In the intricate realm of juvenile amusement, there exists a pantheon of revered franchises, but none more profoundly entrenched in the young heart’s embrace than “Paw Patrol.&rd… Read More

A new paper on Brontë juvenilia: The "unseen land of thought"Materializing Imagination and Creativity in the Brontës' Miniature BooksLouise Willis, King's College LondonJournal of… Read More

Part of my collectionIt’s been a couple of years since I compiled an official summer reading list (see 2021’s here), but of course that doesn’t mean I haven’t been re… Read More

Essays by Leigh Hunt In studying the prose of Leigh Huntt, we make the acquaintance of what may be regarded as an intermediate territory between the older and the newer styles of essay… Read More

Northern Soul reviews the Becoming The Brontës exhibition at Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, University of Leeds.Taking in the evidence of the imaginative play in which they s… Read More

A piece of juvenilia-based scholar publication:The Textual Presence of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man in the Juvenilia of the Brontë Siblings Julie Elizabeth YoungLiterary Imagi… Read More

From “Brandy” to Bowie, from Redbone to the Replacements A Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in 1980 and woke up in 2014 might’ve been surprised to find that America… Read More

Father of the smartphone Steve Jobs offered some remarkable quotes during his lifetime, but perhaps none encapsulated his ideology of 'less is more' than: "Simple can be harder than complex:… Read More

A couple of new studies of Brontë, specifically Anne's, juvenilia:  Chronotopes of Romance and RealismThe Lovers’ Reunion in Anne Brontë’s “Alexander and Zen… Read More

On the 12th day of the Blog chatter’s #WRITEAPAGEADAY, Here is a poem with love as the major theme. Poet: George Wither   Poem:  I Loved A Lass      &nb… Read More

2022 has been quite a year. Not many times History (with a capital H) happens in our lifetime. The death of Queen Elizabeth II was not only the death of a monarch but the end of an era. We e… Read More

The new issue of Brontë Studies (Volume 47 Issue 4,  November 2022) is already available online. We provide you with the table of contents and abstracts:Editorialpp… Read More

A couple of recent YouTube//Twitch videos with Brontë-related topics:Jennifer Brooks: Brontë Juvenilia | #victoberOctober 2021In today’s Victober video, I wanted to talk abou… Read More

A new paper exploring the Brontës juvenilia as fan-fiction:Look Back in Angria (The Brontë Family Fandom)by Anne Jamison, Department of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City… Read More

Donations help support this Blog It is as if we are more inclined to ask the unknown ‘What shall I do?,’ while the East prefers the question: ‘To what total order does my… Read More

Nicola Friar, Brontë juvenilia scholar and webmaster of The Brontë Babe Blog since 2017, has published a new edition of Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia, The Twelve Adventurers p… Read More

SourceToday marks the 167th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Brontë and we have exciting news connected to her. The New York Times reports that a long-lost manuscript by 13-year-ol… Read More

An alert from the Australian Brontë Association:Christine AlexanderExploring Juvenilia: the Brontës and other early writersSaturday 8th May 202110:30AMCastlereagh Boutique Hotel, 1… Read More

A selection of Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia edited by Nicola Friar and with illustrations by Christina Rauh Fishburne:Tales from the Geniiby Charlotte BrontëEdited by Nicola F… Read More

Books by Jane Austen Introduction The output of Jane Austen is small. She wrote leisurely, almost stealthily. There is hardly any development in her work. She wrote the novels, and then put… Read More

Saints Row, the class-clown of GTA-esque open-world sandbox games, is no more. In its place is Saints Row, a reboot of the series with a back-to-basics focus on ground-level crime and violen… Read More

There’s no single path in how to become a writer. Yet the paths of celebrated wordsmiths shed some light: How to become a writer: 10 important ideas Value the failures, tooPersev… Read More

Some new recent scholar publications:Teaching Crossroads: 15th and 16th IPB Erasmus WeeksInstituo Politécnico de BragançaEdited by Elisabete Mendes Silva, Clarisse Pais, L… Read More

Thanks to Juvenilia Press for providing us with a copy of this book.The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne BrontëEdited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy SwannJuvenilia PressISBN: 978-0-73… Read More