Unnerving and Wrong

In a few days, Charlotte Brontë's newly unearthed little book will be auctioned and Antique Trader is excited with good reason:

Tiny Charlotte Brontë Book Could Fetch Hefty $1.25 Million

The miniature book made when the author was a teen, and contains what may be her last unknown poems, goes on sale this month at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. (...)

Fans and collectors have long desired these miniature books. The last one of more than two dozen written that have remained in private collections and had been thought lost will be revealed on April 21, the opening night of the 62nd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, also the day of Brontë’s birthday. The asking price is $1.25 million. 

The volume was last seen at auction in 1916 in New York, where it sold for $520 before disappearing, its whereabouts unknown. It will be on view for the first time in more than a century at the booth of New York book dealer James Cummins Bookseller at the book fair. Cummins is selling the book with Maggs Bros. of London, one of the longest-established antiquarian booksellers in the world.

The Reviews Hub publishes a review of the Jane Eyre performances in Scarborough:

 How do you adapt a novel like Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre? One way is to focus on one part – probably the Rochester episodes – and leave the rest out? Or you can adopt a contemporary approach and re-focus our view of the characters? Or, simply, cover the whole plot and let the audience out at 11pm? Or – best of all – you take the Chris Bush and Zoe Waterman approach and deal wittily with the entire book, but concentrate on the most telling scenes, linking the whole thing up with song and dance. (Chris Bush)

Bad news for the performances of Wuthering Heights in Norwich. The Eastern Daily Press informs:

All performances of the theatre adaption of the Emily Bronte novel have been affected by the outbreak which has left a high number of cast and crew members unable to perform. (Casey-Cooper Fiske)

Dysfunctional heroines in Literary Hub:

Open a book by any Brontë and you’ve got what was seen, at the time, as horrendously unnerving and wrong. The mother who dared leave her alcoholic husband, the woman who wanted to run wild with her unstable soulmate, the governess who knew herself so well that she refused to be diminished to a dependent mistress. Not classed as dysfunctional now, but bold. Yet, at the time, they were deemed morally questionable for a whole host of reasons. In another 200 years’ time, today’s “dysfunctional” will also be seen as what it is; ancient repression fed by fury, rightly finding its way out as choices are being made, and voices being heard, on the page and in worlds where women are tired of their autonomy being seen as disobedience. (Dawn Winter)

The press release of the novel October by David Broder contains this description:

October is Wuthering Heights meets Catcher in the Rye; a dark tragedy written in a contemporary Victorian Gothic style. (Pop Hero Media)

Women's Web looks into how capitalism and patriarchy have been built on the exploitation of women:

Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre, which teaches women to reaffirm their rights even when they are not from higher social hierarchies, is a good example of how to reclaim our rights and voice.
She reinforces the ideals of the French Revolution, namely, Liberty and Equality, and reminds every other woman to not put them at stake whatever the condition may be. (Vanshika Sharma)

The Stage interviews the novelist and playwright Kate Mosse:  

Matthew Hemley: Who or what was your biggest influence? 

K.M.: My ‘what’ is landscape, as landscape is fundamental and that comes from falling in love with Wuthering Heights aged 16. In terms of people, my family. 

 Movieweb has a list of movies with more remakes than any other:

Jane Eyre

Beloved English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë wrote the renowned classic novel Jane Eyre, which centers on the eponymous heroine and depicts her growth to adulthood and blossoming love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding and mysterious master of Thornfield Hall. The literary masterpiece has long since been adapted on both the big and small screens, with at least 70 versions of the novel being released in various forms in the media such as television, film, radio, and theater.

The 1910 silent short drama Jane Eyre was the first American and first English-language installment, and was the second or third worldwide movie adaptation overall. Since then, the Brontë staple has had many successful remakes, most notably the 1943 Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles version, the 2006 Ruth Wilson-led BBC television adaptation, and recently with 2011’s Mia Wasikowska starring in a rendition of the enduring romantic tale with a great Michael Fassbender movie performance. (Rachel Johnson)

Irpinia News (Italy) informs of a recent action in Avellino (Italy) denouncing violence against women with an unexpected Brontë connection:

L’altra è stata dipinta di rosso. Contro ogni
forma di violenza sulle donne. “Non sono un uccello e non c’è rete che possa intrappolarmi; sono una creatura umana libera, con una libera volontà”, è invece la frase di Charlotte Brontë, scrittrice britannica dell’età vittoriana, la maggiore delle tre sorelle Brontë, nota soprattutto per il suo romanzo Jane Eyre. (Alfredo Picariello) (Translation)

Stay Nerd (Italy) traces a succinct history of Dark Academia:

Volendo stilare una lista di titoli letterari che possono cadere sotto il segno della Dark Academia, importante è cominciare con chi questo genere lo ha inconsapevolmente creato: Dracula di Bram Stoker, Frankenstine (sic) di Mary Shalley, Cime tempestose di Emily Brontë, Il ritratto di Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde, Abbiamo sempre vissuto nel castello di Shirley Jackson sono, tra i tanti, i romanzi che hanno costruito le fondamenta di questo processo creativo, di questo substrato culturale che oggi ci appare ridondante in tantissimi titoli televisivi e letterari. (Martina Borgioni) (Translation)

Clara (Spain) includes Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights among the 55 novels that you should read at least once in your lifetime.