The perfect mood

Books that pass the Bechdel test in PopSugar:

Jane Eyre. Another classic, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë follows the life of Jane from childhood through her time at an orphanage to working at Thornfield Hall. As she grows, Jane questions assumptions of sexuality, religion, and her role as a woman, and blossoms into a strong, independent leading lady. (Annelise Pinto)

The best romantic films in the 2010s in Taste of Cinema:

The much-loved novel “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë gets a deserving adaptation in Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation by the same name. The old school romantic melodrama is brought alive not only by the mature direction of Fukunaga, but by the winning chemistry between Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska. The score by Dario Marianelli sets the perfect mood. (Spandan Banerjee)

The Guardian recalls a Brontë mention in Anna Burns's Milkman that has been reported before:

The narrator of Anna Burns’s Booker prize-winning novel, Milkman, likes to read on her way to work, even as she walks. Her preference is 19th-century novels. She likes to retreat to “the safety of the scroll and papyrus of earlier centuries”.
But in her claustrophobic community during Northern Ireland’s Troubles, it marks her out as a threat. Even her best friend sees her habit as “disturbing”, “deviant” and “not public-spirited”. The narrator is confused. “Are you saying it’s okay for him to go around with Semtex but not okay for me to read Jane Eyre in public?” (Johanna Thomas-Corr)

Also in The Guardian, a review of the recent film version of Little Women by Greta Gerwig:

Alcott yearned to rival the Brontës, as well as Emerson and Thoreau, her neighbours in Concord, yet her first efforts to write a serious, ambitious novel were only published after extensive and, she felt, damaging cuts – an experience echoed in Jo’s story. (Aida Edemariam)

Luis Magrinyà vindicates Jane Austen in an article in El País supplement Smoda (Spain):

Nunca se sintió acomplejada por esa cosa que tanto patetismo inducía en sus colegas del romanticismo (de su tiempo y hasta de hoy): la falta de «grandes experiencias». Tampoco aspiró nunca a ser, como aspirarían muchas escritoras posteriores de la época victoriana (no las hermanas Brontë, pero sí George Eliot), un hombre de letras. (Translation)

Noticias de Gipuzkoa (Spain) talks a local fair of books in euskera:

Pasear entre los estands de la mayor plaza de la cultura vasca permite contemplar que la cantera de escritores euskaldunes deja espacio a autores universales como Emily Brontë, Franz Kafka, Natalia Ginzburg, Ryszard Kapuscinski y, en esta edición, incluso Simone de Beauvoir. (Ane Araluzea) (Translation)

Contro Copertina (Italy) mentions the Brontës in a horoscope. Revista News (Brazil) announces the screening next week (December 10 and 12) of Wuthering Heights 1939 at the Cinemateca Capitólio (Porto Alegre). Octavia D. Mason continues her reading of Jane Eyre. 'Strange things' happening in Jane Eyre are explored on Calmgrove. The novel is analyzed in a 'spoiler-free' way by The Alexandria Papers.