Lucy Snowe: Torchbearer

Bustle features Random House's Modern Library Torchbearers series which includes Villette.

A new series of woman-authored classics, Modern Library Torchbearers will kick off publication on May 21 with American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Sá, The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens, and Passing by Nella Larsen. An additional trio of texts — The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Villette by Charlotte Brontë — are slated for a June 18 release. [...]
'Villette' by Charlotte Brontë, with an introduction by Weike Wang
Lesser known than Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's Villette tells the story of Lucy Snowe, a young schoolteacher who moves to the titular city to work at a school for girls. The Modern Library Torchbearers edition of Villette includes an introduction from Chemistry author Weike Wang. (Kristian Wilson)

El País (Spain) reviews the first episode of HBO's Gentleman Jack, based on the life of Anne Lister.

 La sociedad decimonónica británica se percibe como el colmo de la asfixia moral, pero también dio al mundo algunas de las mujeres más libres que conoció el siglo XIX: las hermanas Brontë, Mary Shelley, Mary Woolstonecraft (madre de la anterior), Florence Nightingale, etcétera. (Sergio del Molino) (Translation)

A columnist from The Independent thinks that Shakespeare is 'disproportionately represented on the British curriculum'.

Despite having dyslexia, I have always loved to read. I read Jane Eyre when I was nine, Pride and Prejudice at 11 and attempted War and Peace at 13.
But then came Shakespeare. English, my best and beloved subject, was suddenly stolen. In place of the words that I’d worked so hard to be able to read were new words. Words which looked like English but weren’t. (Rebecca Reid)

Williston Observer reviews the film After.

You know the stereotype. He is the ubiquitously tattooed bad boy on the outside, yet capable of quoting from “Wuthering Heights” or “The Great Gatsby.”  But perhaps so could Hannibal Lecter. And because we’ve dealt with this dude in any number of beach blanket movies between 1963 and 1968, we are wary from the get-go. Even when some of his poor little rich kid mishegoss is divulged (his once abusive and since never forgiven dad is the school’s chancellor), we fear he is but a wolf in training. (Michael S. Goldberger)