Hilary Philips visiting the Parsonage

We were very pleased to have Sir James Roberts' great grand daughter, Hilary Philips visiting the Parsonage today all the way from Canada!

Bronte Parsonage Museum

 

The British Library has put 1,200 of its "greatest literary treasures" online

From the earliest known writing of Charlotte Brontë, a charmingly illustrated short story the Villette author penned for her little sister Anne, to Jane Austen's wry recording of an acquaintance's dismissal of Pride and Prejudice as "downright nonsense", the British Library has put 1,200 of its "greatest literary treasures" online in what is expected to become the biggest digital English literature resource

.Highlighting a survey of more than 500 English teachers, which found that 82% believe secondary school students "find it hard to identify" with classic authors, the British Library launched the Victorian and Romantic section of its new Discovering Literature website on Thursday. With material from organisations such as the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Keats House, the site features manuscripts from authors including Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Dickens and Wilde, as well as diaries, letters, newspaper clippings from the time and photographs, in an attempt to bring the period to life. Read more on: theguardian and theguardian/my-hero-lucasta-miller-emily-bronte

Photo: Digital treasure trove … Earliest known writings of Charlotte Brontë. Photograph: Brontë Parsonage Museum

Brontë Relics in NYC

Portable desk boxes, samplers, albums of pressed ferns, printed books with diaries written on their flyleaves, mended stockings and locks of hair that belonged to the Brontës carry traces of their lives: nicked with incident, smoothed by handling, frayed with wearing. These things bring to life the daily, domestic round of the Brontë sisters. The Brontës themselves believed in the ability of material objects to be charged with an almost-enchanted meaning, to be imbued by their possessors.
Read more: Brontë Relics in NYC

'Portrait of a French Brunette'

Bronte Parsonage Museum

 

On this day in 1833, Charlotte completed this watercolour 'Portrait of a French Brunette'. This image was sold by Arthur Bell Nicholls' second wife in 1907, and acquired by the great collector of Bronteana, Henry Houston Bonnell, who later bequeathed it to the Brontë Society.

 

 

The parlour.

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 Once it looked like this

Not in the time of the Brontes

But in the time of the Museum

 

 

Haworth 1940s weekend and the Parsonage

The Telegraph & Argus announces of the events that will take place next weekend (Haworth 1940s weekend) at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:Treasures by candlelight are on offer to Bronte fans during an after-hours museum visit. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is taking part in the national Museums At Night event on Friday. Education officer Sue Newby will give people a guided tour of the parsonage’s rooms by candlelight, before collections manager Ann Dinsdale lets visitors have a rare close-up view of valuable Brontë items in the library – including manuscripts, pictures, and objects owned by the family during the 19th century. Sue said: “It’s the Haworth 1940s weekend so we will be speaking about things that happened during that time of the parsonage. “We know a lot about the Mitchells who were living here during the 1940s.”

Beautifull photo of the 1940s weekend on: paul joseph photography

More about the Michells: at-home-with-brontes-from-ann-dinsdale

Photo: Harold Mitchell

On this day in 1830, Branwell completed this watercolour

On this day in 1830, Branwell completed this watercolour, which he entitled 'Terror'. Many of his drawings from this period have a similarly martial theme.  Bronte Parsonage Museum