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Richard Wilcocks writes: The text on the back cover of this useful little book of historic photographs seems at first sight to contradict...

Juliet Barker is well known and respected amongst Brontë Society members, a few of whom were in Headingley Library (Leeds) on Monday. She ...

Butterfly Psyche Theatre "This passionate and destructive relationship that transcends death is a true gothic success and makes f...

Richard Wilcocks writes: I am very impressed by what I have heard of a new musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Catherine McDonald ...

Jacob Wandel writes: A typical label (early 20C) Laudanum in the nineteenth century was the rough equivalent of the skunk marijuana sm...

Thanks to US member Paul Daniggelis from Texas for sending us this link to a review of the new book from Caryl Phillips,   The Lost Chil...

Caroline Lamb writes: A rehearsed reading of a work entitled The Dissolution of Percy is planned for the Kings Arms Theatre in Salford, ...

Brontë Society President Bonnie Greer is to form a new President's Advisory Group to discuss new ideas, refresh the work of the Society...

Bonnie Greer, president of the Brontë Society, responding to a comment in the Yorkshire Post from a member that she might in some way be s...

IMS writes: 1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord. Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff’s dwelling.  2014...

Here is the leaflet for this event. Brontë Society members who have not yet seen Ponden Hall will get a conducted tour. There is now a bo...

Poet Simon Zonenblick (pictured) showed a preview of his new forty-five minute video about Branwell Brontë this afternoon, in Thornton. Th...

Marina Saegerman (member of the Brussels Brontë Group) writes about her visit to Patrick Brontë's homeland: Over the years I have bee...

Maddalena De Leo, BS President Bonnie Greer, Caterina Lerro  Maddalena De Leo (Italian delegate) writes: The Brontë Society Confer...

Sally McDonald writes: Mrs Dyddgu Pritchard Owens passed away on 12 August.   Dyddgu was a truly popular and well known figure in th...

Kate Bush , a terrific singer and performer, brought a significant number of new members to the Brontë Society after the release of her 1...

Beth Potter, Friends of the  Haworth NJ  Library, writes: I'm president of the Friends of the Library in Haworth, New Jersey, US...

Milton Rosmer One of the historic films shown regularly on television is Goodbye, Mr Chips , which was on larger screens in picture hou...

Congratulations to Jolien Janzing! The Master , her novel about Charlotte Brontë's secret love, will soon become a film!   Lis...