'Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?'

The Irish Times reviews Mitski's show at 3Arena, Dublin.

Stepping behind the shrouded fabric, the Japanese-American pop star’s silhouette grows and grows. Soon she towers over the venue like the outline of a kindly giant.

It’s a remarkable opening. She has, from a standing start, pulled the crowd into a spooky pop neverland – somewhere between the Red Room from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Bob Fosse’s Cabaret and the bit in Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights video where the dry ice machine loses the run of itself. (Ed Power)

Pelham Today mentions Melodie Edwards's first novel, a retelling of Jane Eyre published last year.

Edwards set her first book, Jane and Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre, on Bay Street in Toronto, a familiar landscape due to Edward’s other job as a corporate communications writer. (Sharon Burns)

Technabob has a pretty dreadful article on '15 Popular Books That Are Largely Disliked' and one of them is Jane Eyre:

2. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

The dislike for this book is driven by how one perceives Jane. On the one hand, she represents independence and strength. On the other hand, she can appear whiny and subservient to Rochester, her love interest. The contrast between her boldness and submission can make her seem inconsistent. (Saad Muzaffar)

The concept of human, fallible characters is starting to seem like a flaw and we should be worried about that. More and more, readers want flat, black and write characters that act like robots (and Jane made it plain that she was not an automaton) and follow a straight path to a satisfactory ending where either their virtue is rewarded or their sins are punished. It's really rather scary and certainly reminiscent of Victorian morality tales.

AnneBrontë.org has a graphologist analyse Charlotte's handwriting.