You could have heard a pin drop

Forbes talks about the power of reading good novels in school:

I've also visited a secondary school in England called Michaela, where the weakest readers stay after school for a kind of book club. The day I was there, the teacher was reading aloud from Jane Eyre while students followed along in their own copies. Even teachers who advocate for having students read whole novels emphasize that the novels should be "high interest," which generally means they should reflect students' own lives and concerns. That would seem to place Victorian novels like Jane Eyre off limits, especially at a school like Michaela, which serves students from low-income families, many of whom are of color. But in that classroom, you could have heard a pin drop. (I was moved to reread the whole novel myself.) (Natalie Wexler)

Cultured Vultures praises North and South 2004 in its fifteen anniversary:

It’s better than any Dickens adaptation (apart from The Muppet Christmas Carol, but we won’t go there). It’s better than any version of any Victor Hugo novel. It’s better than any Brontë based movie or TV show (and generally you’d have to pry Jane Eyre from my cold dead hands). (...)
Factory owner John is also not really flawed in the same way that a Brontë hero is. (...)
And it is their chemistry, and those performances, that means North and South is PEAK ROMANCE. Another thing that makes North and South a bit different to other costumes dramas – especially Austenish or Brontëish ones – is that John knows he’s in love way before Margaret does. (Nat Wassell)

That's Beijing recommends the NCAP production of Jane Eyre:

An adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic 19th-century novel, Jane Eyre tells the story of a young and shy protagonist that works as a tutor for her eventual love interest Rochester. Set in the mysterious setting of an old Victorian manor, the classic love story shows Jane transform the gloomy and overtly serious Rochester into a love-struck gentleman. For fans of classic literature, live theatre and timeless love stories, this is not an event to be missed.

The Irish Times publishes an extract from A Proper Person to be Detained by Catherine Czerkawska

There have been stories about upper-class women in Victorian Britain wrongly consigned to insane asylums, brave stories tackling domestic abuse, such as Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 

Catherine Carter continues under the spell of the Oxford Shakespeare Company's Wuthering Heights production. In the Northern Star:

 Today was another fabulous day! Hopefully you remember the play I bragged about a few weeks ago (day 7), “Wuthering Heights.” I loved it so much I went back tonight and watched it again! This time, I bought the program for the production and I was so impressed by the cast! Tyler Conti played Healthcliff, the leading male character; he was most recently featured in a Netflix series, Safe. One of the other cast members, Dominic Charman, was featured in The Imitation Game! It was so incredible to be sitting just a few feet from such fantastic actors and actresses! 

The Guardian interviews Kate Valk as she is preparing to direct Desire by Kate Acker:

The six have just three weeks to animate Desire, a mashup of dialogue, prose and stage directions, in English and French, featuring a roll call of potty-mouthed Shakespearean characters, and a walk-on for Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff. (Claire Armitstead)

Cristina Bajo in ViaPaís (Argentina) says

Dicen que el escritor no tiene el poder de cambiar a la sociedad. Sin embargo, escritores como Dickens con la constante denuncia que hizo en sus trabajos literarios y periodísticos, las novelas de Charlotte Brontë, de Mrs. Gaskell, de George Eliot sobre el sufrimiento de las clases obreras y el desamparo de sus familias, lograron abrir los ojos de muchos victorianos que comenzaron a exigir la intervención del Estado en la inspección de los organismos dedicados a contener huérfanos e indigentes, y la necesidad de detener el hambre, el ultraje, el abuso de sus escasas fuerzas. (Translation) 

As much as there is social content in Brontë's novel (particularly Shirley), to say that Charlotte Bronë wrote about working-class struggles is quite a bit too much, even for Terry Eagleton.

Today FM discusses the song It's All Coming Back to Me Now by Celine Dion.

This week Mario was joined by Lauryn Gaffney, creator of Big Shot The Musical, for the story behind 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' by Celine Dion.
She told us about the inspiration for the song coming from songwriter Jim Steinman's love for Wuthering Heights. (Orla Ormond)

This is quite funny in a way. We read in Diário do Grande ABC (Brazil):

Prefeitos denominam estádio que deu nome ao bairro Olímpico, o antigo campo no morro dos ventos uivantes.
No alto do bairro Olímpico, o estádio municipal de São Caetano não estava concluído e ventava constantemente. Os locutores, nas transmissões de jogos, deram-lhe o apelido de “o campo do morro dos ventos uivantes”, lembrando o romance da inglesa Emily Brontë, escrito em 1847. (Ademir Medici) (Translation)

Today's New York Times's Crossword Puzzle includes Anne Brontë. The Daily Mail's Fact Box publishes a Who was Charlotte Brontë? succinct biography. Ken's ebooks posts about Jane Eyre. AnneBronte.org posts the complete text of the unfinished The Story of Willie Ellin by Charlotte Brontë.