The notices column in local newspapers was often referred to as ‘hatches, matches and dispatches’ as it contained announcements of births, marriages and deaths. In today’s new Brontë blog post we will look at two landmark life events which occurred…
Month: June 2025
Cold Poems By Emily And Anne Brontë
If you live in England you can’t fail to have noticed the unseasonably hot weather. The mercury is rising, and temperatures along with them, as June climate records fall like so many drips from the edges of ice cream cones.…
A Tour Of The Haworth Parsonage Dining Room
As followers of this blog will know, I recently launched a new venture – the House Of Brontë channel on YouTube. Just like this blog it’s always free, and it exists so that I can share my love of the…
Remembering Elizabeth Bronte Who Died 200 Years Ago
This is a happy day of celebration for many in the United Kingdom, for it is Father’s Day. In the ever recurring Brontë calendar, however, today marks one of the saddest anniversaries. In today’s new Brontë blog post we remember…
Patrick Bronte Deals With A Bully
This weekend we mark an anniversary that brought to an end the Brontë line, an end to the house of Brontë lineage. Patrick Brontë died on June 7th 1861 in Haworth, where he had served as Church of England curate…
The Life And Death Of Edmund Robinson
The Brontë story is like no other, where else would we find three creative geniuses in one sibling group? In other ways it is a story familiar to us all, a stage we all must tread with its entrances and…