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The Post and Courier News includes Charlotte Brontë among the most influential women in world history:

One of three famous literary sisters, Brontë contributed to the world by penning books that are still enjoyed as classics today. Her best known work is the novel “Jane Eyre,” which drew from her own experiences as a student and governess.

Beatrice Flynn on Her Campus joins the group of readers incapable of looking at pieces of art in their historical contexts:

Many critics of the novel believed Jane Eyre was a threat to “family values” as Jane embodies a unique female strength while on a quest for true self-discovery. However, the novel still features domineering men who constantly try to command the women around them, including Jane. Although the gender roles displayed in Jane Eyre were seen as progressive and even radical at the time the novel was published, ultimately, Brontë’s novel still perpetuates misogynistic ideas of sexism and male dominance.

Even if it was true (which is arguably not the case), it is a quite reductionist, biased, and, more importantly, unsatisfying way of looking at a piece of art. Art can be enjoyed and celebrated even if you don't agree with everything one hundred percent. It's always better to look for the good things than only rejoicing in the bad stuff. Haters do not ever change anything, their only mission in life is to judge and cancel from their self-entitled moral superiority.

The Yorkshire Evening Post shows a Grade II listed cottage in Thornton which is on the market:

Located in Hill Top Road in Thornton, Bradford, it is just a 15 minute walk from where the famous literary family spent their early years in Market Street.

Famously, the family then moved to Haworth in 1820. (Rebecca Marano) 

The New York Post looks into the very colourful life of the writer VC Andrews:

Andrews had an active imagination. She loved fairy tales and gothic romances like “Jane Eyre” and “Dracula,” which scared her so much that she would put a piece of garlic at her bedroom window to ward off the vampire. (Raquel Laneri)

AF24 News (Nigeria) publishes the updates to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) syllabus:

Last year, there was a wide confusion among students and teachers of literature after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) changed their syllabuses to include Professor Wole Soyinka’s comedy of manners, “The Lion and the Jewel” and Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”.

The Street Journal (Nigeria) informs about the new Library of African and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) list of new resident writers. One of them is Akumbu Uche:

His literary influences are both local and global, include African social realists such as Cyprian Ekwensi and Chukwuemeka Ike; British classics by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens as well as contemporary Japanese women’s writing from Banana Yoshimoto and Mieko Kawakami.

La Vanguardia (México) talks about the Petyon Place writer Grace Metalious:

¿Por qué la novela tuvo tan grande éxito? La hizo una escritora primeriza que ciertamente estaba muy lejos de ser una segunda Emily Brontë, pero en sus páginas se revelaba lo que en 1948 había descubierto Alfred Kinsey, un zoólogo de la Universidad de Indiana, mi alma mater en el país vecino: en cuestión de sexo caras vemos, de la cintura para abajo no sabemos. (Armando Fuentes Aguirre 'Catón') (Translation)

Cinconoticias (Spain) lists examples of the use of flashbacks in literature:

Este es uno de los ejemplos más claros de la analepsis en literatura. Cumbres Borrascosas (1847) está compuesta, básicamente, de un gran flashback, porque desde el inicio el lector se encuentra con Catherine, quien ya es un fantasma en la narrativa. Es decir, la novela de Brontë cuenta una historia de amor a través de los recuerdos de Nelly Dean; con Cumbres Borrascosas la autora da un ejemplo de que el amor trasciende en el tiempo. (Yossimar Rodríguez) (Translation)

 On the same website, the same journalist lists great British literature:

En 1847, Emily Brontë publicó este libro que habla de amor y venganza en la vida de aquellos que viven en la granja llamada “Cumbres Borrascosas”. En esta historia los protagonistas son Heathcliff y Catherine, unos amigos que crecieron juntos, se criaron en la propiedad, y eventualmente se enamoran. Pero la situación se complica cuando aparece Edgar Linton, Catherine se enamora y Heathcliff deja la granja lleno de odio y quiere vengarse de quienes lo alejaron de su amor. (Translation)

Positive quotes including one by Charlotte Brontë in La Vanguardia (Spain).