Enduring and iconic

The Washington Post reviews A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips.

Novelist Jean Rhys is best known for her lyrical masterpiece “Wide Sargasso Sea,” in which she gives in an incandescent voice to the woman Charlotte Brontë locked away in an attic in “Jane Eyre.” Now Rhys gets a similar revival from Caryl Phillips, whose new novel, “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” restores Rhys’ voice to the long years she spent adrift with men who preferred her when she did not speak. [...]
Phillips also was born in the Caribbean, on the island of St. Kitts, and grew up and began his literary career in England. He regularly explores the legacy of colonization in his novels and non-fiction writing, and he also shares a Bronte link with Rhys — his 2015 novel “The Lost Child” imagines a harrowing backstory for Emily Brontë’s antihero Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.” (Jennifer Kay)

While The Guardian reviews Girl With Dove by Sally Bayley, a memoir of the author's chaotic childhood.

Bayley tells us early on that one day in the long, hot summer of 1976, her brother David “disappeared”, after which her mother went to bed for “a very long time”. But what happened after this? It seems that Ange got involved in some kind of religious cult. Sinister types moved in, among them the Woman Upstairs, and something bad happened to a woman called Poor Sue. Hippies could regularly be found about the place, looking for God.
How did Bayley, a clever and noticing child, cope with this? Encouraged by her Dylan Thomas-declaiming mother, she took up reading, escaping into books, though hers wasn’t a regular infatuation with paperbacks. The characters she loved – among them Miss Marple, Jane Eyre and Betsey Trotwood from David Copperfield – were soon as real to her as Ange, her Aunt Di and Maze. She could look round, and there they would be, clear as day. (Rachel Cooke)

El País (Spain) features the book Nosotras. Historias de mujeres y algo más, an account of the lives of many women throughout history and illustrated by María Herreros.

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Hace más de dos décadas Rosa Montero (Madrid, 1951) comenzó una excavación en solitario. Así rescató 16 biografías de mujeres que habían sido “escamoteadas” de la historia, ya fuesen creadoras contra viento y marea como las tres hermanas Brontë, autoras expoliadas por hombres como la ensayista y dramaturga María Lejárraga o malvadas como la crítica y poeta Laura Riding. [...]
Ayer la escritora presentó en Madrid una tercera versión, enriquecida con 90 biografías nuevas y las ilustraciones de María Herreros (Valencia, 1983), convencida acaso de que esta vez será su contribución definitiva a la antología universal de mujeres que, por lo bueno o por lo malo, hicieron historia sin que la historia se hubiese ocupado de ellas. (Tereixa Constenla) (Translation)

iNews has selected 'The 25 greatest Yorkshire films' and among them is

13. Wuthering Heights (1939) With Laurence Olivier as the brooding Heathcliffe (sic) and Merle Oberon as the tragic Cathy, this seminal Hollywood rendition of Emily Brontë’s celebrated novel may lack the subtlety of modern versions. But it is perhaps the most enduring and iconic – and a benchmark for all that have followed. (Mark Butler)

We Are Movie Geeks reviews the film Beast.

While the story has a touch of “Wuthering Heights” at times, with the lovers and the landscape, this is its own unique tale. (Cate Marquis)

The Times reviews The Moorcock Inn, West Yorkshire.

When in search of their own place, they had no fixed idea of where they’d end up — even looking at somewhere outside Reading, a location that couldn’t be further from this Brontë wildness. But Norland Moor spoke to some fundamental part of them. (Marina O’Loughlin)

My Jane Eyre Library features a copy of the novel with annotations focusing on Jane's entrapment and heroism. Washington Independent Review of Books posts about Jane Eyre too. Brontë Babe Blog has selected '30 of the Best Books About the Brontës'.