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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters

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Sally Wainwright Keep your eyes open for the BBC's new Brontë-based television drama by BAFTA Award-winning  Sally Wainwright, well...
Saturday, 9 May 2015

Glasstown, Angria and War

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Coming to listen to Emma Butcher from the University of Hull (pictured) on the first day of the June weekend? She's on at 3pm Frida...

'What your favorite Brontë sister says about you'

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Here's an interesting blog piece written by Deborah Lutz , sent by American member Paul Danigellis (US Region 3), which seems to assum...
Friday, 8 May 2015

Bad Boy Branwell

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Click here if you want to stay at  Ponden Hall - a 'real-life Wuthering Heights'.

The Dissolution of Percy

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Click here for the company's blog  - see the rest of the production photos
Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Haworth History Tour

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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...
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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Juliet Barker at Headingley Library

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

Wuthering Heights at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall

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Butterfly Psyche Theatre "This passionate and destructive relationship that transcends death is a true gothic success and makes f...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

Wuthering Heights... a new musical?

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Richard Wilcocks writes: I am very impressed by what I have heard of a new musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Catherine McDonald ...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Laudanum

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Jacob Wandel writes: A typical label (early 20C) Laudanum in the nineteenth century was the rough equivalent of the skunk marijuana sm...
Monday, 9 March 2015

The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips

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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...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

'The Dissolution of Percy' - in Salford

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Caroline Lamb writes: A rehearsed reading of a work entitled The Dissolution of Percy is planned for the Kings Arms Theatre in Salford, ...
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Monday, 1 December 2014

President's Advisory Group

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Brontë Society President Bonnie Greer is to form a new President's Advisory Group to discuss new ideas, refresh the work of the Society...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2014

"I don't do snooty" - Bonnie Greer

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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...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

I have just returned from a visit to Ponden Hall

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IMS writes: 1801- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord. Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff’s dwelling.  2014...
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Monday, 6 October 2014

Tea with Mrs Brontë

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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...
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

Branwell at Luddendenfoot

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Poet Simon Zonenblick (pictured) showed a preview of his new forty-five minute video about Branwell Brontë this afternoon, in Thornton. Th...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

The Rathfriland area breathes Brontë

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Marina Saegerman (member of the Brussels Brontë Group) writes about her visit to Patrick Brontë's homeland: Over the years I have bee...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Brontë Society Conference 2014

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Maddalena De Leo, BS President Bonnie Greer, Caterina Lerro  Maddalena De Leo (Italian delegate) writes: The Brontë Society Confer...
Thursday, 28 August 2014

Dyddgu Pritchard Owens

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