A role model who is also a favorite cocktail

Cosmopolitan lists feminist literary characters "that smash the patriarchy";

Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will," says Jane in Jane Eyre. Jane invented the narrative of ‘independent women’. Throughout the story, Jane makes choices that defy societal expectations. She refuses to be a submissive governess, walks away from a loveless marriage proposal, and prioritises her own well-being and happiness. She's a role model for anyone who's ever felt like they don't fit in or who dares to dream of a life beyond what society expects. (Reva Lakhmani)

The Sunday Times begins an article about the most valuable house names like this:

From Wuthering Heights to Pride and Prejudice and even TV sitcoms like To the Manor Born, novelists, historians and film-makers have for hundreds of years been seduced by the romance of manor houses. (David Byers)

The Jane Eyre production in Moline is featured in the local news. Check this clip on 6KWQC.  

The Lexington Herald-Leader talks about a local cocktail bar that plays a speakeasy pretending to be a bookstore with a secret door entrance and all:

The favorite cocktail at the bar, according to Ryan Camenisch, is the Jane Eyre, which is Earl Grey infused gin, cherry blossom syrup, blueberry purdo, lime and sparkling wine for $18. (Janet Patton)

A letter to the Irish Independent mentions Charlotte Brontë:

To underline the magnificence of the Clare coast around Kilkee, it is worth quoting the noted English writer Charlotte Brontë, who spent her honeymoon there in 1854: “Such a wild iron-bound coast — with such an ocean-view as I had not yet seen and such battling of waves with rocks as I had never imagined.”

Brontë wrote to a friend while staying in Kilkee, and apparently these lines were probably written only a couple of hundred metres from where the sewage plant is proposed to be located. It remains as stunning to this day. (Ronan Leo Tynan)

Diario de Sevilla (Spain) interviews the writer Mariana Sández:

Para la escritura de La vida en miniatura me resultó especialmente provechosa la lectura del libro Hijas escritoras, de Maggie Lane, quien traza distintos perfiles biográficos de autoras inglesas en relación con sus padres. A menudo estas relaciones comparten patrones similares, en los que los padres representan para sus hijas escritoras tanto un motivo de inspiración como de sometimiento. Esto se ve de manera clara, por ejemplo, en la biografía de las hermanas Brontë: sus padres lo apostaron todo al único hermano varón, lo mandaron a estudiar a Oxford y a Cambridge desatendiendo a sus hijas y el hermano no se dedicó más que a beber. Pues bien, este mismo padre que dejó a sus hijas de lado fue una gran inspiración para las Brontë a la hora de escribir. Lo mismo podemos decir de Beatrix Potter, por ejemplo. (Pablo Bujalance) (Translation)

Trendencias (Spain) and books that will hook you:

La épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destino, la obsesión, la pasión y la venganza. Con ella, Emily Brontë, que la publicó bajo un seudónimo masculino, rompió por completo con los cánones del decoro que la Inglaterra victoriana exigía en toda novela, tanto en el tema escogido como en la descripción de los personajes. La singularidad de su estructura narrativa y la fuerza de su lenguaje la convirtieron en una de las obras más perdurables e influyentes de la historia de la literatura. (María Yuste) (Translation)

Infobae (Argentina) reviews the latest novel by Jorge Fernández Díaz, Cora, and lists 'strong women' in literature, mentioning Catherine Earnshaw. European Writers Tour lists Heathcliffs all around. A 'happy' Charlotte Brontë quote is listed in this 'happy thoughts' list on Today.