Everybody knows who Jane Eyre is

The Times reviews the British Library’s Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition (3 stars out of 5):

Our heroes are Gilgamesh and Gandalf, our heroines Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess. Beowulf clashes swords with Game of Thrones. Anansi, spider trickster of African and Caribbean folklore, weaves his web opposite a clip from Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke. We go from Gormenghast to Twin Peaks, Magic: The Gathering to The Mysteries of Udolpho, Warhammer to Into the Woods. It’s all interesting — and there’s something for every superfan — but there’s no clear trail of breadcrumbs to follow. [...]

There is much to delight: Alan Garner’s eldritch owl service (it’s real!), Brontë’s tales of Glass Town written in her millimetre-high hand, Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast manuscript with its illustrations drawn in blood and shadows, an edition of The Hobbit illustrated by Tove “Moomins” Jansson. (Laura Freeman)

Los Angeles Times features writer Tananarive Due and where she drew her inspiration from:

A major turning point proved to be Due’s 1992 interview, as a reporter at the Miami Herald, with Anne Rice. Rice had been accused by critics of wasting her talent writing about vampires, but the bestselling author had the perfect comeback. “Rice said, ‘Everybody knows who Jane Eyre is … and everybody knows who Frankenstein’s monster is. These are great, powerful, heroic images that allow you to go outside of yourself to really talk about questions that change you.’” Rice went on to describe the impact of Homer on his listeners, transported by his epic tales of Achilles and Troy. “It was not just escape, but it was an escape that improves you. You go back feeling different. That’s what literature should do.”

Nine months later, inspired by the notion that horror fiction could speak to life’s greatest challenges, Due finished “The Between,” a novel about a man whose belief that his near-death experiences have put him in a state of limbo almost destroys his marriage. (Paula L. Woods)

Camden New Journal has an article on what writer/actor Christine Fox is up to.

Her writing continues unabated, with a play about author Charlotte Brontë now completed.

Christine researched the novelist at the British Library, where she examined four letters, preserved under glass, Charlotte wrote to a professor she fell in love with in Brussels.

The play explores Charlotte’s unrequited love for the teacher, and her struggles to be published as a writer in early Victorian England. It centres on her masterpiece novel, Villette. (Maggie Gruner)

Early Bird Books has 'An Essential Guide to Alice Hoffman’s Books in Order' and one of them is

Here on Earth (1997)

An Oprah's Book Club pick and one of Hoffman’s best-loved novels, Here on Earth draws its inspiration from Emily Brontë’s classic love story, Wuthering Heights. Yorkshire's windy moors have been replaced by contemporary Massachusetts, where March, a single woman, returns after many years away. There, she gets a second chance at love with her old sweetheart—though she'll soon find that resurrecting old ghosts can have unpleasant consequences. (Isabel Montero, Stephen Lovely and Kaytie Norman)

First Things has an article by John Byron Kuhner, owner of Bookmark Books in Steubenville, Ohio.

Now the books are my companions on drizzly October days—the books and the ghosts who haunt them. The titles call out to me as I pass—spine-tingling spines. One can hardly imagine how these little packages of dried-out wood pulp could enchant us so. I see my customers go home with The Count of Monte Cristo and Sherlock Holmes and Jane Eyre; they cross the glaciers with Frankenstein’s monster and stand at the crossroads with the woman in white. They come to the Lonely Mountain with the hobbit and talk of poetry and revolution with the man who was Thursday. 

The Film Magazine has an article on The Wicker Man and claims that,

Similar to “Wuthering Heights”, in which Heathcliff desecrates the grave of Cathy to kiss her corpse, The Wicker Man combines horror with eroticism, humanity with the Earth. The Wicker Man was ahead of its time back in 1973 and is still pushing the envelope fifty years on. (Katie Doyle)

Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights is one of the '5 Songs About Literary Characters' selected by American Songwriter.

4. “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush (1978)

British artist Kate Bush made the charts at 19 on the strength of this debut single based on Emily Brontë’s 1847 book of the same name. The track went to No. 1 in Britain, making her the first female to have a self-written No. 1 there. (The label wanted a more rocking first single, but Bush refused.)

“Wuthering Heights” was inspired by a BBC adaptation of the book. Despite Bush learning that she and Brontë shared a birthday, she never actually finished the novel she’d borrowed from her brother. But she spent enough time with the tome to use several lines from it. 

Bush threw herself into the recording of the single, according to engineer Jon Kelly. “She was imitating this witch, the mad lady from the Yorkshire Moors, and she was very theatrical about it,” he recalled. “She threw her heart and soul into everything she did, [such] that it was difficult to ever fault her or say, ‘You could do better.'” (Chris Parker)

Pickx (Belgium) recommends streaming Emily. Elle (Germany) mentions Jane Eyre in an article on happy endings.