'So painful and moving a saga that no respectable biographer has failed it'

Robert Gottlieb recommends biographies of classic authors on The Daily Beast's Book Bag . The Brontës The six children of the Reverend P...

Our most old secret

Let's begin with an alert for today, November 10, on what is a very busy Brontë day . In Rome, Italy: Brontë: i nostri più antichi segre...

“We don’t want tourists to say ‘I went to Haworth, but saw a huge wind farm’”

A couple of new reviews of Wuthering Heights 2011. The Salt Lake Tribune reviewer seems in two minds about the film: Arnold eschews narrat...

Writing, abridging and adapting

The Huffington Post looks at non-fiction children's books and highlights  The Brontë Sisters. The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and ...

The Brontës' actual claim to fame

The Brontë sisters were a repository of illness. After having Emily recently diagnosed with Asperger's we now find out that she, Charlot...

Brief Lives

A children-oriented biography of the Brontës has just been published in the US: The Brontë Sisters. The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and...

The Brontës once had a street in Berlin

Carmela Ciuraru reviews the revised edition of Juliet Barker's The Brontës for the Los Angeles Times  . Just about everything you thoug...

A heroine you can really respect

The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch is very excited with the new Annie Loui's Jane Eyre choreography: So what’s next for Jane Eyre ? Next we...

The Wrong Freemason... with a hint of autumn

The Telegraph & Argus talks about the anniversary of the Shirley Lodge in Haworth: A freemasons lodge whose roots are in Haworth is cel...

Unshaken, but not so much

Keighley News reminds us of the upcoming Brontë Festival of Women's Writing (Friday, August 31, to Sunday, September 2): Museum arts of...

Jane Eyre in Australian Radio

A new radio adaptation of Jane Eyre will be broadcast on ABC Radio National (Australia). The series is divided in 15 episodes of 15 minutes:...

The Brontës Baying Lynch-Mob

The Telegraph publishes the obituary of the actress Mary Tamm (1950-2012) who played Blanche Ingram in the BBC 1983 adaptation of Jane Eyre...