We’ve always been interested in how the Brontës and their works continue to inspire artists all over the world. It’s not only writers we’re talking about. The Brontë sisters still have a powerful impact on all kinds of arts, and Charlie Rahu is an example of what happens when music meets the Brontës in 2021. …
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Charlotte Brontë and Louisa May Alcott
If you’ve watched the latest adaptation of Little Women, you can’t have missed the reference to the Brontë sisters. That quick mention is not fortuitous at all. There is in fact an invisible thread that links Louisa May Alcott to the Brontës, especially Charlotte. But what can four sisters born in Pennsylvania and four siblings who …
Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens in London
When you love literature, and you find yourself strolling around the streets of London at Christmas, you can’t avoid ending up in 48 Doughty Street where Charles Dickens, “the man who invented Christmas”, lived. It was a literary stop of our latest trip to London, but you may be wondering why you’re reading this on a …
Virginia Woolf and Emily Brontë: Two Kindred Spirits
Why should we write about Virginia Woolf and Emily Brontë? Today we remember a great British woman author, the one who gave us Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Why should we talk about Virginia Woolf in our Brontë blog? Because actually this amazing writer is strictly connected to our beloved Brontë sisters and to the role …
Emily Brontë And The Weather – Rebecca Chesney’s Colour Wheels
This year we’d like to commemorate Emily with an article that once again brings together art and literature. We’ve already told you about The Brontë Weather Project, an art project created by Rebecca Chesney at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in 2012. Those of you who have read the article by art historian Elena Lago from Art Plug …