Filthy rich Heathcliff

The New Yorker tries to guess - humorously - what Heathcliff may have done during his three years' absence.

There’s a lot we don’t know about the main character of Emily Brontë’s novel “Wuthering Heights.” We don’t know who his parents are. We don’t know if his name is only “Heathcliff,” like Cher, or “Heathcliff Heathcliff,” like Sirhan Sirhan. And we don’t know how it is that, in the middle of the book, he goes away for three years and returns filthy rich.
Here are some guesses about how Heathcliff acquired his fortune:
Invented an app that I.P.O.’d at a billion dollars but then was revealed to have a toxic, sexist office culture, and he got ousted as C.E.O.
Sold tea, because that seems like the only way to make money in England?
Married a rich woman and killed her. Say what you want about Heathcliff, but he is (a) sexy to a select number of people and (b) talks about wanting to murder people all the time. In fact, those are pretty much the two things you can say about him.
Wrote a book under a female pseudonym and, when it was revealed that he was really a man, was driven out of the literary community—but only after he made millions. Heathcliff definitely believes in reverse sexism. (Blythe Roberson and Colin Stokes) (Read more)

BookRiot considers Jane Eyre to be one of 'The 5 Best Fiction Titles From The Folio Society's Christmas Collection'.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë with illustrations by Santiago Caruso
Brontë’s timeless heroine is brought to life in this gorgeously illustrated edition that highlights the novel’s gothic influences.
“When we say we love it—and everybody I’ve ever mentioned the book to says, with a stern fervour, ‘I love Jane Eyre’—do we mean the novel or Jane herself?” asks Emma Donoghue in her introduction. The answer is decidedly both.
Caruso, who was born in Quilmes, Argentina in 1982, is an avant-garde artist who is fascinated by the fantastique in his work. His symbolist images highlight the otherworldliness of the novel as Jane finds herself caught between two worlds. (Matt Grant)

Bustle lists '9 Classic Books That Are Actually Way More Subversive Than You Thought', including Jane Eyre.

Nowadays, when we think about politics and Jane Eyre, we think of the (extremely valid) critiques of the way the novel treats the "madwoman in the attic." But when Jane Eyre was first published, the novel was considered edgy for an entirely different reason: it portrayed a self-reliant young woman. The idea of the female lead of a romance novel dumping her guy because she loves herself and that's enough for her? That was unheard of. Plus, first person narration in a book written by a woman was extremely saucy and even scandalous. (Charlotte Ahlin)

Still, this columnist from Post Bulletin seems to make fun of precisely that.

I was fresh off a semester of classes such as 19th Century Literature: The Unlikely (And Uncompromising) Feminism of Jane Eyre. (Steve Lange)

Metro USA wonders whether,

movies like the incomparable Wuthering Heights from 1939, with an anguished Laurence Olivier, belong under the same Goth banner as Twilight, the vampire YA romance that made the world realize women had desires, too? (Matt Prigge)

Readers' Lane has compiled a list of several retellings of Jane Eyre.