Today, in our Virtual Tour of the Brontë Parsonage, we want to tell you about a very peculiar object: the grandfather clock which can be found halfway going up the stairs that lead to the family’s bedrooms. It is a wonderful mahogany pendulum clock placed inside a recess in the wall, but despite its location …
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Virtual Tour of the Brontë Parsonage Museum- The Kitchen
The kitchen as we see it today at the Brontë Parsonage Museum is not the kitchen as the Brontës used to know it, since, following Patrick Brontë’s death in 1861 the Parsonge became the home of the Revd. John Wade, who made several alterations to the house, the kitchen being the room most affected by …
Virtual Tour Of The Brontë Parsonage Museum- The Dining Room
The dining room is one of our favourite rooms at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. It is the room where the Brontë sisters used to spend their nights writing, talking about their novels, walking all around that very table in search of new ideas and inspiration. You can still picture them today: Emily, Charlotte and Anne, …
Virtual Tour Of The Brontë Parsonage Museum- The Entrance Hall And Mr. Brontë’s study
Just as promised, here’s another surprise for you readers! Many of you often say that you’re so curious about the Brontës, and you can’t wait to go and visit the places where they lived. Well in the meantime, welcome to our room again, and enjoy our new section inside the blog- once a month we’ll bring …
Our pictures from the Brontë Parsonage Museum
We’ve just come back from our latest trip in the footsteps of the Brontës. This year, our Yorkshire adventure has been particularly interesting. Our first step, as usual, was the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, house of the most famous sisters writers in English literature. This year, for the first time, we had the chance to …