Haunted by the Imagination

Palatinate celebrates writers in the North:

The Brontës
I’ve always associated the Brontës with the best of times, thumbing through my battered copy of Jane Eyre in front of the fire, taking muddy family walks to Top Withens, or trudging up glowing slopes to Haworth Parsonage in the haze of a late summer’s rain. I used to love going from room to room of the Parsonage and imagining I was Jane Eyre creeping along the passage with my candle, or Cathy flinging up the sash to spy Heathcliff stumbling in from the moors. Something about the house seems haunted by the imagination.
The Brontës to me also represent a spirit synonymous with their landscape. The subversive passion of their discourse portrays female inde­pendence in Jane Eyre; ‘a free human being with an independent will’. It roots their writing firmly in the Yorkshire wilderness. It is their unadulter­ated lust for life which has fascinated so many writers and inspired Ted Hughes to exalt Emily’s ‘open moor’, chronicling ‘the book becoming a map’ for himself and Sylvia Plath. And it is this, after all these years, that continues to compel con­temporary readers to step through time into the passage of the Brontë narrative, the ‘dark flower’ of the moorland. (Iona Makin)

The Irish Independent interviews Jacqueline Wilson:

Which books would you take to a desert island - one children's book and one adults' book? (Kim Bielenberg)
I'd take Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I've read them both at least 10 times, but I'm always happy to read them again.

The Sunday Times describes the Sturgeon-Salmond SNP situation like this:

Think of Nicola Sturgeon as Jane Eyre: clever, dedicated and working hard doing something she loves for a party she adores. Yet, along with being increasingly unloved by her party, she is becoming irrelevant.
For upstairs in the party’s attic is the first Mrs Rochester, in the shape of Alex Salmond, popping up and lighting fires all over the place, enveloping Sturgeon and her party — indeed, the reputation of Scottish politics — in a ball of destructive flames. (Michael Glackin)

Zoe Strimpel pros and cons of England in The Telegraph:

At other times, when not musing on the virtues of our voting system or the brilliance of leaders such as Benjamin Disraeli and Margaret Thatcher, or thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, I like to moon over our literary giants, and feel no compunction about citing Austen, Dickens, Eliot and the Brontës as proof positive of cultural superiority. (Yes, I’m a terrible snob. Terrible!)

Telefilm-central (in Italian) is eager to see Wuthering Heights 2018:

Previsto per la fine di luglio del 2018 nelle sale inglesi, il nuovo adattamento cinematografico di Cime Tempestose andrà in onda in occasione del bicentenario della nascita di Emily Brontë. La regia e la sceneggiatura sono affidate a Elisaveta Abrahall particolarmente appassionata di period drama e regista teatrale. Heathcliff e Catherine Earnshaw, saranno interpretati da Paul Eryk Atlas e Sha’ori Morris, due giovani attori poco noti al grande pubblico ma esteticamente perfetti per la parte. Nel cast anche Helen Fullerton, Richard Dee-Roberts, Stephanie Hazel e Marcus Churchill.Riuscirà una produzione indipendente in collaborazione con Three Hedgehogs Films a dare finalmente giustizia alle pagine della grande scrittrice inglese? O sarà solo l’ennesima rivisitazione pop e lontana dal dramma sociale del romanzo? (La_Seria_) (Translation)

madmoizelle (in French) talks about the film The Piano 1993:

Comme moi, Jane Campion est amoureuse d’écrivaines telles que les soeurs Brontë et Jane Austen. (Kalindi) (Translation)

Jane Eyre gets real posts about Jane Eyre's November garden.