A girl named Villette

The actual news item has nothing to do with the Brontës but we love this passing comment on this article on the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune:

Rachel said that her daughter’s name [Villette] comes from the Charlotte Brontë novel of the same name, which she was reading when she started dating Mike. (Roger LaPointe)

The Conservative Woman reminisces about the literary character of Julian Birdbath: 

At the bottom of a disused lead mine in Derbyshire lives Julian Birdbath, ‘last citizen of the Republic of Letters’. He discovered a fourth Brontë sister, Doreen, and he ghostwrote Up Sticks and Away!, the autobiography of General Tiger Nidgett, but never received the fame or fortune he deserved. (Alan Ashworth)

SVT Kultur (Sweden)'s programme Babel has some Brontë message for you:

När panelen tipsade om debutromaner hade författaren Tone Schunnesson med sig Charlotte Brontës klassiker Jane Eyre.
– Den har varit en väldigt viktig debutroman i mitt liv, och den har också fått mig att uppskatta romanfigurer som man kanske inte helt tycker om eller som man har svårt för, men som man ändå känner sig väldigt, väldigt engagerad i, sa Tone Schunnesson. (Translation)

Several news outlets, mainly outside Great Britain, carry the news of the saving of the Blavatnik-Honresfield collection: ARTnews, Quotidiano Nazionale, Huffington Post (Italy), ActuaLitté (France), OKDiario (Spain)...

L'Occhio Notizie (Italy) lists quotes about sisters, included one by Charlotte.