vrijdag 3 augustus 2018
Join us for a day of celebration.
Join us for a day of celebration as we mark ninety years since the opening of the Museum at Haworth Parsonage. To mark this special occasion, we’d like your help to recreate this photograph, taken when we first opened on 4 August 1928. The first ninety visitors through the door will pay what they would have paid in 1928 – just 6p! During the day there will be talks about the Museum and its journey through the last nine decades, plus a drop-in workshop where you can create your own mini-museum. Oh, and there’s almost certainly going to be cake!
Doors open at 10am. Usual admission applies after the first ninety visitors.bronte/the-bronte-parsonage-museum-is-90
Thank you from the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
Thank you to everyone - audiences, visitors, artists, writers, creatives, as well as our hard-working staff and volunteers - who played a part in our Emily bicentenary weekend celebrations. We look forward to sharing some memories and photographs with you soon...facebook/BronteParsonageMuseum
woensdag 1 augustus 2018
The Brontë Brussels calendar, or daily life in Brussels in 1842 and 1843: A first introduction.
Charlotte Brontë clearly liked living in Brussels. Had there not been this somewhat problematic relationship with M. and Mme. Heger she would certainly have stayed longer. Brussels was fairly small for a capital city, but it had a “cosmopolitan character,” as she says in The Professor. The best artists visited the city for performances, there were very interesting museums, exhibitions, concerts (the sisters may have seen Berlioz and Liszt), theatre plays, flower shows, many bookshops.
In 2017 the Belgian Royal Library has digitized newspapers of 1842 and 1843, which give a very good idea about life in these years in general, and life in Brussels in particular. kbr.be/en It seems rather likely that Charlotte read one or two of these newspapers that were published. It does at any rate seem certain that the Hegers were subscribed to one or two, possibly indeed those two from Brussels that have been digitized. Read all: brusselsbronte/the-bronte-brussels-calendar-or-daily
In 2017 the Belgian Royal Library has digitized newspapers of 1842 and 1843, which give a very good idea about life in these years in general, and life in Brussels in particular. kbr.be/en It seems rather likely that Charlotte read one or two of these newspapers that were published. It does at any rate seem certain that the Hegers were subscribed to one or two, possibly indeed those two from Brussels that have been digitized. Read all: brusselsbronte/the-bronte-brussels-calendar-or-daily
maandag 30 juli 2018
Happy 200th Birthday To Emily Bronte
The fireplace at Thornton Parsonage by which Emily was born
As today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Emily Brontë, a woman still celebrated and loved across the world. It’s understandable, therefore, that the media is taking a fresh look at Emily and her legacy, but it is quite clear that the Guardian’s intent was not to praise Emily Brontë but to bury her. .theguardian/emily-bronte-strange-cult-wuthering-heights-romantic-novel. The choice of Kathryn Hughes to write the appraisal would surely seem perverse otherwise, for here is a woman who admits freely that she dislikes Emily Brontë and that she has never finished her only novel, the sublime ‘Wuthering Heights’. It is the equivalent of a restaurant critic reviewing a meal they have never tasted, or a sports correspondent reporting on the World Cup final after following it via a Twitter feed, but worse than this are the factual inaccuracies and strange conclusions that litter the article, and it’s this that has prompted me to respond in print.
I have loved Emily Brontë’s writing since I discovered ‘Wuthering Heights’ atop the reading list I’d been given in my first week at University. I was blown away by the book’s power and urgency, and a life long love affair with the Brontës and all their works had me in a vice like grip. I was happy to be held there, and in subsequent years my admiration for Emily, Charlotte and Anne has only grown, which is why my latest biography, ‘Emily Brontë – A Life In 20 Poems,’ was a sheer pleasure to research and write.
It was somewhat surprising therefore to read the Guardian’s assertion that ‘nearly all Emily Brontë’s biographers and scholars over the past century have been women.’ This is to discount seminal works by the likes of Edward Chitham, but worse than this it seems that the writer is using the championing of Emily by women writers to belittle her achievements, rather than seeing this as a cause for celebration. Visitors to Haworth are also sure to notice that women and men equally are drawn to the three literary sisters, so the Guardian’s claims seem either dispiriting or disingenuous.
It was somewhat surprising therefore to read the Guardian’s assertion that ‘nearly all Emily Brontë’s biographers and scholars over the past century have been women.’ This is to discount seminal works by the likes of Edward Chitham, but worse than this it seems that the writer is using the championing of Emily by women writers to belittle her achievements, rather than seeing this as a cause for celebration. Visitors to Haworth are also sure to notice that women and men equally are drawn to the three literary sisters, so the Guardian’s claims seem either dispiriting or disingenuous.
My celebration of the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte's birthday, part 1, her Birthday.
Liberty was the breath of Emily’s nostrils; without it, she perished.
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights, poem, mystica, daughter and sister, animal lover, lover of the moors, housekeeper, lover of nature, breadmaker, finance manager.
Today we celebrate that she was born 200 year ago
This year I will every week
describe a part of her life on my blog
I use these two books
Emily's parents
Maria Branwell
Maria Branwell was petite, plain, pious, intelligent and well read with a ready wit. She made friends easily, and the friends that the Brontë's made in Thornton remained life-long friends to Patrick and his children. Read more on: Maria Branwell
Read all about him: kirklees/patrickbronte
Winifred Gerin: Only two facts are known about her infancy; apart from the date of her birth, noted in the diary of of her parents young friend Elizabeth Firth, the one record concerning her is of her christening at her fathers church, St. James's, Thornton on 20 august 1818.
Elizabeth Firth
Beautiful photo' s: brontebirthplace
During this time Patrick was curate at the Old Bell Chapel in Thornton. Referring to his five years' residence at Thornton, Patrick Bronte wrote in 1835
" My happiest days were spent there."
From an old diary, published by Prof. Moore Smith in the Bookman, October, 1904,
and written by his grandmother, who, as Miss Firth, lived near the Brontes at Thornton in her early days, it is evident
that both Mr. and Mrs. Bronte enjoyed themselves in a quiet way, visiting and receiving visits
from the Firth family, who lived at Kipping, and from Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and uncle Fennell.
There were very few houses in Thornton at that time, so that Patrick Bronte would be able to get
round to his parishioners fairly often; he was always a faithful pastoral visitor. Miss Elizabeth
Branwell, Mrs. Bronte's sister, spent several months at the Thornton parsonage in 1815 and 1816,
and as she is constantly referred to in the diary, it is probable that she was responsible for some
of the social intercourse between the Brontes and prominent families in the neighbourhood,
and was able to render help to Mrs. Bronte in the management of her young family.
The historic fireplace that witnessed the birth of the Brontes
Inside the dining room by the fireplace is where Charlotte, Emily,
Anne and Branwell were born
St. James's, Thornton
Emily´s christening at her fathers church, on 20 august 1818
The
original font
(in which the Bronte children Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne were all baptised) bronte-country
Horoscope of Emily Bronte
