Encompassing You

The Telegraph complains about falsely sexualizing asexual historical figures. 

Raunchy period dramas are erasing asexual people by wrongly sexualising celibate historical figures, campaigners have warned.
It is claimed that films like the Emily Brontë biopic Emily and the Jane Austen romance Becoming Jane inaccurately depict real people enjoying love lives they never had nor appeared to want.

Asexual activists have complained that historical figures uninterested in sex and romance are being erased from history by having their identities altered for the sake of entertainment in racy dramas. (...)

The 2022 Emily depicts Emily Brontë in love with the curate William Weightman, despite the writer having no relationships during her lifetime, and the 2007 film Becoming Jane similarly shows Jane Austen enamoured with one Tom Lefroy, despite there being no record of the novelist pursuing any romances. (Craig Simpson)

It's so tiresome having to remind ourselves time and time again, what fiction is, that we will not do it. We wonder how much time will pass until someone accuses the film of being too heteronormative, too sacrilegious, or racist (why is it not colour-blind?)...  (and it's sad that we feel the need to add that we would love to see a lesbian/Evangelical/colour-blind/whatever take on Emily's life. The problem is not with the approach but with the internal coherence and the quality of the film,)

The New Daily and The Curb (both Australian) talk about the new film releases:

Starring Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Death on the Nile), Emily tells the imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, a rebel and a misfit.

As Brontë finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights, Emily looks at the relationships that inspired her to become a writer, including her sisters Charlotte and Anne, her first lover and her care for her brother Branwell.

In a recent Vogue interview, Mackey said she watched lots of films about the Brontës. But instead of sticking to the biographical history of the middle sister, Mackey says she let go of the idea of Emily as a biopic. (Louise Talbot)

Emily left me stunned and moved like precious few films have done recently. Precisely made with O’Connor’s keen vision for how she wanted to tell this story being immaculately and tenderly presented on screen. Mackey’s performance sweeps you up in her wake, just as Nanu Segal’s cinematography embraces her presence and the world around her. Equally so, the era is presented in a manner that feels appropriate, with shots of dust hanging in the harsh cold of the English winter air accentuating the stillness of life, all the while it’s contrasted by the openness of the fields near the Brontë’s homestead. Emily sways between genres effortlessly, shifting from drama, to romance, with an element of horror added to amplify the ‘weirdness’ of Emily by way of an instantly iconic scene featuring a mask. Let this film encompass you completely on the big screen. ( Andrew F Peirce)

Same thing in Brazil:

  O mundo quer que ela seja quieta e obediente, mas Emily Brontë tem uma imaginação forte e uma voz que anseia por ser ouvida. Enquanto se recusa a fazer o que esperam dela, Emily vive um amor doloroso e proibido com Weightman e mostra que pode até ser estranha e rebelde, mas é também genial. A história da mente por trás de “O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”, um dos maiores clássicos da literatura mundial. (Jaqueline Sousa in  Legião dos Heróis) (Translation)

The previous TV dramas created by Sally Wainwright are summarised in The Telegraph & Argus:

TV hit Happy Valley has returned, with the third and final series of the dark drama. Scenes were filmed in Thornton last year, continuing a tradition of Sally Wainwright dramas shot in the Bradford district.

Here we look at some of them - from At Home with the Braithwaites and Sparkhouse, inspired by Wuthering Heights, to Last Tango in Halifax, Brontë film To Walk Invisible and Gentleman Jack. (Emma Clayton)

The Independent reviews the latest season of Happy Valley: 

There are very few TV shows that truly stamp themselves on the cultural psyche. Usually, they’re big, genre-defining American shows. The Sopranos, say, or The Simpsons. But no programme has had a greater influence, in recent years, than Sally Wainwright’s blistering Brontë-country barnstormer, Happy Valley. From Mare of Easttown to Fargo, the fingerprints of Happy Valley are all over prestige TV, like my thumb marks in the Christmas Wensleydale. Now, after a seven-year break (in which nothing good has happened to the world, and I blame its absence), the show is finally back on BBC One, where it belongs. (Nick Hilton)

The Daily Mail discusses the auction of Alan Jones collections:

 Alan Jones is selling hundreds of treasured personal items with everything from his much-loved Bentley, furniture and sporting memorabilia to artwork, RM Williams boots, encyclopaedias and champagne bottles up for grabs. (...)

For book lovers, a set of four leatherbound books featuring the poetry of Charlotte Brontë is valued between $60-$80 while a set of Australian encyclopaedias which include collectors' item editions could fetch up as much as $200. (Kylie Stevens)

This is the lot, but there is not much information about it. 

Extra (Ireland) imagines what 2023 will bring us:

 Kate Bush enjoys another surprise revival in popularity amongst the younger generation, when her song Wuthering Heights is featured under a fashion segment on RTÉ's Today Show. (Fiona Looney)

Several newspapers discuss the Amazon Books-commissioned list of best-loved British authors. Charlotte (9) and Emily (10) are in the top ten. 

Milenio (México) recommends Jane Eyre 2011:

Después de ser abandonada por su tía en una institución de caridad, Jane Eyre crece y se convierte en institutriz. Termina sirviendo en Thornfield House, una gran y antigua casa que pertenece al acomodado Edward Rochester un hombre de personalidad áspera que muestra interés en ella.  (Translation)

Brontë quotes in the media today: The Daily Sentinel, Yorkshire Bylines. Papier und Spiele posts about Jane Eyre.