Made from the same Stuff

The New York Observer has a very harsh review of Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre ballet:

Jane Eyre and Twyla Tharp have very little in common, except that both of them were featured in the latter weeks of the ABT season, just ended. Who do you think came off better? Not Jane. In England, the story ballets of Cathy Marston are a big deal—as if the world had been crying out for Masterpiece Theater on pointe. Let’s pray that the infection won’t spread too widely on our shores, although I’m not sure prayer will do the trick—there are too many artistic directors out there hoping to strike gold with full-evening ballets.
Poor Jane Eyre—hasn’t she suffered enough? Apparently not. Marston has reduced Charlotte Brontë’s thrilling novel to an endless shaggy-governess story that’s about nothing but getting through the complicated plot and hoping the audience can follow along. As it happens, I know the book fairly well, and yet was stumped by the frantically rushed opening scenes: I should have read the synopsis, not the novel. Marston has crammed everything in—except the passion, the febrile intensity, the romantic charge. I’m prepared to believe that’s she’s made more narrative sense out of Ghosts, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lolita (!) than she’
s made of Jane Eyre, but I’ll never believe she has serious choreographic skills. I couldn’t identify a single interesting step—or moment—in the entire mishmash. Waiter, please take this away…. (Robert Gottlieb)

A bit better is the opinion of Dancelog.nyc:

It’s nice that someone is trying to keep ballet from becoming the #whome? art form. American Ballet Theatre has been both encouraging female choreographers and fostering minority dancers into principal positions. Cathy Marston’s “Jane Eyre,” with Misty Copeland in the title role, did both. Marston’s strength was that she could tell the complicated plot clearly. But while trying to cram all that plot in, the ballet got waterlogged. It was a telling lesson about the real ingredients of a story ballet.
Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel was originally created in 2016 for Northern Ballet. Marston made the libretto with Patrick Kinmonth, who also designed the costumes and sets, a moody environment that didn’t rely on realism, created largely from minimal furniture, set pieces and moving flats painted with vivid curves. The music was assembled by Phillip Feeney, piano pieces of Fanny Mendelssohn that were orchestrated, combined with selections of her brother Felix and Franz Schubert. (...)
There are few things worse than a story ballet that doesn’t make sense, and Marston made sure tell the story clearly. Yet a similar trap awaited her as befell Christopher Wheeldon in “The Winter’s Tale.” She plowed through the plot of “Jane Eyre” so diligently and briskly it felt like a checklist. A dance adaptation of a novel can’t just spool out the story; ballet isn’t a made-for-TV movie. Smaller details need to be removed to streamline the narrative, the relationship between the main characters needs to be developed. But some of that might simply happen by the dancers doing “Jane Eyre” more. Much of the subtext comes from their discoveries in performance.
But true to the plot or not, a ballet being sold as a love story needs phenomenal duets to hold a place in repertory. Think of “Romeo and Juliet,” even of “Onegin” to see how complicated emotional situations became transposed. No matter what the characters were feeling, the glue underneath was their connection. That’s the 11 o’clock number, the money shot. Sooner or later in “Jane Eyre,” Jane and Rochester need to dance together as if they wanted to. You can’t only stage the opposite of abandon. (Leigh Witchel)

Screen Rant lists several General Hospital relationships:

Sam & Jason:
Some people are going to love this, some people are going to hate this. Just like we mentioned above, there is great discord amongst fans of the soap opera on whether Jason belongs with Liz or Sam. But facts are facts and watching the show, it becomes clear that Jason and Liz work fantastic as partners when it comes to raising their child. But when love, passion, and chemistry are involved, there's no doubt Sam is the one for Jason.
The two are made from the same stuff (kudos if you caught that Wuthering Heights reference), and they've built their on-again, off-again relationship in a basis of trust and respect that we seldom see on television. Their similarities make them stronger as a couple, and this, allied with the undying love they share, make them one of the best couples to ever be a part of General Hospital. (Mariana Fernandes)

Kirkus Reviews posts about Dear Jane by Marina DelVecchio:

Elektra Koutros was renamed Kathryn and nicknamed Kit Kat when she was adopted from Greece and sent to live with her new mother in Queens, New York. She has been looking for her true identity ever since. Her adoptive mother, Evangelia “Ann,” is a single Greek-American woman with no children of her own and a cold disposition. Her birth mother, Athanasia, was a prostitute. With the contrasting archetypes of the virgin and the whore for guardians, what Kit Kat longs for is a true mother figure. Instead, she finds Jane Eyre, the classic work of literature whose heroine becomes her confidante and role model. 

We love the column byMiqui Otero in El Periódico (in Spanish) praising the new Penguin Classics Happy Reading campaign using second-hand books:

Todas esas lenguas de colores ('post its tuttifruti') que asoman entre las páginas de 'Jane Eyre', en vivo contraste con los ambientes neblinosos que aguardan dentro. (Translation)

La Voix du Nord (France) interviews the poet Jacqueline Habert

Les vanneaux sont des personnages récurrents des œuvres publiées par Jacqueline Habert. Elle l’explique par la lecture des Hauts de Hurlevent d’Emily Brontë, qui l’a marquée étant jeune, et par ses balades nocturnes dans son village de Conteville. (Translation)

Dawn (Pakistan) mentions Wuthering Heights in an article about the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale. Canberra Times and the New Hampshire Union Leader discuss the upcoming Most Wuthering Heights Day. Glitter and Plato and Dreamer and Reader (in Spanish) review Jane Eyre.