'It’s epic, it’s romantic, it’s bleak'

Several sites continue mourning the death of Paula Rego and mentioning her Jane Eyre-inspired artwork. From The Washington Post:

Many of her works were inspired by literature or nursery rhymes, repurposing literary or folk characters like the Three Blind Mice, Jane Eyre and Snow White. (Harrison Smith)

From Sapo (Portugal):

A Câmara de Lisboa sublinha também os traços da identidade portuguesa de Paula Rego, nomeadamente “o imaginário, os contos populares e recordações de infância vividas em território nacional, que marcam de forma evidente a sua obra, mas também da literatura britânica, como Jane Eyre, romance da escritora britânica Charlotte Brontë publicado em 1847”. (Translation)

While Il Giornale Dell'Arte (Italy) publishes again an old interview with the artist.

Una parte importante di questa nuova mostra s’ispira a Jane Eyre. Che cosa l’ha portata a questa storia?

È la storia più bella di tutti i tempi! Mi sono avvicinata a Jane Eyre grazie al meraviglioso libro Il grande mare dei sargassi (1966) di Jean Rhys. Se nel libro di Rhys la donna è sempre vittima, Jane Eyre s’impone per la sua intraprendenza e si prende cura di sé stessa molto bene. Gli altri la trattano così male, davvero, malissimo. (Louisa Buck) (Translation)

Vogue features playwright Lynn Nottage and the five books that changed her life. One of them is

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I can only describe Wuthering Heights as perhaps the first book that I surrendered to. It’s epic, it’s romantic, it’s bleak. It’s transporting in ways that made me really, really love literature and understand that I could, through the practice of reading, go to places that were beyond my own world. It made me want to travel—not just physically, but through the actual written word. It’s the tale of an outsider that really spoke to my emotions as a young reader. Heathcliff is described in the book as being sort of dark-skinned and unwanted, and he has to figure out, How do I negotiate this space in which I want love, and I want to be seen?, and one in which he’s constantly being told he’s not of value. There was something that really spoke to me in that character when I was young. (Cassandra Pintro)