A woman struggling against patriarchal forces

Pune Mirror (India) recommends Wide Sargasso Sea.

What it is: A novel written predominantly from the perspective of Bertha from Charlotte Bronte’s widely circulated novel, Jane Eyre. Rhys retells the life of Bertha, one of the most famous ‘mad’ women of literature, and traces her life on an isolated Jamaican island, starting from her childhood till her eventual suicide.
Why I like it: Rhys examines the life of a woman largely accepted to be ‘mad’ from a feminist and post-colonial lens. By situating Bertha’s life in a highly oppressive setting she shows how it is convenient to label women ‘crazy’ if they even attempt to question the oppression they face. The novel gives rise to a tension in the readers’ mind as they try to make sense of her position as the descendant of a slave owner and at the same time, as a woman struggling against patriarchal forces. (Purvi Rajpuria)

3am magazine interviews artist Katya Grokhovsky.

3:AM: What are some of your biggest influences, early and current? KG: When I was a child, nature and literature inspired me the most, I was a quiet observer of the world around me, brewing, stewing ideas of my future, daydreaming for hours, sketching, contemplating. I was always an avid reader, having grown up with a librarian mother, surrounded by books, always a stack by my bedside. Writers have hugely impacted my development and a way of thought; I loved Nabokov, Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, and George Sand, Brontë sisters. (Jana Astanov)

Inspired by the stage adaptation of Jane Eyre currently in Madrid, El Mundo (Spain) has an article on Charlotte Brontë.

La vehemencia y la indignación de Jane, que no renuncia a protestar y a devolver los golpes para construir y hacer respetar su dignidad como persona, está muy presente en el montaje de Carme Portaceli, en el Teatro Español, un montaje que subraya el potencial feminista de una extensa obra romántica, novelesca al máximo. La directora logra condensar la melodramática peripecia de Jane, ofrece un brillante espectáculo escénico y saca buen partido de sus actores, especialmente de Ariadna Gil, omnipresente y titánica. (Manuel Hidalgo) (Translation)

In Touch uses Jane Eyre to expand on the virtue of patience.