More than 700 British streets and houses use the Brontë family name

Bowdoin College, in Maine, announces the new classes for this semester, including this one:

Jane Eyre, Everywhere: Aviva Briefel, Professor of English and Cinema Studies
The novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, not only widely influenced Victorian literature when it was published in 1847, but continues to inspire novelists. “Part of why I called the class Jane Eyre, Everywhere is to look at how the story has exploded into many different forms,” Briefel said. In her class, students begin by reading the Brontë novel, and then move on to fiction influenced by it, including Patricia Park’s 2015 novel, Re Jane, and Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs. Briefel asks her students to think about why contemporary authors keep rewriting the story of the orphan Jane Eyre. “One of the two central issues often discussed in terms of this novel is the female experience of Jane, of her finding her voice as a women narrator, and the flip side to that,” Briefel said, alluding to female characters in the novel who are silenced.
Two course readings:
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

The Scotsman reveals some of the most popular poetry-related  addresses across the UK, based on a study carried out by Royal Mail, to mark National Poetry Day today.

According to research from the Royal Mail, novelists the Brontë sisters, who also penned poetry, have officially had the greatest influence on the nation’s verse-related street and house names. This is followed by Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.[...]
More than 700 British streets and houses directly use the Brontë family name, including Brontë Gardens in Exeter and Charlotte Brontë Drive in Droitwich. (Jane Bradley)

At the Brontë Parsonage Museum, National Poetry Day is being celebrated too.

We're marking #NationalPoetryDay with a free talk on the poetry of Emily Brontë, here at the Museum at 1.30pm. Why not share your favourite Brontë poem with us on Twitter today to mark the occasion? pic.twitter.com/trWKdfalH8

— Brontë Parsonage (@BronteParsonage) October 4, 2018

The Brooklyn Rail reviews Shelley Jackson's Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children.

That Jackson is a master of her craft should come as no news to anyone familiar with her work but what she has done in this new novel is create a premise as original as any in modern fiction and characters as memorable as any of those referenced in the novel (Jane Eyre and Ishmael among others). (Yvonne C. Garrett)

Daily O (India) reviews the film Village Rockstars.

The children lie in the water in paddy fields, thumbs on their ears to stop water from getting in. They recline atop trees, stationary and meditative as koala bears. Time seems to stand still even as the rural landscape seems to stretch on forever. Like the craggy British moors in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, this village seems to be the only place on earth, becoming an irrevocable part of the people. (Neha Sinha)

This Grazia columnist uses Wuthering Heights to express her dislike of Johnny Depp.

Sometimes I think Johnny Depp must be a ghost. Because I feel like he keeps coming back from some dark corner, back into the limelight, back to haunt us all. Like Cathy looking for Heathcliff, Depp’s alleged “tormented” soul, damaged from middle age, money loss and accusations of hitting his ex-wife, roams the media looking for peace and comfort while constantly traumatising the rest of us.
And just like Wuthering Heights is often mistaken for a great love story, instead of the fable of coercive control that it actually is, collectively, pop culture - and a lot of male journalists - still can't seem to shake Depp’s IMDb profile or how cool he looks wearing kohl eyeliner. (Marisa Bate)

La Crónica de Guadalajara (Spain) has been travelling in the UK, including Yorkshire.

Nos adentramos en el condado más grande de Inglaterra, Yorkshire, las vistas que inspiraron los clásicos de la literatura Cumbres Borrascosas y Jane Eyre. El atractivo pueblo de Haworth, donde se encuentra el Museo Brontë, permitirá conocer más detalles sobre las fascinantes vidas de Charlotte, Emily y Anne Brontë.
Eventos antes de que acabe el 2018: En noviembre, para marcar el comienzo de la temporada festiva, Haworth alberga el Fin de semana de las Gaitas, los Arcos y las Campanas y el fin de semana Scroggling the Holly Weekend, en que los niños ataviados con vestimentas victorianas, dan la bienvenida a Santa Claus. (Translation)

Congratulations are due to Fury Films and Lily Cole:

Our latest short Balls, directed by @lilycole is in Official Selection @lsff #LSFF2019 congrats all! #FilmFestival #shortfilm #femalefilmmaker #womeninfilm #emilybronte @BronteParsonage @rrunews @FoundlingMuseum pic.twitter.com/1w90bCinuy

— Fury Films (@furyfilms_ltd) October 3, 2018

The Brussels Brontë Blog shares what was happening in Brussels in August 1842. AnneBrontë.org discusses the evolution of the name Brontë.