We have entered the last moments of 2017, and as 2018 looms it’s time to make New Year resolutions. I never know what to resolve to do, so I thought that this year I’d take inspiration from my very favourite…
Month: December 2017
Anne Brontë’s Music on Christmas Morning
As you may know, this Anne Brontë blog switched hosts earlier this year and in the process some previous posts were lost, including a Christmas post from yesteryear. As we celebrate this joyous day in 2017, I felt it was…
Christmas in the Novels of the Brontë Sisters
With just hours to go until the dawn of Christmas Day, excitement and anticipation is growing around the land, and a similar feeling could be felt in a remote moorside parsonage nearly two hundred years ago. The Brontë’s Christmas celebrations…
No Emily in Time or on Earth: The Death of Emily Brontë
It’s December 19th, a happy day when Christmas is around the corner – but for one family on the western extremity of Yorkshire 169 years ago it was very different. Death had come to the Haworth Parsonage, and on December…
Snow in the Lives and Works of the Brontës
Haworth never looks more beautiful than when it’s under a coating of snow, with the white expanse of moorland stretching away beyond it in rises and falls – as shown in the picture at the head of this post, which…
A Brontë Advent – Haworth Christmas Events
We are now into the series of Advent and many of us are gearing up for Christmas – and of course this is a time that would have excited Anne Brontë and her family too, even though the concept of…