Being with Jane All The Way

Stage Whispers publishes a good review of Jane Eyre's performances in Carlton, Australia:

Here is a sensitive – and skilful – adaptation of this famous and much-loved 1847 novel. Christine Davey has selected events, but more importantly, the emotions of this story of Jane Eyre – and turned them into theatre. The novel is a first-person account of Jane’s life - from harassed and bullied orphan to romantic heroine and finally mother of her own children – and so in this adaptation, our heroine Jane (Tess Parker) herself is our narrator. (...)
There is no doubt that central element of this 19th century story works for a contemporary audience. The murmurs from the young women in the audience (some studying the book for the VCE) and comments afterwards – even quoting Jane’s dialogue - confirmed that they were with Jane all the way in her struggle to be recognised, seen, and acknowledged. Christine Davey’s achievement in both her adaptation and her direction is to make this classic novel live now. (Michael Brindley)

The New Yorker has an article on 'the many confrontations of Jean Rhys':

It was to Vaz Dias that Rhys first spoke of the project that was to resurrect her reputation: a reframing of “Jane Eyre” from the point of view of Mr. Rochester’s mad Creole wife. It would draw on Rhys’s childhood in Dominica to imagine the woman’s early life in Jamaica, her arranged marriage to the abusive Mr. Rochester, and the events that led to her confinement in his attic. Rhys worked on the book in her sixties and seventies, in precarious health and devotedly coaxed by two editors, Diana Athill and Francis Wyndham. Eventually published in 1966 as “Wide Sargasso Sea,” her fifth and final novel became a key text in feminist and post-colonial literature. (James Wood)

 The Telegraph & Argus quotes a Bradford councilor visiting a local school:

Teachers from Killinghall Primary School invited Cllr Mohammed Shafiq (Lab, Bradford Moor) to talk about politics with a group of Year Four students eager to find out about how local democracy works.
Cllr Shafiq was taken to task with a question and answer session featuring a wide range of topics from litter fines to the hardest part of his job.
“Every child puts their hands up to be Prime Minister and Bradford is the youngest city in Europe so it is great our educators are harnessing aspirations,” said Cllr Shafiq.
"Bradford greats such as Sir Titus Salt, David Hockney and the Bronte sisters feature on the school walls alongside international civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr to inspire students. (Daryl Adams)

The Pilot asks their readers and staff about the five books everyone should read: 

Faye Dasen, Book Columnist, The Pilot 

"Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen, “Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Brontë and “Little Women,” by Louisa May Alcott. There has to be a reason that we return to the old faithfuls (of literature). Any of these are worth a first read and more.

Nerd Daily interviews the writer Carol Goodman:

Elise Dumpleton: Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about!

C.G.: I think it was actually an I Can Read book because I remember reading those words alone in my room and thinking, “Yes, that’s right, I can read!”  Then I heard my parents and brothers calling my name and looking for me and I thought, “Ha, they don’t realize I’m in my room reading!”  It felt like a superpower and a delicious secret.  I can’t say I remember the book itself, though.  The first book I really remember having a big impact was Jane Eyre which I read when I was thirteen.  In between the I Can Read Book and Jane Eyre there were a lot of books about horses.

Microliberations has read Wuthering Heights and find it a singular beast:

 Wuthering Heights is a tale of extreme domestic violence, child physical abuse and mental debasement written in a beautiful prose style. (...) (James Simpkin)

Culture Custodian discusses the nefarious influence of Twitter personality Babatunde Olusola Thomas (Shola):

Shola babysits men of a different stock. Nothing makes a man feel emasculated as when he is broke. And nothing makes a broke man feel even worse about himself as when he has been rejected by a woman because he cannot afford to be in love with her. Both real life and literature is littered with such men: in the latter there’s Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights and Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby. Rejected by the women they love due to their penury, it imbued both men with the vengeful determination to become rich. (Michael Aromolaran)

Daily Express talks about the actress Poppy Lee Friar and mentions a Brontës biopic project whose status is unclear, David Anthony Thomas's The Brontës:

 In terms of her upcoming projects, according to her IMDb page, Lee Friar will be starring as Emily Brontë in the biopic The Brontës which is currently in post-production.

She will star alongside Game of Thrones actor Daniel Portman who plays Emily and Charlotte Brontë's brother Branwell. (Hayley Anderson)

Escritores.org (in Spanish) interviews the singer and songwriter Julieta Venegas:

Entre sus autores favoritos se encuentran Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Dostoievski, o Elsa Morante, a la que dedica grandes elogios por su libro Mentira y Sortilegio.

ComUM (in Portuguese) publishes a short essay on Jane Eyre: um caminho à procura de independência e liberdade. Notes On. Book Blog reviews Wuthering Heights. AnneBrontë.org posts about George Smith’s Account Of The Brontës In London.