Branwell's White Plaque

The UK screening of The House I Live In is discussed in this article in The Guardian which highlights the White Plaques initiative : To ma...

Candlelight and the ubiquity of power in interpersonal dynamics

First of all, let's not forget that today marks the anniversary of Branwell's death in 1848. The Independent (Ireland) has an artic...

Brontë Affairs

Maureen Finucane is an artist that seems to have found some time to write a novel with the Brontës as characters. Available on Kindle: The B...

Amy Lowell's Brontë manuscripts

An exhibition in Harvard with Brontë items on display: In the picture: Conservator for Harvard University Library Collections Priscilla Ande...

"It was my Bible"

The Sheffield Telegraph remembers that this is the last weekend on which the Haddon Hall exhibition with Jane Eyre film costumes is opened:...

" You wouldn’t ask the Brontës to rewrite like Barbara Cartland, would you?"

The  San Francisco Examiner recommends Marta Acosta's Dark Companion:   The award-winning East Bay writer’s new novel for teens is a “ ...

Naughty Books

SouthCoast Today interviews YA writer Lauren Daley: Daley: What did you read as a teen? Fitzgerald: I'm ashamed, now, to admit I didn...

Horses. The Moors and a Cape

Finally, a US release date for Wuthering Heights 2011. Indiewire's The Playlist  reports that it will be on October 5th: Meanwhile, in o...

Childhood favourites and Jane Eyre atmospheres

The Daily Record asks a few writers about their favourite childhood reads. Carole Matthews, author of Summer Daydreams I was always an avid...

Happy 195th, Branwell!

We don't mean to fall back on the drunk-brother stereotype but 195 seems like a special birthday and we thought we'd treat him to a ...

“I own I prefer the study of the human being – to that of the human being’s requirements”

Picture source The Yorkshire Post has an article on a letter written by Charlotte Brontë which is to be auctioned at Bonhams on June 12 as ...