To Boldly Go Where Other Siblings Fear to Tread

The Yorkshire Post interviews Jane Sellars, author and ex-director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Has Yorkshire influenced your work?
Yorkshire has had a huge influence on my work as an art curator and writer. In my time as director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, I wrote about the Brontës’ own drawings and paintings and when I came to Harrogate I set out to show as many Yorkshire artists as I could, both historic and contemporary, which inspired the exhibition and book Art and Yorkshire: From Turner to Hockney.

The Wall Street Journal reviews the upcoming The Vanished Bride (Brontë Sisters Mystery #1) by Bella Ellis:

Jane Austen stars as a crime solver in a popular series of detective novels by Stephanie Barron. Now the Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—receive a similar creative makeover in Bella Ellis’s “The Vanished Bride” (Berkley, 293 pages, $26).
It’s 1845. The Brontë siblings (including brother Branwell) are living with their widowed parson father, as the sisters search for the creative outlets that will bring them eventual fame. Branwell, already launched on his descent into dissolution, arrives one afternoon with news of “a most violent murder” in a neighboring town, in a gloomy old house where an acquaintance of the girls works as a servant. At least it seems like a murder: The second wife of a well-to-do man has disappeared, her bedroom soaked in blood. Inspired by a newspaper article describing some new “specially trained and educated” London policemen “using their wit and intellect to search out the guilty,” the sisters resolve to investigate this mystery themselves. They will be “three invisible lady detectors seeking out the truth,” in Anne’s words.
Each of the trio has particular qualities suited for the endeavor. Anne’s empathy and intuition help her imagine events and relationships. Charlotte’s sympathetic manner makes her a great interrogator. Emily’s adventurous streak spurs her to go where other siblings fear to tread. (“I don’t mind danger,” Emily says. “It’s polite conversation I can’t abide.”) Ms. Ellis—writing under a pen name—hews to the biographical facts in fashioning this swift story, while her plot (Gothic touches included) seems suitably Brontë-esque. “The Vanished Bride” is a delight. (Tom Nolan)

The Washington Post reviews the novel The Dutch House by Ann Patchett:

We watch in horror and fascination as Andrea supplants the absent Elna, and Norma moves into Maeve’s room with its curtained window seat — a perfect detail straight from another orphan tale, “Jane Eyre.” (Allegra Goodman)

In The Times, William Leith talks about hypochondria:

Lots of famous people have been hypochondriacs. In his book Tormented Hope, Brian Dillon, himself a sufferer, names Andy Warhol, Marcel Proust, Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell, Florence Nightingale, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Darwin.

The perception of hypochondria has changed quite a bit since the eighteenth century:

 Charlotte Brontë was diagnosed with hypochondria, although her suffering now might be treated more as a psychological break down. (Georgia Lockwood in The Royal Society's History Blog)

Refinery29 reviews the TV series Succession:

Kendall Roy exists in the same tradition of “damaged white man who just needs the love of a good woman” that’s brought us everyone from Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre to Logan Echolls in Veronica Mars. (Leah Carroll)

AV Club talks about the new series Nancy Drew:

The original books rarely traveled much past general thievery, so this Nancy Drew kicks up the crime a notch, starting off with a mysterious murder in Horseshoe Bay (apparently River Heights didn’t have enough Wuthering Heights-worthy cliffs), possibly connected to the town’s own spooky ghost legend, the unimaginatively named Dead Lucy. (Gwen Ihnat)

British biographies in La Razón (Spain):

Elizabeth Gaskell, cuya biografía de Charlotte Brontë es una obra mayor de la literatura del siglo xix, se escribía con Charlotte y visitó a la novelista en Haworth. Si su libro omite muchos hechos —sobre todo la pasión no correspondida y claramente erótica de Brontë por su profesor en Bruselas, Constantin Heger— tiene la ventaja de la proximidad temporal. Nos habla en la voz de su propio tiempo. (Antonio Saborit) (Translation)

Diario de Mallorca (Spain) talks about a recent talk by the writer Annie Ernaux:

Del pasado, de donde se nutre su literatura, también distinguida con otros importantes premios como el Marguerite Duras o el François Mauriac, recordó las lecturas que le dejaron huella, primero Don Quijote, Jane Eyre y los cuentos de Grimm y de Andersen, y progresivamente, las de Stendhal, Camus, Sartre, Kafka y Dostoievski, hasta descubrir que "la literatura ocupaba el primer lugar, como valor superior a todo, incluso como modo de vida". (Gabi Rodas) (Translation)

An upcoming alert on Reggio Sera (Italy):

Che cosa hanno in comune Moana Pozzi, Caterina da Siena, le sorelle Brontë e Zaha Hadid? Grace Jones e Shirley Temple? Che cos’è e come si combatte la sindrome di Ginger Rogers?
Potremo scoprirlo domenica 22 settembre alle 16.30 al Centro internazionale Malaguzzi (non più ai Chiostri di San Pietro per previsto maltempo) durante il colloquio-intervista organizzato dal Comune di Reggio, che Francesca Codeluppi e Sandra Campanini avranno con Michela Murgia e Chiara Tagliaferri, autrici di “Morgana”, il volume appena uscito per Mondadori che propone una carrellata di donne protagoniste dell’emancipazione femminile e che riporta come sottotitolo “Storie di ragazze che tua madre non approverebbe”. All’evento a ingresso gratuito, parteciperà anche l’assessore alla Partecipazione e innovazione Valeria Montanari. (Translation)

Lubimyczytać (Poland) and Lowood School in Jane Eyre:

Chcąc się pozbyć kłopotu, krewna oddaje dziewczynkę do Zakładu Lowood, który jest szkołą dobroczynności publicznej i zakładem wychowawczym sierot. Za pobyt uczennicy w tej placówce uiszczało się piętnaście funtów rocznie opłaty, resztę dopłacali ludzie bogaci i ustosunkowani. Szkoła liczyła osiemdziesiąt uczennic, które ubrane były w jednakowe brązowe suknie z białym kołnierzykiem. Spały w długiej, wspólnej sypialni. Bohaterka książki dzieliła łóżko z nauczycielką młodszych klas panną Miller. (Read more) (Róża Bzowa) (Translation)

Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil) presents Viagem em Volta de Uma Ervilha by Sofia Nestrovski:

Citando nominalmente ou indiretamente autores de prestigiosa reputação, como Carlos Drummond de Andrade Emily Brontë e T.S. Elliot, Nestrovski, que vem de uma família artística, conheceu mais a si mesma, revisitando seu passado não tão distante. (Matheus Lopes Quirino) (Translation)

The Charleston Gazette-Mail quotes from Emily Brontë's The Blue Bell in an article about 'introducing blue to your garden'. Vulture highlights Patti Smith's Instagram ('the safest place on the internet) and mentions her post on Emily Brontë's birthday. Masdearte.com (in Spanish) compares Géricault's Portrait of Luisa Vernet with Wuthering Heights. 4 Star Films and Classic Movies Digest review Wuthering Heights 1939 and Jane Eyre 1944 respectively. Diana Marin posts about Wuthering Heights 2011 and the uncanny connection with nature.