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 …

The Children’s Study is a very small room on the first floor, particularly associated with the Brontës as children, and, later, with Emily. When the Brontës moved into the Parsonage in 1820, and when they used to spend time in this room, it was wider than the one we can see today: in fact the …

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is one of the Victorian authors British readers love the most. She wrote very important social novels like Mary Barton and Ruth, and some other interesting novels like North and South, Cranford and Wives and Daughters. Italian readers have come to know these latters during the last years thanks to some recent …

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 …

In December “I componimenti di Bruxelles” will be published by Ripostes Edition. In this book I’ve collected and translated in Italian some very little-known French compositions by Charlotte Brontë, written during her stay as a student -with her sister Emily- at the Pensionnat in Brussels, in 1842. I had already translated and published Emily’s compositions …