Cockpit on Fire

Hello! Magazine shares the most valuable treasures discovered on Antiques Roadshow:

Charlotte Brontë's ring

Found in a box that was hidden in an attic for many years, this unremarkable looking ring shocked everyone when it was revealed that it once belonged to none other than Jane Eyre author Charlotte Brontë. Instead of the £25 that the guest who brought it in thought it was worth, it was actually valued at £20,000.

What's more, it was also discovered that the ring held a lock of the famous author's hair, making the find even more valuable. (Eve Crosbie)

The Washington Post reviews Truly, Madly. Viven Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway:

In January 1941, at the height of the European war, a pair of British newlyweds, eager to return home, were on a plane weaving a dangerous route from Lisbon to Bristol. About halfway through, the husband later recalled, “a fat little uniformed man came bustling out of the pilot’s compartment, leaving the door open in his hurry, rewarding us with the sight of the cockpit on fire.” Somehow or other, the plane righted itself, but, had it perished in the manner of so many other wartime flights, how would we remember Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier? Probably as a pair of star-crossed Hollywood lovers, achingly gorgeous, forever etched by their star turnemis, respectively, in “Gone with the Wind” and “Wuthering Heights.”

Fox Interviewer interviews the author Dr. Monika Bharti:

Her favorite books are Harry Potter, classics by Jane Austen, Brontë sisters and stories by Ruskin Bond.

CBR discusses Bridgerton's reimagined England:

England has been restructured in fiction more than a few times. In Jane Eyre and other Brontë sisters novels, an entirely unique universe of British countryside was used. In Harry Potter, a secret part of England existed outside of Muggles' perception. The England in Bridgerton is different not because of some magical history or newly created part of the country, however, but because it completely revises the history of England. (Ben Bishop)

The Sydney Morning Herald and pseudonyms:

This stigma was the primary cause of the pseudonymous choice of epithets by women writers including Jane Austen (“A Lady”), George Eliot whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, and the three Brontë sisters who published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as “we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice”. (Kate Forsyth)

Mais Ribatejo (Portugal) seems to include Jane Eyre among mystery and crime novels:

Curiosamente, ao pensar neste tipo de obras, ocorrem-me de imediato duas, que me impressionaram profundamente e tenho como valiosas para a minha apreensão da essência deste subgénero: “Jane Eyre” (1847) de Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855) e “Rebecca” de Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), datado de 1938.

Em ambas, encontramos a situação à volta da qual giram este tipo de obras: “…se eu soubesse!”.

Comecemos por uma das melhores obras, a romântica, saída da abençoada “fábrica intelectual” da reitoria de Haworth: Branwell, Anne, Emily e Charlotte Brontë.

“Jane Eyre” da autoria de Charlotte, constitui o melhor que escreveu, a par de “Wuthering Heights”, que aparece às vezes traduzido em português O Monte dos Vendavais. (Carlos Macedo) (Translation)

AnneBrontë.org posts about Emily Brontë And Her Poems On Death.