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News release from the Parsonage: A new season of contemporary arts events at the  Brontë   Parsonage   Museum  launches in October, which ...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Katrina Naomi , the first Writer in Residence at the Parsonage, read first on Saturday evening (18 September), m...

Parsonage news release:   An important and moving letter written by Charlotte Brontë has returned to  Haworth  and will go on display for th...

News release: The first Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing will take place in  Haworth  later this month, with a headline reading by the poe...

Stephen Whitehead writes: As the Brontë Society Council Member with responsibility for heritage and conservation, I am aware of the concern...

Maddalena De Leo writes: This July 2010 I went to Penzance in South-East Cornwall looking for any information I might gather about Maria...

The Society's recently-departed President, Gyles Brandreth, is soon going to appear in Edinburgh as a stand-up comedian. Let's hope ...

On the car park in the graveyard issue... William Callaghan writes: At last a comment !!!   All I wish to do is find out if there is any in...

On the car park in the graveyard issue... Chris Went writes: It would be preferable not to have cars parked in such an area, but I take th...

News release from the Parsonage Director: The Brontë Parsonage Museum is gearing up for a busy summer of events beginning in the week commen...

To remind people of what was said in the Brontë Society five years ago on the subject of Anne Brontë's grave, here is issue 37 of the Ga...

Heidi Büchner writes: I observe that in England the graveyards are not respected or looked after as in some other European countries. Whe...

William Callaghan writes: As a member of the Brontë Society, I wish to do my utmost to convince the Brontë Society members that it is time t...

To find the Daily Telegraph article on the graveyard car park, click here. Incidentally, I did not actually say the words attributed to me....

IMS writes: Having made my pilgrimage to Anne Brontë’s grave last weekend, I was very interested to read the article on the Brontë Parsonag...

Libby Sternberg writes: To celebrate the fact that my Sloane Hall is finally available for pre-order on amazon and  bn.com , I'm run...

Blog readers' opinions are welcome on the issue of whether the graveyard at St Mary's church in Scarborough which contains the grave...

The hammer has descended, and the letter from Charlotte Brontë to William Smith Williams, dated October 18, 1848 – is now on its way from th...

Richard Wilcocks writes: The final event of the June weekend was on the morning of Tuesday 8 June in Thornton, on the edge of Bradford, wh...

Boris Skilet writes: To end activities on Saturday people assembled in the Baptist church in anticipation of hearing Elaine Showalter , ...