"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"

Collider lists the best must-read classic novels:

Jane Eyre tells the story of an orphaned child who has felt like she didn't belong anywhere her entire life. When she is hired by arrogant and disdainful Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle, Jane finds herself falling deeply in love—what she doesn 't know, of course, is that there's a huge secret surrounding the place.

Shining a light on overcoming oppression as well as patriarchal domination, which are things Jane struggles against, Charlotte Brontë's incredible novel easily earns a spot in this list of most memorable classics. (Daniela Gama)

Slate challenges the idea that good writers cannot be mothers:

In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf argued that, historically, successful women writers have not been mothers. Of Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and George Eliot, she noted, “not one of them had a child.” (Karen Bourrier and John Brosz)

Bright Side shares an A.I. reconstruction of how Jane Eyre could look like in real life. They use the Stable Diffusion software and the results are peculiar:

Charlotte Brontë describes Jane Eyre as a girl with hazel hair, green eyes, and an elfin look. Picture credits:© CC0 1.0, © Stable Diffusion 

Hogwarts Professor discusses the latest novel by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) Ink Black Heart:

That ‘blindness’ being noted, I will say that I was still struck by the obscurity of the poets whose work was the source of the Ink Black Heart epigraphs. I love Samuel Taylor Coleridge but I had never heard of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, a distant relation, generations removed. In addition to Rosetti, Browning, and Dickinson, I had heard of only Charlotte Bronte and Mary Tighe. I expect this is true of most of our readers; I suspect, too, that familiarizing us with these women poets, obscure and neglected even if ‘well-known,’ and with their perspective and concerns was no small part of their selection. (John)

WJSM's With Respect with Sarah Shoemaker:

John’s guest this week is Sarah Shoemaker, author of a new book, Chlldren of the Catastrophe, a novel of families caught in the brutal war between the Greeks and the Turks in 1920. They also chat about her previous book, Mr. Rochester, Sarah’s thoughtful look at the entire life of the male protagonist in Jane Eyre, Mr.Rochester.

Libby Purves publishes an article in The Times devoted to the recently deceased Hilary Mantel and we cannot agree more when she says:

The past is a foreign country and sometimes we need to go there. Of course not only new fiction takes us on this journey into understanding: contemporaneous novels and plays do it, even those from more recent history. It is rewarding to be drawn, by anyone from Ibsen to Dorothy L Sayers, into 19th or early 20th-century conflicts in attitudes to war, the role of women and changes in working life. It is refreshing to withhold incredulity and accept why people, at that time, acted as they did. There is no nourishment in the timeless ignorant-student question “Why didn’t Jane Eyre just get a proper job?” or in shaking your head disapprovingly at people whose cultural trap was structurally different to the one we inhabit.

Rolling Stone (France) announces that Frances O'Connor's Emily will be in competition at the Dinard Festival du Film Britannique (September 28th-October 2nd:

Une relecture du destin d’Emily Brontë au-delà des Hauts de Hurlevent, le roman qui en fera une icône de la littérature anglaise. Du grand classique en perspective, mais avec Emma Mackey, ce qui change tout ! (Translation)

AnneBrontë.org posts about Charlotte Brontë On The Death Of Branwell Brontë.