But what of the men in their everyday lives?

Keighley News looks at the events that will take place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in the coming weeks.

The Brontës and their men are the subject of the latest Parsonage Unwrapped evening in Haworth. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is again opening after hours for a special event in its library to delight literary enthusiasts.
The evening is one of several spring and summer events continuing a year of celebrations of Patrick Brontë becoming Haworth’s minister 200 years ago.
The event, subtitled “I look for something of the gentleman”, will be on Friday, April 26 at 7.30pm and will look at figures such as Constantin Heger, William Weightman, Henry Nussey and Charlotte’s husband Arthur Bell Nicholls.
A museum spokesman said: “For better or worse, the literary men that flowed from the pens of the Brontës have been acclaimed as heroes and heartthrobs both on the stage and screen.
“But what of the men in their everyday lives? Outside of their father and brother, who were the men of their acquaintance and what impact did their encounters have on the sisters’ view of gentlemen more widely?”
Earlier on April 26, at 2pm, the latest Brontë Treasures session will give people exclusive curator-led access to treasures from the Brontë Society collection.
The spotlight turns fully on Rev Patrick Brontë, father of the famous sisters, on May 7 in free talks at 11.30am and 2pm about his work to improve education in 19th-century Haworth.
As a young man Patrick seized opportunities for learning in order to get on with the world, and his passion for the importance of education drove him to create a school for Haworth children.
It also inspired him to send his four older daughters away to the miserable experience that was Cowan Bridge, an experience that inspired early chapters in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. (Read more) (David Knights)

Closer Weekly interviews two actress from the 1966-71 gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows.

Lara Parker: [...] The other thing is that Dan used, in the scripts, all the great classics of horror literature that everyone had comes and you know and love for over a hundred years, starting with Jane Eyre, the governess who goes to the spooky house and has the crazy little kid to take care of. Then there was Turn of the Screw and then you go on to Frankenstein, Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights … (Ed Gross)

Is Adèle really a 'crazy little kid'?

Business World (India) tells a funny anecdote related to the Partition of India in 1947.

There is this amusing anecdote from the time of partition, when the movable and non-liquid resources of pre-Independence India were to be now divided between India and Pakistan in the ratio of 80:20. Every public asset was meticulously divided, sometime to ludicrous levels of detail. An amusing dilemma was faced by the Punjab Government Library that had only one copy of some books. The solution that emerged saw these single copies being ripped into two, where one would go to Pakistan and the other would stay in India. A solitary dictionary suffered the same fate.
The section A-K stayed in India while the section L-Z was given to Pakistan. Other books were divided based on which nation had a greater say in the subject. Things got heated when it became difficult to ascertain which country had a greater interest in Alice in Wonderland and Wuthering Heights and ended in a physical confrontation between the librarians. (Harsh Lambah)

Yesterday's Poem of the Day on Poems.com was 'The Pirate Anne Bonny Advises Jane Eyre' by Dorsey Craft. The Brussels Brontë Blog tells about a recent talk on Jane Eyre by Sarah Talbot.