Just about everything you thought you knew about the Brontës is wrong. That’s the essential message of “The Brontës” by Juliet Barker. Eighteen years after her landmark biography was published, the ...
Yet another biography of the Brontes requires an apology, or at least an explanation. Their lives have been written so many times that there ought to be nothing left to say. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of ...
The response to the film “Sylvia,” recently out in Britain, was marked by some extraordinary invective. Although critics were engaged by the popular retelling of Sylvia Plath’s tragic story, they ...
Following the Brontë Trail across the moors, the Wayfarers group walked between eight and 10 miles a day in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Susan Ecenbarger The storm had been assembling itself all morning, ...
Catherynne Valente, author of the bestselling Fairyland series (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and its sequels), features one of literature’s most famous ...
Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum Lucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read Anne Brontë’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly ...
As Emerald Fennell’s film sparks debate, we celebrate the pioneering brilliance of the siblings’ work This was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. It was rejected by publishers nine times ...
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back. More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in ...
The Brontë sisters are best known as the authors of literary gothic tales like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, but in their childhood, they worked with their brother to invent the made-up realm of ...
Following the Brontë Trail across the moors, the Wayfarers group walked between eight and 10 miles a day in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Susan Ecenbarger The storm had been assembling itself all morning, ...