Jane Remains Relevant

Fine Books & Collections presents the upcoming book Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre, written and illustrated by cartoonist Glynnis Fawkes:

The reading public has long been fascinated with anything having to do with Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre and the source of untold spinoffs, movies, and commentary. In fact, Jane Eyre has never gone out of print and has been translated into nearly 60 languages. (...)
Fawkes’ pen-and-ink illustrations are crisp and vivid, capturing in shades of black, white, and gray the oppressive and highly patriarchal world Brontë navigated. It’s a biography that examines Brontë’s formative years and the challenges she faced. Fawkes intersperses Brontë’s own words, where possible, to better express her personality.
Fellow cartoonist Alison Bechdel provides an introduction into why Jane Eyre remains as relevant today as it did when first published under the pen name “Currer Bell” in 1847. A postscript and panel discussions explaining Fawkes’ thought process behind certain illustrated panels round out the book.  (Barbara Basbanes Richter)

The York Press describes a country walk across Penistone Hill:

Penistone Hill is only a very short (but steep!) walk from Haworth, the home of the Brontë sisters. Penistone itself is an interesting place to explore but this walk is much improved by extending it on to the wild moors that so inspired the writings of the three sisters.
Park in one of the car parks in Haworth and head towards the church and Brontë Parsonage. It is worth visiting the Parsonage before the walk to gain a feel for the tough lifestyle of the times. In turn this will bring a greater appreciation to the walk. The path heads up the south side of St Michael and All Angels Church, an impressive building where the father of the Brontë sisters was reverend for 41 years. (Jonathan Smith)

Your Story Weekender explores autumn escapades:

The Moors
 Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the story of the passionate - and thwarted - love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, made the moors famous. England’s most famous moors are Dartmoor and Exmoor, located in Devon (southwest England). Ideal vacation destinations for those who enjoy the rugged outdoors, Dartmoor (the largest open space in southern England) and Exmoor offer the chance of communing with nature in scenic yet harsh surroundings. (Teja Lele Desai)

Autumn TV in the UK in the Daily Mail:

The Novels that Shaped Our World
The classic books you really have to read
From Robinson Crusoe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Wide Sargasso Sea, the first of this three-part series examines race and empire in fiction.
The next looks at women in fiction, from Jane Austen and the Brontës to Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith, while the final show considers class in the novel, including works by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Robert Tressell. BBC2, coming soon

The Yorkshire Post interviews the illustrator Gillian Tyler:

“Me and my sisters were obsessed with making things. We made little books to share and made up stories for each other and the house was always full of paper and painting materials,” she says. “We were all quite close together in age and just very industrious and always doing something – we were a bit like the Brontës.” (Chris Bond) 

Easton Caller and some writers who have commissioned portraits of themselves:

I love Brontë novels about plain governesses, who demand the right to a rich interior life, and refuse to accept the fate laid down for them. And I think Philippa [Stockley] has captured that. Every day I walk past my portrait. This woman, who I both am, and am not, has taken up residence in my house. (Liz Hoggard)

/Film reviews the film Ready or Not:

The Le Dolmas’ secrets are almost similar to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (adapted into a feature with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles in 1943). Though there’s no secret wife in the attic, Grace comes to learn that brides and grooms are regularly killed, their bodies disposed and left to rot in an old goat pit in the family barn. And like with Gaslight, about a husband lying to his wife, there’s a fair amount of 1940’s Rebecca present. Alex, like Laurence Olivier’s Maxim de Winter, hides pieces of his history for Grace to discover with dangerous results.
Interestingly, both the woman in the dark trope and the Gothic melodrama both posit that relationships are ugly, terrifying, and ultimately failures (Suspicion, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca may end with the couples together but they will never be fully the same). Love becomes flawed and mistrust is always evident. (Kristen Lopez)

Politicsweb (South Africa) discusses asterisks to conceal strong language:

Lastly, consider these expert words on the asterisk: “The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals.”
That was Charlotte Brontë, by the way, writing in the preface of her sister Emily’s 1850 novel, Wuthering Heights. We have moved on since then. Or perhaps not. (Andrew Donaldson)

Esquire (Spain) lists terror books:

Si te gustan las historias góticas de fantasmas, te recomiendo otra compilación de 21 historias: Damas oscuras, Cuentos de fantasmas de escritoras victorianas eminentes, una gozada gótica en la que hay relatos de figuras como Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon o Rosa Mulholland. (Rosa Martí) (Translation)

SVT Nyheter (Sweden) lists zombie movies:

I walked with a zombie
– Jacques Tourneurs film från 1943 är en klassiker. Den skulle kunna toppa listan men jag vill inte framstå som en intellektuell posör. I den första vågens zombiefilmer är det inte virus eller misslyckade vetenskapliga experiment som ger upphov till zombiesmittan, utan svart magi. Och zombierna är läskiga slavar, döda människor som gör allt för sin mästare. Filmens handling är inspirerad av Charlotte Brontës Jayne Eyre (sic) och den är vansinnigt vacker. Fast här handlar det om voodoo och en likblek kvinna som vandrar likt en sömngångare till ljudet av suggestiva trummor i det karibiska månskenet. (Fredrik Strage) (Translation)

El Correo Vasco (in Spanish) publishes a story that mentions Wuthering Heights. Worcester News presents the upcoming performances of  the Blackeyed Theatre's production of Jane Eyre. Kitap tanıtan (in Turkish) posts about Jane Eyre. The Brontë Babe Blog revisits Haworth and goes to the Brontë Bell Chapel in Thornton.