Not a Love Story, but a Life Story

Aberdeen Evening Express reviews the local performances of the National Theatre Jane Eyre production:

Contemporary version of Brontë classic holds audience spellbound. (...)
Director Sally Cookson’s bold interpretation of Jane Eyre is told not as a love story, but as a life story.
Those seeking any of the novel’s more dewy-eyed dialogue will be left wanting in this fantastically arresting adaptation – all three hours of it.
Nadia Clifford as the fervent, feminist Jane is exceptional casting – you really feel Charlotte Brontë would approve. (Kirstie Ross)

The Trinidad Daily Express lists books you should read such as

Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre
For much of its history, the novel has been a medium where strong female characters have revelled. This was never more true than in Charlotte Brontë’s most famous story about the feisty Jane Eyre. Jane is a certain favourite among literary heroines. (Marlene Davis)

The Telegraph interviews their own staff, inquiring for reasons for being a journalist:

It didn’t come easily though. All through school it never occurred to me I would make a living out of it. Writers were born not cultivated. Look at the Brontës. For me, writing was a slog. Finding my own spontaneous, natural voice was a leap of faith. (Lisa Armstrong, fashion director)

The Times Daily Quiz contains a Brontë-related question:

William Carus Wilson was the inspiration for Mr Brocklehurst, the head of Lowood School in which novel? (Olav Bjortomt)

Theresa Bourke has a brand new library card in Pine and Lakes Echo Journal:

Being the indecisive person I am, I spent a fair bit of time searching through the shelves and reading summaries. The first book I ultimately decided to check out with my shiny new library card was "Wuthering Heights." It's another one of those books I've heard a lot about but have never bothered to read.
The synopsis on the first page told me that it's the only novel attributed to author Emily Bronte, which also piqued my interest. That made me feel like it was something special, something unique.
I'm almost to the end of my book, and though it's by no means my favorite, I'm glad I can add it to my repertoire.

Style Me Pretty and an Iceland-based bridal gallery :

From Linn P. Wheeler... For a while it was our dream to do an editorial bridal shoot in Iceland. We had all these ideas, and when the opportunity finally arose, we struck. (...)
This was the first shoot in our series of four. It focuses on the softness found in the Icelandic nature, the interplay between these rolling grassy hills and the stunning young woman inhabiting these hills, became a modern and minimalist homage to great classics, a la Wuthering Heights. (Christine Diaz)

Book Bub Blog lists historical fiction books of this summer:

For 170 years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature’s most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender — professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next — Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece. But his own story has never been told.
Now, out of Sarah Shoemaker’s rich and vibrant imagination, springs Edward: a vulnerable, brilliant, complicated man whom we first meet as a motherless, lonely little boy roaming the corridors and stable yards of Thornfield Hall. On the morning of Edward’s eighth birthday, his father issues a decree: He is to be sent away to get an education, exiled from Thornfield and all he ever loved. As the determined young Edward begins his journey across England, making friends and enemies along the way, a series of eccentric mentors teach him more than he might have wished about the ways of the men — and women — who will someday be his peers. (Chanel Cleeeton)

El País (Spain) explores Branwell Brontë and other 'forgotten' brothers:

Una columna de color ocre aparece pintada en el centro del retrato de las hermanas Brontë, realizado por el único hermano de la familia de escritoras, Patrick Branwell, en 1834. A simple vista parece solo un elemento de la composición, pero según reveló un estudio de la National Portrait Gallery de Londres, donde se aloja el cuadro, Patrick bosquejó su retrato, cambió de idea y se escondió tras el pilar. Este año el oculto Branwell parece que se asoma aunque sea brevemente: el Brontë Parsonage, museo en Yorkshire dedicado a la familia, celebra en el marco de su programa Brontë 200 el bicentenario del nacimiento del único hermano varón de las novelistas Emily, Charlotte y Anne con una exposición que recupera parte de su obra y de su biografía.
Lo cierto es que en el talento del joven Patrick estaban puestas las esperanzas de la familia. Colaboró con sus hermanas en la escritura infantil de libros fantásticos. Alentado por el poeta romántico Coleridge, tradujo las Odas de Horacio y publicó algunos poemas en revistas. A los 26 años consiguió trabajo como tutor del hijo del reverendo Edmund Robinson y se enamoró de su esposa. Los amores fueron inicialmente correspondidos, pero a la muerte del reverendo, la señora Robinson se alejó de Patrick, y el joven desarrolló una dañina adicción a los opiáceos y al alcohol. Murió de tuberculosis a los 31 años en 1848. Poco después, Charlotte escribía: “Mi infeliz hermano nunca supo lo que sus hermanas habían hecho en la literatura, no se enteró de que hubieran publicado ni una línea. No le podíamos hablar de nuestros afanes por miedo a causarle una profunda punzada de remordimiento, por el tiempo que él había perdido y el talento que había malgastado”.
El caso de Branwell Brontë es paradigmático de los muchos escritores que crecieron a la sombra de sus exitosos y bien recordados hermanos. El reconocimiento de un hermano puede desatar inseguridades y envidias, temores y admiraciones, oportunismos y silencios en el ámbito familiar y también fuera de él. Existen, por supuesto, unos cuantos casos de fraternales colaboraciones literarias: hermanos que han trabajado al alimón y cuya identidad individual se desvanece. Muy pocos pueden recordar los nombres propios de los hermanos Grimm o, por poner ejemplos peninsulares, de los Quintero o de los Argensola. Pero si se mira detrás de las columnas, hallaremos un buen número de escritores olvidados “hermanos de”. (Alba Lara) (Translation)

Local politics and Wuthering Heights in Diário de Noticias (Portugal):

É o título de um livro (o único livro, na realidade) de uma escritora inglesa do Século XIX, Emily Brontë, no qual a autora relata as venturas e desventuras de uma família de bons (e alguns maus) costumes.
Muito rapidamente, o romance conta a história da família Earnshaw, cujo patriarca regressando de uma viagem, traz consigo um pequeno órfão que todos achavam ser cigano, com as consequentes cenas de ciúmes por parte da família, nomeadamente do filho e, consequentes também, cenas de amores e desamores entre os membros da família, os ditos legítimos e o órfão adoptado.
Wuthering Heights era o nome da propriedade onde se desenrola a história. (...)
Nada disto tem alguma coisa a ver com o romance de uma senhora inglesa do Século XIX, mesmo se tivermos em linha de conta que os patrícios da escritora são parcela importante dos que nos visitam, romance que se passava em, como disse acima, Wuthering Heights, e que foi traduzido para a nossa língua pátria como - Monte dos Vendavais. (Pedro Melvill Araújo) (Translation)

Libreriamo (Italy) has a list of 'bad' characters in literature:

Bertha Rochester
E’ il principale cattivo di Jane Eyre ma d’altronde essere rinchiusi in soffitta dal proprio marito non aiuta. Il marito, quando è impazzita, piuttosto che aiutarla ha peggiorato ulteriormente la situazione. (Translation)

Book Q&As wth Deborah Kalb interviews Michelle Gagnon, author of Unearthly Things:

Q: How did you come up with the idea for this modern-day Jane Eyre story set in San Francisco?
A: I’ve always loved Jane Eyre--it was such a groundbreaking book for its time; Jane really qualifies as an early feminist.
My former husband was a fourth generation San Franciscan who was raised in the uber-wealthy high society world that the Rochesters inhabit (in fact, I used the building he grew up in as a model for their mansion).
It was so strange to me to discover, after nearly a decade of living in San Francisco, that there was this entire world most of the city barely knew about, complete with such dated traditions as cotillions and men’s clubs.
I wanted to show that dichotomy through the eyes of my Janie, who feels just as much like a fish out of water as I did.

Entorno Inteligente (Venezuela) talks about the current performances of  Jane Eyre. Detrás del fuego in Caracas; Ocean Bream posts about Wuthering Heights; Murder Underground Broke The Camel's Back reviews Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. The Brontë Network vlogs about Branwell.