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In June 2006 while surfing the net and looking as usual for any Brontë-related topic, I found absolutely by chance an astrological site in which, to my utmost wonder, a Dutch astrologist was proposing an eleven pages long and detailed ‘horoscope’ for …. Emily Brontë! My discovery was really exciting for me and surely for …

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë‘s birth. Second youngest child of six, Emily lived most of her short life (1818-1848) in the remote Haworth village in Yorkshire, except for nine months spent as a student in a Pensionnat in Bruxelles with Charlotte.  For biographers defining her many-sided and impenetrable character has always …

In August 2013  I went to Conwy in Wales since I knew my Charlotte had spent her first night there after her marriage in June 1854. I looked for it and stopped outside The Castle Hotel for photos and videos, knowing it was the inn where Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nicholls had taken a rest before …

The people visiting St Michael and All Angels in Haworth know that at the left corner of the church, not far from the altar, there’s a golden brass plaque with Charlotte and Emily’s names and dates of birth and death engraved on it. In that corner you can very often see bunches of flowers, heather, …

In the Nineteenth century, especially during the Victorian age, women had to wear a corset underneath their wide dresses. All women from all social backgrounds had to wear it because it was fashionable, but also because it helped them maintain a good posture. There was also a moral reason though- as a matter of fact, …