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Best wishes for the New Year to all who have contributed to, given advice for or passed comment on this blog during its firs...

The Friends of the Brontë Society is the name of a group just formed at the Parsonage, made up of staff members. It will be concerned with...

Parsonage Librarian Ann Dinsdale is on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Thursday 16 November) at 1.30pm. The following is an extract from the Open Co...

Thanks to Paul Daniggelis in El Paso, Texas for sending us (and many others) the following link for the Brontë Crater on the Moon. www.l...

Norman E Penty writes: The Discovery of Charlotte Brontë by William Smith Williams (1800-1875) Charlotte Brontë may have remained in...

Parsonage Librarian Ann Dinsdale spoke to Richard Wilcocks about her just-published book The Brontës at Haworth: ...

Some years ago now, the excellent Kate Bush put Wuthering Heights on the map for many people. A group of her fans slo...

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 ...