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Frock Flicks reviews Jane Eyre 1997, particularly from the costumes point of view:

The dialog includes some of the novel’s text, and the two actors have great chemistry. Their sparring is enjoyable to watch! (...)

While this one is excellent to watch for the acting, it’s boring for the costumes. I guess this is one to watch while sewing or doing the dishes. (Trystan L. Bass)

The Mirror has a list of best summer reads for Swifties:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Here's another classic recommendation, picked for good reason. "The song lyrics in 'Invisible String' reference a quote from Jane Eyre, and she also alludes to Mr Rochester in 'Guilty as Sin?'" says Riaz. 

While we won't spoil the plot, Mr Rochester references his own "invisible string" in Brontë's beloved novel. "I have a strange feeling with regard to you: as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you," he says. Sound familiar? (Amber O'Connor)

Some recaps and reviews of the TV series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder:

If Pippa Fitz-Amobi is Jane Eyre, speaking in literary terms, that would make Andie Bell a modern Daisy Buchanan. Her story has been co-opted  by the men who surround her — from sweet Sal Singh to shady Max Hastings. (Fletcher Peters in Vulture)

When we first meet Pip, the teenage heroine of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, her nose is buried in a copy of Jane Eyre while her friends try to buy booze at the local corner store using a fake ID. (Alan Sepinwall in Rolling Stone)

This plot point connects to Jane Eyre, which is the book that Pippa was carrying at the start of the series. In the classic text, Jane discovers that her master-turned-lover, Mr Rochester, had imprisoned his first wife in the attic. He claims that her "exotic" and "foreign" status had initially seduced him, but after the marriage, she revealed that she was actually a "madwoman." (Jasneet Singh in Collider)

The "good girl" part of the title refers to Pip's generally squeaky clean persona; no romantic relationships, no drinking, no drugs, and a nerdy predisposition illustrated in episode 1 by her brandishing a copy of "Jane Eyre (unfortunately, liking "Jane Eyre" is not enough to set oneself apart from other fictional heroines). (Proma Khosla in IndieWire)

StarsInsider (in Spanish) lists books who changed the course of history:

'Ancho mar de los Sargazos', Jean Rhys (1966) - Rhys era un escritor británico nacido en la República Dominicana cuya novela se escribió como una precuela de 'Jane Eyre', de Charlotte Brontë. La historia habla de la vida de la primera esposa de Rochester, Bertha, que creció en Jamaica y cuyo nombre original era Antoinette Cosway, hasta que se volvió loca.

'Jane Eyre', Charlotte Brontë (1847) - Originalmente, se publicó con el pseudónimo Currer Bell y cuenta la historia de amor entre la heroína Jane Eyre y eGood, Good, Goodl arisco dueño de la mansión Thornfield, Rochester. Una casa incendiada, una esposa loca y una boda fallida para poder estar juntos finalmente. (Translation)

Also on StarsInsider the world's rarest and most valuable books

'Wuthering Heights' - First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, 'Wuthering Heights' is Emily Brontë's only novel.
Only 250 copies were originally printed, and a first edition of this classic of English literature can generate upwards of US$250,000 at auction.

ShowBiz Cheatsheet discusses Celine Dion's cover of Jim Steinman's song It's All Coming Back to Me:

During an interview on his website, Steinman discussed the origins of “It’s All Coming Back to Me.” “‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ is my attempt to write the most passionate, romantic song I could ever write,” he said. “I was writing it while under the influence of Wuthering Heights, which is one of my favorite books.” Wuthering Heights is a Gothic novel by Emily Brontë that had a huge impact on the genre of romantic fiction, even though it isn’t a model for healthy relationships.

Steinman called the song “extreme.” “This song is an erotic motorcycle,” he opined. “It’s like Heathcliff digging up Cathy’s corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight. You can’t get more extreme, operatic, or passionate than that.”

For context, Heathcliff and Catherine are the main couple in Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff obsesses over Catherine to the point where he has someone dig up her grave so that he can see her face again. However, he doesn’t dance with her corpse. Like many adaptations of Wuthering Heights, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” takes some liberties with the source material. While it could be interpreted as a song about Heathcliff and Catherine, many listeners probably understood it as a song about a melodramatic hookup. (Matthew Trzcinski)

Time Magazine defends that Romance Novels are Literature:

We can talk about Austen’s Mr. Darcy and Charlotte Brontë’s Mr. Rochester and the Byronic hero, and how every contemporary romance with a moody, thawable romantic lead plays with our attachment to and expectations of that character. (Casey McQuiston)

La C News (Italy) recommends Wuthering Heights:

 Questo romanzo avvolge chi vi si addentra, sollevandolo in alto e poi facendolo precipitare, deludendolo e frustrandolo, mentre chi cerca redenzione e giustizia dovrà stringere i pugni e affrontare una sontuosa sofferenza. (Alessia Principe) (Translation)

Inspirational quotes for the month of August, including one by Emily, in Good, Good, Good.