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IMS writes: Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of Prime Minister, the 2 nd Viscount Melbourne, took the risk when she became acquainted with Lord ...

The journey to Manchester was a little hot and dusty- but otherwise pleasant enough   - Charlotte Bronte July 1851. Isobel Stirk writes :...

Poetry today has many forms and styles, not always connected with the generation of the practitioner, though Simon Armitage is often de...

Ken Forrest       Photo by Richard Wilcocks Current chair of the Brontë Society Alexandra Lesley  sang a Lied (in English) and read se...

Emma Butcher                 Photo by Richard Wilcocks Emma Butcher , based at the University of Hull, is the co-curator of the current...

Warmth and sunshine for the annual weekend in Haworth - a chance for old friends from all over the world to meet, for connections to be re-...

Virginia Rushton, who died recently, was a well-known and very hard-working member of the Brontë Society who will be greatly missed....

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

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...

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

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

Click here for the company's blog  - see the rest of the production photos

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...