Brontë Hyggelig (and the best dumb blunder of the year)

The pictures of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are in the Daily Mail:

On Monday two new images of the power couple from the shoot by Annie Liebovitz were shared. The images evoked Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. (Heidi Parker)

The Yellow Jacket covers a reading by Dr. Lori Paige, author of The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993:

The most famous examples of early gothic novels came from the Brontë Sisters who gave us classics like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. These books quickly became popular and set the tone for gothic romance books in the future. In her new book The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993,Paige references to a romance book by Anne Radcliffe, titled The Mysteries of Udolpho. Anne Radcliff’s book was one of the most popular books in England around the 18thcentury. (Ave Mullen)

The Register-Guard presents the event Harry Potter & The Sacred Text: A Night of Sacred Readings of Harry Potter with Vanessa Zoltan in Hull:

With the guidance of a professor, Zoltan started applying sacred text reading with her favorite novel, “Jane Eyre,” the 1847 classic by Charlotte Bronte, and hosted sparsely attended sacred text readings at Harvard.
“We spend about a year treating Jane Eyre as sacred and working on what it means to treat something as sacred,” [Vanessa] Zoltan said. “One of the things we realized was that a text is sacred because a community says it is.”
At the urging of her friend, [Casper] ter Kuile, Zoltan began hosting sacred readings of a text with a much larger community — fans who are drawn to “Harry Potter” by Rowling’s magical, detailed world and captivating characters.
Zoltan had previously read the series and liked the books, but was a few years older than most children who became enamored fans of the wizarding world.
“When I agreed to start treating ‘Harry Potter’ as sacred and move away from ‘Jane Eyre,’ it was really about my having faith in Casper,” she said. “That if he loved the books that much, there must be a lot to them. And there is.”
Zoltan said three things are needed to treat a text as sacred: faith, rigor and community. (Emily Goodykoontz)

Daily Times (Pakistan) and literature as a motor of social change:

Both realism and romanticism can be passive or active. Passive realism usually aims at a truthful depiction of reality without preaching anything. The novels of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë Sisters are examples. In this sense it can be called socially neutral. However, sometimes passive realism preaches fatalism, passivity, non-resistance to evil, suffering, humility, and so on. (Justice Markandey Katju)

The Courier interviews Speech Professor Marco Benassi of College DuPage:

A literary landscapes course he taught brought students to the United Kingdom and Ireland to read novels, poetry and plays in the locations where writers like Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, and James Joyce first caught the divine spark of inspiration. (Joey Weslo)

Arkansas Democratic & Gazette includes the following super literary quiz:

Whom did the literary character Isabella Linton marry?

One Good Thing and hygge:

Taking a moment to curl up with a book is very hyggelig (meaning hygge-y or hygge-like). When in doubt, you can never go wrong with classic works by authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, etc.

El Mundo (Spain) recommends the Spanish translation of Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiska and Katy Horan:

Subtitulada 30 escritoras que conjuraron la magia de la literatura, este volumen es un tributo gráfico y poético, así como una guía de iniciación, a autoras tan conocidas como Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf o Mary Shelley, pero también a otras -injustamente- no tan populares, como Eieen Chang, Anna Ajmátova, Sancra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid... (Ana Bretón) (Translation)

El Mundo (Spain) discusses the wardrobe of the Queen of Spain:

La primera sorpresa de esta semana, una llena de ídems, fue el martes con algo entre una"robe manteau" de entretiempo y un falso "wrap dress" en un tono gris de una gran severidad apabullante. Sabemos que a SM le gusta vestirse de institutriz de vez en cuando como una moderna Jane Eyre o una María von Trapp, pero el resultado esta vez, fue excesivo. (Carlos García Calvo) (Translation)

La Voz de Galicia (Spain) recommends Gothic tales like the ones included in the Spanish translation of  Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers:

De Charlotte Brontë a Willa Cather. De Vernon Lee a Elizabeth Gaskell. Veinte escritoras de la época victoriana reflejadas en sus relatos de fantasmas, en una preciosa edición que reivindica el papel de reconocidas autoras en una época en la que Inglaterra estaba fascinada por el ocultismo, los médiums y las creencias espiritistas. (Antía Díaz Leal) (Translation)

The best blunder of the year goes, no doubt, to this interview with the writer Itziar Mateo in Público (Spain):

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros ¿Qué autores te han influido más en ti a la hora de entender la literatura y qué estilos prefieres como lectora?
I.M.: Escritores que sobre todo me han hecho pensar, de joven los libros que más me influenciaron fueron Al Este del Edén de John Steinbeck, Matar un ruiseñor de Lee Harper, Cumbres Borrascosas de Jane Eyre (!!!!!!!!!!!), Flores en el ático de V. C. Andrews, La pasión Turca de Antonio Gala, La sonrisa etrusca y La vieja sirena de José Luis Sampedro y también escritores como Joel Dicker, con La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert, Dennis Lehane con Mistic (sic) River, Dolores Redondo y su trilogía del Baztán y muchos más. (Translation)

Priceless.

der Freitag (Germany) discusses a current exhibition of Balthus paintings in Basel (Switzerland):

Basel kann von den zwei Skandalbildern La Toilette de Cathy (1933) zeigen, womit der Künstler auf Emily Brontës Roman Wuthering Heights anspielt und somit verschiedene Lesarten anbietet, die das sichtbar nackte Fleisch im Erzählerischen neutralisieren. Der Künstler als Roman-Protagonist Heathcliff ringt auf seinem Stühlchen mit Eifersucht und Liebessehnsucht, während sich die Begehrte von einer alten Kupplerin die Haare kämmen lässt und sich nackt mit spitzen Brüsten als Barockherrscherin inszeniert. (Max Glauner) (Translation)

Deythere quotes Jane Eyre;  La Repubblica's Invece Concita (Italy) mentions the Brontë sisters; Die Welt (Germany) and iNews discuss Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights;

Finally, an alert from Singapore. Tonight, the Esplanade Theatre will screen the National Theatre Jane Eyre production adapted by Sally Cookson:

Jane Eyre (PG13)
Co-production with Bristol Old Vic
Devised by the Company
Based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë

Esplanade Theatre
December 7, 20:00