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Colin Farrell, carriages and Jane Eyre as a Furniture Salesman
2008-04-04 14:26:00
Some rumorology about the latest Wuthering Heights project (the Ecosse Films production directed by John Maybury). The Daily Mail says:There's a lot of interest in playing Heathcliff in the big-screen Wuthering Heights that John Maybury is preparing to direct this autumn.I gather he has met Colin Farrell , Dominic Cooper and Sam Riley, but no decisions have been made. Maybury has the film The Edge Of Love coming out, with Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller giving top performances, but neither will be in Wuthering Heights. (Baz Bamigboye)Keighley News reports another initiative to promote the tourism in the region: advertisement Vivid images of tourist attractions in Keighley and Bronte Country are to be emblazoned on a pair of railway carriages.Members of the Bronte Country Partnership (BCP) were told last Wednesday that Northern Rail has made two carriages available to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).Once they have been decorated, they should ad...
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Loving but frustratingly flawed tribute
2008-04-04 12:03:00
The Daily Herald reviews the ongoing performances of Polly Teale's Brontë by the Remy Bummpo Company in Chicago. It's not a very positive review but includes an interesting video of the production:Polly Teale weaving historical fact with literary fiction in her play "Brontë" will no doubt delight fans of sisters Charlotte ("Jane Eyre") and Emily ("Wuthering Heights"). That, plus the match-the-character-to-its-real-life-coun terpart, combined with a glimpse of the lesser known Brontë siblings: sister Anne, also a writer, and brother Branwell, a minor painter, should keep Brontë aficionados entertained.But it's unlikely Teale's earnest but problematic bio-drama will satisfy theater-lovers. James Bohnen's U.S. premiere for Remy Bumppo Theatre is competent and well-acted. "Brontë's" main problems rest with contrived storytelling that too often pulls us out of the action. The play finds its footing in the more straightforward second act. But that can't quite make up for a tedi...
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Brontë Society Literary Lunch 2008
2008-04-04 00:03:00
An alert from the Brontë Society for this weekend. The annual Brontë Society Literary Lunch :Brontë Society Literary Lunch:Stratford-upon-Avonby kind invitation of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.Friday 4 April: 6: 30 PmDr Paul Edmondson, Director of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, talks about Merchant of Venice. Venue: The Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street.Saturday 5 April: Literary Lunch at The Shakespeare Centre11.30 am Literary Lunch Lecture. Speaker: Dr Paula Byrne (in the picture)Best selling author of Perdita, the life of Mary Robinson (chosen by Richard and Judy bookclub) and Jane Austen and the theatre ('best book on Jane Austen' - The Spectator) will speak on Juvenilia in women's writing.7.15 pm Merchant of Venice, The Courtyard TheatreSunday 6 April Visit to Charlecote House (National Trust)Categories: Brontë Society, Talks
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Floating in the Eyre
2008-04-03 18:20:00
Let's begin with some dance news. Written on the Body by the COLective Dance Company is performed today and tomorrow in Huntsville as we can read in The Huntsville Times:Margi Cole, the artistic director of the Chicago-based modern dance company the Dance COLEctive, looked into the world of literature for her latest production, "Written on the Body."The piece, which uses images of power, strength and intimacy, is based on the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.The Victorian sisters penned such classic books as "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights." But, because of the time period, the sisters wrote under male pseudonyms." 'Written on the Body' is an exploration of the masculine side of the sisters," Cole said.The Dance COLEctive will present "Written on the Body" today and Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Drive. Tickets are $12.The Dance COLEctive will be joined by local musician Phil Weaver. (Jon Busdeker)On the Flying Monkey Arts Center'...
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Branwell and Halifax
2008-04-03 17:37:00
The Halifax Evening Courier devotes an article to the history of the Woolshops area of Halifax and there's a reference to Branwell's visits to the city: The whole area was relatively poor yet The Square – originally Caygill's Square – had some of the earliest brick-built houses in Halifax, probably of the late 18th century, housing doctors, solicitors and and wealthy professional people.One of the houses was connected to the early printing of a Halifax newspaper; another housed a famous sculpture and another was said to have entertained Branwell Bronte. (Bill Clay)We don't know if the author is thinking in The Talbot or the Old Cock Inn (it's more likely to be the latter) but browsing through the journal's archives we have found this other recent article (last December) that somehow we failed to report:IF there was any link between John "Almighty" Whiteley, of Sowerby, and the Brontes ("Spookier and spookier: Ghostly goings-on linked with John Almighty", by Allan Kenny, No...

Daphne in the Oxford Literary Festival
2008-04-03 00:05:00
An alert for today, April 3. Justine Picardie, author of Daphne, will give a talk at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival :JUSTINE PICARDIEDaphneThursday 3rd April, 8.00 pmFestival Room 2, Christ Church£7.50Picardie, a writer with a well-documented interest in the afterlife, has long been fascinated by Daphne du Maurier and the Bronte family. In this, her latest novel, she brings her obsessions together: dovetailing the tragic story of Branwell Bronte with the haunting of Daphne by her greatest creation, Rebecca. She talks of the timeless appeal of stories which never let their reader go.Categories: Alert, Talks

Rochester's skeleton in the closet
2008-04-02 20:43:00
A couple of reviews of The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes - a book that we presented yesterday- feature its story, Jane Eyre runs for President by Sean Carnan:Most of the essays are savvy combinations of book smarts and pop culture and, of course, some work out better than others. Sean Carman's "Jane Eyre Runs for President" sounds promising but falls flat. It's fun to imagine plain, quiet Jane running a country rather than pining for Rochester and trying to find herself. Plus, the mad woman in the attic would be an interesting skeleton in the closet for her opponent to unveil during debates. But the essay doesn't go there and Carman's protagonist could be any Victorian woman. (Krista Derbecker Gilliam on Creative Loafing)In “Jane Eyre Runs for President,� the candidate complains about the insufferable Chris Matthews of MSNBC: “I curl my fists into tiny balls beneath the interview table.� (Doug Monroe, Issue 41, The Paste)Spin reviews Los Campesinos!'s album Hold...
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Czech and Dutch translations
2008-04-02 00:02:00
First, a recent Czech translation of Jane Eyre:Jana EyrováBrontë, CharlotteLanguage: CzechISBN: 978-80-7362-513-9Publisher: Alpress, 2007Translation: Jarmila FasterováCover: Tomáš ŘízekRedakce: Alena ZatloukalováRecent Dutch translations published by Muntinga B.V. /Uitgeverij Maarten:Villette (Charlotte Brontë)Collection: Rainbow pocketboeken (January 2008)ISBN: 9789041706874Woester Hoogten (Wuthering Heights) (Emily Brontë)Rainbow Pocket: April 2007ISBN: 9041706887Shirley (Charlotte Brontë)Rainbow Pocket: April 2007ISBN: 9041706909Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)Rainbow Pocket: Week 31 - 2007ISBN: 9789041707055Categories: Agnes Grey, Books, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Translations , Villette, Wuthering Heights

Brontë Games presents Wuthering Heights
2008-04-01 15:21:00
The (Brontë) April Fool's Day joke of the day comes from RPGamer with this ineffable description of a Wuthering Heights game:If I were to say that I was surprised upon receiving the latest offering from Bronte Games , it would be a criminally lax understatement. After such flops as Villette II and Jane Eyre X-Treme Go-Kart Challenge, my doubt in the once great publisher of mid-90’s licensed games was understandably shaken. I’d read the preliminary reports from Japan, and they were guarded, but positive. While I may not agree with my sushi-eating counterparts on all of the finer points, there is some truth to their words.When a noble, yet politically unstable aristocrat flees the unfriendly streets of London for the rustic moors, he finds himself embroiled in a web of dark passions, mysteries dredged from the past, and wild, fruit-chomping action. A top-down, shooter-RPG that would not be out of place at a wedding joining the Xenosaga series with Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Wuther...
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The inner swing
2008-04-01 14:22:00
Let's begin with an alert from Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Public Library is hosting an online Jane Eyre discussion this month on its blog Brooklyn Book Talk (thanks to Debbie who left a comment on a previous post).Sometimes Brontë references can be found in the more unexpected places. As a light digression from an endemic and terrible conflict: the Israel vs Palestine one. BBC News publishes an exchange of letters of two young women living in Israel and Gaza. Both finish their letters with a literary exchange after some (very) bitter remarks:Outside the conflict, I was wondering what English books you like reading? This year, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is one of my favourites. I can't decide if Heathcliff is truly a villain!Best wishes and keep well,Anav [Silverman]Heathcliff is a victim of his tyrannical society, but when he is in power, he becomes a victimiser himself. Do you notice, the victim always becomes the bully when he has control?...My favourite English novel is...
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The postman with a massive package
2008-04-01 00:05:00
A new chance to listen to (and laugh with) the National Theatre of Brent's The Brontës and How They Done Their Novels in BBC-Radio 4:The Brontë Sisters and How They Done Their Novels Tuesday 1 April 2008 23:00-23:30 (Radio 4 FM) The award-winning National Theatre of Brent explore The Arts.The Brontë Sisters and How They Done Their Novels.An illuminating insight into the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne.With Patrick Barlow and John Ramm.Directed by Martin Duncan.Categories: Audio-Radio, Humour
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North Lees Hall, the cottage
2008-03-31 15:16:00
The Shields Gazette writes further on the topic of the north of England being the best backdrop in English literature and the upcoming ITV show Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain. NORTHERN England has been named as the best backdrop in English literature - bolstered by the fame of Catherine Cookson Country.The survey, for Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain Series, found it was the most popular setting for home-grown literature.Catherine Cookson was named Britain's fifth favourite author, and the South Tyneside settings for her books were the most cited for the north of England in the survey.Voters named Catherine Cookson's novels as some of the most memorable books set in the north of England. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and Jane Eyre by her sister Charlotte, were also mentioned.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier was the book on most people's lips set in the south, the second-favourite setting in British literature.Others in the south included Tess of the D'Urbe...
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153 years ago
2008-03-31 00:20:00
On a day like today in 1855 the literary world lost a writer it had only just begun to know and stood in awe of. Charlotte Brontë, supposedly in the early stages of pregnancy, passed away in Haworth Parsonage, surrounded by her loved ones, leaving behind her husband of nine barely months, her bereved father, a much loving servant and thousands - both at the time and afterwards - of admirers who found much to love and discuss both in her writings - published and unpublished, personal and professional - and her life.To this day the words of a parson's daughter who discovered the joys of writing thanks to a wooden soldier still ring true for many, many people as we daily discover at BrontëBlog.Categories: Charlotte Brontë, Reminder
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Scholar and personal notes
2008-03-30 13:44:00
The googles do nothing posts about the recent Book Life - Print Culture and the Public Sphere Conference at Malmö University (March 20-22). The plenary speaker was Nancy Armstrong with a talk entitled How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900:Gender was precisely that "Norm" which connects Disciplinarity and Biopower: they converge and overlap on the spongey terrain of sexuality. Drawing examples from Jane Eyre, she traces out how the ostensibly class-centric power dynamic shown was actually intricately linked to gender at every point in the text where classes come into conflict. It takes, Armstrong notes twenty pages for Brontë to get her character Jane Eyre from the rainy outside to the warm inside of the Parsonage. Gender lets us understand this struggle to enter the privileged domestic space better than the obvious class problematic. Hannah, the female housekeeper tries to prevent Jane from entering the parsonage, while the master eventually overrule...
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Written on the Body in Alabama
2008-03-30 03:30:00
A belated alert from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama : the Dance COLective's Brontë-inspired piece Written on the Body has been performed yesterday, March 29, and will be performed again today March 30:The Dance COLEctive presents Written on the BodySelected Works by Southern DanceworksMarch 29-30, 2008Harrison Theatre, Samford University Campus*Download the Full Press Release HERE*Chicago-based The Dance COLEctive (TDC), under the artistic direction of Alabama School of Fine Arts graduate Margi Cole, joins forces with Southern Danceworks (SDW) in a collaborative concert on March 29-30 at Samford University’s Harrison Theatre. The performance features Cole’s seminal work Written on the Body, two other TDC pieces, and selected repertory by Southern Danceworks at Samford University’s Harrison Theatre on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m.The Dance COLEctive will focus activities on Written on the Body, a work that uses the lives of the Bron...
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Cross-stitch tribute to Jane Eyre
2008-03-30 00:05:00
Via eHandcrafts Stitch ing Room we have come across this gorgeous cross-stitch tribute to Jane Eyre by the designer Casey Buonaugurio.The design is available for free on her website and, we think, very worth it if you can cross-stitch.(Picture source)Categories: Jane Eyre, Weirdo
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It's grim up there... but the truth is out there
2008-03-29 12:41:00
The Herald talks about a new ITV show, Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain, which will be premiered next April 6:The saying might be that "it's grim up north" - but it's not for novelists as the north of England has been named the best possible literary backdrop available in British literature.The region - loosely defined as the land either side of the high Pennines, extending north to the Scottish Borders - was the winner in a survey carried out for a new ITV show, Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain.(...)Voters cited the perennially successful Catherine Cookson novels, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte as some of the most memorable books set in the north of England. Both the Bronte sisters lived in Haworth, in Yorkshire, and were schooled in Lancashire.(...)Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was also voted the favourite book set in Britain, followed by four more classics: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Rebecca and Great Expectations...
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Beppe Fenoglio's Wuthering Heights
2008-03-29 00:34:00
A compilation of the theatre pieces by Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963) appears today, March 29, published by Einaudi in Italian. The book contains his theatrical adaptation of Wuthering Heights, La voce nella tempesta, first published posthumously in 1974.Curato dalla spoletina Elisabetta Brozzi (Università degli Studi di Perugia), la pubblicazione è un'analisi della attività teatrale dello scrittore di Alba, profondo conoscitore e amante della letteratura inglese: un “corpus compatto� in cui vengono presentati “i testi misconosciuti e dispersi che aprono e chiudono la carriera letteraria di Beppe Fenoglio�.Questa lettura nuova sulla produzione teatrale di Beppe Fenoglio tenta di sottolineare come l'impegno drammaturgico confermi la capacità dello scrittore di esprimere, attraverso sistemi stilistici diversi, alcune delle immagini “mitiche� presenti in molta parte della sua opera. La voce nella tempesta è la riduzione teatrale del romanzo Wuthering Heights di Emily Bro...

The Brontës stand the test of time
2008-03-28 14:01:00
Keighley News publishes some additional information about the Captured Past exhibition at the Old School Room in Haworth:Picture: From left, exhibition curator Stephen Whitehead, Matthew Savage who printed and mounted the pictures, Bronte Spirit chairman the Rev Jenny Savage, and Dr Angela Redmond, project officer. (Source)A Brontë preservation group aims to keep Haworth residents in the picture about their history.It hopes villagers will flock to the Old School Room for Captured Past, a photographic exhibition covering more than 100 years of Haworth's history.Some depict the village around the time the Brontë sisters achieved fame with their novels.The Old School Room is where the three sisters and brother Branwell all taught in the 19th century.Organisers of the exhibition hope to attract many people who have never before been in the building and spark interest in a £1 million plan to refurbish the building and secure its future.The Brontë Spirit campaign brings together the...
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Revisiting Inner Space
2008-03-28 00:06:00
Another alert from Toulouse. A one-day conference devoted to the Brontës: Revisiting Inner Space / La Réinvention de l’espace intérieur Brontë one-day conference / Journée d’étude Brontë.28 Mars 2008 Université Toulouse II-le MirailMuch has been said about the way in which Charlotte and Emily Brontë transposed the Gothic sense of enclosure and located alienation within the domestic constraints imposed upon women. This colloquium aims to study the ways in which the sisters negotiate the boundaries of self and society and (re)locate or conceal intimacy, especially through the tropes of sincerity and theatricality. Interest may range from the way in which they create a visual world of their own in the juvenilia, pictures, poems, letters or novels— not to mention the essays written in Belgium, which obey and challenge the constraints of form and language. Particular attention may be paid to the function of embedded pictures or theatrical moments within the novels, reflect...

Wuthering Heights 1992 in Haworth
2008-03-28 00:03:00
An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for today, March 28:Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights stars Sinead O’Connor as Emily Brontë and Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche as Heathcliff and Cathy. It will be shown at 7.45pm at the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth on Friday 28 MarchWith a screenplay by Anne Devlin, Kosminsky’s is the first film adaptation to include the whole of the story. The film has spectacular cinematography by Mike Southon, a wonderful musical score by Ryuichi Sakamoto and the dubious distinction of having been spoofed in the Simpsons: Kamp Krusty.Tickets are £5/ £3 (under 16s) and should be booked in advance fromjenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk - .Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Movies-DVD-TV

A sense of submersion
2008-03-27 17:52:00
A new review of Justine Picardie's Daphne appears in The Times Literary Supplement. Regrettably it doesn't seem to be online, but we quote here some interesting points:Daphne is a literary mystery which borrows from and sheds light on the attested manipulation and dishonest treatment of the Brontë manuscripts by their curators and editors, Wise and Symington. It is also a study of loneliness, obsession and delusion that stretches from Haworth Parsoange in the 1830s to Hampstead in the present day, by way of the private madness and professional dealings of du Maurier and Symington in the late 1950s. (...)Justine Picardie has written an absorbing book, a hybrid work of truth, conjecture, fact and fiction, and a story of insight and intelligence. The complexity and lightness of its allusive range, extending to the book's typeface, are impressive, even as the cumulative effect of this patterning induces in the reader that sense of submersion that Daphne du Maurier, like Emily BrontÃ...
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Brontë in the Heights Chapel
2008-03-27 10:21:00
The Manchester Evening News and the Oldham Advertiser publish some new details about the upcoming (?) shooting of the Brontë biopic. A new location is highlighted: St Thomas Church in Friarmere, aptly known as 'Heights Chapel ':TOP Hollywood stars are set to bring their celebrity showbusiness lifestyle to a north west village chosen as a location for a multi-million pound film.Kristen Scott Thomas, John Hurt and Evan Rachel Wood will settle in the tiny Oldham village of Delph to film the movie about the Bronte sisters.The film - Bronte - will tell the story of Charlotte, Anne and Emily, who were responsible for some of the most enduring literary classics, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.It will be directed by Charles Sturridge, who won a Bafta and an American Emmy award for the TV adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited.Film-makers have selected St Thomas Friarmere, known locally and rather more aptly as Heights Chapel, to create the Yorkshire church where the three...

Brontë Marginalia
2008-03-27 00:04:00
Several Brontë-related contributions will be presented at the Sixteenth Annual British Women Writers Conference 2008 that begins today, March 28 in Bloomington, Indiana:BWWC 2008FEMALE MARGINALIA: ANNOTATING EMPIREMarch 27-30, 2008Indiana University442 Ballantine Hall1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.Bloomington , IN 47405-7103Thursday, March 27thVenturing into the Margins of Female Desire• Morgan Richardson, “Selling the Heights: Charlotte Brontë’s Editorial Motivations,� University of KentuckyWomen Rewrite Marginalized Discourses• Martha Griffin, “Speaking in Ink: Writing Helen’s Voice in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,� University of North Carolina at GreensboroConstructing and Deconstructing Female Communities• Laura Kasson, “Charlotte Brontë Reading Jane Austen,� Indiana University, BloomingtonFriday, March 28thRedefining the Romantic Legacy: Nature, Politics and Celebrity • Laurel Czaikowski, “ ‘Creation is Equally Meaningless’: Nature and Civilization in Bron...

Faith and Fiction
2008-03-27 00:02:00
An alert from Forth Worth, Texas:Faith and Fiction : “Wuthering Heights,� by Emily Brontë:6:30 - 8:30 PMLocation: Catholic Renewal Center - 4503 Bridge Street, Fort Worth "Faith and Fiction: Conversations on Spirituality and Imagination," a venue for discussing novels and films with themes that shed light on the journey of faith, will meet Thursday, March. 27, at the Catholic Renewal Center, 4503 Bridge Street in Fort Worth. The topic of discussion will be “Wuthering Heights,� by Emily Bronte. Those planning to participate are asked to read the book, reflect on it in light of personal experiences, and come to the session with questions, insights, or observations to share. A potluck supper will be served at 6:15 p.m., and the discussion will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. To ensure good conversation, space will be limited. To reserve a spot or for more information, call the Catholic Renewal Center at (817) 429-2920 or e-mail to danluby@udallas.edu.Categories: Alert,...

Remy Bumppo's Brontë reviewed
2008-03-26 14:31:00
We have come across a couple of reviews of Remy Bumppo's Brontë. Before reading them, don't forget that you can see for yourself by clicking here and profiting from a 2x1 promotion.From the Chicago Sun-Times: Here is the family profile: Three desperately unhappy and bookish sisters, one self-destructive brother and their rather distracted preacher father, all living far from the big city that might have given the women access to at least some possibility for success and happiness.The plot of a Chekhov play? Could be, but as it happens, it is the story of those real-life Bronte girls -- Charlotte (author of Jane Eyre), Emily (author of Wuthering Heights) and Anne (poet and novelist) -- who lived their rather short but agonized lives in an isolated West Yorkshire parsonage, not far from the grim realities of a mill town. And all this is the stuff from which British playwright Polly Teale has crafted her play "Bronte," now receiving its U.S. premiere by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Compa...

A popera singer's take on Wuthering Heights
2008-03-26 14:03:00
Via After Ellen we have come across another version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights: by popera singer Hayley Westenra.Googling her led me to her version of the Kate Bush classic "Wuthering Heights" — and while I don’t think there’s an artist in the world who is capable of bringing the same sort of deranged conviction as Kate Bush to the visual interpretation of the song, I do think that Westenra’s high, supple, spooky voice works very well with it musically.Agreed. The video can be played by scrolling down here or by clicking here directly.In other news, the Evening Courier reports that Calderdale is trying to find the favourite novel of the region.Do you go ga-ga over Great Expectations or does Wuthering Heights leave you weak at the knees? ...The Big Read will be officially launched at the Halifax Central Library on Thursday, April 3, by bestselling author Andrew Martin. ...Voting forms are available from libraries in Calderdale. Or you can vote at www.calderdale.gov...

Between the Lines
2008-03-26 00:04:00
An alert from Chicago for today, March 26. A special event related to the Remy Bummpo's performances of Polly Teale's Brontë (for which we still have, just for a few days more, a 2x1 tickets promotion for our readers):Between the Lines Dates: Wed. 3/26 at 6:30 pm - Micael Clarke, Loyola University professor and Brontë scholar; Sat. 4/5 at 1:30 pm - Peter Davis, Remy Bumppo resident dramaturgLocation: Upstairs Mainstage, Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.Our newly expanded and renamed literary lecture series, Between the Lines will feature guest experts sharing their insights on the play and leading a pre-show discussion. Last season, Adlai Stevenson III joined us to discuss the role his father played in the political climate of The Best Man; this year will bring other fascinating speakers. Due to popular demand, this unique series will be offered this season on both a Wednesday evening and a Saturday matinee. The conversation begins one hour before show-time...

Contests update
2008-03-25 17:21:00
A couple of news items are perfect to post an update on our two most recent contests.The Black Star News asks actress Thandie Newton about the last book she read and her reply was, to say the least, unexpected (for us, anyway): BSN: Bookworm Troy Johnson was wondering what’s the last book you read?TN: Oh my Lord! What was the last book I read? Oh, it was a book by my friend, Justine Picardie, called Daphne. It’s about Daphne du Maurier and the Bronte family. (Kam Williams)The question we asked to win the copy of Daphne by Justine Picardie was whether The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, written by Daphne du Maurier, was the first biography entirely devoted to Branwell. The contest closed about 10 days ago, the winner was notified by e-mail and her book should be about to reach her. The answer was YES, as Infernal World was published in 1960 and Gérin's biography appeared in 1961.The Boston Globe has chosen The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë by Laura Joh Rowland as t...
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Conducted by John Williams
2008-03-25 16:50:00
The Telegraph and Argus publishes up-to-date information on Captured Past, the current exhibition at Haworth's Old School Room. An exhibition of historic photographs of Haworth is helping to publicise a planned facelift for the village's Old School Room.The restoration project aims to highlight the building's close links with the Bronte family and safeguard its future.The Old School Room, in Church Street, was built in the mid-1800s by the the [sic] Reverend Patrick Bronte.His children all worked there, and it was the venue for the wedding feast of Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls.The Bronte Society, which runs the museum and the parish church next door, have formed the partnership Bronte Spirit.Last year it gained a grant of £43,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to plan the restoration project.It now hopes to find the estimated £1 million needed to refurbish the Old School Room.The first event is an exhibition of photographs, now open in the Old School Room, of Hawor...
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