Everybody knows The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the finest Brontë novel

The New York Times interviews writer Marlon James for its By the Book section.

Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing ?I tried “Wuthering Heights” for the third time last summer because so many people I deeply admire swear by it. For one friend it was the defining literary moment that changed their lives. I still think it’s an aimlessly overwrought, overwritten, unpleasant mess. Besides, everybody knows “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” is the finest Brontë novel. “Jane Eyre” is second. “Villette” is third. “Agnes Grey” is fourth.

Daily Emerald recommends '19 Books to Start 2019 Right', with an atypical choice (which we are glad to see, of course).

17. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
For fans of Victorian literature, Villette follows Lucy Snowe as she grows up and starts her life away from home. The novel weaves together themes of identity, religion, purpose, and morality through Lucy’s experiences working as a teacher in Belgium. (Cadaxa Chapman Ball)

While The Oprah Magazine leads the way to Valentine's day by sharing 'The 20 Greatest Ever Romance Novels, According to Goodreads Reviews', including

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
By exploring themes such as religion, sexuality, and classism, Jane Eyre was a groundbreaking novel during its 19th century release. Still revered as one of the genre's greatest books of all time, Brontë's story of title character Jane, and her maturing emotions and love for her broody boss Mr. Rochester, is one that readers still have a hard time putting down. 

Davis Enterprise reviews the film Cold War, describing it as having

the sweeping, unapologetically dreamy atmosphere of classic Hollywood gothic tragedies such as “Wuthering Heights.” (Derrick Bang)

A Condé Nast Traveler contributor tells about how she found her bearings in New York City and 'Learned to Love Dining Alone' along the way.

Perhaps, I thought as I walked in through the door, I would feel like a real New Yorker. But I didn’t. It was lonely.
I’d forgotten to bring a book, almost walked out when I discovered the price of the salad ($14!), and was forced to teeter on the edge of my stool while a gregarious group of Italians commandeered the rest of the bar. Yet I went back a second time (with a copy of Jane Eyre, a play-by-play of Victorian-era loneliness, under my arm), and then a third, and then a fourth, and then a fifth time. By the sixth time, I was on to another book (Dr. Zhivago, to help me romanticize New York’s sub-zero temperatures) and the bartender knew me well enough to serve me a shot of Fernet with my check. It was time, I told myself, to spread my solo dining wings. (Lale Arikoglu)

TDG (Switzerland) features the exhibition on La peinture anglaise de Turner à Whistler currently at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne.

Mais aussi charmeurs. William Hauptman, en magicien de l’accrochage, s’est laissé porter par leur minutie, le rendu photographique d’une corde, le dessin hyperréaliste des cils des chameaux, le soin du détail allant jusqu’à faire briller une alliance à l’annulaire d’un gentilhomme. Il parle même d’une «littérature visuelle». Dickens, les sœurs Brontë, Wilde tiennent la plume, leurs homologues peintres pratiquent ce même art de raconter, d’impliquer l’imaginaire, de le nourrir. Toujours inclusives et à la mesure de l’homme, jamais les scènes ne sont hautaines ou n’expriment une distance, fût-elle intellectuelle, physique ou sociale. Le regard est aux premières loges, spectateur, parfois même… presque acteur. (Florence Millioud-Henriques) (Translation)

The Times tells the story behind a two-bedroom apartment for sale in Gargrave, North Yorkshire.

Literary links
Gargrave, North Yorkshire
What you get This two-bedroom apartment is partly set in the former library of Eshton Hall, a Georgian stone house dating from the 1820s. It once housed one of Europe’s leading book collections, which attracted the attention of Charlotte Brontë, who is said to have visited the house many times. The living room features a kitchen set behind a half wall.
Where is it? Just north of Gargrave, a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, which is on the Pennine Way. Skipton is four miles away.
Upside The grand living room.
Downside The half wall might require a rethink.
Price £435,000  (Claire Carponen)

Eshton Hall used to belong to Frances Mary Richardson Currer, who may or may not have inspired Charlotte Brontë to use Currer Bell as her nom de plume.

The Secret Victorianist posts about Michael Stewart's Ill Will.