"Heathcliff must have been terrific in bed"

Well, we knew that was going to happen. The Pirates-of-Penzance Brontë crossover finally gets its natural place: the tabloid. The Daily Mail cannot help itself and titles:

Revealed: Brontë sisters' grandfather 'had links to murderous Cornish smugglers and his dirty money allowed Emily, Anne and Charlotte to publish their classic novels' (Terri-Ann Williams)

Oh, dear.

The Washington Post lists books for reading at every age:

Age 16
“Jane Eyre”
by Charlotte Brontë
Nobody understands you and your terribly unfair life. Reader, you are not alone.

 In The Guardian, the best prequels (before The Hunger Games):

Adult fiction prequels abound too, from the likes of Porto Bello Gold by Arthur D Howden Smith (a competent tale of how Captain Flint and Murray gained and buried their loot, written 50 years after Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, though whether as a cynical attempt to cash in or as an early piece of fan fiction it is hard to tell) to books such as Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, the story of Mr Rochester’s “mad” wife and likely to endure as long as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre itself. (Lucy Mangan)

From The Times' Judith Krantz obituary:

Her own reading tastes included Margaret Drabble and Doris Lessing. She also loved the early 20th century, especially Proust and Colette, although lamented a lack of sex scenes in their predecessors. “I wish Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters had been able to do it — wouldn’t it have been wonderful?” she said. “We’d have known what Heathcliff was like in bed. All we know is that he must have been terrific.”

Isabella Linton probably disagrees.

The Telegraph wonders why adventure novels have been 'left on the shelf':

Although in the past, women and girls have read them avidly, and far more readily than men have tended to tackle Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë, perhaps they are now out of tune with a literary culture that has become more feminised and emotionally literate. (Jake Kerridge)

GoldDerby lists the best William Wyler films. Wuthering Heights 1939 is number 4:

Literary purists were appalled by this adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, which only depicts 16 of its 34 chapters, slashing an entire crop of characters from the narrative. Yet Wyler perfectly captures the book’s gloomy, tragic mood, thanks in large part to Gregg Toland’s atmospheric black-and-white cinematography (which won the Oscar). Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon perfectly embody Heathcliff and Cathy, the doomed couple at the story’s center. The film does an expert job recreating Victorian England (with Thousand Oaks, CA, standing in for those windy hills), while the operatic performances make our hearts swoon. “Wuthering Heights” earned seven additional Academy Award bids, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Olivier.

The Arizona Daily Star interviews the paediatrician and  parenting educator Marilyn Heins:

When I was 10 or so, a neighbor saw me carrying a pile of library books home and asked me what I liked to read. I was deep in the Brontë sisters at that time. She went in her house and came out with a biography of the Brontës. After I read it, we discussed them and their books.

Caravan Magazine (India) talks about Dom Moraes's neglected nonfiction:

Darwen, he remembers, is “slap in the middle of William Blake's dark, satanic mills,” and a few miles away, “the ghost of Heathcliff still ululates over the moors around Haworth, where Emily Brontë and her sisters and drunken Branwell once, twitchingly, lived. (Abhrajyoti Chakraborty)

The Richmond Star Tribune is travelling across Yorkshire:

After an easy descent, we made our way into Arncliffe (from the Norse for Eagle’s Cliff), a tiny village straight out of Emily Brontë. Though it consists of little more than a modest green, a church and a clutch of fieldstone houses, it is home to a well-known 18th-century pub, the Falcon. At tiny tables around a coal fire, we refueled with a Ploughman’s Lunch and cauliflower soup while the barman and his aunt debated Brexit. (David Hage)

Well and Good mentions Wuthering Heights... well, not really:

I thought I had heard about twin flames in the upper echelons of classic literature—like maybe in a quote from Wuthering Heights. But like many of my shamey moments, I realized I was actually thinking of a Taylor Swift lyric; this time it was “twin fire signs” in “State of Grace” from her Red album. (Mary Grace Garis)

The Jewish Journal and author attribution:

Authorship attribution is helpful if you suspect fraud: for instance, if you believe that Shakespeare wasn’t educated enough to write the plays, or that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was really written by her brother, Branwell. (Sarah Allison)

La Voz de Almería (Spain) mentions Jane Eyre:

Echó un par de ojeadas a la biblioteca de su dispositivo electrónico, y como no encontrara nada a primera vista que le llamara la atención para satisfacer sus iniciales deseos literarios, hurgó en su maleta y descubrió a Jane Eyre. Aunque hacía algunos años que durante su periodo almeriense había deleitado su insaciable afición lectora con la obra maestra de Charlotte Brontë, comenzó a recordar algunos capítulos y la curiosidad le llevó a engancharse, de nuevo, con el destino, el amor y las intrigas de la joven Eyre. Mi amiga Dorita disfrutó a lo grande con la relectura de esta obra maestra de la literatura victoriana, pero no solo por la intensa trama argumental, que la llevó, en ocasiones, a identificar numerosas situaciones con la vida real, sino porque, sin pretensión expresa, había recuperado el olor y la exclusiva textura del papel de aquel viejo ejemplar que llevaba consigo como si de un amuleto se tratara. (José Luis Masegosa) (Translation)

Entre un Jardín de Libros (in Spanish) reviews Villette. AnneBrontë.org publishes an account of Charlotte Brontë's wedding.