Emily Brontë was Emily Brontë--that's all we know

BuzzFeed takes it for granted that Emily Brontë was (or is) asexual, including her on a list of '25 Celebrities Who Are Asexual And Proud'. The article later says that,

Here are some notable people who have publicly expressed their asexuality, or who have been thought to be asexual by historians. [...]

3. Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë was known to be very reclusive and had no known romantic partnerships throughout her life. In Understanding Asexuality, author Anthony F. Bogaert detailed that Brontë may have been asexual, although the romantic content of her writings indicate she would not have been aromantic. (Devin Herenda)

So a 21st century writer claims that Emily Brontë 'may' have been asexual and that makes her 'asexual and proud' for BuzzFeed. The truth is--we simply don't know--she might have been asexual, or a lesbian or heterosexual or a reclusive Victorian young woman just as much as she may have had Asperger's or suffered from anorexia. We don't know and assessing someone's sexuality two centuries later is something that should be done respectfully if at all and not leading to claim they were whatever and proud because you simply don't know and there's nothing--nothing--in Emily Brontë's writing to support she was definitely asexual not to mention proud of it. Let's treat historical figures respectfully, please, and not make up anachronistic stories about them.

According to ScreenRant, Mr Rochester is one of '10 Movie Boyfriends With The Biggest Red Flags'.

Mr. Rochester - Jane Eyre (2011)

Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowski in Jane Eyre

Jane and Mr. Rochester may be a tale as old as Charlotte Brontë herself, but that doesn't mean their relationship was healthy. The entirety of their love story started with a lie on Rochester's part.

If lying itself is a red flag, then lying about a first wife who's locked away in the attic and prone to arson is a red banner. Jane Eyre is one of many great film adaptations of the book, but the heart of their journey is deception. Rochester takes advantage of Jane's naivety and willingly puts her life in danger. (Amanda Suarez)

While a contributor to ABC (Australia) claims that Helen Burns was Jane Eyre's cousin in an article about characters with disabilities.

Sometimes older characters had walking sticks, or someone's cousin was in a wheelchair, but when I asked my mum or librarians for help finding stories with disabled characters in them, most of what they came back with was either very tragic (think cousin Helen in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, coughing as she gently tells Jane not to worry, because soon she won't be a burden on anyone; or stoic but doomed Tiny Tim, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol) or very inspirational (Katy Carr from Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did, breaking her back and becoming a good person, in that order). (Kit Kavanagh-Ryan)

The Guardian looks back on Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 film Point Break summing it up by paraphrasing from Wuthering Heights:

 whatever their souls are made of, Johnny and Bodhi’s are the same. (Tiia Kelly)

The podcast All Things Considered features Jane Eyre in a very light way.