Admirable and Compelling

The Independent asks 100 writers to choose 100 favourite fictional characters:

Jane Eyre
Chosen by China Miéville (King Rat)
Charlotte Brontë's heroine towers over those around her, morally, intellectually and aesthetically; she's completely admirable and compelling. Never camp, despite her Gothic surrounds, she takes a scalpel to the skin of the every day.

Pacific Daily News (Guam) gives summer reading choices:

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Written by the eldest of the Brontë sisters, "Jane Eyre" is a classic tale of romance in the Victorian age.
The novel begins with a young Jane Eyre, an orphan who lives with her horrible aunt and cousins who abuse her. Such mistreatment helps Jane sustain a strong moral compass that guides her as she ventures forth in life. Eyre matures into an intelligent, but timid woman, who doesn't turn a blind eye to the injustices she faces.
Eventually, Jane becomes a governess and takes a position at Thornfield Hall where she develops an attraction to the sarcastic and witty Mr. Rochester.
The book is long, but worth the read. There are a few chapters one might consider dry, but they are essential to the development of the plot. "Jane Eyre" is a great read revolving around the themes of love, family and redemption. (Ryan Galindo)

Performing Arts Examiner reviews the current performances of Three Sisters in Chicago:

Apparently, Chekhov based the play on the three Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell who fails to live up to his potential—which is much like this production of Three Sisters. (Janet Arvia)

FemaleFirst interviews the writer Guillaume Musso:

The novel Wuthering Heights inspired you to write, what else do you like to read to give you new ideas?
I tend to like specific books rather than authors. Of the classics, my favourites are Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera. From contemporary writers, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Atonement by Ian McEwan, The Human Stain by Philip Roth and Bag of Bones by Stephen King, who has a remarkable ability to create a sense of unease in the most everyday situations.  (Lucy Walton)

New Statesman discusses porn for women. Maybe is the Fifty Shades influence, but a Brontë reference appears in the article:

Maybe what we really need to do is make some porn in which the female participant is not subjugated and looks as though she really fancies the person she's shagging and is having a smashing time. We're not asking for plot and character complexity to rival Wuthering Heights, just something that's not quite as cock-centric as most porn. Once we do that perhaps the small but ever-increasing demand for better porn will grow.  (Rhiannon and Holly)

The Deccan Herald reviews the film The Trip:

On the way to these upscale restaurants, they stop to visit the houses of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and walk through the Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights, unable to stop themselves from talking about Roger Moore and other people named Moore.  (Pradeep Sebastian)

Sydney Arts Guide review the District 01 production of Polly Teale's Jane Eyre:

Our feisty, petite heroine Jane is excellently portrayed by Laura Huxley, in a severe purple dress with various changes of lace, apron and other accoutrements. Shy, downtrodden yet bright and talented and having survived an appalling childhood she rails against her dull, monotonous life. All changes when she moves to Thornfield to become Adele’s governess and meets Mr Rochester.  Upon the morning of her wedding day, just as she is to marry Mr Rochester, before disaster strikes she is a radiant, glowing bride.
However I am afraid our Mr Rochester as played by Eli King is a little disappointing. He tries his best, but is rather cold, aloof and wooden. There is no real sense of connection or predilection between Jane and Rochester for most of the show, despite the magnificent, passionate passages. This does pick up a bit in Act 2 though, and the reunion at the end was touching.  (...)
This production ends up being an unusual, quite efficient but slightly disappointing show that could possibly be better with a little tweaking. (Lynne Lancaster)

Wuthering Heights 2011 was shortlisted for the ARRI prize at the Filmfest München 2012. The award was finally for the Senegalese production La Pirogue:

Zwei weitere Filme standen als Nominierte in der engeren Auswahl für den ARRI-Preis: “Wuthering Heights” der britischen Regisseurin und Oscar-Gewinnerin Andrea Arnold, eine Adaption des gleichnamigen Romans von Emily Brontë – laut den Juroren eine “einzigartige, eindrucksvolle, poetische Vision”.   (Flensburg Online) (Translation)

Yilan (Taiwan) is delighted with Wuthering Heights 2011:

首先是《咆哮山莊 Wuthering Heights》。風格沈鬱得讓人喘不過氣：徐緩沉默卻隱隱然湧動著不安的節奏，緊緊貼近人之身體髮膚、且常有環境景物之定格特寫的獨特運鏡拍攝手法，只 要鄰近山莊周圍就一定陰霾的天氣……完美交織演繹了原著那狂野、暴烈、原始而怨怒淒楚的氣氛。令人難忘。(Translation)

Biblio Curio also reviews the film.

Télé-Loisirs is waiting for Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre 2011 which will be premiered in France this month:

[I]l revient le 25 juillet dans Jane Eyre, une énième version du roman de Charlotte Brontë. Sûr qu'il fera craquer toutes les filles dans le rôle de l'énigmatique et fascinant Rochester...  (Translation)

Beauty and Lace interviews the author Charity Norman:

What prompted you to start writing?
I was born in Uganda, but when I was a small child my parents came back to England. My father became a vicar in Yorkshire, not far from the moors. I had a wildly overactive imagination and like to believe I was the reincarnation of Emily Brontë, another Yorkshire vicar’s daughter. I read all the Brontë sisters’ books, and reveled in the romance and tragedy of their story. I used to wander soulfully around the moors, picking harebells and making up dreadful poetry. When I grew up I decided I needed a ‘proper’ career and became a barrister, but I never stopped thinking of myself as a writer.  (Michelle)

Bending the Spine interviews yet another author and Brontëite, Paula Lynn Johnson:

What is you favorite book?
I have such a Jane Eyre fetish.  Historical gothic at its best!  And I've been obsessed with Mr. Rochester since I was twelve years old. Now I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester.  
What are you reading right now?
The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by Margot Livesey, which is a great modern retelling of Jane Eyre. (I told you I was a Jane Eyre freak!)  (Rebecca)

And Orangeberry Book Tours talks with Emily Chand:

If you could choose only one time period and place to live, when and where would you live and why?
Time travel is pretty cool. I’ve been hooked on the concept ever since I read HG Wells’s Time Machine. I would NOT travel to the place in time that is populated by Eloi and Morlocks, because that is scary! But I would love the chance to hob-knob with the governesses of 19th century Britain ala Jane Eyre and Becky Sharp, and the whole host of Dickens.

And yet one more, Romance Magicians interviews Moriah Densley:

I took inspiration from Brontian heroes (Edward Rochester from "Jane Eyre" and Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights"). Those delicious characters each have a devil-may-care attitude I find appealing in an alpha male character.

the Brontë Sisters remembers that yesterday, July 8, was the anniversary of Charlotte and Anne's first visit to Charlotte's publisher, George Smith; Wyznania Czytoholiczki (in Polish) reviews Agnes Grey;  Literatura & Traducciones posts a Spanish translation of the 1929 narration Les Soeurs Brontë, Filles du Vent by René Crevel; Becky's Book Reviews reviews Jane Eyre 1996 and Movie Reviews posts about Jane Eyre 2011; Life in the Thumb writes about The Flight of Gemma Hardy; Book Hounds YA reviews Marta Acosta's Dark Companion; Pixel of Ink posts about A Breath of Eyre; بوی بارون .. صدای بارون (in Persian) and A Pleasant Miscellany (on YouTube) post about Wuthering Heights.