Our brand-new, conversational podcast takes a deep dive into our extraordinary collection of Brontë items...
We're joined every week by a different guest, each offering an inspiring creative response to their chosen collections item. Alongside podcast hosts, Sassy and Sam, our guests explore the Museum collections like never before!
facebook/theoldpostofficehaworth: Restoring the old Brontë Post Office to its Victorian glory...
This is the original location where Emily Brontë passed over her manuscript for her Wuthering Heights, Charlotte passsed over hers for The Professor (and subsequently Jayne Eyre) and Anne hers for Agnes Grey over the post office counter that is still there and here for all to marvel at, very soon… History in your hands right here.
This room retains the original wide Georgian floorboards, which have been carefully restored. The antique fireplace adds a sense of grandeur, and an original ‘Barraclough of Haworth’ grandfather clock feels quite at home here. Bronte servant, and inspiration, Tabby Aykroyd was buried #otd 1855. It's commonly said that she was unmarried and childless, but I believe she may have been born Tabitha Dawson, and was a widow with children. More details in the blog of Nick Holland:
Read this, very interesting
Tabitha Aykroyd, Loyal Servant, Friend – and More – Anne Brontë (annebronte.org)
This IWD we are teaming up with @Elizabeth Gaskell's House, @Bronte Parsonage Museum and @Chawton House to bring you ‘Female Friendship in Literary Lives’, an evening celebrating female friendships, and looking at their influence on some of Britain’s most loved writers.
