Maybe it’s Queer Brontë

In The Guardian, Lucy Mangan reviews BBC One's Gentleman Jack enthusiastically.

It’s Regency Fleabag! Because the heroine occasionally breaks the fourth wall and exteriorises her inner monologue. But it’s set in Halifax in 1832, so it could be Northern Jane Austen. Then again, it’s about Anne Lister, who – since her 4 million-word diary came to light and particularly the encoded sections were deciphered – has been dubbed the first modern lesbian, so maybe it’s Queer Brontë ...
You can afford to have a little fun with Gentleman Jack (BBC One); Sally Wainwright clearly has. The writer, best known for the harrowing Happy Valley series and whose most recent outing was a fierce account of the Brontës’ lives as the sisters of an unsalvageable alcoholic brother, has turned those 4 million words into eight pacy episodes that amount, by Wainwright standards, to almost a romp.

The Telegraph has loved the first episode too.

Anne Lister is a woman for our times who happens to have been around for the Corn Laws. Her encrypted diaries, decoded 150 years after her death, are an empowering LGBTQ+ urtext.
It was only a matter  of time until Sally Wainwright, the mighty bard of West Yorkshire who has tangoed in Halifax and walked with the Brontës, got around to the remarkable story of her local 19th-century lesbian landowner. (Jasper Rees)

And here's how the Daily Mail describes Suranne Jones's portrayal of Anne Lister:

Suranne Jones played the heroine as a charismatic mixture of Heathcliff and Mr Darcy, with a dash of Dick Turpin thrown in. She entered the tale driving a stagecoach at full pelt, and never slowed down. (Christopher Stevens)

To coincide with the show, AnneBrontë.org has an article on 'Gentleman Jack: Anne Lister And The Brontës'.

Financial Times reviews Lucasta Miller's L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’.

Lucasta Miller, whose The Brontë Myth (2001) was a dazzling challenge to and exploration of the cult around the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, takes on in L.E.L. a literary figure whom she initially anticipated, as she comments in her postscript, “might be relatively quick to dispatch” as “a minor subject”.
The result is an energetic, fascinating and deeply researched book which is as much about the “strange pause” — the slippery, ambiguous hinterland in literature and history between the end of the Romantic era of Shelley, Byron and Keats, and the beginning of the Victorian age — as it is about Letitia Landon herself. [...]
Yet, Miller points out, in France, where Landon was well received on a visit in 1834, the reputations of her female writer contemporaries of similar lifestyle endured, and her influence on an early fan who longed for fame of her own, the adolescent Charlotte Brontë, is evident in her own greatest works: Jane Eyre and Villette. (Catherine Taylor)

Independent (Ireland) asks actress/singer Annalene Beechey about her 'cultural life'.

Movie: Wuthering Heights. Oh, the classic 1939 Wuthering Heights starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven. The drama, romance and acting is just sublime. I remember so clearly watching it with my family as a child and falling in love with it. I get very involved in films and cry at the drop of a hat.

The Sisters' Room reviews Charlotte Brontë Tre di Sei by Michela Monferrini and illustrated by Vittoria Facchini,