Immersive Genius

Nadia Clifford, Jane Eyre in the UK tour of the National Theatre production of Jane Eyre, in the Belfast Telegraph:

Actress Nadia Clifford screamed with delight when she was chosen to play Jane Eyre in an adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. "I was in London's Soho at the time," she says, "and passers-by were shocked."
Only 20 minutes after her audition, Nadia had just received word that she had won the role in the production by the National Theatre, written by Sally Cookson, which is coming to the Grand Opera House, Belfast for a week from Monday.
"I'm a huge fan of the Brontë family," she explains. "This was a part in a drama adapted from a masterpiece that I have always wanted. I just had to cry out when I got the news on my phone.
"People did stop and stare, but it was a moment I'll never forget." (Eddie McIlwayne)

New Statesman reviews the novel Elmet by Fiona Mozley:

It is a hard life but, in Mozley’s telling, an enchanted one: rich and gamey with dark cuts of animals hunted for food, cider and roll-ups, singing till dawn and “skylarks on toast, almost whole, with mugs of hot, milky tea”. Daddy has built a fortress and a flawed paradise, in which Cathy – a mixture of Brontë-esque wilfulness (the name is surely no coincidence) and fearless warrior princess, with hair as “black as Whitby jet” and eyes “blue like the North Sea” – strives to protect her younger brother. (Catherine Taylor)

The Glearer lists several new books, including:

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher — The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and the forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

A new review of the play The Divide seen at the EIF 2017 in The Guardian:

There is one bright spark in the middle of Annabel Bolton’s production. Erin Doherty shines as the main reporter of the action: nearly always centre stage, though to the side of the main events. As she moves gawkily from childhood to young womanhood, she is utterly open but always wary. Burnished but unvarnished. She identifies with Jane Eyre – and makes you want to see her in the part. (Susannah Clapp)

The Sunday Leader (Sri Lanka) interviews the fashion designer Shenuki De Silva:

Can you talk about your favourite project to date?
Working on my signature collection for the final year is by far my favorite project. It was inspired by the famous literature ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë. I’ve always wanted to do a collection based on a piece of literature so I went ahead with Wuthering Heights which had a lot of depth as a whole. It helped me create a great concept inspired by its melancholic nature mixed with Victorian fashion and where in order to create something modern in the design world.

 The Daily Telegraph (Australia) and bad boys:

Instead of picking the kind and caring (and a bit wussy) Edgar Lintons of this world, we opt for Heathcliff every time. I blame Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë, who conjured up the most romantic antihero of all time out of her imagination. She has a lot to answer for.
The Heathcliff effect can be the only explanation for why we’re seeing photos of Topshop heiress Chloe Green cavorting with “hot felon” Jeremy Meeks. (Kerry Parnell) 

Egypt Today talks about the novel مسك التل (Mesk Al Tal) by سحر الموجي (Sahar El Mougy):

In her novel Mougy discusses man-woman relationships in three different ages. She uses her contemporary character Maryam, a re-produced character of Catherin Earnshaw, the heroin of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Amina who is the famous female character of Naguib Mahfouz’s Trilogy.

The Sunday Times reviews History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund:

“ ‘What about governess? Oooh, let’s call you governess.’ She was laughing now. ‘That’s so much better. A babysitter would never be hired for Flora and Miles. You’ve read The Turn of the Screw? Or, a babysitter couldn’t fall in love with Mr Rochester, right? And be the heroine. Governess you are.’ ”
If 16-year-old Linda, the heroine of Emily Fridlund’s debut, History of Wolves, had read any book that wasn’t about dinosaurs, or the stars, or wolves, an “ominous signs” klaxon would have sounded by now. “Governess” summons memories of creepy children, faces at the window and mad Mrs Rochester in the attic in Jane Eyre. She should have suggested that Patra look after her odd, clingy son herself. Babysitter. Nanny. Governess. Witness. Accomplice. (Laura Freeman)

VideoGamer reviews among others The Beginner's Guide:

Just like Emily Brontë, games can make great use of unreliable narrators, some of whom actually change the events of the game as you're playing it and they're describing it. The narration in The Beginner's Guide misleads you quite egregiously, and is even more convincing because the narration is framed initially as just an opinion, and is delivered by Davey Wreden, who made it, as himself. (Alice Bell)

Passagi Silenti interviews the bloggers behind the Italian/English The Sisters' Room. AnneBrontë.org explores a tangential figure in the Brontë story, the Revered William Morgan.