2023-11-30 06:43
The Yorkshire Post has an article on Top Withens.Top Withens, near Haworth, is popular with literary tourists, although its links to the 1847 book have been the subject of scholarly dispute… Read More
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2023-11-30 00:14
From a scholarly publication in Uzbekistan:Expression of Women's Moral Conviction in Novels of Charlotte Brontë in Victorian Ageby Isamova Dilfuza RakhmatovnaWorld of Science, &hell…Read More
2023-11-29 06:40
The Brussels Times has a very interesting article on 'The Napoleon relic that Charlotte Brontë picked up in Brussels' by Helen MacEwan.Charlotte Brontë took back to England not jus… Read More
2023-11-28 23:30
An alert for today, November 29 in Keighley. We read in Keighley News:Sarah Laycock – curator in charge of collections at the Brontë Parsonage Museum – is guest speake… Read More
2023-11-28 06:26
Museums Associations highlights some of the good things about Bradford.But the opportunities are almost impossible to miss – a rich architectural landscape; the Unesco World Heritage S… Read More
2023-11-27 23:30
A new paper published in the latest issue of The Gaskell Journal:Comparing Temporalities in The Life of Charlotte Brontë and Ancient Melodies: Conflicted Self-Image in British and Chine… Read More
2023-11-27 06:40
BBC Radio shares a press release about its Christmas programmes. On BBC Radio 3:Words & Music: Seasons GreetingsMonday 25 December, 5pm – 6.15pm In this festive edition of Wor… Read More
2023-11-26 23:30
A few days ago we discovered some illustrations in an article about the most recent Italian translation of Wuthering Heights by Monica Pereschi published in Cinematografo:Un classico &e&hell…Read More
2023-11-26 10:04
Irish Independent reviews Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers:The story, with a title from Emily Brontë’s poem Remembrance, begins onboard a ship sailing from London to Ostend w… Read More
2023-11-26 08:41
A new queer Jane Eyre revisitation:The Manor House Governessby C.A. CastleBlack & White PublishingISBN: 9781785304989Published: 9 November 2023A contemporary, queer homage to Jane… Read More
2023-11-25 13:07
Keighley News reports how the Brontë Parsonage Museum is supporting Museum Shop Sunday:Visitors will be able to pick up a bargain at the Brontë Parsonage Museum tomorrow (November… Read More
2023-11-25 00:59
A very unconventional way to look to Emily Brontë's opus. And unconventional doesn't always mean interesting, sometimes could be plain silly. Emily Brontë: Der spirituel Gedic… Read More
2023-11-24 06:18
The Comic Regime discusses 'Women in Literature: portraits of strength and resilience'.Similarly, in Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” the eponymous character defies soc… Read More
2023-11-23 23:30
Three Emily Brontë poems have been translated into Portuguese, for the first time: Imagination, I See Around Me Tombstones Grey, and Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee:&nbs&hell…Read More
2023-11-23 06:26
More on Emerald Fennell, her film Saltburn and her Brontë references in Time:Is there a similar tension playing out in the scene where Oliver humps Felix’s grave? Is that abo… Read More
2023-11-22 23:30
A couple of new Brontë-related scholarly papers or thesisThe Contribution of Charlotte Beontë to English LiteratureQulliyeva, M. (2023). Modern Science and Research, 2(10), 615&nda&hell…Read More
2023-11-22 06:21
The Telegraph and Argus reports that,Hotel operators have shown “significant interest” in opening in Bradford, a councillor has claimed. [...]“The wider District has huge p… Read More
2023-11-21 23:30
An alert for today, November 22 in Manchester:Writing the Brontës - Karen Powell and Bella Ellis in conversationWed, 22 Nov 2023 18:30 - 20:30 GMTBlackwell's Bookshop146 Oxford Road Man… Read More
2023-11-21 06:58
The New Yorker quotes from a letter writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote while in college.In college, at Syracuse, Oates sometimes referred to herself as a character called “the writer.&rdqu&hell…Read More
2023-11-21 05:57
Several newspapers and websites about figure skating report the performance of the Canadian duo Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, who won the Cup of China competition with a routine to the musi… Read More
2023-11-20 06:25
La Vanguardia (Spain) features Guillaume Musso, bestselling writer in France.Hijo de bibliotecaria, recuerda que su flechazo literario cuando tenía 11 años fue Cumbres borrasco… Read More
2023-11-19 23:30
A new bilingual (Spanish and English) edition of Emily Brontë's poetry has been published in Spain:PoemasEmily Brontë. Introduction by Cristina CourtAverso PoesíaISBN: 978-8… Read More
2023-11-19 10:17
More interviews with Emerald Fennell, promoting her new film Saltburn, keep mentioning Wuthering Heights one way or another. In Buzzfeed:Ada Enechi: I have to ask about THAT graveyard scene… Read More
2023-11-18 10:30
Reuters reports the death of author A.S. Byatt.Byatt, whose career spanned nearly 60 years, was best known for her 1990 novel "Possession: A Romance". She was the sister of the novelist Marg… Read More
2023-11-17 23:30
Plenty of Brontë references and inspiration in this 9+ book:Glassborn Peter Bunzl Usborne PublishingISBN:9781801313681November 2023Fairy Tree tall and grand, open a path to Fa… Read More
2023-11-17 06:58
ITV News has an article on the selling off of Mary Taylor's Red House.The authority opted to sell Red House when plans to turn it into a wedding venue and holiday accommodation in 2021 colla… Read More
2023-11-17 00:26
These days in Baltimore, MD:You're in the Moors Nowby Jaclyn BackhausAn Evergreen Players productionMcManus TheatreNov. 16 at 7 p.m., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 18 at 2 p.m… Read More
2023-11-16 07:00
Well, it's happened: Kirklees Council’s cabinet members have approved selling Red House. From Dewsbury Reporter:Kirklees Council’s cabinet members have approved selling Red… Read More
2023-11-15 23:30
An alert for today, November 16, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:The Brontës and FriendsThursday 16 November 2023A Thursday Talk at the Brontë Parsonage MuseumNovember 16th 202… Read More
2023-11-15 06:22
The Yorkshire Post reports that today's Kirklees Council cabinet meeting will consider the possibility of selling the Red House.Kirklees Council is looking to get rid of four more key b… Read More
2023-11-14 23:30
In the past years, we have been reporting about the Prismatic Jane Eyre project exploring Jane Eyre translations. Now a collective work has been published and it can be downloaded for free.P… Read More
2023-11-14 06:58
Grand Valley Lanthorn recommends 'books for this winter season':Winter. Name a better season to stay inside by the fire and cuddle up with a good book… you can’t, I know. Now, f… Read More
2023-11-13 23:30
Wuthering Heights gets a new translation into Galician:Cumes TorboentosEmily BrontéTranslated, Introduction and Notes by L. C. CarballalEdicións LaioventoISBN: 978-84-8487… Read More
2023-11-13 06:38
Miami Herald has an article on the Miami Book Fair and recalls Anne Rice's words in an article ahead of the 1992 Miami Book Fair.When reflecting on the importance of the book fair, [Tananari… Read More
2023-11-12 23:30
A new Wuthering Heights sequel has been published:This Thing of Darkness. Heathcliff's Lost Yearsby Nicola EdwardsAderyn PressISBN: 978-1916398689Blown into an inn on the edge of… Read More
2023-11-12 10:32
The Scarborough edition of the Monopoly board game is presented on Teesside Live:A popular seaside destination has become the latest town to feature on the Monopoly board.Anne Brontë's… Read More
2023-11-12 00:06
We report the latest issue of The Brontë Society Gazette (Issue 91. October 2023. ISSN 1344-5940).ARTICLESWelcome by Sharon Wright, Director.Letter from the Vice Chair. Helen Melle… Read More
2023-11-11 11:01
Good news regarding the Brontë Birthplace in The Guardian:Campaigners have saved the birthplace of the Brontë sisters and are now fundraising to turn the building into a cultural a… Read More
2023-11-11 00:44
We wonder what this olfactory exhibition will look like and what could be Wuthering Heights's scent:Fragrant Words: The Art of Scent in English LiteratureCreated by HUMOS Head Perfumer, E. G… Read More
2023-11-10 07:20
The New York Times asks bookish questions to author Annie Ernaux.What kind of reader were you as a child? Which childhood books and authors stick with you most?I was an insatiable reader: bo… Read More
2023-11-09 23:30
A new Jane Eyre retelling full of hashtags, reels, influencers, some ghosting, maybe some viral "reader, I..." and quite a b it followers:Jane Eyre on Social Mediaby Sarah Dayby Claire McGow… Read More
2023-11-09 07:14
Huddersfield Hub picks up the story about Kirklees Council now wanting to get rid of Mary Taylor's Red House.Cash-strapped Kirklees Council wants to offload four more major buildings in… Read More
2023-11-08 23:34
A new scholar publication:"Wuthering Heights" - Emily Brontë Effective Narrators of the Tragic EventsSuzana Ibraimi MemetiFILOLOGJIA - International Journal of Human Sciences, Iss… Read More
2023-11-08 07:16
The Red House saga continues and it's looking ever grimmer and grimmer. From Dewsbury Reporter:Plans to turn Gomersal’s Red House into a short-term holiday destination and intimate wed… Read More
2023-11-07 23:30
A new biographical account for, but not exclusively for, YA audiences has just been published:The Brontës of Haworth MoorHow the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revo… Read More
2023-11-07 06:39
The Yorkshire Post features the new exhibition on Anne Brontë at the Maritime Heritage Centre in Scarborough.Now a new exhibition at the town's Maritime Heritage Centre explores her las… Read More
2023-11-06 23:31
A new Brontë-related paper just published in Croatia:Heathcliff – A “Hellish Villain” or a Victim of Trauma?Radović, LaraSveučilište u Zadru, 20… Read More
2023-11-06 06:25
Varsity mentions the Brontës several times in a review of the film Hoard.Upon its release in 1848, critics condemned Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as depraved, vulgar and… Read More
2023-11-05 23:30
An upcoming auction (November 16) in Philadelphia with several Brontë rare editions:Freeman's Auctions. The exhibition will be on view at our 1600 West Girard Avenue location on No… Read More
2023-11-05 09:40
The Telegraph & Argus shows a painting by a local artist which is a tribute to Bradford:An artist has paid tribute to his home city by drawing from Bradford’s famous faces, places… Read More
2023-11-05 01:36
A new French de luxe edition of Jane Eyre:Jane Eyre - Ou les mémoires d'une institutriceCharlotte BrontëTranslated by Madame Lesbazeilles SouvestreLarousseISBN: 978-2-03-60… Read More
2023-11-04 07:59
A couple of the Brontës' works as psychological thrillers in The Guardian:Although sometimes perceived as a new publishing trend, psychological thrillers have always been popular, said… Read More
2023-11-04 00:41
The National Student Reading Project (Un Libro Tante Scuole), now in its fourth edition, is set to engage students across Italy in the timeless work of Emily Brontë. This year's chosen… Read More
2023-11-03 06:38
Fine Books and Collections features the book Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith.There's something special about owning an original handwritten manuscript, but if… Read More
2023-11-02 23:30
A new scholarly Brontë-related publication:The Madness of Women as an Illusional Power in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of SaltLuma Balaa, Leba… Read More
2023-11-02 06:27
Fine Books and Collections features the campaign to Save the Brontë Birthplace.Funds are still needed to install a kitchen for the planned café, the bedrooms where the siste… Read More
2023-11-01 10:00
Smithsonian Magazine features an early story by Charlotte Brontë: 'A Strange Occurrence at the Parsonage', the manuscript of which is kept at at Harvard University’s Houghton… Read More
2023-11-01 00:26
An online alert for today, November 1. A joint event by the Brontë Parsonage Museum, the Elizabeth Gaskell House, and The Portico.Online Event: Shirley – Charlotte Brontë and… Read More
2023-10-31 06:44
The Yorkshire Post features the plans to save the Brontë birthplace in Thornton.The property went up for sale after the current owner, surveyor Mark de Luca, who bought it in 2013, deci… Read More
2023-10-30 23:27
A recent Swedish student thesis:Disrupting Dominant Discourses:: Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get OutNuman, Nimrod, Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Scienc… Read More
2023-10-30 06:33
The Daily Princetonian features the exhibition In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison at the Princeton University Library’s Milberg Gallery.There’s an in… Read More
2023-10-29 23:30
Frances O'Connor's Emily is now available on DVD in Italy:EmilyBIM DistribuzioneOctober 25, 2023Cosa si nasconde dietro la creazione di un capolavoro? Emily racconta l’appassionante vi… Read More
2023-10-29 10:19
An interview with the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies in The Sunday Times ends with the following intriguing comment:Are there any novels he hasn’t adapted yet that he would li… Read More
2023-10-29 01:54
A new course at the Princeton Adult School begins tomorrow, October 30:Four on Jane Eyre 4 Session(s)Mon 7:30 - 8:30 pm, October 30 - November 20Over four classes we will di… Read More
2023-10-28 08:05
Financial Times finds the implications of a new Tinder features quite age-old.Swiping right for love would have baffled Mr Rochester but the brooding anti-hero might have found one new datin… Read More
2023-10-28 06:30
More Brontë-related events for the week:Jane Eyre, The Invisible Bisexual: Bisexual Erasure in Historical LiteratureRoland,PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas: Vol. 4: No… Read More
2023-10-27 05:40
The Times reviews the British Library’s Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition (3 stars out of 5):Our heroes are Gilgamesh and Gandalf, our heroines Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bro… Read More
2023-10-26 22:47
A new Brontë-related thesis. From Croatia:Education in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora LeighSenka KonjevićZagreb: Sveučili&scaro&hell…Read More
2023-10-26 05:47
Wuthering Heights is one of '5 books to add to your TBR list this fall' according to Deseret News.‘Wuthering Heights’Author: Emily Brontë.Publication date: 1847.“Wuthe… Read More
2023-10-25 22:30
A new production of Wuthering Heights opens tomorrow, October 27, in Nicosia, Cyprus:Ανεμοδαρμενα Υψη (Wutheri… Read More
2023-10-25 05:27
The Guardian reviews The Penguin Book of Elegy by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan.From Charlotte Brontë grieving Emily to Ted Hughes lamenting a lamb, this exceptional anthology of… Read More
2023-10-24 22:33
Recent Swedish Brontë research:Jane Eyre i svensk översättningCecilia Wadsö-LecarosSvenskt översättarlexikon, 2023This article (in Swedish) outlines and discuss… Read More
2023-10-24 05:52
Vulture reviews Renae Simone Jarrett’s play Daphne.That veil of vagueness is drawn across Daphne as a whole. The setting is contemporary and the clothes, by Oana Botez, are slouchily h… Read More
2023-10-23 22:30
An alert in Haworth, for tomorrow, October 25:Ann Dinsdale 'At Home with the Brontës' October 25, 7pmWave of Nostalgia, 74 Main St Haworth BD22 8DPAnn Dinsdale, Principal Cur… Read More
2023-10-23 05:24
Keighley News reports that the Brontë Parsonage Museum is going to be illuminated purple for a good cause.Two landmark buildings in Haworth are changing colour this week.The Bronte Pars… Read More
2023-10-22 22:30
An exhibition in Piraeus, Greece with a very Brontë touch:"I want to be the hero of my story"Artemis Potamianou ( Άρτεμις Πο&tau&hell…Read More
2023-10-22 09:42
The Times has picked 'The best historical fiction books of 2023' and one of the books listed isFifteen Wild Decembers by Karen PowellEuropa Editions £14.99Karen Powell’s debut no… Read More
2023-10-22 00:07
Jen Silverman's The Moors is being performed in Knoxville, TN:The Lab Theatre presentsThe Moorsby Jen SilvermanDirected by Casey SamsClarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee18 O… Read More
2023-10-21 09:10
Crime Reads explores the connection between crime fiction and poetry.Of course, there are other works with poets as sleuths. Jane Austen, a poet as well as a novelist, serves as the heroine… Read More
2023-10-20 23:12
The Japan Brontë Society is all set to host its 38th Annual Conference. Scheduled for today, October 21, 2023, this conference will take place at the Rissho University Shinagawa Campus… Read More
2023-10-20 06:01
Le Parisien (France) has an article on the moving funeral of Dominique Bernard, the teacher killed by a former pupil.Lilou, 16 ans, qui a eu « le privilège » de l&rsq&hell…Read More
2023-10-19 22:30
We don't know if the name of this housewares shop has anything to do with the Brontës, but anyway, it's quite bizarre:JANE EYREFor over years, we have been bringing housewares hom… Read More
2023-10-19 05:38
Wuthering Heights is one of several 'Halloween Reads You Can Snuggle Up with on Oct. 31' according to The Teen Mag.Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.This is an all-time classic that probably… Read More
2023-10-18 22:30
As we reported earlier, the poem Zaffar Kunial has a poem with plenty of Brontë echoes:ScarboroughLike Mum, whose middle name was wrongly spelledon her death certificate as &lsquo&hell…Read More
2023-10-18 06:09
What'sOnStage announces the National Theatre programme for 2024, which will include a Brontë-related play.Underdog: The Other Other Brontë by Sarah Gordon, directed by Natalie Ibu… Read More
2023-10-17 23:28
A new Croatian undergraduate thesis:Euphemisms in Emily Brontë's “Wuthering Heights” and Colleen Hoover's “It Ends With Us”Josipa Matić, Sanja Škifi… Read More
2023-10-17 05:50
The BBC also reports on the campaign being carried out in order to save the Brontë birthplace in Thornton.The birthplace of the famous Brontë sisters has gone up for sale, with cam… Read More
2023-10-17 05:13
A new children's picture book with an irresistible name is released today:The Little Books of the Little Brontësby Sara O’LearyIllustrated by Briony May SmithPenguin Random-HouseO… Read More
2023-10-16 05:38
Today marks the 176th anniversary of the publication of Jane Eyre.Telegraph Herald features The Cure's Lol Tolhurst's book Goth: A History.What comes to mind when the word “g… Read More
2023-10-15 22:30
A new scholarly publication: Being “Rightly Known”: Otherness and the Ethics of Reading in Charlotte Brontë’s VilletteTin Yan Grace LeeVictorians Institute Journal (20… Read More
2023-10-15 09:02
The campaign to save the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton reach national level. In The Guardian: The premises that takes up 72-74 Market Street has had various uses, from an apartment… Read More
2023-10-14 22:30
A Christian fantasy retelling of Jane Eyre, you say? Don't look anywhere else, we have it:Raise the Dead: A Retelling of Jane Eyreby Nina ClairePublisher : lost&foundStories… Read More
2023-10-14 08:13
Ligne Claire (France) gives 4.5 stars out of 5 to Paulina Spucches's Brontëana.Une très bonne progression narrative et des couleur qui collent aux ambiances pas toujours tr… Read More
2023-10-14 02:38
The Friends of the National Library have launched a special publication about the purchase and subsequent donation to more than seventy UK libraries:The Blavatnik Honresfield Library saved f… Read More
2023-10-13 08:09
Esquire interviews writer Anna Biller about her novel Bluebeard's Castle.In this book, you often talk about tropes and archetypes. Judith is like the damsel in distress, but in her lucid mom… Read More
2023-10-13 00:35
Today, October 13, a new exhibition opens at The Portico Library in Manchester which contains a Brontë item:Bookends and Beginnings:Stories from our collections by our volunteersFriday… Read More
2023-10-12 10:10
In a review of Sandra Newman's feminist retelling of 1984, Julia, The Telegraph mentions Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.A formidable task, to take on a classic and remake it from a new perspe… Read More
2023-10-12 00:50
The Brontë Birthplace Community is, as we have reported before, trying to buy the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton. Now, they're trying to raise some money and ask you for collab… Read More
2023-10-11 06:09
Financial Times reviews Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers.While her previous book unfolded through multiple perspectives, Fifteen Wild Decembers is told solely from Emily’s point o… Read More
2023-10-10 22:30
An alert for tomorrow, October 12, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Sinister, Uncanny, MacabreA Thursday Talk at the Brontë Parsonage MuseumOctober 12th 2023 02:15pm - 03:15pmJ… Read More
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