Jane Eyre got the guy

Brian Wilks has written to the Telegraph about the planned wind farm on the moors:

SIR – Patrick Brontë, the father of the Brontë sisters, would not agree that Brontë country is no longer worth visiting (Letters, May 1) because of wind turbines.
Throughout his 40 years as chairman of the parish council in the first half of the 19th century he encouraged innovation, the piping of drinking water and the cleaning up of open sewers – all “modern” improvements opposed by interested local mill owners.
Haworth Moor is a large open space. There is much in Haworth to attract the tourist – not least the chance to reflect on the improvements encouraged by its parson that turned the stinking slum township into a more habitable space.
Wind turbines would have intrigued Patrick Brontë as examples of what he termed “our scientific age”.
Brian Wilks
Stroud, Gloucestershire

STLToday lists several 'super nannies' and Jane Eyre is included in the 'Nannies who get the guy' category.

Jane Eyre, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë (1847): "Reader, I married him," Jane announces at the end of her story, setting the golden standard in nanny-romance forevermore. Of course, plots tend to move more quickly now than they did in 1847, when novelist Charlotte Bronte set down Jane's story. Jane endures a lifetime (and many, many pages) of sad-orphan-girl adventures before the darkly mysterious Mr. Rochester hires her to watch over high-spirited Adele. Jane flees, she starves, she inherits a fortune, she almost marries Mr. Wrong — but Mr. Rochester, who by this time has been blinded, is of course her destiny, as she is his. Future nannies, take heed: Watch out for the madwoman in the attic. Even if she's right in the living room. (Judith Newmark)

The Waikato Times, looking at romance novels loans in libraries, makes a similar point:

Dr Sarah Shieff of Waikato University even managed to get Harlequin and Mills & Boon novels into the same sentence as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, when asked by the Waikato Times for comment yesterday:
"What links writers of romance, from bestseller lists to Mills and Boon catalogues, is their ability to tap into the romantic archetypes captured so brilliantly in the fiction of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë: an intelligent young woman meets a wealthy, handsome, brooding man in need of her wit and charm to shake him free from his pride (Darcy in Pride and Prejudice) or her moral good sense to rescue him from his guilty past (Rochester in Jane Eyre)," Dr Shieff said. (Nicola Brennan-Tupara)

And yet a similar take in The Economist.

Take the plot of “Jane Eyre” (rich man with issues falls for innocent young lass), strip away the introspection, add some S&M sex and you have “Fifty Shades of Grey”.

Co. Design takes a more original approach when mentioning the novel, see.

A home exercise machine is like Mr. Rochester’s first wife in Jane Eyre--something you acquired with good intentions and then secreted away and kept from public view. (Belinda Lanks)

The Herald Leader reports on Charlaine Harris's favourite books.

What are Charlaine Harris' favorite books? "Today it's a Pride and Prejudice day," she said. Some days are Jane Eyre days, Harris said. (Cheryl Truman)

A local girl featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch is also a fan of Jane Eyre.

The Telegraph reviews the film Safe.

Ever since Luc Besson’s Transporter films established him as a bankable action lead, Jason Statham has developed a unique style of acting that might be described as mid-Atlantic inexpressivism.
It wouldn’t work particularly well in a Brontë adaptation, but it’s perfect for a cherishably nasty little Seventies throwback such as Safe, in which he plays Luke Wright, a New York law enforcer turned cage fighter whose wife has been killed by the Russian mob. (Robbie Collin)

The Times-Picayune, on the other hand, does find someone who fits into a Brontë novel: Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine.

On stage, she's slim and graceful, with a feminine delicacy that brings to mind a Brontë novel. (Susan Langenhennig)

WetPaint also finds 'echoes' of Wuthering Heights in Gossip Girl.

Blair and Chuck are pretty much Gossip Girl's answer to Heathcliff and Cathy (read a book, TV nerds). They're star-crossed lovers who are willing to plot, scheme and hurt each other all in the name of romance. Swoon! (Mehera Bonner)

A piece of student-made art inspired by Wuthering Heights mentioned in the Chicago Tribune. The Egyptian Gazette shares an essay written by an English language student which calls Haworth a 'tourist trap'. And the Rockford Register Star reports that,

The Rockford Ides of March Poetry and Prose Contest has announced the winners.
Rockford residents Beverly Broyles won for her work "Untitled," Terri Hallberg won for her work "bitter tears" and Jennifer A. Rea won for her work "Jane Eyre I Know How You Feel." Each winner received a $20 prize for being selected in the adult category. (Vivian Gomez)

Ruby at the movies posts about Jane Eyre 2011 while Mrs Datas Liv (in Swedish) posts about both that one and the 1944 adaptation. Laura e. Crook posts 'Mr. Darcy VS. Mr. Rochester — A highly scientific, moderately objective analysis'. Are the hills going to march off reviews Wuthering Heights 2011 while Maribiella has revisited the novel. Flickr user SomniumDantis shares a set of pictures of Catherine Earnshaw. And another Flickr user, Col Underhill, has uploaded a postcard of Top Withens.