Category: In the Reading Room- Our Reviews

Thanks to the kind collaboration with Ripostes (an Italian publisher) we had the chance to read Le sorelle Brontë in immagini e parole (The Brontë sisters in images and words), curated by Alessandro Tesauro. It’s a small text, you can read it in an hour or so- maybe during a quiet autumn evening.   The …

During these past months of 2017, Branwell Brontë’s bicentenary year, Italian readers didn’t quite have the chanche to get to know him better. After 200 years from his birth, this “cursed” brother of the most famous Brontë sisters is still a very mysterious and dark figure, and lots of us really do want to know …

Natura e Religione is an essay written by Simona Scarfogliero, a young and enterprising writer from Naples, who decided to publish her degree thesis and make it available for all Brontë-lovers. The essay is divided into three different chapters which lead the reader from general to specific. In the first chapter, Simona introduces an overview …

Thanks to our collaboration with Fazi Editore, we’ve been among the first Italian readers who had the chance to read the new Italian edition of The Professor (“Il Professore”), by Charlotte Brontë. Published for the first time after her death in 1857, this is actually the very first novel written by the authoress of the …

We’ve just re-emerged from a long and pleseant immersion into the pages of Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, a biography by Lyndall Gordon published in Italy last April by Fazi Editore. This biography is something different from every other Charlotte Brontë’s biography we’ve read, and Lyndall Gordon tells us the story of this authoress in …