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A review of this new novel from The Bookseller: We love this book Charlotte Brontë is among the iconic names of English literature and...

Marina Saegerman writes: The 2015 annual holiday   was spent as usual in our   beloved holiday spot:   Ireland. Of course, being an Ir...

Karol Novak writes: Perhaps a reader of this blog is able to help me. I am writing about the surrealists and Emily Brontë, concentratin...

Isobel Stirk writes: Brontë Society members and anyone with an interest in Haworth, past and present, will be saddened to hear of the de...

Maddalena De Leo writes: At the end of July I was again in inspiring Penzance after five years, this time as the Italian BS representa...

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...