Charlotte and Anne play football in Italy

Book Riot recommends the '30 Best Kindle Unlimited Romance Books Available Right Now', one of which is

#10. A Dead and Stormy Night (Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries #1) by Steffanie Holmes
After being fired from her fashion internship in New York City, Mina Wilde decides it’s time to reevaluate her life. She returns to the quaint English village where she grew up to take a job at the local bookshop, hoping that being surrounded by great literature will help her heal from a devastating blow.
But Mina soon discovers her life is stranger than fiction – a mysterious curse on the bookshop brings fictional characters to life in lust-worthy bodies. Mina finds herself babysitting Poe’s raven, making hot dogs for Heathcliff, and getting IT help from James Moriarty, all while trying not to fall for the three broken men who should only exist within her imagination.
When Mina’s ex-best friend shows up dead with a knife in her back, she’s the chief suspect. She’ll have to solve the murder if she wants to clear her name. Will her fictional boyfriends be able to keep her out of prison? (Namera Tanjeem)

India Currents reviews the novel The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.

The book is sprinkled with quotes and references to English literature. Lakshmi’s father was an English teacher and both his daughters, Lakshmi and Radha, have absorbed his love of books. We interact with Shakespeare, poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jane Eyre, and even Lady Chatterley’s lover. Dr. Jay Kumar quotes Dickens in one of his letters to Lakshmi, from the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities: “…it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness.” Perhaps the Anglophilia is representative of the post-Independence era in which the book is set; it was, after all, only a few decades later that Salman Rushdie would burst into the literary world and plop Indian writing in English firmly on the literary map. (Raji Pillai)

Viola Nation chooses a book to represent every team from the Italian Serie A.

Genoa: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The eldest Brontë was the first in her family to publish, and although she got panned by critics initially, hindsight has allowed us to see that maybe she was okay. Nice fit for Italy’s oldest club. [...]
Sampdoria: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. The youngest Brontë, who had her work repressed by Charlotte after her death, is now held in similar regard to her better-known sister. (The Tito)

The Guardian has selected '10 of the best novels about France – that will take you there' such as

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Set in modern-day Paris, this 2006 novel by a philosophy teacher will appeal to those in need of a dose of Gallic high culture, with an unlikely heroine in the form of supposedly dull concierge Renée. Echoing Jane Eyre’s “poor, obscure, plain and little”, Renée is “widowed, short, ugly and plump”, and as such feels she must hide her passion for philosophy and literature beneath a prickly exterior. So, while pretending to favour trash telly and junk food, she’s reading Proust and volumes of philosophy from the university library, watching arty films and cooking up refined dinners for her friend Manuela. There is a sharp eye for humour while it dissects French snobbery, the foibles of rich and poor, the purpose of art and much more, all the while wearing its intellectualism lightly. (Liz Boulter)

Star Trek discusses 'The Subtle Feminism of Janeway's Holonovel' on Star Trek: Voyager.

Much like how the Federation’s society has evolved and how the series pushed boundaries with casting its first female captain, Gothic fiction has sprouted its own subgenres: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is part of the Gothic aftermath, Shirley Jackson’s work belongs to the Southern Gothic canon, and different gothic elements can be spotted in works of several modern authors. In each iteration, the genre changes to reflect current social mores and often relies less on supernatural elements. Janeway is both a daughter and another evolution of this trope. While she may not face some of the same challenges as the heroines of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, of Charlotte Brontë, she does fill the same void and proves that just because a medium might be gendered, doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.
We never get to see how Janeway’s holonovel would have played out, but given that Janeway is an explorer I’d like to think that she’d have followed in the steps of the Gothic heroines that came before her. (Lauren Busser)

It's bluebell season and thus time to quote from an Emily Brontë poem (much like it can't be autumn if nobody quotes from her 'Fall, leaves, fall' poem). From the Romsey Advertiser, spelling her name wrong:

Bluebells have been written about by many famous poets including Emilie Brontë who said of the English bluebell:
“The bluebell is the sweetest flower,
That waves in the summer air
Its blossoms have the mightiest power
To soothe my spirits care”
Bronte was right. The deep colours and rich fragrance are as much a sign of spring as the cuckoo or swallow.

Lit Reactor discusses why 'Heathcliff From "Wuthering Heights" Isn’t A Romantic Anti-Hero, He’s A F*cking Monster'. Finally, A Brontë mention in the latest episode of Killing Eve, S03E03: Meetings Have Biscuits (written by Suzanne Heathcote) (Aired: Apr 26, 2020)

Carolyn Martins (played by Fiona Shaw):
There are plenty of people, like a certain group of monks in China and Emily Brontë, who rarely had human contact. (Source: That Shelf)