Period Charm

Yorkshire Post describes 'literary treasure' Haworth:

It has many of the facilities associated with small or even medium-sized towns and a profile to match, but the Brontë village of Haworth remains just that... a village.
Nestled in the Worth Valley in the eastern Pennines, Haworth has a population of just over 6,000, but on a sunny day in summer the number is multiplied several fold as tourists swarm into Main Street. (...)
The attractions are the cobbled Main Street itself and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the perfectly preserved 18th century house in which Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë spent most of their lives. (...)
The village has been gentrified in recent years but retains its period charm. Main Street is a jumble of little cafes and shops, many selling handmade crafts and bric-a-brac and others named after the novels and characters created at the parsonage.
At the peak of the season, the junction by the red telephone box, where Main Street meets West Lane can be as crowded as Piccadilly Circus. And each spring, the village hosts a 1940s-themed “wartime weekend”, which attracts around 25,000, many in period costume.
However, the visitor experience is unlikely to be helped by Bradford Council’s decision to close the village’s two public toilets next year, local councillor Rebecca Poulsen believes.
“It’s absolutely crazy, she said. “The council claims to be fully behind tourism and then it does something like this. They wanted to close the tourist information centre too, but the Brontë Society has agreed to take that over.” (David Behrens)

We don't really agree with this comment on Bustle:

 After all, a lot of our most “pretentious” literature used to be good old fashioned pop culture garbage. Shakespeare was wildly popular with the common folk back in his day, and derided for his lack of education. The Brontë sisters were considered the scandalous authors of trashy romance novels. (Klopa Robin)

Pseudonyms in Business Recorder:

A trend reflecting the prevailing sexism of the time saw many accomplished female writers publish their work under masculine names: George Eliot's real name was Mary Ann Evans, George Sand was Aurore Dupin and the Brontë sisters were first published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Lately, partly because of female readers becoming more important to the market for new writing, there has been a trend towards gender neutral pen names. (Franck Iovene)

The Hans India on sequels:

Was Phineas Fogg content with his routine lifestyle after his round-the-world trip? What was the subsequent life of Jane Eyre or Elizabeth Bennet like? (Dr K Srinivasa Rao)

The Telegraph (India) describes like this the novel Elmet by Fiona Mozley:

The landscape is Wuthering Heights, the setting a post-Thatcher How Green Is My Valley, and the climax as bloody as a Jacobean play. 

In a way, the same topic is discussed by Berner Zeitung (in German) in an interview with Zadie Smith:

 Ähnlich war es bei der britischen Autorin Charlotte Brontë. Als diese Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts «Jane Eyre» publizierte, zog das Buch eine Welle von Romanen nach sich, die auf die weibliche Erfahrung fokussierten. «Es ist ein grosses Geschenk, das Schreibende ­einander geben können.» Ein neuer Blickwinkel tue sich auf. (Anne-Sophie Scholl) (Translation)

The Sisters' Room interviews Marianna D'Ezio, Italian translator of Jane Eyre. Les Soeurs Brontë (in French) proposes an alternate possibility for the alleged Landseer portrait of the Brontës, she suggests that it may be it the work of the artist's sister Jessica.