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I see now more clearly than I have ever done before that a private governess has no existence, is not considered as a living and rational ...

Jacob Wandel writes: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz 336pp, WW Norton Keeper's collar H...

Halifax collector Seamus Molloy bought a ninetenth-century photograph for fifteen pounds on eBay recently - of three women. He is now sugge...

Maddalena De Leo writes: Fourteen years on from a memorable meeting of the Italian Section of the Brontë Society, on 10 July in Florence,...

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"It’s very easy for these kind of historic dramas to slip into easy cliché, but right from the start I was determined to get past the ...

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...

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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 ...