Consumed by Jane Eyre

AJC has an article on the comforting pleasure of a cup of tea.

I thought about Alice [a British kid] and her proper ways with tea when I cracked open “Jane Eyre” for the first time in high school. When 10-year-old, maltreated Jane is sent to Lowood, a charity school for orphaned girls, the benevolent superintendent, Miss Temple, takes pity on her and the sick Helen Burns by inviting the deprived girls to her room for tea. Jane recalls: “How pretty, to my eyes, did the china cups and bright teapot look, placed on the little round table near the fire! How fragrant was the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast!” Bah. The trio had to split one measly slice of toast. And, a few pages later, Helen Burns dies.Oh, but all British tea moments aren’t so pathetically sad. (Ligaya Figueras)

Elle has a teacher list the '6 Things Teaching Has Taught' her. One of them is related to Jane Eyre:

It's all about the lightbulb moments" There's nothing more satisfying than the ‘ooh’ noise students make when things click into place and they finally understand something you've been trying to teach. Those lightbulb moments can happen in lots of different ways. A few years ago, I was reading Jane Eyre with a Year 9 class, and I remember a student being in tears over the death of a character. That show of emotion was proof they'd really understood and engaged with the text." (Alison Lynch)

The Sunday Post features the book The Author Who Outsold Dickens: The Life and Work of W. H. Ainsworth and interviews its author, Stephen Carver.

Why did you write this book? A long-held desire to get Ainsworth back into British literary history. I love his work and have a bit of a hobbyhorse about unjustly neglected or forgotten 19th-Century authors. From costume drama and the heritage industry, you’d think no one was active except Austen, Dickens and Charlotte Brontë. I’m sure viewers and readers would respond to his stories if they had access. (Sally McDonald)

BookTrib interviews writer Valarie Taylor.

Biggest literary influences: While drafting my book, I finally read Jane Eyre, which totally consumed me. To know that Charlotte Brontë had to write under a pen name in order to be published in the mid 1800s and here I am publishing my book, in my name, through She Writes Press—an all-female imprint—is mind-blowing. We’ve come so far, but it’s taken way too long.

According to a piece of misogynistic advice from Book Page, you shouldn't

 condemn a man for missing the point of the novels you adore. Even if he thinks that Jane Eyre would be much improved if Rochester simply “told Jane the truth and installed his wife in a decent Swiss clinic,” what matters isn’t whether he becomes a literary analyst. What matters is all the effort he’s willing to make to try to understand you better. Because that’s love—whether he’ll admit it or not. (Elizabeth Mazer)

We say--dump him.

Daily Mail has a sponsored article on '10 of the best train journeys in the world', including

6. North Yorkshire Moors Railway
What could be more quintessentially English than a heritage railway journey exploring the best countryside that’s right here on our doorstep? The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, first opened in 1836, is one of the most popular heritage lines in the UK as it runs directly through the North York Moors National Park to offer 24 miles of astonishing rural views.
On a scenic ‘Yorkshire by Steam’ rail holiday, organised by Rail Discoveries, you’ll also get to ride the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway through beautiful Brontë country to complete your discovery of Yorkshire by rail.