They were rebellious, bold and uncompromising

Evening Standard interviews Adam Lenson, director of the Brontë-themed musical, Wasted.

Reader, they made a rock musical about them.
The Brontës are the subject of a new musical at the Southwark Playhouse - and it's a show with a twist. Wasted, by Christopher Ash and Carl Miller, is told through the lens of rock documentary. A fitting idea for a bunch of siblings who always turned it up to 11 (in the literary stakes, at least).
Wasted promises to give an access-all-areas account of the famed Yorkshire family, showing Charlotte (Natasha J Barnes), Emily (Siobhan Athwal), Anne (Molly Lynch) and Branwell (Matthew Jacobs Morgan) as you've never seen them before. [...]
How did the idea of making a rockumentary about the Brontës come about? 
In 2016 a new British musical theatre festival called BEAM was seeking submissions. As chance would have it, the festival happened to coincide with Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday year. The brilliant writers Carl Miller and Chris Ash pitched Wasted which reframed the story of the Brontës as a rock documentary. While the Brontës lived and wrote in the 19th century, the intense highs and lows of their story, the fierce intent to be creative and their triumphs against adversity felt startlingly modern. It seemed to make complete sense that the best music to tell of their passion, euphoria and imagination was rock music and the best form to convey their collaborative but fractured narrative was using the structure and methodology of a rock documentary.
How do you think the form complements their story? At its heart, the story of the Brontës is one of creativity against adversity. It is about having something to say and saying it loudly. Their lives were full of passion, emotion and drive so rock music seems a natural fit. We also sometimes forget how radical and visionary they were; ahead of their time in every sense. This form gives us the ability to tell their incredible story in a way that feels relevant and modern.
What do you think the biggest misconceptions about the Brontë sisters are? I think it's easy to pass off the Brontës as dusty, old fashioned writers of classics who wore bonnets and corsets. But they were rebellious, bold and uncompromising. Anyone who thinks the Brontë's lives were boring or old fashioned will definitely be surprised. I feel very fortunate to be getting to direct a musical that is so moving, funny and exhilarating. If you know anything about the Brontës and their work you will have a great time - and if not, then it’s an amazing story to hear for the first time too. (Jessie Thompson)

Wigan Today recommends the book National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters and Frann Preston-Gannon.

Already being described by the publisher as ‘the most ambitious poetry book ever produced,’ this tome features 366 nature poems… one for every day of the year, including leap years, and spanning 400 years of poetic output. [...] The title of the anthology, I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, comes from the first line of Judith Nicholls’ clever children’s poem Windsong – ‘I am the seed that grew the tree that gave the wood to make the page to fill the book with poetry’ – the perfect concept to teach youngsters the joy of verse and the impetus to love, and look after, the natural world. Filled with familiar favourites and new discoveries and written by a wide variety of poets, the book includes John Agard, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Charles Causley, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Roger McGough, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, John Updike and William Wordsworth together with older and traditional anonymous poems and rhymes. (Pam Norfolk)

The Yorkshire Post features a local farming family, the Hirds, and to give readers an idea of their deep Yorkshire roots, the article begins as follows:

When the Hird family first arrived in Yockenthwaite, the Brontë sisters were putting the finishing touches to their novels and the Chartists were marching in support of working class rights. (Greg Wright)

The Telegraph and Argus has an article on Bradford's Sandy Docherty, of The Great British Bake Off fame, and recalls the fact that back in 2016

Being a Brontë fan, she was particularly proud to be approached to produce the commemorative fruit cake for a garden party held as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. (Sally Clifford)

Nuvo reviews the film The Bookshop.

Literature as an act of defiance is a theme throughout the film. From Florence’s resolve to open her bookshop against formidable opposition to a young girl clutching a book dockside at the film’s end--with Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov making cameos in between--a subtext of allusions is always just present. Even the scenes where Florence walks along the craggy rocks of the seashore have a Brontë-esque feeling to them. (Laura McPhee)

The Hindu highlights the outspokenness of Jane Eyre. TV Tropes discusses 'age-gap' romances using a quote from Jane Eyre. The News (Pakistan) features writers and pseudonyms, including the Brontës.

Finally, Maddalena De Leo has written about the Emily Brontë bicentenary celebration in Haworth on The Sisters' Room.