The Heathcliff of kitchen sink drama

Prospect Magazine reviews the memoir A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings.

“Does it matter who wrote it if a book is good? Our answer: well, it also depends how you are presenting the book. Question: what about the Brontës—they published under false, male names? Answer: they had to. Question: can you tell the difference between male and female writing? Answer: no. Question: is it true that female writers of colour have an easier ride than white men in getting published? Answer: no, look around you." (Frances Wilson)

Refinery 29 interviews Rachel Vorona Cote about her book Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.

As Rachel Vorona Cote explains in her new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, contemporary society is filled with distaste for women who live their lives loudly, and that disdain is rooted in Victorian times. Drawing parallels betweens Britney Spears and Jane Eyre, Lana Del Rey and gaslighting, as well as moments from her own life, Cote — who is a Victorian scholar — illustrates the myriad ways in which women — even so many years after Elizabeth Bennett was in want of a good husband — are still expected to live small, contained lives. [...]
But, with that caveat, it seems to me that, when someone like Britney Spears has been in distress publicly, it doesn’t feel rehearsed or planned. And, of course, it’s quite different for Britney Spears, who is rich and wealthy and white. She's beautiful. She's famous. So she is very different from, say Bertha Mason, in Jane Eyre, who is Creole. But the conversation around Brittney changed a great deal around 2007, and the narrative of her instability has endured in all sorts of ways. It’s still much harder for a woman to change that narrative, even one with as much privilege as Brittney Spears. " (Leah Carroll)

CBS New York has a 30-second video on Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights for Women's History Month and Nightlife (French Canadian) suggests three ways of marking International Women's Day on March 8th. One of them seems to lump together the lives and times of several, very different, women writers:

1. Journée culturelle
Allez sillonner les rayons de la bibliothèque ou des librairies près de chez vous pour redécouvrir les succès de grandes femmes qui ont changé le visage de la littérature. Replongez-vous dans l’époque et les défis de Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott ou de Maya Angelou pour honorer cette journée culturellement. (Marie-Joëlle Pratte) (Translation)

iNews recommends '6 books to broaden teenage minds'. One of them is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend and, apparently,

 Jane Eyre, Holden Caulfield - even Jo March - all pale in comparison to the wisdom of Adrian Mole. (Sarah Carson)

My Theatre Mates reviews the play Look Back in Anger, defining its main character as follows:

Jimmy Porter is the Heathcliff of kitchen sink drama. Dark, sexy, harsh, demanding, cruel; his vicious turns of phrase delivered in poetic flourishes, excite and repel in equal measure. (Shyama Perera)

Jane Eyre's Library comments on the translation of a recent edition of Jane Eyre in Spanish.