Read Jane Eyre aloud

The Telegraph & Argus announces some good news (so scarce these days) for Thornton:

South  Square Centre has been successful with its application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund to undertake a capital refurbishment of Grade II workers cottages as well as a three year programme of heritage activities.
A new activity programme of events, traineeships, workshops and exhibitions will be developed.
These will highlight local industrial heritage, Thornton as the birthplace of the Brontë’s and South Square’s own history as a grassroots cultural and arts centre.
Essential building repairs will include replacing the roof, introducing insulation and heating, repairing historic stone-work and 99 windows. Planning permission and listed building consent is already in place and works are due to take place later in 2020 and early 2021. (...)
A spokesman for the three Labour Councillors for Thornton and Allerton said: "We are absolutely delighted to hear the news of this successful bid and really pleased we have backed it from day one. South Square is a jewel in the crown of Bradford district and this funding will ensure it becomes more sustainable, energy efficient and warmer and accessible to more people.
"As well as important physical regeneration of the building, we are particularly excited about the learning and development opportunities the grant will provide. These include traineeships and workshops as well as projects through which the community will be able to learn more about working class heritage and Thornton as the birthplace of the Brontë’s. A special thanks to Yvonne Carmichael and the South Square board for their leadership and vision in making this a reality. We look forward to seeing the developments come to fruition." (Natasha Meek)

Books for coronaseason in The Guardian:

From tales of pandemic to reflections on isolation, here is a shelf’s worth of books to keep you going during a quarantine.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Before sexy, brooding Mr Rochester, before she ever heard anything about anyone in an attic, Jane Eyre survived an epidemic at a girls’ boarding school. And it’s this experience – witnessing the deadly greed, incompetence, and cruelty of the men who run the boarding school, and who put her and her fellow students at risk – that shapes Jane’s character and outlook. Jane Eyre is so much bigger and stranger and more compelling than the gothic love story that made it famous. If you’re lucky enough to be quarantined with someone else, read Jane Eyre aloud. (Lois Beckett)

The Sun doesn't forget the Brontë chicken incident in Coronation Street:

He even killed her beloved chicken Charlotte Bronte and forced her to eat her in a bid to destroy the little comfort she gained from her pets. (Carl Greenwood)

Yorkshire Live and places that are generally mispronounced:

Haworth
American Bronte fans may pronounce the name of this town near Bradford 'hay-worth' but they're mistaken. It's pronounced 'how-erth'. (Dave Himelfield)

The Daily Express is concerned about the state of many rural churches in England:

The graves of many famous Britons lie in village churchyards from Florence Nightingale in East Wellow, the Brontë sisters in Haworth, Yorkshire to Lord Byron in Hucknall, Notts. Then there’s adventurer TE Lawrence buried in Moreton, Dorset, poet William Wordsworth in Grasmere, Winston Churchill in Bladon, Oxfordshire.  (James Moore)

Entertainment Weekly interviews Samantha Morton, who played Jane Eyre in 1997:

Dalton Ross: I was wondering how familiar you were with the comic book. Did you go and read it and look at it yourself, or did someone just give you the update on what happened there?
Initially when I was in the very, very early stages of developing the character, I thought it was incredibly important to have a sense of her from the comics. I really needed that background, her DNA, if you like, because obviously that's what's inspiring the writers. But then, at some point, you just have to drop that, and you have to trust the writers.
It's a little bit like when years ago I did an adaptation of Jane Eyre, and I played Jane Eyre and at some point you've got to go, "Right, we're doing the screenplay now." Otherwise, your brain gets overloaded with, what is the truth of this? And ultimately we're making a TV show, so yeah, it was a bit of both.

Los Angeles Review of Books reviews The Order of Forms by Anna Kornbluh:

Lewis Carroll was also (as Charles Dodgson) the author of a book on symbolic logic, implicitly justifying a dazzling reading of Alice in Wonderland via logical formalism; Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, was contemporaneous with new insights in set theory. Dodging the humdrum causalities and relations to which historicist critics duly hew, however, allows Kornbluh to begin to sketch out her own vision of a 19th-century paradigm shift. (Victoria Baena)  

Gender discrimination in literature discussed in BirGün (Turkey):

Aynı şeyi pek çok kadın yazarın uygulamak zorunda kaldığı fazlasıyla erkek-egemen bir yazın tarihimiz var: Brontë Kardeşler (Charlotte, Emily ve Anne) romanlarını yayımlatabilmek için soyadı Bell olan üç erkek kardeş uydurmuşlardı (Currer, Ellis ve Acton). (Uğur Kutay) (Translation)

Milliyet (Turkey) reports the death of the writer and translator Nihal Yeğinobalı, who translated into Turkish some of  the Charlotte Brontë novels. Radarmedia (Romania) announces the broadcast of Jane Eyre 1996 in The Happy Channel. Literarey posts about Wuthering Heights. AnneBrontë.org posts about the Brontës, Manchester and isolation.