Humble but Intense

The Yorkshire Post publishes the unmissable things in Yorkshire in 2018:

Arts: Embrace your inner Brontë
It’s another year, so that can only mean another Brontë anniversary. After the bicenentaries of Charlotte and Branwell comes the 200th anniversary of Emily’s birth. The Brontë Parsonage Museum has already drafted in actress, model and Wuthering Heights superfan Lily Cole as creative partner. Folk group The Unthanks, along with writer in residence Patience Agbabi and artist Kate Whiteford will all play a role in the year-long programme of events which begins with the Making Thunder Roar exhibition on February 1. bronte.org.uk

Mother Nature Network recommends some humility for the new year:

Sure, humility is still considered a virtue by some in modern times. But it's not as popular as it was when Charlotte Brontë wrote "Jane Eyre." (The titular heroine of that book is humility personified, and it's part of what makes her character seem old-fashioned, as beloved as she is.) (Starre Vartan)

God is in the TV Magazine talks about the singer and songwriter Ida Long:

If you were seeking an analogy from British literature for Ida Long you might look perhaps to Charlotte Brontë for the degree of intensity both use, in lyrics and narrative respectively. Her songs don’t make for easy casual listening but reward the committed listener with a rich, distinctive, original and above all sensual experience. (David Bentley)

The Times publishes the obituary of the author, editor and reviewer Francis Wyndham:

He began writing reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, whose fiction editor was Anthony Powell, then joined the publisher Derek Verschoyle before going to work as a reader for André Deutsch. It was there that Athill, the Deutsch editor, asked him to read a manuscript by Naipaul, with whom he developed a lifelong friendship. Athill later drew his attention to the then forgotten Rhys, who began sending him pages of a book that would become the novel Wide Sargasso Sea. Wyndham and his friend Sonia Orwell would visit her in Devon. “She knew I was a great fan of her writing,” he said. “I think she knew too that she was good and that quite a lot of people couldn’t see that she was good . . . she was a bit frail, like an actress.”

Gold Coast Bulletin and kids' names:

[David] Chalke said Queenslanders would find the name Charlotte reappearing at the top for 2018 as well. “Charlotte has been very popular for the past decade and lot of parents lean towards this name because they are inspired by the royal family and feminine authors such as Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen,” he said. (Hannah Sbeghen)

Clarkesworld Magazine discusses characterization:

An opposite example is Jane Eyre. Young, orphaned, rootless, she doesn’t particularly know who she is, nor what she’s doing; she’s simply taking the only route available. But when pushed to extremes, Jane’s strong personality surfaces, with her radical spiritual outlook. She has always known who she is. Jane learns to impose her will on the world and is rewarded with happiness. (Kelly Robson)

El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico) reviews a recent concert by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico entirely devoted to John Williams:

La segunda joya de la noche provenía de los comienzos de la esplendorosa carrera creadora de John Williams, la “Suite from ‘Jane Eyre’”, película dirigida por Delbert Mann para la televisión del Reino Unido en 1970, protagonizada por Susannah York y George C. Scott, y basada en la novela de 1847 del mismo título, escrita por Charlotte Brontë. (Luis Enrique Juliá) (Translation)

La Provincia (Spain) reviews the compilation book Damas Oscuras which includes a translation of Charlotte Brontë's Napoleon and the spectre:

Comienza con Napoleón y el espectro de Charlotte Brönte (sic), donde la autora de Jane Eyre ofrece, en el escrito más breve del libro, la figura del fantasma como guía del vivo, revelándole una verdad que desconoce. Un texto que incluso puede ser considerarlo un verdadero adelanto de lo que haría Charles Dickens diez años después en Canción de Navidad. (Alberto García Saleh) (Translation)

The Daily Mail interviews the dancer Abigail Prudames who will be Jane Eyre in the Northern Ballet UK tour scheduled for this year. The Victorianists: BAVS postgraduates publishes an account of the recent The Coarseness of the Brontës conference at the University of Durham.