7 January - 23 February 2013

This exhibition highlights rarely seen manuscript material written by Branwell Brontë from the Brotherton Library Special Collections. The rich and complex world of landscapes, characters and events written whilst Branwell was still a teenager, has been 'brought to life' by illustration students from Leeds College of Art's Visual Communications course.
Herbert Read and Artists' Books
4 March - 27 April 2013   library.leeds

Buriel place of Martha Taylor

 

On 22 November a memorable event took place. For the first time a ‘Brontë’ delegation paid homage to Martha Taylor and Julia Wheelwright, the two Yorkshire friends of Charlotte and Emily who died in Brussels in 1842.

Martha’s death especially was a big loss for Charlotte. She quite often visited her grave in her second year in Brussels. That cemetery has long gone, and it was only recently that the reburial place was located. 

The remains of those buried of the old Protestant cemetery (those without a ‘concession’) were anonymously, without gravestones, reburied along a 150 meter stretch of the boundary wall on the east side of the cemetery. Certainly a nice place to lie buried. Somewhere in the middle the flowers were laid by Helen and Renate, for the girls who died 170 years ago. Charlotte would have been pleased no doubt.

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On this day in 1819

Arthur Bell Nicholls was born at Killhead, County Antrim, Ireland.

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