Young Men's Magazine in Brussels

The news of the Haworth Parish Church urgent appeal to secure funds for the much needed repairs have reached BBC News. And The Irish Independent covers the controversial Bradford council housing plans in Haworth.

Via Brontë Parsonage Blog, we have reached a post on France Salut where more details about the recently-auctioned juvenilia manuscript are disclosed. It seems that the manuscript will be on display at the Brussels branch of the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits:

Le Musée des lettres et manuscrits had a lot more up their sleeves in any case. The president told me he had the means to go to €1 million if necessary
But also unknown to Haworth, when I spoke to the collections manager Ann Dinsdale, was the French museums complete willingness to share its new treasure. It will go in display in a Brussels offshoot - significantly, the Belgium capital was the setting for two of Charlotte's four novels. (Colin Randall)

IndieWire's The Lost Boys publishes the top 10 films of 2011:

6. Wuthering Heights: Only a few of the succeeding movies impressed me more on a bare visual level. The entire film has a very blue sheen and it gives a perfect catalyst for the plotline. All the emotion and feeling in the movie is basked heavily in this basin, if you will, of color; it was enough to leave certain images imprinted on my mind. Wuthering Heights is a scanty, derisive movie filled gloom, and I dug it. Something to note; I’d never before heard of the classic novel by Emily Brontë, and understand this adaptation deviates heavily from it, and how commendable. (Derek Marchewka)

Gay News Network lists eleven films:

Angst is writ large in Charlotte Brontë's corset drama to end all corset dramas. Poor orphan Jane manages to advance beyond her station, and even catch the roving eye of caring Mr Rochester. Of course, it all ends badly for he hides a secret that Jane is unable to accept. Our Mia Wasikowska, with help from Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench and Jamie Bell, redefines a classic and create the new standard - bold, bleak and beautiful – by which Jane Eyre will forthwith be measured. (Colin Fraser)

East Bay Express also includes the film on their top ten:

Jane Eyre, on the other hand, marched into art houses last March with full fanfare, as the latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic gothic novel and also as director Cary Fukunaga's follow-up to his sensational first feature, Sin Nombre. The project had a couple of secret weapons — busy actors Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, two of 2011's most-utilized players — as well as a thoughtful screenplay adaptation by Moira Buffini. Australian product Wasikowska continues to enthrall. You could put her, Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Sally Hawkins, Simon McBurney, Judi Dench, and Craig Roberts in Bermuda shorts on a golf course and they could makes us believe in the inexorable workings of the English governess' fate — if Fukunaga were at the helm. One of the year's most conspicuous inconspicuous releases. (Kelly Vance)

The film is also on the lists of Very Aware and Canadian Cinephile.

Guy Lodge looks for the Best Supporting Actors of the year on HitFix:

Judi Dench, "Jane Eyre"
Dench's 2011 Oscar buzz evaporated with non-event turns in late-year prestige items "J. Edgar" and "My With With Marilyn." Would that the buzz had been on her warm, ever-so-slightly vinegary turn as the staunch housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax in this fine-cut Brontë adaptation: no wheels are being reinvented here, but it's the actress's most lived-in character work since her last Oscar nod.

Clothes on Film compares the costumes of Jane Eyre 2011 and Lars Von Trier's Melancholia:

Justine’s constrictive wedding dress is figuratively similar to that designed by Michael O’Connor for Jane Eyre (released 9th September). This merciless mid-19th century silhouette is a far cry from the romantic empire line of the Jane Austin era. Jane Eyre takes place in a harsh environment during cold, harsh times. O’Connor and director Cary Fukunaga avoided the more ‘pretty, pretty’ approach to costume drama, instead concentrating on colour, fabric and tone (muted, stiff and bleak). While Justine chooses to continually defile her wedding dress, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) practically tears it from her body. Both characters are consumed with an inability to allow themselves contentment; in reality they do not even understand what it is. (Chris Laverty)

Several websites comment on Michael Fassbender performance as Rochester:

Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method (in which he plays Dr. Carl Jung) did not receive the attention they deserved (Hollywood Outbreak)

[A] spot-on performance as the tortured Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. (Genevieve Loh in Singapore Today)

[A] bodice-ripping Byronic (Jane Eyre)[.] (Elisabet Rappe on Film.com)

[H]e stunned us in A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre and even X-Men: First Class this year[.] (Carina Belles on We Got This Covered)

[H]e also astounded critics and audiences with his work in "Jane Eyre" as Mr. Rochester. (Naomi Creason in The Sentinel)

[S]oft-opened the year in an archetypal romantic part, Mr. Rochester, in Jane Eyre. (Kimberly Chu in San Francisco Bay Guardian)

The Stroud News & Journal defends Mia Wasikowska's performance:

Actress of the year is a little tricky – probably everyone assuming Meryl is a shoo in with Maggie so held back- but Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre stood out. (Andrew Shepherd)

We Got This Covered also highlights it. The Philadelphia Daily News mentions the couple:

Mia Wasikowska was an awesome "Jane Eyre," and her scenes with Michael Fassbender brought gravity to that overripe story. (Gary Thompson)

New Statesman gives its own awards, the Cultural Capital film awards of the year:

Best Aspect Ratio
4:3 aka Academy ratio aka the square frame aka "Hey! Where's the rest of the screen gone? Somebody fetch the projectionist!" As seen in Wuthering Heights, Meek's Cutoff and The Artist. It's what all the coolest cinema screens are wearing this year. (Ryan Gilbey)

As a successful reader and devout admirer of Herman Melville's Moby Dick it is hard to understand Umapagan Ampikaipakan in the New Straits Times (Malaysia):

It is something picked up and put down again. And far too quickly. A novel that is read five to six pages at a time. A book that forces us instead, to read The Waverly Novels, or Wuthering Heights, or The Brothers Karamazov. As if they were some kind of solace.

Sugar Scope says

There are some books that will change your life, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and One Direction's Dare to Dream.  (cari3232)

If you say so...

StudioCity Patch posts "A Gardener’s New Year’s Resolution"

I shall relinquish my dream of creating an English cottage garden with foxgloves and roses. This ain’t England and I’m no Jane Eyre. (Marla Hart)

 Electripig suggests downloading Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for your ebook reader:

Wuthering Heights. One of the Victorian period’s most beguiling and stunning pieces of literature. When it was published in 1847, its ambiguity and controversial approach to marital relationships caused a critical storm. Dismissed at the time as “vulgar”, it’s a stunning, evocative piece of literature, decades ahead of its time. 
Jane Eyre. Like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre offers a dark, melancholy look at romance in Victorian England. That said, Emily’s sister Charlotte’s tome is a very different tale, albeit with many of the same kind of damaged, yet alluring characters. This is one of the 19th century’s finest pieces of fiction and should take pride of place on your eReader, Kindle, Kobo or other. (Joe Minihane)

Captain JP's log publishes a Wuthering Heights interactive fiction post; a mock Wuthering Heights anime-like poster on algenpfleger on DevianArt;  The Eater of Books, O que eu ando fazendo de bom? (in Portuguese), Charity's Blog and Nandan Dubey's Blog post about Jane Eyre; The Familiar Studies of Girls and Books does the same with Wuthering Heights; Tomato Nation and Rambling Film reviews Jane Eyre 2011.