The consequences of reading Brontë when pregnant

The January events at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (a quiet but busy time at the Parsonage, if you know what we mean) in Keighley News:

Closure of the Brontë Parsonage Museum to the public throughout January is not stopping the Haworth attraction holding events.
Staff will take turns to head out into the Parsonage garden at noon each day to share their knowledge of the famous family.
The talks, entitled An Introduction To The Brontës, will each last 15 minutes, are free, and do not need to be booked in advance. People should assemble outside the museum admissions area.
Parsonage Wrapped is a special event on Saturday, January 6 which will take a small group of people behind the scenes at the museum.
There will be two sessions, at 11am and 2pm, to follow on from a similar sell-out event in January last year.
A member of the curatorial team will take people through the delicate and painstaking process of ‘putting the house to bed’, carrying out vital conservation and cleaning work, and updating displays and activities.
The nearby West Lane Baptist Centre will host a screening of the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights on Monday, January 8 at 1pm.
Hollywood glamour is promised in a film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon that aims to whet people’s appetites for a new exhibition at the Parsonage Museum to mark the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth.
A member of the museum team will introduce the film and stay for a chat over a cup of coffee. Admission is free and advance booking is not required. (David Mason)

The Mirror is publishing the entries in George Orwell's diary in March 1936:
7.3.1936

Yesterday with H and M to Haworth Parsonage, home of the Brontës and now a museum. Was chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Bronte's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up the sides.

The Jewish Chronicle vindicates the figure of the writer Alexander Baron, who adapted Jane Eyre 1983:

He also increasingly wrote for television. By the 1960s he had become a regular writer on BBC's Play for Today, well known for drama serials like Poldark and A Horseman Riding By, and BBC classic adaptions including Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility and Oliver Twist. (David Herman)

My Horry News talks about a local teacher of the year:

Brantay Cohens’ mother was reading Emily Brontë’s work when she was pregnant with him, so she changed the spelling a bit, and named her son after one of her favorite authors.
The Ocean Bay Middle School teacher of the year became an avid reader, like his mother, and was read- ing before he started first grade. (Ettie Newlands)

Il Piccolo (Italy) talks about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

Sotto il profilo letterario fu autrice geniale e di profonda cultura. All’origine di Frankenstein, il primo romanzo nero fantascientifico della letteratura moderna, c’è Milton e la sua produzione getta le basi della narrativa romantica al femminile alle quali attinsero in seguito le sorelle Brontë. Lo conferma Franco Pezzini nel recentissimo “Fuoco e carne di Prometeo” (Odoya, 400 pagine, 22 euro) dove rileva che la scrittura di Mary si addentra nei territori del macabro e del soprannaturale con risultati straordinari, che ne mostrano il naturale talento di cui aveva già dato prova nel suo capolavoro più noto e al quale il suo nome resterà per sempre legato. (Roberto Bertinotti) (Translation)

Neues Deutschland (Germany) explores the life of Berta Tucholksy:

So verffentlichte sie etwa einige Feuilletonartikel im Pester Lloyd. Ihre gelungene bersetzung des englischsprachigen Romans Jane Eyre erschien 1927. Die nordenglische Pfarrerstochter Charlotte Brontë hatte ihn im Jahr 1847 unter dem Pseudonym Currer Bell verffentlicht, wohl in der vorausschauenden Angst vor Ablehnung des Romans aufgrund ihres Geschlechts. Es sollte noch eine lange Zeit vergehen, bevor auch weibliche Autoren in der Gesellschaft akzeptiert werden wurden, eine Erfahrung, die Berta vermutlich als alleinstehende Frau auch nicht unbekannt war. (Bettina Müller) (Translation)

The Sisters' Room interviews Julie Akhurst, owner of the Ponden Hall B&B. The Black Barouche reviews Jane Eyre 2006. A true piece of weird fandom: Jane Eyre meets the South Korean Seventeen boy group in Thornfield by woozifi.