Here are your Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters related links for the week:

note: Since we’ve been gone for two months, this week’s link roundup is massive but nowhere near complete. Next weekend will bring the smaller, and more manageable and timely, link list.

• Neil Gaiman Is Starting A Book Yoga Challenge For His Followers, And Your Other Fave Authors Are Joining – The Bustle
• Jane Austen News – Issue 78 – Jane Austen Centre
• Jane Austen News – Issue 77 – Jane Austen Centre
• Jane Austen News – Issue 76 – Jane Austen Centre
• Jane Austen News – Issue 75 – Jane Austen Centre
• The Retreat Of Western Liberalism And How Charlotte Bronte Came To Write “Jane Eyre” – WAMU 88.5
• Portrait of Charlotte Brontë to return to Parsonage Museum in Haworth following auction – Keighley News
• Piecing together the lost letters of Charlotte Brontë – The Yorkshire Post
• Landseer ‘Brontë sisters’ painting auctioned for £40,000 – BBC News
• Earliest known painting of Brontë sisters bought for ‘a couple of hundred’ sells for £50k – The Telegraph
• Brontë birthplace for sale – Keighley News
• Brontë Society hawkish about Emily’s Year in Haworth – Keighley News
• Disturbing 19th-century sensibilities – Church Times
• Portrait of Brontë Sisters Sold for £50,000 – Keighley Online
• Portrait of Haworth novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë sells for £50,000 – Telegraph and Argus
• Where Charlotte and Jane Meet – The New York Times
• Recalling the small, plain woman with the upper hand – The Washington Times
• Rereading Wuthering Heights: A Tribute to Emily Brontë – The Wire
• Branwell: The Other Brontë – JSTOR Daily
• Quite right: Jane Austen wrote of love but thought of £10 notes – The Times
• Austenland Revisited– The Daily Star
• Irony in Jane Austen bank note – Chicago Now
• A Jane Austen after 200 years – The Guardian (Nigeria)
• Tory politician Andrea Leadsom calls Jane Austen one of our “greatest living authors” – NewStatesmen
• A writer, real and imagined – The Hindu
• Austen: Neither Modern Progressive nor Zombie – Wall Street Journal
• Pak’s Austen society fights prejudice with a lot of pride – The Times of India
• 5 Jane Austen works to read in honor of the 200th anniversary of her death – PBS Newshour
• Let’s Talk About Jane Austen (a single page listing of all the articles The Atlantic published on the anniversary of Austen’s death) – The Atlantic
• Jane Austen died 200 years ago. Her classic novels live on, as do books celebrating her – Fresno Bee
• 200 Years After Her Death, Why Are People Still So Obsessed With Jane Austen? – People
• On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen – The Atlantic
• Jane Austen’s 12 Most Delightful Insults – A Love So True
• Which Jane Austen Character Are You, Based on Your Zodiac Sign? – The Mary Sue
• Jane Austen anniversary event a success – The Advocate-Messenger
• NYU Professor Presents Multi-Media Jane Austen Retrospective – The Patch
• Jane Austen, a truth universally acknowledged – RTN Online
• No, Jane Austen Is Not Your Bestie – The New York Times
• Future Austen Adaptations – The New Yorker
• Austen Updated – The Institute of Religion and Public Life
• Kickstarter Alert—’Polite Society: The Jane Austen Board Game’– Geek Dad
• (Read in trailer voice) Jane Austen meets Downton Abbey in a true story with an Aussie twist that reminds us escaping your roots might just bring you home – ABC News Australia
• Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied – The New York Times
• Was Jane Eyre Written as a Secret Love Letter? – Lit Hub
• It’s time to bring Branwell, the dark Brontë, into the light  – The Guardian
• #teambrandwell – Twitter
• Jane Austen News – Issue 73 – Jane Austen Centre
• A Jane Austen Festival Is Coming to Bath, England – Conde Nast Traveler
• Regency week kicks off in fine style – Alton Herald
• Atwood, Ishiguro and McEwan come clean about Jane Austen – The Guardian
• Here are 5 things you might not know about Jane Austen – Charlotte Observer
• Britain’s New £10 Note Will Feature Jane Austen – Town and Country
• Major Jane Austen Exhibition Opens – Fine Books Magazine
• You can now live like a Jane Austen heroine as Pride and Prejudice home goes on the market – Bath Chronicle
• The best radio this week: Jane Austen and the art of improvisation – The Guardian
• Branwell Brontë and bicycle in Haworth wins Tour de Yorkshire prize – BBC News
• PICTURES: Excitement as TV property shows visit Brontë museum in Haworth – The Telegraph and Argus
• Brontë Society’s £930,000 windfall to increase work across the world – Keighley News
• Excitement as TV property shows visit Brontë museum in Haworth – Keighley News
• Brontë Parsonage Museum is shortlisted for an award in prestigious Yorkshire-wide competition – Keighley News
• Hever Castle’s In Bloom week celebrates literature from Brontë and Austen to Harry Potter – Kent Online
• Bicentenary of the birth of Brontë sisters brother Branwell will be held in a Calderdale pub – The Examiner
• Jane Austen News – Issue 74 – Jane Austen Centre
• Reading group: which Jane Austen book should we read to mark her bicentenary? – The Guardian
• The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures – The New York Times
• Jane Austen Letter Reveals the Author’s Guilty Pleasure — Yes, It’s a Kind of Book – Electric Literature
• Writing was Jane Austen’s first and true love  – The Independent