Heartfelt identification and prurient attention

Lucasta Miller has contributed an article on Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known as the 'female Byron', to The Atlantic.

A voice like this invited both heartfelt identification and prurient attention. For readers of one kind (generally speaking, female and provincial), it conveyed the drama of an inner life stifled by a lack of expressive outlets. Charlotte and Emily Brontë, in their adolescence, were two such readers. 

Alberto Manguel has written an article in Spanish for The New York Times on how reading literature can make us better.

Mi educación en adentrarme en las vidas de los otros continuó después con lecturas más complejas, de la mano de personajes como Jane Eyre y Ana Karenina, de Robinson Crusoe, don Quijote de la Mancha y de los sufridos héroes de Charles Dickens. Estos personajes me ayudaron —a mí y a una comunidad enorme de lectores— a entender con más profundidad el sufrimiento ajeno y también a hacer más tangibles sus momentos de alegría. (Translation)

According to the Daily Mail,

Many novelists encourage wariness of those who exhibit a flamboyant interest in fashion. Game Of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister is a consummate power dresser. Heroines, in contrast, tend to be attractively dishevelled types like mud-hemmed Elizabeth Bennet, or puritanically focused on loftier realms, such as Jane Eyre or Middlemarch’s Dorothea Brooke. (Patricia Nicol)

Town & Country features the 1851 Great Exhibition, mentioning the fact that.

Famous names who reportedly attended include Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, George Elliott, Charlotte Brontë, and Samuel Colt, among others. (Caroline Hallemann)

Two Swedish newspapers review Tone Schunnesson's stage adaptation of Jane Eyre on stage at Göteborg's Folkteatern: Dagens Nyheter and Göterbogs-Posten.

AnneBrontë.org has a post on 'The Incredible Life Of Brontë Friend Mary Taylor'.