The novel Jane Eyre is about Jane Eyre

Let's start by challenging you with a question off The Guardian's weekend quiz:

1 Who described herself as “poor, obscure, plain and little”? (Thomas Eaton)

The Irish Times wonders why 19th-century writer Maria Edgeworth has been largely forgotten.

A contradiction was now becoming apparent: as the novel rose in prestige, due in no small part to the works of Edgeworth, the reputation of women novelists declined. The world that Jane Austen knew in the 1790s and early 1800s – a field dominated by strong women exemplars including Edgeworth and Frances Burney – gave way to the more familiar experiences of the Brontë sisters and Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) in the middle decades of the century, when male pseudonyms were adopted for publication. (Claire Connolly)

The Irish Times also reviews Anne Griffin's When All is Said and Done.

There is also a whiff of Wuthering Heights in the novel, peopled as it is with larger-than-life dark characters with a propensity for emotional and physical violence. (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne)

StarTribune reviews The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks.

An English coastal marsh serves as both setting and metaphor in Elizabeth Brooks’ Brontë-esque first novel, “The Orphan of Salt Winds.” (Nancy Pate)

The Conversation discusses lesbianism (or lack thereof) in recent works of pop culture.

But the resistance to normalising lesbianism is still a long way from being overcome. Several reviews of [Sally Rooney's novel] Conversations with Friends, widely hailed as announcing the voice of a new generation, emphasise the book’s originality in interrogating the meaning of friendship in the contemporary era – where your girl buddy may double up as a lover.
Yet readers of the novel could be forgiven for thinking they had strayed into a 19th-century Gothic novel such as Jane Eyre, given the focus of its central plot on a heterosexual romance between a neurotic young woman and a handsome and physically imposing troubled strong and silent type. (Mary Harrod)

Patheos highlights 'Ten Obvious Facts About Some Great Books I Sometimes Forget', such as

The novel Jane Eyre is about Jane Eyre.
There are so many themes and scintillating characters in this greatest English novel that it is easy to forget it is about a plain, brilliant English woman: Jane Eyre.
Never forget. (John Mark N. Reynolds)

Bustle has included Wide Sargasso Sea on a list of '15 Short Classics Under 250 Pages That You Can Read In A Single Weekend'. La Repubblica (Italy) publishes an article about 'the secret life of the stormy sisters'. It's behind a paywall so we cannot quote from it. Maddalena De Leo, through the Sezione Italiana of the Brontë Society, has a few objections, though.