South of Balmoral: the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Signature Reads addresses a letter to Meghan Markle (engaged to Prince Harry):

I’d really like to introduce you to “the North,” the part of England that lies between London and the Queen’s estate, Balmoral. It’s a part of the country less-known to foreign tourists, who can find London so overwhelming that they never venture much beyond it, which is a shame. So, here’s an effort to give you a whirlwind tour of some of my personal favorite things about two counties to the north: Lancashire and Yorkshire, the red rose and the white rose from medieval days of yore. [...]
While you’re in Yorkshire, travel to Haworth, where you can visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum and other sites in Haworth where the Brontë sisters grew up. Anne, Emily, and Charlotte were each accomplished writers, although I’ve always had an obsession with Jane Eyre. (Lorraine Berry)

The Mary Sue discusses  two films Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water and  Naoko Yamada's A Silent Voice and recalls the fact that,

The depiction of people who are not able-bodied within the realm of romance has always been complex. In “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” by D.H. Lawrence, the heroine has an affair with the male gardener because her husband is paralyzed from the waist down from World War I. In the Brontë novel “Jane Eyre,” Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre get together after Rochester has been blinded and has one arm amputated—in effect punishing him for his previous behavior and a means of “humbling” him. (Princess Weekes)

Mangialibri (Italy) has selected the '10 most fascinating male characters in fiction', including two created by the Brontës:

Quante avrebbero voluto essere nei panni della Jane Eyre di Charlotte Brontë e incontrare nel suo castello il burbero Edward Rochester?
Tra i personaggi maschili più amati c'è certamente Heathcliff di Cime tempestose. (Translation)

Diario de Sevilla (Spain) reports that three Brontë novels have got new editions in Spain, particularly highlighting Wuthering Heights.

El gran acierto de Emily Brontë es el enérgico dibujo de este amor ígneo que reduce a cenizas cuanto lo rodea; un amor tan intenso que resulta indistinguible del dolor. Heathcliff y Catalina son dos exponentes de un Romanticismo exacerbado.
Él es un héroe a la manera de Lord Byron, rebelde y titánico, capaz de desafiar a Dios y al Diablo, e incapacitado para el arrepentimiento. Ella es una heroína libre e indomable que hace su soberano antojo sin tener en cuenta a quién se lleva por delante. Tras la muerte de Catalina, Heathcliff la seguirá amando con toda su alma, y ella a él; el fantasma de la joven merodea en torno a Cumbres borrascosas y en noches propicias se asoma al interior de la casa a través de las ventanas de cristales empañados, entremezclando sus lamentos con los del viento. Heathcliff la amará y la odiará con igual intensidad por todo el daño que le ha hecho, y ella a él; el deseo de la mujer es que el alma del hombre no encuentre jamás paz. Cumbres borrascosas habla de una fuerza que todo lo puede. Quien no haya amado como lo hicieron Heathcliff y Catalina no sabe lo que es el amor. (José Abad) (Translation)

Author Zadie Smith discusses her writing in El País (Spain):

Bajo esa capa formal aparecen los personajes, que admite Smith que plantea “un poco como un videojuego, como avatares que están vacíos y que el lector debe rellenar y encarnar; es más fácil para un blanco un proceso de identificación con David Copperfield o Jane Eyre; yo llevo 20 años esforzándome para que el lector no vaya de turista con mis personajes sino que se identifique también con ellos”. (Carles Geli) (Translation)

The end of 2017 is approaching and so lists of the best of the year are starting to appear. Such as as this one from The New York Times on 'The Best TV Shows of 2017'. To Walk Invisible was broadcast at the very end of 2016 in the UK but in March 2017 in the US:

‘To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters’ (PBS) Sally Wainwright, known for creating shows about tough female cops (“Scott & Bailey,” the terrific “Happy Valley”), wrote and directed this crisp, astringent two-hour film about three tough writers who revolutionized English literature. She tells the story of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s struggle to publish through the lens of their relationship with their brother Branwell, possessed of lesser gifts and greater expectations. Finn Atkins (Charlotte), Chloe Pirrie (Emily), Adam Nagaitis (Branwell) and Jonathan Pryce (their father, Patrick) all excel. (James Poniewozik, Mike Hale and Margaret Lyons)

Deadline interviews actress Jennifer Lawrence about her film Mother!

In preparing for the movie, did Darren Aronofsky bring up Roman Polanski and Rosemary’s Baby as influences? Not once actually. We talked about The Giving Tree as a reference. I was reading Jane Eyre by happenstance at the time. It reminds me of this other short story The Yellow Wallpaper, this Victorian patriarchal. It also reminded me of the Wide Sargasso Sea. It reminded me of these patriarchal relationships that men have with their wives: They’re very nice and then politely take away their dignity. Those were some of my influences. The other tool that was most helpful to me were the house—my connection with the house, being barefoot, feeling grounded and home. Our references were more Biblical and universal than Rosemary’s Baby. (Anthony D'Alessandro)

Noisey features actress and musician Charlotte Gainsbourg:

So she started battling her natural nervousness and doing auditions for films like Jane Eyre and 21 Grams, in which she’d end up being cast. “Those were films I really wanted, and pushed for, which made a whole world of difference,” she says. (Colin Joyce)

Anne Carson's poetry has been translated into Swedish and Sydsvenskan shares a fragment of one of her Brontë-related poems.In The Telegraph and Argus, an article on Asa Briggs reminds us of the fact that he once was President of the Brontë Society. Chortle shares a parody of Kate Bush and Lady Gaga (which draws on Bush's Wuthering Heights). Book Inter Alia posts about listening to an audiobook of Jane Eyre.