"I read Jane Eyre each summer"

"Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater." (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 24)

It seems fitting for a day like today to remind you of the Brontë Crater. It's a Moon crater in the Taurus-Littrow valley which was visited and named in the last of the Apollo missions, Apollo 17, in 1972.

Brontë
Coordinate System Planetographic, +East, -180 - 180
Control Network Northernmost Latitude 20.18 °
Southernmost Latitude 20.17 °
Easternmost Longitude 30.68 °
Westernmost Longitude 30.67 °
Diameter 0.21 KM
Center Latitude 20.17 °
Center Longitude 30.67 °

And now for something completely different:

Schools Week asks people in education about summer readings:

Damian Hinds, education secretary
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Penguin Books
Damian Hinds
Jane Eyre was my favourite novel this year, which I re-read as part of my recent “revisits” to classics that I first read in my school days, along with Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. It is nice to return to a familiar story, but read with a different perspective than the one I had reading it when I was growing up.

The Toronto Star has more recommendations:

Molly of the Mall, Heidi L.M. Jacobs
Molly is a third-year English major, her head bursting with the novels of Jane Austen and Emily Brontë, whose work features infinitely better romantic role models than Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, eponymous prostitute, thief and felon, after whom our Molly is named. (Sarah Murdock)

The New York Times explores the literary battle of the sexes 1907-style:

By 1907, things had changed. Women, the paper pointed out, had “been busy with their pens ... scribbling industriously, and, in plenty of cases, doing good work” for years. But with a few exceptions — Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë — male authors had long ruled book sales, “marching along proudly, without worrying about competitors in the weaker sex.” (Tina Jordan)

The Australian's Quiz contains a Brontë question:

Match the Bronte sister with the following books: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (Stephen Samuelson)

A Financial Times reader replies to a previous post on the rural creative people who migrate to big towns:

It seems plausible that a change of scene and different social stimuli from the place of birth can broaden the horizon and pollinate the creative spirit. But how then do we explain the intense creative imagination of the Brontë sisters, or the power of the symphonies of Bruckner, all of whom stay firmly rurally rooted?  (Tom Brown)

Michael Bascom's Cathy is being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe as British Theatre reports:

The title of another new musical makes its intention clear. Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights is an adaptation by Michael Bascom, presenting Emily Bronte’s classic story of the passionate romance between Heathcliff and Cathy. It features new songs such as “Cathy’s Dream” and “Then Sounds His Voice” – check out snippets on the show’s website at cathythemusical.com. Try to catch it if you can – especially as it’ll be moving around Edinburgh throughout the festival. (Mark Ludman)
theSpace on the Mile, the Space @ Niddry Street, theSpace @ Venues45, 2-24 August 

The Globe and Mail publishes the obituary of the writer Ray Smith (1941-2019):

Author Ray Smith, who died last month at the age of 77, began his career writing in an avant-garde style that some readers considered brilliant and others found unfathomable. His highly experimental early work was not always received kindly, or even understood. As his career progressed, he won some accolades, although he spent little time basking in the limelight of great Canadian literature. (Susan Ferrier MacKay)

One of his books was The Man Who Hated in Emily Brontë (2004), a satire of the life in Quebec full of Brontë quotes (verbatim and inspired by).

The Sydney Morning Herald and powerful unusual songs:

Sometimes the most unusual songs win out. In 1978, Kate Bush fought with EMI over the choice of her first single. The record company wanted James and the Cold Gun; Bush, who was all of 19 years old, dug her heels in and insisted that it had to be Wuthering Heights. She won the argument. It made her an instant icon; EMI had the good grace to acknowledge she was right by giving her a Steinway piano. (Andrew Stafford)

The Independent interviews the actress Holliday Grainger:

“When I was younger, I was often going up for ‘the northern best friend’ or ‘the Manchester girl’, and the more interesting parts that were out there were, you know, the period dramas. It was the Jane Austens, the Brontës, and the things that I never really quite got a shot at until after I proved that my RP was impeccable.”
She continues, “I remember I got Jane Eyre and Bel Ami at the same time, and they were the first time that I managed to get in the room with Susie Figgis, who was the casting director, and she was like, ‘Oh, you can act’ – and I was like, ‘mmm-hmm’.” She laughs at the memory. “But it did feel like I had to walk into the room and prove that I could do it. And then as soon as that was proven, I felt like there was a shift in more doors opening.” (Adam White)

On BBC One, a new chance to see the episode of Flog It! Series 16: Barrow Hill 2  where

Presenter Paul Martin also visits Haversage and finds out about its connection with Charlotte Brontë's book Jane Eyre.

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) interviews the writer Denise Rudberg:

Malin Ullgren: Vad berör dig mest i skönlitteraturen?
Starka karaktärer som håller oss i handen genom historien. Om min barndoms hjältar var Fem-gänget, med Julian, Dick, Anne och George (och givetvis hunden Tim), så tog sedan vuxenlitteraturen tidigt sitt grepp om mig med Stieg Trenters fotograf Harry Friberg, som ju hade en verklig förlaga i mästerfotografen KW Gullers. Andra starka karaktärer i skönlitteraturen är förstås Jane Eyre och Mr. Rochester (i Charlotte Brontës ”Jane Eyre”).  (...)
Vad läser du i sommar?
”Jane Eyre”, som varje sommar. (Translation)

Sade ve derín (in Turkish) reviews Jane Eyre 2006.