A Brontë is always nice in any mix

We read on Hilary Rose's column in The Times how

I can only hope that my old English teacher didn’t see Sanditon, the latest Jane Austen adaptation to hit our TV screens. The redoubtable Miss Boucher was so convinced that the only English author worth studying was Austen that no one else got a look-in, so I studied Pride and Prejudice for O level and Emma for A level. They’re both wonderful books and I loved them, but a Brontë, say, might have been nice in the mix, although at least I dodged the unutterably dreary George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

Vanity Fair carries a very funny article on Donald Trump's 'permanent vacation on reality':

Donald Trump’s permanent vacation from reality took a new turn on Monday, when he claimed that his wife, Melania Trump, had “gotten to know” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and concluded that a guy who has family members executed is a good egg. (...) So if the president has been telling her about his love letters from Kim [Jong Un]—rather than running to a torchlit corner, like an Emily Brontë character, to read them in secret and then hide them in the corset of his dress—it’s unlikely that she absorbed enough to feel like she knows the guy. (Bess Levin)

Why scholars must reclaim the right to say what’s good — and what’s not in The Chronicle Review:

If you tell me my preference for young adult fiction or reality TV shows is neither better nor worse than a preference for Emily Brontë or Ralph Ellison, you are robbing me of the opportunity to enrich my life. (Michael Clune)

Den of Geek! interviews Sara Faring on her novel The Tenth Girl:

The Tenth Girl is one part Jane Eyre, one part The Haunting of Hill House, and all parts original, with a twist that you will not see coming. It is deeply inspired by Gothic horror fiction that has come before and by debut author Sara Faring's own family history, but is something entirely new. (Kaytl Burt)

Nashville Public Radio interviews the Nashville Ballet Conductor Ming Luke:

Colleen Phelps: What is a story you wish would be turned into a ballet?
For me, I love when major classic novels/stories/folk tales are turned into ballets, such as Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, Cinderella, etc. I'm a particular fan of Cathy Marston's works where she takes classic English novels such as Jane Eyre, Ethan Frome, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, amongst others and turns them into ballets. 

Tvweb comments on the first released trailer of Dickinson:

Hailee Steinfeld stars as renowned poet Emily Dickinson, sort of. The teaser gives us a glimpse at the contemporary period piece that is much more A Knight's Tale than Jane Eyre. Steinfeld is featured as the imaginative young girl that would much rather party than vie for a husband. "I have one purpose," Emily says. "And that is to become a great writer." (Samantha Clair)

Herald Publicist reviews another series, Summer of Rockets:

 He sounds terrible on paper, does Mr Petrukhin, however the truth is I really like him. He’s simply so splendidly endearing and touching someway. He’s superbly written, and superbly carried out by Stephens who, you could bear in mind, made the very best Mr Rochester ever. (In that adaptation of Jane Eyre co-starring Ruth Wilson – ‘Jane, Jane, where are yoooouuuuuu?’) (Deborah Ross)

 Mental Floss lists some of Prince Albert's facts:

In Hyde Park in central London, they commissioned a glass and iron conservatory known as the Crystal Palace, which contained the exhibition. Six million people—more than a third of Britain's population at the time—passed through the Palace, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. (Garin Pirnia)

Tone Deaf lists covers 'we'd absolutely love to see':

Methyl Ethyl – ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Kate Bush
Methyl Etyhyl’s voice is simply addictive, and lends itself to a simply magical higher pitch. You know what else is addictive and magically high-pitched? The magnificent ‘Wuthering Heights’ by legendary Kate Bush. We’re surprised this hasn’t happened already. triple j please we beg you, we need this. (Michael Di Iorio)

Virgin Media Television interviews the author Louise Doughty:

I’m 55 and if you think of the mores I was raised by, I can remember there was still immense pressure for the kind of Heathcliff myth that men would be wildly romantic, that someone being possessive was romantic, that you should be pleased. (Hannah Stephenson)

A local obituary in the Rome News-Tribune includes an Anne Brontë quote. Reader's Digest lists some quotes about education including one by Charlotte Brontë. Cinéfilos Para Sempre (in Portuguese) reviews Wuthering Heights 1992. A Room with a Review posts about Jane Eyre.