I spent the first part of this week in the wonderful city of London. When we walk its streets we tread upon the same ground walked by Kings and Queens, by the great of history and by the condemned –…
Month: August 2022
Saving The Brontë Birthplace In Thornton
One place of great interest to Brontë lovers links a special event which took place 204 years ago this week and a special event taking place right now: the Brontë birthplace, Thornton. In today’s post I’m going to bring you…
Charlotte Brontë On The First Duty Of An Author
On this day in 1848 Charlotte Brontë was writing a letter. Nothing unusual about that; Charlotte Brontë was a prolific letter writer, and it’s thanks to the hundreds of letters that we still have of hers, largely to her best…
Reports Of The Brontë Parsonage Museum Opening
Step this way, put your cloche hat or tweed jacket on and follow me back in time 94 years. A rather scandalous, so it is said, book is just hitting the newspaper reviews: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well Of Loneliness; the…