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Paul Daniggelis from El Paso, Texas, sends this news clipping and message: Joan Quarm, long time Brontë Society member, 87 years of age, sti...

So who is he? According to a spokesman for Eddisons, which conducted the auction yesterday, a large property investor who comes regularly, a...

There were insufficient bids for Lot 53 today at the auction held in Leeds United's Banqueting Suite at Elland Road. Therefore 'No S...

A series of striking new paintings by artist Victoria Brookland will be exhibited shortly at the Parsonage, which has been developing a rep...

Franca Gollini Tiezzi writes: An enthusiastic group of members of the Italian section of the Brontë Society gathered at the British Council ...

Paul Daniggelis writes: Rachel Angela Daniggelis, 8 weeks old, has confided in me her desire to become an Angrian when she comes of age (4 y...

Helen MacEwan writes - Coming back to reality (and the office) after a weekend in Haworth, I think I know something of what the Brontë sibli...

Thanks, Selina, for this picture of the four members of the biographers panel on the Saturday evening. From the left we have Lyndal Gordon, ...

Selina Busch writes: For those who weren’t there, here are my recollections of the Brontë Society AGM I attended last weekend. I had be...

Ann Dinsdale from the Parsonage is looking carefully at the Christies catalogue for the auction in London on July 3. One of the items is a l...

I used to go to furniture auctions, where most of the buyers and sellers were known to the auctioneer and it was dangerous to scratch your n...

Dear Richard, I thought it would be interesting for your bloggers to read something about the Cornelia Parker talk at the National Portrait...

You can go to the special weblog set up for the Collecting Place project at www.thecollectingplace.blogspot.com to see progress reports, pi...

"The Brontës," says the Parsonage's Deputy Director Andrew McCarthy in the foreword to the handsome Brontë Society publication...

This Friday, a couple of hundred members of the Brontë Society, mainly from the UK but with delegations from overseas, will be in Haworth fo...

Over the past few years, car clampers have made quite a reputation for themselves in Haworth. I have appeared on BBC Look North in the p...

This is from a recent press release by Diane Kay: ‘Reader I married him. [..] All my confidence is bestowed on him...

Brontë Society member Ian Emberson has told this blog that there is a new CD out which includes John Joubert's song-cycle Six Poems by ...

Barbara Whitehead, owner of the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton, wants it to be known that it is to be auctioned by Eddisons on 21 June. The w...

Marshal Zeringue writes: I edit a books blog that has recently run a couple of items that may be of interest to members of The Brontë Soci...