America's tenth favourite book

The Guardian and many other news outlets report the final result of the Great American Read poll.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s renowned coming-of-age story about racism and injustice in the American south, was voted the US’s best-loved novel by millions of readers as part of a national poll. [...]
The top 20 books were as follows:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Outlander (series) by Diana Gabaldon
3. Harry Potter (series) by JK Rowling
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. The Lord of the Rings (series) by JRR Tolkein
6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
14. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
15. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
16. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
18. 1984 by George Orwell
19. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
20. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian interviews artist Roberta Stoddart.

What does your art aim to say to your au­di­ence?[...] Lit­er­ary in­spi­ra­tions for “Sleep­walk­ers” are Char­lotte Brontë’s bleak Goth­ic nov­el, Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s haunt­ing su­per­nat­ur­al pre­quel, Wide Sar­gas­so Sea, and Michelle Cliff. (Nyerere Haynes)

Another artist influenced by Jane Eyre is, of course, Paula Rego, whose work is featured on the BBC.

Since the 1960s and her association with the legendary faction of artists known as The London Group (which included Frank Auerbach and David Hockney), Rego has shown an openness to the power of the subconscious to dictate the terms of her image making. Early flirtations with Surrealism and a period spent experimenting with automatic drawing paved the way for a more mature fascination with those stories, both visual and literary, that have etched themselves deeply into the fabric of cultural imagination, from Jane Eyre to Lewis Carroll, Hogarth to Goya, and, more recently, Blake Morrison to Martin McDonagh.

The Economist begins an article on Britney Spears Baby One More Time as follows:

There have been many significant and powerful entries into the music industry. With the whimsical “Wuthering Heights” Kate Bush became, at 19 years old, the first female artist to top the British charts with a self-penned song. (Prospero)

The Writer’s Map,  edited by Huw Lewis-Jones, is featured in the Daily Mail. Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) posts about an edition of Jane Eyre from Saudi Arabia.

Finally, an alert for later today in London shared by the Brontë Parsonage Museum on Twitter:

Join us and members of the Brontë Society in the Library tomorrow lunchtime as we celebrate the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth with readings from Wuthering Heights and her poetry. It's free and there's no need to book - just turn up! pic.twitter.com/iCQ4NS2MKL

— Barbican Library (@barbicanlib) October 23, 2018