Rochester and cats

Country Life has an article about the restoration of the gardens in Norton Conyers:

At Norton Conyers, Ripon, North Yorkshire (believed to be the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's most famous location) passion of a different kind has brought the garden back to life. (...)
Just before we arrive at the garden, Sir James and Lady Graham look back at the house and repeat in cheerful unison the lines from Jane Eyre that suggest (together with a recently discovered attic staircase) that Norton Conyers was the inspiration for Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall: ‘Three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable; a gentleman’s manor house, not a nobleman’s seat.’ (Non Morris)

The Daily Star explores other Rochesters in literature, particularly in Dickens:

When my niece Mubasshira and her husband Morsed told me that they had moved from East London to Kent, I had little idea of the area in which they relocated. Prior to my two-week trip to the UK this year, they gave me their address which contained the name of the Medway town of Rochester.
Rochester! The word carries literary-historical significance. The British writer that was churning in my mind was Charlotte Brontë (1816-55), as the character of Mr. Rochester in her most famous novel Jane Eyre (1847) has enthralled readers everywhere. I was sure that Rochester had far greater literary importance than that but I could not think of anything more specific. Something was eluding my grasp and escaping my memory. I left it there. (Md. Mahmudul Hasan)

Teen Vogue talks about Maggie Kuhn, co-founder of the Grey Panthers:

For Kuhn, aging was not a sign of weakness or vulnerability, but a victory meant to be celebrated. A physically frail woman, Kuhn wasn’t interested in complaining about her physical ailments. Kuhn, who never married, was fiercely independent and shared her life with her two cats, Emily and Charlotte Brontë. She also spent part of her life caring for her disabled mother and mentally ill brother. (Marilyn La Jeunesse)

Talking about cats in The Australian:

Emily Brontë nailed the difference between cats and dogs: ''We cannot stand up under comparison with the dog. He is infinitely too good. But the cat is ... extremely like us in disposition".

Still on cats topic. Reader's Digest thinks that Jane Eyre is one excellent name for a cat.

Bookriot and podcasters writing books:

Editors and literary agents have long been scouting out potential book projects from interesting people with something to say and a platform to promote it—and podcasters are no exception. The resulting book is not always directly tied to the podcast, however. Vanessa Zoltan, co-founder and co-host of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, recently shared news of landing a book deal to write about Jane Eyre as a sacred text. (Emily Polson)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recommends:

Join in on your high schooler's summer reading list. Not only is it fun to see books like "Pride and Prejudice" or "The Poisonwood Bible" through your child's eyes, but the shared enterprise will also give you a good way to bond. (Even if it's just complaining about how Jane Eyre is way too much of an enabler, or that certain selections go on for about 50 pages more than they have to.) (Rose Kennedy)

Pajiba reviews the film The Nightingale:

The Nightingale is set in the Australian island of Tasmania in 1825, which back then was called Van Diemen’s Land. Where we start on the island, in the south, looks straight out of Wuthering Heights, with thick mist and fog, lush green forests, and ferns and moss.  (Jennifer Kents)

The Weekend Australian and sitting is the smoking:

You see, I also have a record player behind me, and at this very moment I’m twisting my arms like Kate Bush on her heath conjuring the ghost of Heathcliff, imploring him to let me in because I’ve come home. Something is unfurling here and it may well be energy and youth; long dormant as I’ve curled for decades over a desk or cafe table. (Nikki Gemmell)

Cine en tu cara (in Spanish) posts about Les Soeurs Brontë 1979. Phil Hamlyn Williams shares the printer's proof of his upcoming biography of William Smith Williams, Charlotte Brontë's Devotee.