The Great Eyre

Things are starting to go back to normal in Brontëland after the Emily whirlwind but we still have a review of the film today. From Shepherd Express:

Emily is a plausible account of Brontë family dynamics. Her father, the vicar (Adrian Dunbar), is stern but caring. Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) is a second-hand Byron, dashing and full of himself. The sisters lived in imaginary worlds of their own storytelling. The Brontës loved and clashed with each other.

Wuthering Heights was eye opening, even scandalous when first published in 1847 for its frank exploration of romantic obsession. How does the film explore the inspiration behind the novel, a classic that not only spawned several movie adaptations but inaugurated a subgenre of gothic romance concerning troubled male protagonists (Daphne du Maurier-Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca)? Emily catches the rainy environs of the Yorkshire moors (some frames suggest John Constable’s drearier landscapes), the creative energy crackling between the siblings, the dreamy summer afternoons well suited for daydreaming—and hints at the household’s high degree of literacy. A forbidden love affair that culminated in tragedy? Perhaps. (David Luhrssen)

The Week has writer Rebecca Makkai pick her '6 favorite books that take place in boarding schools' and one of them is... surprisingly not Jane Eyre but

Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)

The last novel published during Brontë's short life, Villette — the story of the deeply repressed Lucy Snowe, who leaves England for the Continent to teach at a girls' pensionnat — is superior to Jane Eyre, and the only book I've ever literally thrown across the room. I did it out of passion, not disgust.

Crime Reads discusses American society and wealth as portrayed in books.

Or take Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, whose titular heroine makes Rochester see past a humble origin story and appreciate her personal attributes, only to delay consummation until he is deemed legally eligible by circumstance. It’s a lovely, honest triumph of merit and integrity overcoming prevalent social dogma, but it is also a distinctly un-American method by which to make such triumph happen. Had F. Scott Fitzgerald instead been the one to write The Great Eyre, we would have seen Juliette Ecclestone emerge as a mysterious and wealthy heiress who pulls Rochester away and leaves Thornfield Hall to Antoinette upstairs. (Daniel H. Turtel)

Ethic (Spain) features the life and work of Emily Brontë.