Emily to the rescue!

Manchester Evening News talks about celebrities and icons who didn't exactly have a good time in Manchester:

Charlotte Brontë
The Brontës were famously from Yorkshire.
But if you walk down Boundary Street West in Hulme , you’ll see a blue plaque that proclaims Charlotte Brontë began writing Jane Eyre right here in Manchester.
Charlotte stayed in Hulme with her father in 1846.
But it was a tough time in her life.
Alongside caring for her dad, whose sight was failing, while in Manchester her publishers also rejected the draft of her first novel The Professor.
That perhaps influenced her view of Manchester - and Mancs.
Writing in her biography of Charlotte’s life, published after her death in 1855, Manchester’s renowned Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell described her friend’s time in the city.
“She had the heart of Robert Bruce within her, and failure upon failure daunted her no more than him,” wrote Gaskell.
“Not only did The Professor return again to try his chance among the London publishers, but she began, in this time of care and depressing inquietude, in those grey, weary, uniform streets; where all faces, save that of her kind doctor, were strange and untouched with sunlight to her - there and then, did the brave genius begin Jane Eyre.”
Not the nicest way to describe Hulme. (Damon Wilkinson)

The New York Times' Wednesday Puzzle is discussed by Caitlin Lovinger:

The next set of clues include two four-letter bubble runs. On the left is one of the actresses, “Leigh of ‘Psycho,’” or JANET; on the right, “Ann Bronte’s first novel,” which I didn’t know and solved on crosses, AGNES GREY. So now we have JANE GREY. Hm … moving on. 

The German/Swiss news outlets are full of the chronicle of a collision of a hotel ship in the Rhine: the Swiss Crystal. Apparently, her sister ship came to the rescue and it is no other than the Emily Brontë.

Das Schwesterschiff Emily Brontë ist dem havarierten Swiss Crystal zu Hilfe gekommen und nahm Passagiere auf. Bereits nach kurzer Zeit konnten die nicht hospitalisierten Passagiere mit Bussen nach Hause gebracht werden. Die Heimreise der Verletzten soll in Kürze folgen, alle können die Spitäler bereits wieder verlassen. Es befanden sich keine Kinder an Bord. Das Alter der Insassen sei im Durchschnitt über sechzig Jahre zu schätzen, so Zelst. (Basler Zeitung) (Translation)

EDIT: Seatrade Cruise News explains it in plain English:

Soon after the incident another Scylla vessel, Emily Brontë, was called to the accident site. Some Swiss Crystal passengers were transferred to the vessel, while others were taken ashore and transported back to the Netherlands by bus. The situation was reported quickly under control and the emergency procedures worked without a hitch. (Frederik Erdmann)

The Times publishes the obituary of the choreographer Adam Darius (1930-2017) who crossed the Brontë bridge in one occasion:

It frustrated Darius that the first question many people wanted to ask him was what it was like to work with Kate Bush. As a choreographer, he had devised the open- ing movements of Bush’s memorable dance for her No 1 single Wuthering Heights in 1978. No lover of pop music, Darius had only recently watched the video of Bush in a flowing red dress employing the expressive hand movements he had taught her. “Oh, those are my moves,” he mused, and smiled.

The Sydney Morning Herald lists the best movies of 2017:

Lady MacBeth
It starts off like Wuthering Heights and ends like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, as the lady of the title morphs from victim to valiant proto-feminist to outright villain. It's a period drama like none you've seen before, a Gothic thriller that manages to be both spare and lush at the same time. (Karl Quinn)

The Press-Telegram discusses new year's resolutions:

Finally, your chances of success improve measurably if you go public with your resolutions. Tell people who you love and respect that you’re going to lose weight, quit smoking and read “Finnegans Wake,” “Lord Jim” and “The Wide Sargasso Sea” in 2018. (Tim Grobaty)

Trendencias (in Spanish) lists book gifts to the women of your life:

Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë
Un poco de ficción victoriana siempre es un buen regalo para las amantes de la lectura. Y la historia de la aparentemente simple Jane Eyre y el ya mítico Mr Rocherster es quizá el mejor ejemplo del género. (Abril Camino) (Translation)

Do you fancy Jane Eyre 1997? ITV3 will broadcast the film tomorrow at 03:30 AM and next Tuesday, January 2, at 03.55AM. Afternoon Literature posts about Wuthering Heights.  forthenovellovers  and NetGalley review the Manga Classics edition of Jane Eyre. Adivina Quién Lee (in Spanish) reviews Agnes Grey.