A Cyborg Orphan in the Moors

Early Bird Books has a list of some must-have books for your library:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Part gothic novel, part romance, part bildungsroman, Jane Eyre caused a sensation and a controversy when it was first published in 1847 and today it is seen as an indisputable classic. Charlotte Brontë revolutionized prose with her intimate first-person narrator which contemporary critic George Henry Lewes said “reads like a page out of one’s own life.” 

As such, Brontë has since been hailed as “the first historian of the private consciousness” and a forebear of such legendary writers as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, to name a few. (Orrin Grey)

Literary Hub explores the literary side of Friends, illustrating the article with Rachel reading (well, more or less) Jane Eyre:

Friends might lean broader than its contemporaries Frasier or The Larry Sanders Show (and it doesn’t have a joke quite as good as the Cheever letters of Seinfeld), but the literary references are rather clever. Phoebe brings Rachel to a class at The New School, where they study the Brontë sisters. The first thing they discuss is, of course, the patriarchy; the last thing they discuss is Robocop. Phoebe didn’t go to high school, as she was living on the street and mugging teenage boys outside of the St. Marks comic book store, so she really wants to learn; Rachel just wants to hang.

So Phoebe tricks Rachel, who doesn’t read either book, into talking about cyborgs in Brontë’s classic. (Greg Cwik)

The Hindustan Times discusses the orphan trope in literature: 

An embodiment of self improvement, orphan protagonists are instantly sympathetic. A look at why numerous popular stories and novels are steered by those who are bereft of parents
Cinderella. Paddington Bear. Mowgli. Peter Pan. Tom Sawyer. Pip. Jane Eyre. David Copperfield. Oliver Twist. Heathcliff. Pippi Longstocking. Heidi. Anne of Green Gables. Emily of New Moon. Bertie Wooster. Lyra. Pi Patel. Frodo. Eragon. Alex Rider. Liesel Meminger. Harry Potter. (...)

Nina Auerbach, in Incarnations of the Orphan, writes that it’s an easy sentimental mistake to think of the orphan as fragile. “He seems composed of alternate layers of glass and steel, and sends out sting rays at those who try to adopt him. He first appears in the eighteen century as a slyly potent underground figure...But even the Romantic waif is brimming with a certain equivocal energy... His solitude energises him as a visionary artist, and silent schemer, his appearance of winsome fragility feeding into his power of survival,” she wrote , after a detailed analysis of Moll Flanders, Jane Eyre, Becky Sharp, Heathcliff, and Pip. (Teja Lele)

Books that break the fourth wall in Book Riot:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

I definitely did not quote a line in this book in my wedding speech. Why are you looking at me like that?

This 1847 novel tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre as she navigates the world. It’s centered around her work as a governess for the wealthy and charming Mr. Rochester but when she discovers his terrible secret, she has to make a choice. Throughout the narrative, Jane occasionally addresses the readers, including some really memorable quotations that I won’t name so I don’t spoil the book. (Elisa Shoenberger)

The Indiependant reviews the film Starve Acre:

There are many shots of the couple’s grey farmhouse in the distance, suffocated by the purple and pine earth around it. Like Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the Moors in this film are rich in mystery and dread, a natural source of creeps which Starve Acre utilises well. (Barney Nuttall)

Cosmopolitan (Spain) recommends Jane Eyre 2011 from the Amazon Prime Video catalog:

Se trata de una de las mejores adaptaciones al cine de una obra de Charlotte Brontë y con un reparto encabezado por Mia Wasikowska y Michael Fassbender. (...)

La cinta es artística y técnicamente perfecta y su fotografía atrapa el mismo modo que su banda sonora y el vestuario por el que fue nominada en los Oscar y en los BAFTA. 'Jane Eyre' se ha llevado en múltiples ocasiones a la pantalla, pero esta, junto a la de Stevenson y que estuvo protagonizada por Orson Welles y Joan Fontaine, es para nosotras la mejor. Una joya que te seducirá si disfrutaste también con 'Otra vuelta de tuerca'. (Marieta Taibo) (Translation)

Evangelisch (Germany) describes the book Von Norden rollt ein Donner by Markus Thielemann like this: 

Sturmhöhe trifft Herrmann Löns, trifft Moderne. (Translation)

According to MVS Noticias (in Spanish), Wuthering Heights is one of the five books you should read before you die. The Rowdy Readers is a Lewisburg-based book club and gets featured in Journal-News. Apparently, Jane Eyre is in the top ten of book club favourites. Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) publishes pictures of a Ucranian Jane Eyre edition.