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Last month (22 September - 24 September) The Brontës and their Background - a weekend conference - took place in the Baptist Centre in West ...

by Maddalena De Leo In June this year I made a wonderful discovery while surfing the net. I found an unusual web site written by a Dutch...

Cornelia Parker has just given ten of her Brontëan Abstracts works to the Brontë Society. “This is a very significant donation,” Andrew Mc...

Michele Carter writes: As a child, I asked my Irish father if he believed in ghosts. He said, ‘No, I don’t believe in them, but they do e...

Perhaps it has something to do with the psychics who were invited into the Parsonage by Cornelia Parker so that their voices could be record...

Parsonage shop manager Sean Killian reports that advance orders are coming in steadily for Emily's Journal by Sarah Fermi. This will be...

Earlier this year, Cornelia Parker - see Sunday's posting - made a proposal to the Greater London Authority which has since been lost in...

Pictured - Cornelia Parker with Phyllis Cheney, Friday 15 September 2006 As the evening light fades in the Parsonage garden the eyes of fift...

The new four-part Jane Eyre begins on Sunday 24 September at 9pm on BBC ONE. The production has its own page in Wikipedia, which will no do...

The Parsonage is making final preparations for the launch of Cornelia Parker’s new exhibition Brontëan Abstracts on Friday 15 September 200...

A page from the new Wuthering Heights graphic novel As part of a season of events to paint Haworth's literary sisters in a whole new lig...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Catching up on the details of the ‘other’ news after flying back to England, I see that last Wednesday’s Guardian c...

Maddalena de Leo writes: I chose to spend my holidays in August this year to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Mozart’s ...

Last Saturday's celebrations were, by any measure, a great success. The sun shined on the front lawn most of the time, and the rain fell...

Latest information from the BFI - the names of the cast members who will be on stage on 16 September in London have not been announced, so w...

Ruth Wilson as Jane and Cosima Littlewood as Adele are shown here in a break from filming at Haddon Hall in the Peak District. Photo courtes...

7 Millionth Visitor Day – Saturday 29 July Drop in art and craft activity taking place throughout day – education room or meadow 10.30am - ...

Most of what follows here is based on a press release sent out last Friday. It gives an outline of my opinions on how classic literature is ...

Parsonage Museum director Alan Bentley is seen here with retired toxicologist Derek Stringer and his wife Nancy, from Bowness-on-Windermere,...

Sample of Anne's hair The Cornelia Parker Exhibition launches the Brontë Contemporary Arts Programme. An ambitious project to establish ...