As poignant today as it ever was

Bustle has analysed the trailer of the upcoming film adaptation of How to Build a Girl:

Originally published in July 2014, Caitlin Moran's How To Build A Girl quickly became the coming-of-age story that every British teenager – and their parents – wanted to read. So news that the much-loved tale was being adapted for the silver screen was music to book lovers' ears. On April 8, the first trailer for How To Build A Girl was dropped and if the sight of Bernie Feldstein rocking a beautiful red hair do isn't enough to fill you with excitement, the sheer amount of celebs featured in this short snippet is sure to do it. The trailer is positively teeming with famous faces, and we've listed every single one we spotted below. (...)
4. Su Perkins & Mel Giedroyc as the Brontë sisters
Finally the wall is rounded off by the indomitable Mel & Su playing a couple of the Brontë sisters. Genius.

Business Insider shows the working-from-home spaces of  'great minds':

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet who wrote many of her novels from her family’s home.Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk on display at the Brontë Parsonage Museum on February 8, 2012, in Haworth, England.
Her most famous novels include “Jane Eyre,” “Villette,” and “Tales of Angria.”
The Brontë sisters wrote a majority of their novels in their home in Haworth, West Yorkshire. In 1928, the Brontë home was converted into a museum and later refurbished to reflect the style of the 1850s. Many artifacts, like Charlotte Brontë’s writing desk, are on display. (Erin McDowell)

Erm... Tales of Angria? You should check your sources (beyond Google search) before publishing.

Broadway World reviews the National Theatre's production of Jane Eyre as seen on YouTube since last night:

Charlotte Brontë would almost certainly approved of this re-imagining of her masterpiece; a woman is asked to accept her position in life without question, but how can she feel any fulfilment without choice and purpose? The relevance of this position is as poignant today as it ever was.
Madeleine Worrall makes a great Jane Eyre; diminutive in stature, yet full of conviction and inner strength. She moves from nervous and abused child to defiant governess with ease, pushing against the entrapment that society places on her due to her sex and poverty.
Jane's internal voice is portrayed by the cast working as a chorus and vividly show the rebellion of her independent spirit against her feelings of confinement. Their synchronised movement is very effective and creates a sense of huge energy. This is a very physical production, which works well, but occasionally the constant movement around the stage by the cast is a little distracting.
Felix Hayes is an effective and suitably brooding Rochester, focusing on the anger and brutality of the character bubbling under the surface of his cold veneer of respectability. (...)
At three hours, the show feels a little long, with the first half dragging at points and the second half seeming a little quick. However, even for those who have never read the book, this production stands on its own feet for the sheer energy of the chorus and the immersive quality of the gothic atmosphere. (Aliya Al-Hassan)

Hollywood Soapbox interviews the composer Paul Gordon (who premieres online his new Pride and Prejudice musical today):

John Soltes: You have adapted quite a few classic texts into musicals for the stage. What is it about these stories that you love so much?
P.G.: I was a pop songwriter for 20 years, and most of the songs I wrote during that period were about myself. A love gone right. A love gone wrong. How do I feel today? Am I sad? What inner emotions can I explore? Well, you get to a place where you become bored with yourself and wonder, how many more songs can I possibly write about my last breakup or my next breakup?
So, when I decided to write a musical based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, an entire new world of creativity had opened up to me. Suddenly, there was a universe of language written by a genius that had little to do with my own life, that I could devour and create my own music and my own way of telling new stories. In essence, I discovered brilliant authors: Brontë, Austen, Webster, Dickens and Wilde — and I could play with their words and stories and create something new. (And they wouldn’t sue me.) It was completely exhilarating and gave me new creative life that had been missing for quite a few years.

The Washington Post and the wonders (and drawbacks) of technology:

I am glad my new phone has a spiffy app to read classic books in the public domain; that's one fewer excuse not to attempt "Jane Eyre" again. But I have also been pulling old favorites off my shelves, getting the surprise of seeing yesteryear's marginal notes and underlining. And I have been sharing books with neighbors. We leave stuff on the porch, and wave through the window. (...)
The truth is, most of the time, technology just gets stuff done faster. Faster is better when we are talking about medical treatment or fire alarms. Faster is better when gathering epidemiological data. But for most of life, there is no rush. The main difference with my iPhone 7 is the faster processor. But I didn't really need any more speed. And if I'm going to read "Jane Eyre," I'm sure one of my neighbors has it. Or that bookseller, with her bicycle. (Mark Oppenheimer)

The Daily Mail interviews the writer Anne Tyler:

What book  . . . left you cold?
For some reason, I completely missed out on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights when I was a teenager — which was apparently the stage at which every current woman friend I can think of read it and fell in love with Heathcliff. When I finally did try it, at some point in my 30s, I was so appalled by Heathcliff that I started doubting the mental stability of all those friends. This was their notion of the ideal man?
Weirdly, though, just about all of them have perfectly nice husbands today, so they must have gained some sanity as they aged.

Main Street Clarksville and the importance of a good night's sleep:

 “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” ― Charlotte Brontë (...)
Charlotte Brontë doesn't know me at all – she died a little more than 100 years before I was born – but she was all to familiar with the power a ruffled mind could have on a person's pillow. (Susan Steen)

The Register interviews local teachers at the Burlington High School:

Jenna Peterson: What’s your favorite book of all time?
Ms. Hanf: “I’d have to say my favorite would probably be Jane Eyre just because it’s a coming of age story and it deals with a lot of aspects of growing up and kind of figuring out who you are.”
If you could teach any book (that you currently do not) what would it be?

If you could teach any book (that you currently do not) what would it be? 
Mr. Chichester: “Ah, so many, A book that is close to my heart is The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. This book, as with many, calls to attention the experience of a character who is thrust into an impossible situation. I like teaching books that deal with realistic tragedy. I believe identifying with characters in those books helps us develop our compassion.”

YourStory suggests revisiting classics:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
‘Wuthering Heights’ is as classic as classics can get. Revered as one of the most tragic love stories ever written and a mainstay on most reading lists, it’s a beautiful world to revisit in the form of an audiobook. So much has been written and spoken about this novel that it is hard to listen to it without bias. However, the book takes on a whole new character with the celebrated voice-over artist Anne Flosnik’s perfect narration. Her words wash over you as you get transported to the Yorkshire moors—Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and as you follow the lives of Heathcliff and Catherine. Listen to this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and the mind and of love and loss on a lazy afternoon, sipping a perfect cup of English tea for company. (Apoorva Puranik)

Country & Town House has a slideshow of novels to fall in love with:

Jane Eyre
Set in the early 19th Century, Charlotte Brontë’s world-renowned novel details the life of Jane Eyre, from her turbulent childhood to her time spent as governess for the discourteous Mr. Rochester. Though the book can’t be entirely branded as a romantic novel, the growth of Jane and Mr. Rochester’s unlikely loving relationship lies undeniably at its core and continues to move readers today. (Daniella Saunders)

Northern Soul asks some writers about the best northern reads:

A.F. Stone, author of The Raven Wheel
Wuthering Heights. I’m struggling to articulate how much this book means to me. I first read Wuthering Heights when I was about 14 (the perfect age to do so – if you have teenagers in lockdown, get them on it). I remember being unable to stop reading, despite the fact that I had to get up for school the next day. In particular, I vividly recall that one passage had me crying inconsolably at about 3am. That’s probably when I decided literature was what I wanted to pursue, somehow. It’s been a pivotal influence for me as a writer.
Wuthering Heights is dark, raw, and cruel. It explores the legacies of abuse and neglect through generations. The natural landscape is a crucial character, all of its own. It evokes empathy and compassion. In short, it’s Northern writing at its best and everything that my work aspires to.

Última Hora (Spain) reviews Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel Glass Town:

Isabel Greenberg se inspira en este hecho real para conformar una monumental novela gráfica que habla sobre la inspiración y el poder de contar historias para salvarnos de nuestras propias vidas. (...)
Las Bronte, especialmente Charlotte, consiguieron con Angria hacer un refugio al que volver e incluso recluirse cuando las cosas no iban bien. La obra habla de cómo la ficción puede llegar a ser tan poderosa que metafórica y literalmente toma vida independiente de su creador. (Josep Oliver) (Translation)

La Finestra Indiscreta (in Catalan) recommends the film Peter Ibbetson 1935:

"Somni d'amor etern" ("Peter Ibbetson"), de Henry Hathaway (1935)
La més antiga de les set pel·lícules potser és un missatge per al futur, gràcies a Daphne Du Maurier, Gary Cooper i Ann Harding. I a un puntet dels cims borrascosos i les germanes Brontë. (Àlex Gorina) (Translation)

Mujer Hoy (Spain) and self-isolation reads:

'Cumbres borrascosas' (Emily Brontë)
Amores y odios tan tempestuosos como los páramos en los que viven los personajes: el paroxismo de pasiones en 'Cumbres borrascosas' es mayúsculo... y la calidad literaria de la única novela que nos dejó la mediana de las hermanas Brontë, también. (Rosa Gil) (Translation)

La Opinión de La Coruña (Spain) talks about Rebecca 1940:

El malentendido es que la novela siempre se ha leído como una intensa historia de amor, la de una cenicienta y su príncipe azul, una especie de edición renovada de Jane Eyre, en la que la loca en el altillo, la difunta, es exquisita e imponente, una supermujer que en vida pisaba fuerte y hacía su voluntad (¿alguna objeción a eso?). (Elena Hevia) (Translation)

Rocknfool (France) recommends

Laura Babin – Là
Laura Babin n’en fait jamais des caisses. Dans un clip épuré, très Wuthering Heights, la Québécoise propose de découvrir une nouvelle chanson de son premier album, Corps coquillage, sorti fin mai 2019. Si on ne l’avait pas encore compris, la symbolique de l’eau est importante cette l’artiste originaire du Bas-du-Fleuve, et au centre de cette vidéo poétique qui laisse parler la musique et nous faire frissonner. (Emma) (Translation)

Hürriyet (Turkey) and epidemics and literature:

Hastalık teması İngiliz romanında hayli etkilidir. Özellikle Marry Shelley, Thomas Hardy, Charles Kingley, George Eliot, William Moris, Charlotta Brontë, Elisabeth Gaskell, Samuel Butler gibi yazarlar salgınlar ve hastalıkları topluma ve bireye yaptığı etkilerle sergilemeyi bilmişlerdir. (A. Ömer Türkeş) (Translation)

The Telegrah & Argus informs that the Bradford Literature Festival will not go ahead in July. The News (Pakistan) quotes Emily Brontë and Angelica Cofer reviews Wuthering Heights.