'People perhaps don’t realise how subversive a character Jane Eyre is'

Camden New Journal quotes from Joan Bakewell's speech at the BAFTAs.

The 86-year-old said her journey to a career in broadcasting had “all begun with Charlotte Brontë”.
“People perhaps don’t realise how subversive a character Jane Eyre is, calling as she does for the right of women to express themselves as much as men do. I took in that message from the age of 12 and it’s been with me ever since,” she told the black-tie audience. “It’s been a long journey and along the way I’ve had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to have as much a chance as men – and possibly earn as much. That would be nice. I owe them all a great deal.” (Richard Osley)

In the Evening Standard, Claire Harman reviews Lucasta Miller's L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated “Female Byron”.

Fame and shame dogged the whole of  L.E.L’s short life. Her intense, confessional poems dealt with longings, frustrations and a peculiarly female type of anger that hadn’t been articulated before; she was admired by fellow-writers such as Heine, Elizabeth Barrett, Poe and Bulwer Lytton and adored by teenaged fans such as the young Brontës. 

The Telegraph has an article on Anne Lister and mentions that

There is even speculation that Charlotte Brontë – whose sister Emily lived near Shibden Hall as a governess – immortalised Lister in her novel Shirley. (Helena Whitbread)

Entertainment Weekly features the film The Souvenir and interviews director Joanna Hogg and actress Tilda Swinton about it.

Watching Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir is a rare cinematic experience — one where the viewer feels stripped and laid bare at Hogg’s richly baroque film altar. It has a simple enough premise, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) a young film school student gets involved in an intoxicating and all-consuming relationship with Anthony (Tom Burke), a man who isn’t always what he seems, which proves to simultaneously hinder and facilitate Julie’s growth as a woman and an artist. It leaves a deeply personal residue, one that’s hyper-specific to Julie’s own journey, but one that allows for reflection on our own previous relationships and twentysomething paths — it feels like the aftermath of reading a really great gloomy novel (shout out to the Brontës!). [...]
I got major Brontë sister vibes when I watched it the first time. Other than your own experience, were there things that you felt inspired by when creating this? HOGG: Maybe a little more Henry James, I was thinking of Portrait of a Lady.
SWINTON: I think all of your films have a certain atmosphere of detail, found in novels, particularly novels of a certain era. That relationship with what’s said and what’s not said and what’s demonstrated and what’s not demonstrated. (Kerensa Cadenas)

Última Hora (Paraguay) has an article on Virginia Woolf and mentions her piece on Haworth.

Sin firma (como en la gran mayoría de sus apariciones en el periodismo británico), su primer artículo es publicado el 14 de diciembre. En “Haworth: noviembre de 1904”, la joven escritora escribe una crónica de su paseo por el condado de West Yorkshire, en busca de las huellas de las hermanas Brontë, aunque quien de veras le interesa es la autora de Cumbres borrascosas.
Es revelador y sugestivo que el primer texto impreso de Virginia Woolf haya sido una crónica. La crónica de un viaje a un “santuario” de la literatura. (Blas Brítez) (Translation)

Vogue looks at Alexander McQueen's Pre-Fall 2019 collection.

A washed silk duchesse dress in the collage print featured a Victorian bustle back (as a nod to the Brontës) with a tulle-pumped, exploded couture-style sleeve (back to the ballroom), while a long white waffle cotton shirtdress referenced the made-in-Manchester suffragette movement. (Luke Leitch)

Independent features '25 “travel heroes” whose expertise and energy have improved life for travellers' such as

Susan Griffith, travel guidebook author
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Happiest travel memory: “Pregnant with twins, I was already euphoric in the spring of 1989. The only way to visit Albania at that time was with an approved group. Ingeniously Simon had put together a group tour pegged to the Albania-England World Cup qualifier in Tirana, which prompted the Albanian tourism operatives to create a week-long football-themed itinerary for us. Fascinating, as the under-19s training match in Shkoder might have been, I decided to board a train heading south to Fier to access the ancient remains of the Greek city of Apollonia.
“The blue-eyed train conductor seemed untroubled at the absence of a ticket – I had tried to buy one at Durres station and been denied – and told me his name was Romeo. His sister’s name was Juliet because their father had been a lover of Shakespeare, having learned English by listening to the World Service across the Adriatic. Naturally the conversation turned to babies. He showed me a picture of his little daughter Jeyney. Jenny? No Ja-ne after Jane Eyre. At that moment, I wished for twin girls whom I would name Jane and Juliet.” (Simon Calder)