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Mary Pridmore knew time was running out, telling the ABC her final art exhibition in mid-October would be a showcase of her life's work and its exploration of feminist themes — sadly, her death last week means she will not be there to see it.

Now in its 25th year, the Manchester Food and Drink Festival features an eclectic mix of cuisines and venues. Here we pick our favourite new city centre restaurants

In person and in her imaginative work, the artist was a fierce, mischievous presence, championing women’s lives

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre, is a set text in schools but are you familiar with the rest of the Dominica-born writer’s work? This handy guide from her biographer will help you find a way in

Chris Bush’s gripping new adaptation – the centrepiece of a Brontë festival – adds an interesting psychological twist

The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley

Labelling ‘Jane Eyre’ as a dangerous text is nothing new – and it certainly wasn’t recommended for children when it first appeared, writes Jo Waugh

“Read Jane Eyre if you dare” warned papers recently. The Daily Mail had sent a request for information to Salford University and subsequently claimed that the institution had issued “trigger warnings” on a literature module that included Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.