The bar is set high by Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

In a review of Sandra Newman's feminist retelling of 1984, Julia, The Telegraph mentions Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.

A formidable task, to take on a classic and remake it from a new perspective. The bar is set high by Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which in telling the story of Bertha Mason – the first Mrs Rochester, the madwoman in the attic – is both response and prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Erica Wagner)

Brainerd Dispatch reviews V.E. Schwab’s Gallant.

“Gallant” has a very gothic feel, to me reminiscent of novels like “Jane Eyre,” “Northanger Abbey” and “Rebecca” but with a little bit of the supernatural thrown in and visuals sprinkled throughout. (Theresa Bourke)

Todo Literatura (Spain) features El lado oscuro de la cultura victoriana. Jack el Destripador y otros monstruos by Antonio Ballesteros González.

Página por página, el autor nos guía a través de “El lado oscuro de la cultura Victoriana” de la mano de personajes icónicos como Frankenstein, Heathcliff (de Cumbres Borrascosas), Bertha Mason (de Jane Eyre), Jack el Destripador y Drácula. (Ana Prieto Sánchez) (Translation)

Vanity Fair (Spain) interviews writer Annie Lyons.

¿Haría alguna recomendación para Nota al pie, el Club del lectura de Vanity Fair?

Propondría, además del que he comentado Barbara Kingsolver, algún clásico para releer. Sugeriría Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë, porque es el que une a Gertie y Hedy. (Ana Salas) (Translation)

A quote from Jane Eyre for World Sight Day today on News 18: “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.” Telecinco (Spain) recommends Wuthering Heights as one of ten books for autumn evenings.