Maddalena De Leo writes:
Fourteen years on from a memorable meeting of
the Italian Section of the Brontë Society, on 10 July in Florence, I and Professor Elisa Fierro from Lawrence, USA, met up again with Sister Julia Bolton
Holloway, a well-known medieval historian and a scholar of the English poet Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (http://www.umilta.net/vita.html).
Fourteen years on from a memorable meeting of
the Italian Section of the Brontë Society, on 10 July in Florence, I and Professor Elisa Fierro from Lawrence, USA, met up again with Sister Julia Bolton
Holloway, a well-known medieval historian and a scholar of the English poet Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (http://www.umilta.net/vita.html).
Old Suor Julia is still the custodian of the
Protestant cemetery in Piazzale
Donatello, Florence, where the imposing tomb-sarcophagus of the
famous English poetess is located. She lived and worked for most of her
adult life in Casa Guidi and dearly loved Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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| Sarcophagus of Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Sister Julia also has a remote ancestral relationship with one of the
first students of the Reverend Patrick Brontë and is the author of a fine
comparative article concerning the
two works Aurora Leigh and Jane Eyre which appeared in BS Transactions 1977.
She was very talkative and kind with me, by now
the new BS representative of the Italian Section, since she remembered me well
despite the lapse of time and also showed with pride all the new books in
mediatheca ‘Fioretta Mazzei’, enthusiastically talking of ‘Brontë 200’
preparations.
It was really a very interesting new meeting!
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