Anne Brontë and her sisters will forever be associated with Yorkshire, and indeed she only ever made one journey outside of her home county, but what a journey it was! I’m lucky enough to be spending some time in England’s…
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Charlotte and Anne Brontë And The Fateful Coffee House
When Charlotte and Anne Brontë visited London in July 1848 it changed literary history completely, for two very different reasons. Firstly, it was on this occasion that the sisters threw off their pen name masks and announced that the authors…
Following The Bronte Footsteps In London
London is a city which has shaped its country, and shaped the world, for nearly two millennia. There’s so much to see and do there, but whenever I visit I particularly like to follow in the footsteps of the Brontë…
The Brontes In The Shadow Of St. Paul’s
I’ve been visiting London again this week, and as always I stayed in Bankside on the south shore of the River Thames. It’s a great location, walked by the likes of Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer and many others – and across…
The Weekend That Changed Literary History Forever
This weekend marks the anniversary of a special event in the Brontë story which we have looked at before in previous years, but it’s such a special event that I had to mark it again in today’s new post. It…
George Smith’s Account Of The Brontës In London
On this weekend 174 years ago two small, shy women were making their first visit to London – and it was to change literary history forever. They were Charlotte and Anne Brontë (home loving Emily had remained in Haworth) and…
Charlotte Brontë’s Account Of Her Visit To London
On this day in 1848 two tired yet happy sisters boarded a steam train at Euston Station (that’s it at the head of this post) en route to Leeds, Keighley and finally Haworth. They were Charlotte and Anne Brontë, and…
The Story Of ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell’
This week in 1846 saw a very important moment in the Brontë story, and, indeed, in the story of English literature as a whole. On the 6th of February 1846 three sisters, weary yet undaunted after a series of rejections,…
