Yorkshire and Hampshire lasses

Heather Barbieri writes in The Huffington Post about Jane Eyre and her family:

The leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre sits on my bookcase, amidst the others I've collected over the years, a library to which I return, as both reader and writer, time and again.
Alphabetized newer paper and hardbacks stand alongside older novels, dating to the early 1900s, handed down through generations of my family, pages puckered slightly from contact with water--tears, rain from a day outdoors when the weather changed quickly, who can say? Books with history, the history of the readers--my grandmother and mother--who forgot their difficult lives while immersed in the ivory pages.
Precisely how Jane Eyre came into my grandmother's hands is the subject of debate, as were so many things in the Weatherill family. She may have borrowed, and never returned, it from her grandmother, Frances, writing her name, Esther Archer, on the flyleaf. (Read more)

The New York Observer reviews the film Hysteria by Tanya Wexler:

Hysteria is Jane Austen with a vibrator—a movie about the invention of the scandalous electro-mechanical device that changed women’s lives forever. Set in the Victorian era of scientific ignorance and cultural Puritanism, its style is still more Restoration comedy than Victorian decadence—postcolonial feminism with a temperament more Austen than Brontë. Nothing to snicker about here. (Rex Reed)

Big Think also mentions the Brontës and Jane Austen when writing about this UK literary map sold by The Literary Gift Company.

It's funny to see the Brontë sisters, wedged in a part of their Yorkshire, so far apart from Jane Austen, a Hampshire lass. These ladies are lumped together on many a reading list and in quite a few libraries. (Frank Jacobs)

Austin 360 looks at the wide ranging influences of The Rude Mechs' new play Now Now Oh Now.

Evolutionary biology. Aesthetic determinism. Live action role playing. Puzzles. The Brontë sisters. Choice versus chance.
The Rude Mechs are making a new play again. And, as usual, the celebrated Austin theater collective is pulling from seemingly disparate sources.
But, as usual, they've found a poetic and inventive way to blend multifarious ideas into one compact 90-minute play. (Jeanne Claire van Ryzin)

A Star-Telegram columnist posts about finding accommodation in London:

A couple of days after arriving not knowing anyone, I went by a grad student dorm that was too gloomily Jane Eyre-ish, then found a listing through the university I'd be attending. (Linda P. Campbell)

Books I Done Read posts about Little Miss Brontë: Jane Eyre. This & That reviews Syrie James's The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë. Susycottage looks at this photograph. And finally YouTube user Portalomdvu shares footage taken at Top Withins.