'Jane Eyre is actually a bit of a rat, although noble and very proud'

 An appreciation of Paula Rego in The Guardian:

Her studio was filled with outlandish creatures – a lifesize horse, a stuffed pelican, a battered toy monkey. And there were clothes on racks: a Victorian frock-coat, a tomato-coloured waistcoat, a taffeta dress. It was like being backstage – she was director, designer, wardrobe mistress all in one. I was thrilled by her imagination and by everything she had to say. She was about to exhibit her formidable paintings based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. I remember telling her how I marvelled at the way she had released Jane from the straitjacket of being an English governess and translated her into a Mediterranean figure in whom desire is grimly undisguised. Her Jane, I reflected out loud, was no mouse. At this, Rego, who had until this point been talking in a generous, modest, cooperatively responsive way, exploded: “I don’t believe in the existence of little mice! Every mouse has intestines and teeth and they are terrifying, those little mice. Jane Eyre is actually a bit of a rat, although noble and very proud.” (Kate Kellaway)

The Nerd Daily looks forward to some of July to December 2022 book releases including this one in July:

What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri

What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri’s masterful new take on Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and fourth book in the Remixed Classics, will leave readers breathless. (Elise Dumpleton)

There's a short biography of Elizabeth Gaskell on History Extra. AnneBrontë.org highlights five treasures from the Defying Expectations exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.