If we could jump into our time machine and head back to this day in 1848 we would enter a world of mourning and bereavement inside Haworth Parsonage – death had visited and taken the only son of Haworth’s long…
Month: September 2025
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…
Emily Bronte’s Final Poems
Emily Brontë was without doubt the finest poet in the Brontë family, even though her sisters Anne and Charlotte, and brother Branwell Brontë, were all capable of producing fine verse of their own. At the heart of her creative powers…
Anne Bronte, Remembering William Weightman
When December arrives most people in England, today and in times gone by, find themselves thinking of Christmas and the joy, laughter and hope that it brings. In December 1842 however, Anne Anne Brontë’s thoughts turned back to a week…