Polly Teale's Brontë on screen?

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The Telegraph and Argus features the new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

It reveals how some treasures were traced through previous owners and collectors, then brought back to their home by the Brontë Society. The exhibition also looks at the major sources of Brontëana, such as items concerning Charlotte’s husband Arthur Bell Nicholls, her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey, the family of servant Martha Brown, and the American collector Henry Houston Bonnell.
Ann Dinsdale, collections manager at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: “On the Brontës' deaths, everything was disposed of, with Charlotte’s widower taking a lot of manuscripts and personal items back to Ireland. Her close friend had a collection of letters and things such as clothing and books were given to the servants. Gradually, as each of the people with personal attachments to these items died off, it opened the floodgates for these things to fall into the hands private collectors.” (Mark Meneaud)

The Telegraph and Argus also reports on a possible future Brontë fillm:

The Bradford City of Film team has announced that Yorkshire film producer Nick Wild is opening a new office in Bradford for his company, 360 Degrees Media.
The office will focus on film, television and online productions in the North of England.
The first two projects are expected to start production in Bradford in 2012 and 2013.
Brontë, the feature film adaptation of the lives of the world-famous literary family based on the play by Yorkshire playwright Polly Teale, has been taken up by Pathé which will distribute the film in the UK and France and act as international sales agent throughout the rest of the world.

It will hopefully happen.

Speaking of Brontë films, this is how the Irish Times describes Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights in passing:

Kaya Scodelario Recently muddied up for Andrea Arnold’s revisionist take on Wuthering Heights.

They also say that,

Holliday Grainger [...] Recently shone in The Scouting Book for Boys and Jane Eyre. 

Fangoria mourns the death of Jonathan Frid and describes his famous Dark Shadows as follows:

The vaguely Jane Eyre-ish soap opera was admittedly different from other daytime dramas, but it wasn't particularly interesting, either. (David Elijah-Nahmod)

The Huffington Post discusses literacy:

Many of us who teach high school are currently struggling with students whose literacy skills are far below grade average. In the ten years of my career, our school's entire bookroom became defunct. Classics that were bought when the school opened in 1998 such as Jane Eyre and Heart of Darkness were now at a reading level far too high for the majority of our students. Maybe a small class of AP Literature students could trudge through such books in 12th grade, but most students needed new texts. The school tried to find high interest/low level books for the students that fit into our thematic curriculum. It is a great challenge and even a greater cost in a time of education cutbacks. (Lori Ungemah)

And black artists:

According to Viola Davis, this stifles. "The black artist cannot live in a revisionist place," she told Tavis Smiley while discussing her Academy Award nomination for The Help.
I hear echoes of Zora Neale Hurston's struggle with the "niggerati" in this sentiment, along with British writer's Virginia Woolf's assessment of the limitations of Jane Eyre's author Charlotte Brontë: "She will write in a rage where she should write wisely. She will write of herself where she should write of her characters. She is at war with her lot." Honestly, I don't want to watch a film or read a novel that is so excessively pedantic that the language does not move me, the characters aren't believable, and the plot frustratingly predictable. (Danielle Jackson)

Among the comedians featured by the Brisbane Times is

Lou Sanz, 32, prolific writer, blogger and stand-up with dry wit and attitude
''From somewhere within the dark chasm that separates Carrie Bradshaw from Emily Brontë comes a voice that deserves our attention.''
So said Helen Razer in The Age of Lou Sanz's 2010 show Please Don't Use My Flannel for That, her tale of selling a screenplay to Hollywood at age 18 and the non-glamour that followed. ''I never knew I wrote comedy,'' Sanz says. (Lenny Ann Low)

I read that once and Gdy się znudzi malowanie... (in Polish) post about Jane Eyre while The Overstuffed Bookcase reviews Eve Marie Mont's A Breath of Eyre.