They say you can wait ages for a bus and then two come at once, as those waiting for the Brontë bus back to Keighley outside Haworth Park will readily testify. This week we have a rather more mournful pairing:…
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Two Gifts For Patrick Bronte
I hope that, wherever you are in the world, you had a Happy Yorkshire Day yesterday on the 1st of August. I always think it would be nice if people exchange gifts, typical Yorkshire items, on that special day such…
Charlotte Bronte Helping A Fellow Author
Everything goes more smoothly when you have a little help from your friends. Charlotte Brontë is known world-wide as a writer of genius, of course, as have her sisters Emily and Anne. Those of use who study her life as…
Ellen Nussey’s First Visit To Haworth
It’s frequently said that behind every great man there has to be a great woman, and I think it’s equally true that behind every great writer there has to be a great support network. After all, no man (or woman)…
Emily Bronte’s House-Dogs
The Yorkshire heatwave shows no sign of relenting, and we don’t have the parasols the Brontës found so useful in summer. That’s why many are choosing to stay inside in the shade when the sun is at its fiercest, and…
The Bronte Gift That Changed Everything
Tonight sees a pivotal moment in England’s World Cup campaign, and this day in 1826 was a pivotal day in the Brontë story. By 1826 the young Brontë siblings had already known more than their fair share of tragedy. Their…
The Boyhood Of Branwell Bronte
This week in Thornton, Bradford in 1817 saw a happy event: the birth of the first son of the parish priest: named after him, and taking, as was tradition, his mother’s maiden name as his middle name Patrick Branwell Brontë…
Happy Father’s Day Patrick Bronte
Today here in the UK, in the midst of a heatwave and a World Cup in which it could finally be coming home, we are celebrating Father’s Day. That means that today we celebrate Patrick Brontë, father of the greatest…
The Gaskell Daughters On The Brontes
We meet the Brontë sisters through their writing, and we are all the better for it, as well as through biographies that many writers have contributed throughout the decades (and I’m lucky enough to count myself as one of them).…
On The Anniversary Of The Death Of Patrick Bronte
Today marks yet another sad anniversary in the Brontë story, for on this day 1861 the Brontë line came to an end. Patrick Brontë, the man who had first taken the name after changing it from Prunty, died aged 84,…