Variations sur les portraits d’Emily Brontë

 Dorothy Black en Emily Brontë © Alfred Sangster

Il n’existe que deux portraits officiels d’Emily Brontë, tous les deux peints par son frère Branwell. Certains artistes s’inspirent de l’un ou l’autre de ces tableaux d’époque afin de créer de nouvelles représentations de la célèbre auteure du roman Les Hauts de Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights). Je publie ici celles qui me semblent les plus intéressantes. Dans un premier temps, voici celles  inspirées du portrait de profil d’Emily :

See more portraits on Soeurs Bronte

Flea, bassist from the Red Hot Chili Pepper

We knew that Flea, bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was a true Brontëite  (check previous posts) but now we has done a step further releasing a solo EP named after Helen Burns character in Jane Eyre:
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Helen Burns
Hi people who like The Red Hot Chili Peppers! I love you a lot! Mucho! Just wanted to give you a heads up about this little record "Helen Burns" I am putting out on the Silverlake Conservatory website.
Warning! It is not a Chili Peppers record. It does not have songs that are like the Chili Peppers at all. It is a mostly instrumental, weird and arty record, the music is mostly just me creating soundscapes that are very emotional for me, but certainly not for everyone! Just me tripping out at home. I am putting it out to raise money for The Silverlake Conservatory of Musica community based non profit music school that i am an integral part of. There you have it. See you all soon i hope!
Flea adds in the liner notes of the EP:

I have for a long time, been in love with the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The beauty of the character Helen Burns is a quality I yearn for in all human beings, including, of course, myself. Helen Burns is someone who is always present with me, and whose highest ideals resonate in the deepest experiences of my life. I share this love with my friend, Patti Smith, and she agreed to sing a song for Helen. I am so grateful to Patti, my sister, who is one of my favorite people on earth and ever. Bronte blog

Funki blog-flea-helen-burns-recensie 

Third Brontë Festival of Women's Writing

Jane Austen will go ‘head to head’ with the Brontës in a battle between these great women writers, as part of the third Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing, to take place in Haworth from Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September 2012. The full programme of events has been announced and will feature readings, talks, workshops and family events dedicated to celebrating and showcasing women’s writing.

The weekend will feature writers Helen Simpson, Tiffany Murray and Claire Harman discussing whether Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters have had the greatest influence on contemporary fiction. Novelist Sadie Jones will also be in conversation about her work and latest novel The Uninvited Guests. An exhibition of new poetry by Zoe Brigley and Hebden Bridge-based poet Amanda Dalton, inspired by their previous residencies at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, will go on display in the period rooms of the Parsonage for the weekend, and Amanda Dalton will be reading from her Brontë poems as part of the festival. There will also be a variety of creative writing workshops taking place to enable emerging writers to develop their own creative skills, and a series of events for museum visitors and families. The full programme details are included below.

The first Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing was held in September 2010 and was supported by the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The festival takes place as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme and is funded by Arts Council England and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Third Brontë Festival of Women's Writing

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Diary paper

This Foldout collects some miscellaneous information to the people, places and the works of The Brontë family 

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For instance this information:

A set of documents which Emily and Anne exchanged and used to record their activities, their thoughts, and their expectations for the years ahead.In each case, the paper was to be opened and read some time – typically 4 years – later.
24th November 1834 Both sisters wrote the first paper. Emily and Anne's Diary Paper, November 24, 1834

26th June 1837 Emily wrote a paper which was to be opened on 17th January 1841, Anne's 21st birthday.This included a drawing of Anne and Emily sitting at work at the dining room table  Emily and Anne's Diary Paper, June 26, 1837

31st July 1841 Anne wrote a paper (but dated it 30th) which was to be opened on 17th January 1845, her 25th birthday

30th July 1841 Emily wrote a paper which was to be opened on 30th July 1843, her 25th birthday

31st July 1845 Emily wrote the final paper which was to be opened on 30th July 1848, Emily's 30th birthday 

On this day in 1845 Branwell Bronte was dismissed from his post as tutor for the Robinson family at Thorp Green. It had been discovered that while there, he had an affair with Mrs Robinson.

Branwell (right) was dismissed as soon as the affair was discovered, and was perhaps even paid to keep his silence. Mrs. Robinson abandoned Branwell when it mattered most, and when her husband died a short while later she rejected Branwell’s hopeful advances.
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On this day in 1847 Charlotte Bronte sent the manuscript of the "Professor" to the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill. It was not published.

The Professor (1857), Charlotte Brontë's first novel, was unpublished until after the author's death despite repeated efforts to find a publisher. Even the popularity of Jane Eyre and the fame her work brought her weren't enough to entice publishers to print The Professor while Brontë lived.
The contemporary view of The Professor was largely unfavorable. Upon its publication, many reviewers dismissed the novel as a poorly conceived first attempt of a young novelist.
Read more:professor-criticism/charlotte-bronte