Mr Rochester under the covers

Metro.co.uk interviews Mia Wasikowska:

What do you think are your biggest acting accomplishments? The first thing I did in the US was HBO show In Treatment – it was one of the most fulfilling jobs I've ever had. Now, I feel that Jane Eyre is a big accomplishment for me. Jane is a great character and so many people love and connect to her story. At its core, it's still very modern: it's about a young girl trying to find a connection in a very dislocated world, and about finding love and a family. The themes have a universality and, for that reason, people can always relate to them. [...]
Did wearing those corsets help you get into character? I hated wearing them – they're so uncomfortable. But getting into full costume really helped me to understand the physical repression that women experienced at that time. The clothing they had to wear went hand in hand with the mental and emotional repression they also felt –   this was a huge part of Victorian culture. Once the corset was on, I couldn't really take in a whole breath, I couldn't eat very much and I couldn't move as freely due to the discomfort it caused. It was painful.
What's the secret to your chemistry with Michael Fassbender? He has a really fantastic energy and is very worldly and so friendly. I feel like we got on very well from the beginning. We have a similar way of working and we were able to counter the intensity of the material by being goofy in between shoots. We channelled all the positive energy that we had into   the material. (Colin Kennedy)

The Spectator Book Blog unveils the novelist and playwright Sue Townsend as a Brontëite:

2) As a child, what did you read under the covers? Comics, Mad Magazine, P.G. Wodehouse, The William books, Jane Eyre, Little Women... [...]
5) Which literary character would you most like to sleep with? Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre. (Fleur MacDonald)

The writer Sreela P. Nair is also a Brontëite of sorts. She says to The Hindu,

I have no favourites but I do remember Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights as a book that stayed with me in my initial years. (Suneetha B.)

Maureen Corrigan discusses the novel Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron on WBUR (Boston):

The title character here is a private duty nurse who has recently arrived at an isolated manor called Hart House to tend an elderly woman dying of cancer. Coral Glynn is young, alone in the world, and described by other characters as "rather pretty ... in a plain way." If that phrase puts you in mind of Jane Eyre, it should; Cameron also doffs his cap to Daphne du Maurier's classic about a solitary orphan, Rebecca. 

The Globe and Mail interviews Margaret Atwood about her novel (now also a documentary film) Payback:

In other words, debt invades our decision-making on multiple levels?Atwood: Something that’s always intrigued me about the Victorian novel – which was my field of professional training long ago when I was an academic – is that most people study the front of the stage, which are the characters, the marriage or actions, without looking at the back of the stage, which are the financial arrangements in these novels. But once you start looking at the financial arrangements, you realize they are all based on that – including Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, all of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, you name it.
How much money and how they are making their money permeates Dickens.
And Madame Bovary. The fact is that if she hadn’t been a shopaholic, she could have kept on committing adultery to her heart’s content, and nobody would have noticed. They only notice because she goes into debt and the guy to whom she owes the money turns up and says, Now I’m going to go to your husband and tell him everything. But if she hadn’t gone into debt, she would have been fine. (Guy Dixon)

TMCnet discusses the uses of Twitter as a classroom tool:

But how can that be when 18- to 21-year-old students are bound to be more interested in checking to see if their school made it into the NCAA tournament (go Cuse!), then [sic] they are with commenting on social hierarchies and feminism in “Jane Eyre.” (Carrie Schmelkin)

It's all about Jane Eyre 2011 on the blogosphere today: Death's Head & the Sickly Child, Kajsa, Pausemedia (in French), Ajmaguire and Private Filmkritiken (in German).