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Pat Berry, Chairman of The Friends of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, writes: After the success of last years St Patrick's Day Ceilidh, the...

The first ever Headingley LitFest takes place soon, beginning on Wednesday 12 March with an illustrated talk by Nicolette Jones , who is n...

Dudley Green's biography, published by The History Press , should appear in May this year, priced at £20. ISBN: 978 1 84588 625 7 This...

News release: No Coward Soul is the new and special exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum celebrating the life and work of Emily Jane B...

Sarah Laycock from the Parsonage writes: After over a hundred years build-up of dust, dirt and strands of Emily’s hair, the Brontë family p...

If you are in the UK, you might like to note that the Richard Cavanagh - Orla Brady version of Wuthering Heights is to being shown on ITV3 ...

Paul Thompson writes: Having now watched my fifth version of Wuthering Heights (the 1978 Hutchison/Adshead version), I set to wondering why...

NEWS RELEASE: Local film maker looks to regional businesses to keep Brontë movie in Yorkshire One of the largest movies ever to be filmed in...

Classical comics has been in touch with the Parsonage Blog to inform us that their new version of Wuthering Heights will be coming out in ...

WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1978: A WINNING CHALLENGE BY THE BBC Maddalena De Leo from Ascea Marina, Italy, writes: I’ve just finished watching th...

Parsonage director Alan Bentley writes: It is now twelve months since the launch of our purchase fund appeal. In that time £50,000 has been ...

From Dr Elise Ouvrard: The Brontës and the Idea of Influence In March 2007, Stevie Davies, Patricia Duncker and Michele Roberts gathered aro...

Patrick Brontë considered that his daughter Charlotte was not strong enough for marriage, and he sems to have been right at the time, before...

Brontë Society member Margi Cole wishes all Parsonage Blog readers a Happy New Year, greets everybody she met last June in Haworth, and says...

Barbara Tanke from Elma, New York writes: Since I had to move back to Western, NY last fall for my mother's failing health, I have disco...

This painting by Branwell will soon be on display in the Parsonage – a portrait of Mrs Maria Ingham of Stanbury. “We made a successful bid f...

Martin Rippingale writes: Next Friday brings a chance, I am noting, that if you can get to Haworth in Yorkshire you can watch the 1940 movie...

The will be a meeting of the Italian section on Saturday 1 December. Scaffale Inglese means English Shelf. The meeting will cover the lives ...

On Saturday 24 November 2007 at 7:30pm in Leeds Town Hall, the World Premiere of Brontë Mass by Philip Wilby , will be performed along wi...

An Evening with Wendy Cope Wendy Cope was Radio 4’s Poetry Please listeners' first choice for Poet Laureate following the death of Ted...