"Heathcliff and Catherine on the moors in a Japanese Manga retelling of the Brontë tale infused with splashes of psychedelia"

Red House is still in the news. The Spenborough Guardian reports local reactions to the good news:

People power has saved Red House Museum.
Following massive public outcry – and the Spenborough Guardian’s Hands Off Red House campaign – Kirklees Council has now abandoned plans to close it to save money.
The ruling Labour group announced on Tuesday it was against the closure, proposed by officers in the council’s 2012 budget.
The Lib Dems and Conservatives also refused to support the closure of what has been described as the jewel in the Spen Valley’s crown.
Vice-chairman of Spen Valley Civic Society Gordon North delivered an impassioned plea to the meeting, along with a slide-show presentation about the museum to outline its value to the area.
Red House attracts more than 26,000 visitors a year and has close links to the Brontë family. It was the home of Charlotte Brontë’s close friend Mary Taylor and features in the author’s novel Shirley.
After the meeting Mr North said: “I am over the moon. I am convinced that Red House is an under-used asset and we can now take it forward and keep it open for future years.
“We will be forming a working group to look at museums and ways of raising revenue from them so they can all stay open, including Red House, and not just for this year but for future years.”
Imelda Marsden, from the Brontë Society, said: “It’s brilliant news, but we cannot be complacent.
“We will have to keep our eyes and ears open. Special thanks must go to the Spenborough Guardian, ward councillors, Spen MP Mike Wood, Gordon North and everybody else involved.”
Council leader Coun Mehboob Khan said: “Red House Museum is an important part of our history and we want to look at more innovative ways of generating the income needed to keep it running, or look at how we might make the saving elsewhere.”
Opposition groups said they were delighted the plans to scrap the museum had been ditched.
Deputy Tory leader and ward councillor Coun David Hall said: “We have done a lot of lobbying behind the scenes to ensure that the proposal to close Red House did not go ahead.”
Lib-Dem leader Kath Pinnock said: “Great news for the Spen Valley as Labour councillors agree that the famous Red House should be saved.”

And The Telegraph and Argus has asked Brontë Parsonage Director Andrew McCarthy about it:

Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, said: “We are delighted at the decision.
“We were very keen to put forward our view that the museum should remain open and are happy to explore ways to develop closer links with Red House.”
Kirklees Council leader Mehboob Khan told the Telegraph & Argus said of the efforts to raise cash: “It’s about no options being ruled out at this stage. It could be introducing charges at Red House, charges at other museum sites across Kirklees, as well as income generation, such as being able to hire out some of our museums for functions.”
This would also look at reducing the museum’s overheads, such as staff costs. (Jo Winrow)

The Yorkshire Post also reports Mehboob Khan's comments:

Council leader Mehboob Khan said: “We have proposed to save Red House Museum – it is an important part of our history and we want to look at more innovative ways of generating the income needed to keep it running, or look at how we might make the saving elsewhere.
“Bulky waste collection is another area where we feel that imposing a charge at this time may lead to the council paying the shortfall in a different way, through having to deal with an increase in fly-tipping for example.”

The Keighley News features the Brontë Parsonage Museum after its closed period and looks at what lies ahead this year:

The Brontë Parsonage Museum is gearing up for a busy year following renewed interest in the famous writing sisters.
The Haworth museum developed new displays in time for last week’s reopening after its winter closure.
Bosses hope to capitalise on publicity around last autumn’s two Bronte movie adaptations and a high-profile manuscript sale.
The museum tried to buy the £700,000 manuscript, a tiny edition of Young Men’s magazine, but lost out to the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris.
The Parsonage is instead displaying another edition of the same magazine, written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13, along with other early Brontë manuscripts.
Andrew McCarthy, the museum’s director, said visitor numbers rose last year by more than eight per cent, and there were already more than 250 bookings for this year.
He said: “It’s clear that visitors will be coming to Haworth in significant numbers, from within the UK but also from overseas.
“We have some wonderful exhibitions and events planned that will make their visit here very special.”
The Bronte Parsonage Museum closes every January for maintenance work, cleaning, conservation and development of new exhibits.
Last year’s exhibition dedicated to the Brontës’ father Patrick will continue for the next few weeks.
It will be followed by a new exhibition looking at the history of the museum’s collection.
There will also be an exhibition of costumes from last year’s film adaptation of Jane Eyre, and exhibitions of work by artists Rebecca Chesney and Simon Warner.
These will focus on ‘weather’ and its historic and contemporary associations with the Brontës.
The exhibition will include a survey of photographic images of Top Withens and a sketch of it by celebrated poet Sylvia Plath.
There is also a programme of events with visiting authors.

Tabatha Coffey is interviewed by The New York Times' Carpetbagger about her Oscar predictions:

Q. But you didn’t make a pick for costume design?
A. I didn’t? If its blank it’s probably because I was vacillating. But it would have to be between “Jane Eyre” and “Hugo.” (Rachel Lee Harris)

Actress Sidse Babett Knudsen picks a film for The Independent:

Film: 'Jane Eyre', directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, was just brilliant. Mia Wasikowska  acted excellently and the very modern raw filming was completely harmonious with the classic story (Morgan Durno)

And Collider interviews Samantha Morton, who mentions her past role as Jane Eyre:

What was your familiarity with the books [Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels] before going in?
Morton: I knew of the books, but I hadn’t read the books. I knew because of “Tarzan”. I was really exciting to realize that we’re making a classic in the same way that someone might say, “You’re making ‘Jane Eyre’. You’re doing Charlotte Brontë.” I think that should be really something that really gets shouted about. We’re making a classic from a piece of literature. Not many people can say that when they’re making something like this. I feel very privileged to be part of a classic. The same way as when I played Jane Eyre. (Matt Goldberg)

The Guardian mentions Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights in an article about DVDs sent in the awards season increasing film piracy.

The Ram reviews Margot Livesey's The Flight of Gemma Hardy:

If you pick up this book hoping for the story of Jane Eyre merely transplanted from 19th century England into a modern setting, you will undoubtedly be disappointed. Gemma Hardy and Jane Eyre are two distinct heroines who, like other parallel characters in the novels, each have their own personalities, backgrounds and trials they must overcome. While the plot of The Flight of Gemma Hardy models that of Brontë's classic novel, Livesey moves the story in unexpected directions, leaving her readers guessing how certain elements of Jane Eyre will play out in this updated story that is so familiar yet strikingly unique. (Lauren Hathaway)

The Saline Patch focuses on a recent Poetry Out Loud event where

Sophomore Elianna Swayder, who performed poems by Emily Brontë and Maya Angelou, finished third. (Tran Longmoore)

And a columnist from the Spectator Book Blog recalls that

Certainly, the independent school I attended forced us to read Hard Times in addition to Jane Eyre, which was the set text. (David Blackburn)

That ever-surprising connection, fashion and the Brontës, yields one more mention today in The New York Times' On the Runway:

In a vaulted hall at the Desmond Tutu Center, one of those hidden gems on the General Theological Seminary block of Chelsea, the guests were packed so tightly, there was almost no room to see. I actually found myself standing behind Mr. Gabier as the models came out wearing clothes that Vogue recently described as having a “quirky folk-punk-feminine aesthetic” that “evokes Heathcliff and Catherine on the moors in a Japanese Manga retelling of the Brontë tale infused with splashes of psychedelia.” (Eric Wilson)

This is how the Dallas Voice describes Savannah, Georgia:

Elders proudly tout its reputation among paranormalists as the most haunted city in the U.S. Even non-believers may sense an aura of the supernatural. About two dozen squares dots the downtown district, imbuing the city with the shadowy, Victorian mood of a Brontë novel. Scattered among the squares are houses with long-standing ghost stories attached, and cemeteries that glow under a full moon with spooky drama. (Arnold Wayne Jones)

Jane Eyre 2011 is reviewed by That Film Guy and La Vie Cinéphile (in German). Film Music: The Neglected Art discusses Bernard Herrmann's music for Jane Eyre 1944.