Hepburn, Benanti, Marsalis. Brontë name-dropping

In Your Area tells the story of the acting career of the local Lancashire actress Phyllis Connard from Ormskirk to Broadway, including the performances of Jane Eyre in 1937 with Katharine Hepburn as Jane:

After a couple of short runs of a play at the 48th Street Theatre, Phyllis joined the Theatre Guild Touring Company of Jane Eyre, taking the role of the maid Leah at Thornhill, the home of Mr Rochester. Jane Eyre was played by Katherine Hepburn who was already a star in Hollywood. The two performed together for the whole of the tour. (Dot Hawkes)

Lifehacker lists some 'nerdy podcasts made by women':

Hot & Bothered

Vanessa Zoltan and Lauren Sandler host this romance-analysis podcast. If you think you’ve devoured every form of your favorite romance novel, from Twilight to Jane Eyre, think again. Hot & Bothered breaks down popular books and movies to, as they say, “better imagine our own happy endings.” Their current season focuses on the timeless romance How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. (Lauren Passell)

New Jersey Monthly interviews Simeon Marsalis, assistant professor of jazz literature in Rutgers-Newark (and son of Wynton, yes): 

Kate Tuttle: When did you fall in love with literature?

S.M.: I became a reader of literary fiction in my senior year of high school. There was a teacher named Adam Morrison who refused to teach to the test and said, “I’m going to give you three book projects this year.” The first one I wrote was about [Emily Brontë’s] Wuthering Heights. But the book that really did it for me was Stendhal’s The Red and the Black.

The Times recalls a racist incident in Haworth we reported some months ago:

[Viji] Kuppan joined the University of Leicester’s rural racism project as a research associate after being threatened and racially abused during a trip to Haworth, West Yorkshire, which is famed for its connection to the Brontë sisters. He was visiting a pub with his partner when a man waving a large knife stopped them from entering and shouted that he wanted to “kill and burn the lot of you”. (Kate Gibbons)

The many ways of diversity in Britain are also explored in The Times:

As Britons, we have not always understood each other. In the first series of Alan Partridge’s TV show, the East Anglian Alan struggles to understand a Geordie waiter. Some passages of Wuthering Heights are difficult to understand for people with a native knowledge of English: Emily Brontë deploys Yorkshire dialect to startling effects. Most of us need help to read the poetry of Robert Burns. (Tomiwa Owolade)

Vanity Fair has an article about Anne Hathaway and remembers how

Hathaway is not easily talked out of things she believes in. She took drama classes, understudied future Tony winner Laura Benanti in a production of Jane Eyre at 14, and had the chutzpah to write to an agent with her headshot at 15. (Julie Miller)

Soulmate quotes and one by Emily in BestLife.