As so often when we look at the Brontë story during the year’s progress, tragedy follows hard fast after triumph and joy. Yesterday we marked Mother’s Day, but today we mark the 170th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Brontë.…
Month: March 2025
Maria Bronte And Mother’s Day
Here in the UK we are celebrating Mother’s Day, so in today’s Brontë blog post we are going to pay tribute to Maria Branwell, the mother of the Brontë siblings, as well as looking ahead to a rather more sombre…
A Death-Blow For Harriet Martineau
As we know, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë published their work anonymously by using the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Emily and Anne took their anonymity, at least as far as the reading public was concerned, to the…
First Person Accounts Of Patrick Bronte
St. Patrick’s Day is just a few hours away; it’s a great day to celebrate all things Irish, wherever in the world we are, but in the Brontë household within Haworth Parsonage it was a day for a more personal…
Charlotte Bronte Remembered In 1911 And Today
This week saw the celebration of International Women’s Day, a day as important today as it has ever been. Women’s voices are all too often struggling to be heard across the globe, which is why it’s so important to celebrate…
Emily Bronte: A Life In 20 Poems
As regular readers of this Brontë blog will know, it’s been a very busy few weeks for me. I was married two weeks ago, and earlier this week I returned from the beautiful, sunny island of Fuerteventura. It was a…