she’s so not Cockney and she was speaking super Cockney. She’s pretty feisty." (Kara Warner)

Ology picks Michael Fassbender as King of 2011 because he...

was basically in every movie in 2011. He was Magneto in X-Men: First Class (the only good thing about that movie IMO), the sexy Rochester in Jane Eyre (he makes period pieces watchable!). . . (Emily Cheever)

The BBC News also has a video feature reporting that some restoration work is being carried out in Top Withens, the farm presumably located where Wuthering Heights would have been:

An abandoned farmhouse thought to be the inspiration behind Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is being preserved for future generations.
Restoration work is taking place on Top Withens, high on the moors above Haworth, to ensure it does not fall prey to the elements.

The Awl has an article on heather:

Or you might also remember the first time you read Wuthering Heights, and imagine Heathcliff and Catherine crossing the moonlit moors to rush into each other's arms. I actually had a slightly insane but in retrospect totally inspiring high-school English teacher who used to make regular pilgrimages to the moors of England, where she believed that the actual ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine could still be found. Her theory was that these same ghosts possessed Emily Brontë and inspired her to tell their story with such harrowing, passionate language. How else, she asked us, could a reclusive soul write with so much vision and grandeur? In her mind, Wuthering Heights was the greatest novel ever written, and to this day I'm not sure I would disagree. Or well, to be slightly more judicious, I would say other books are just as great, but none greater, which not coincidentally is also the way I think about different landscapes in the natural world. Or maybe you'll think of Kate Bush running through the fields, also possessed by the ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine, which is just as satisfying, only in a different way. (Matthew Gallaway)

Flickr user Style_Discovery has a set of pictures from the Jane Eyre play at the Harbour Theatre in Fremantle. Blog de Cine reviews Jane Eyre 2011 in Spanish. Barnboksprat posts in Swedish about Classical Comics Jane Eyre. Defiant Success posts about Wuthering Heights 1939.

EDIT: An alert for tomorrow, December 17 in Limlingerode, Thuringia, Germany. In the Haus der Dichtung, a recital of poetry by Emily Brontë:

Im Haus der Dichtung in Limlingerode werden in regelmäßigen Abständen neben deutschsprachigen Poeten auch solche aus anderen Ländern vorgestellt. Am Samstag, 17. Dezember, werden ab 14.30 Uhr Gedichte der Engländerin Emily Brontë zu erleben sein.

Limlingerode. Schon als Kinder erdachten sich die vier Brontë-Geschwister Charlotte, Brandwell, Emily und Anne die fiktiven Länder Angria, Gondal und Gaaldine, die sie in kurzen Geschichten beschrieben.  Emily Brontë besuchte zusammen mit ihrer Schwester Charlotte, ebenfalls als Autorin berühmt, Internatsschulen und arbeitete dann an einer von ihnen als Lehrerin. 1842 gingen beide Schwestern zum Studium nach Brüssel. Nach der Rückkehr übernahm Emily den Haushalt und die Finanzen der Familie. Neben dem Schreiben, das zunächst ein Hobby war, liebte Emily das Beschäftigen mit Tieren, das Wandern und die Naturbetrachtung, was im frühen Viktorianischen Zeitalter ungewöhnliche Interessen für eine Frau waren. Seit dem Aufenthalt in Brüssel sprach sie  Französisch, außerdem beherrschte sie Latein und Altgriechisch. 1846 veröffentlichten die drei Schwestern Emily, Anne und Charlotte den Gedichtband "Poems" unter den männlichen  Pseudonymen  Ellis, Acton und Currer Bell. Diese lassen sich den Anfangsbuchstaben der Vornamen zuordnen.

Die Qualität der Gedichte von "Ellis" (Emily) wurde von der zeitgenössischen Kritik gegenüber denen der beiden anderen Autoren hervorgehoben, ein Urteil, das bis heute besteht. Ihre lyrische Arbeit, die sich oft auf das Traumreich Gondal bezieht, setzte Emily Brontë bis zu ihrem frühen Tod fort. Ihr einziger Roman  "Wuthering Heights" (Sturmhöhe) ist ein Klassiker der englischen Literatur. Auch dieser erschien unter dem Pseudonym. Die Schriftstellerin trat selbstbewusst auf, zeigte häufig unkonventionelles Handeln, wirkte für Außenstehende schroff. Durch zwei farbige Arbeiten ihres Bruders ist ihr Äußeres überliefert. Emily Brontë. (Thüringer Allgemaine) (Translation)