The writing was as small as if created by mice

Atlas Obscura features the book The Writer’s Map,  edited by Huw Lewis-Jones.

In one essay, Cressida Cowell, the author of How to Train Your Dragon, writes of being inspired by maps drawn by the Brontës as children, “in tiny, beautiful books that were in themselves a fascination, for the writing was as small as if created by mice.” (Sarah Laskow)

Culturamas (Spain) celebrates the recent 171st anniversary of the publication of Jane Eyre by reviewing the Spanish stage adaptation.

En esta puesta en escena Jane Eyre nos cuenta su experiencia con apenas participación dramática de sí misma. Los otros personajes interactúan, pero ella tan solo se asoma en las escenas vitales de su experiencia, de esta manera Ariadna Gil realiza un esfuerzo mayúsculo con irregular resultado, pues su voz y su cuerpo están durante casi dos horas al servicio de una observadora de su propio personaje, una narradora a menudo exaltada que en el tramo final se acerca a un mitin feminista: nada más lejos de la profunda religiosidad del personaje y de una valentía ligada a conceptos de justicia muy alejados de semejante fervor. Pero han pasado muchos años, e igual que en otras partes del mundo, esta producción toma la fuerza de la heroína y la conduce a un primer término de ideal femenino subrayando un mensaje liberador que se enriquece con el tiempo.
Es una versión más atractiva estéticamente (un escenario único con puertas por las que entran y salen los personajes de su vida, enriquecido con muy atractivas proyecciones) que ideológicamente, pues el arrojo del personaje se subraya exteriormente, saltándose muchos episodios fundamentales y acelerando el final. En este proceso escénico escogido por la directora, quienes más destacan son los intérpretes que sí dan vida a situaciones clave de la trama, como Gabriela Flores Pepa López y Magda Puig —cada una con varios personajes— y Abel Folk en un Edward Rochester impactante al comienzo, conmovedor en su decadencia. (Horacio Otheguy Riveira) (Translation)

Los Angeles Review of Books features the small feminist press Dorothy, founded by Danielle Dutton and her husband Martin Riker.

I ask them about what books they bonded over early on. “Our reading had almost no overlap. Almost none,” Dutton says. “And we still read almost none of the same books. That first year, we decided we would read each other’s favorite books. I read The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien” — Dutton makes a face of leveled acceptance — “and then he was supposed to read Jane Eyre but he never did.”
“I’ve tried several times,” Riker says. (Nathan Scott McNamara)

Awesome Gang interviews YA fantasy author Robin Glassey.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring? If I could choose three books to take with my on a desert island my first choice would definitely be my scriptures. I especially love Psalms and Proverbs. When I’m having a tough time I turn to those amazing sections for advice and comfort. Jane Eyre is a classic love story that I’d love to have with me. And if I could have the whole Wheel of Time series as one giant tome, then I’d pick that as my third. I know, that’s kind of cheating, but those are my choices.

Inspired by three recent retellings of 'ancient epics', BuzzFeed News discusses writers' usage of old texts.

Writers have always come back to older texts, finding new twists on old legends. Jean Rhys and James Joyce weren’t the first in the Western tradition to do it, when Rhys reimagined Jane Eyre’s doomed Bertha Mason in Wide Sargasso Sea and Joyce sent Odysseus walking the streets of Dublin in Ulysses. (Mikaella Clements)

The Fandom reviews A Sorrow Fierce and Falling, the final novel in Jessica Cluess’ Kingdom on Fire series.

 If you’re here for boatloads of Jane Eyre vibes (apparently, I’m kinda not,) you’re gonna get those too. (Kait)

Liverpool Echo has an article on heritage railways in Yorkshire.

We alight at Haworth and are treated to a visit around the engine sheds by one of the many very knowledgeable volunteers who keep the railway alive and functioning.
It is possible to climb the (very) steep hill from the station and head up to Haworth Village, home of the Haworth Parsonage – a pilgrimage for fans of the Brontë sisters, who wrote most of their novels there. The local graveyard is also worth a visit. Although the Brontës are not buried there, it contains many fine Victorian headstones. (Lis Lambertsen)

The Brussels Brontë Blog has a post on the group's Emily Brontë bicentenary celebrations. On YouTube, Insert Literary Pun Here discusses Samantha Ellis's portrayal of Charlotte Brontë in her book Anne Brontë and the Art of Life. Again, this was our main objection to that book. Taking on a World of Words recommends '5 Spooky Reads for October', including Wuthering Heights. Susan Pyke on The Victorianist talks about Victorian Animal Crossings between George Eliot and Emily Brontë.