When you think of the Yorkshire moors as depicted by the Brontë sisters in their novels, the first thing that comes to your mind is the heather, the plant that grows and blooms there from the first days of August to the end of September, and changes the wilderness into an immeasurable fuchsia ocean. The …

Did you know that looking around Haworth graveyard   you can still find the grave where Tabitha Aykroyd was buried in 1855? We had the chance to see it several times but remembering its exact location is still complicated. It can be found somewhere near the small wall that separates the Parsonage garden from the cemetery, …

Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) is often better known as the brother of the most famoust authors Charlotte, Emily and Anne- the brother who, by drinking a lot and living a very immoral life, helped the creation of the myth which still today concernes this amazing and unlucky English family of the Ninetheenth Century. This year is …

Reading Emily Brontë’s biographies again on the occasion of her birthday, we realised that something very strange was happening: the image of Chloe Pirrie‘s Emily Brontë lingered in our minds, as persistent as the north winds. Do you also think of Emily as you saw her in the BBC drama To Walk Invisible? It’s become almost impossible to picture her …

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 …