Gilmore Girls- A Year in the Life: Rory and Jane Eyre

Everyone is talking about it, everyone’s been waiting for it: Gilmore Girls- A Year in the Life will be released on Netflix today, 25 November!!! But what is it? It’s a revival, a 4 episodes new season, a last one, and we have been waiting for it for years! The girls are back, as well as …

Ma la vita è una battaglia- lettere di libertà e determinazione: review

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Ma la vita è una battaglia- lettere di libertà e determinazione (“But life is a battle- letters of freedom and determination“), is a selection of letters curated and translated by Laura Ganzetti (from Il tè tostato), and published by L’Orma editore. It’s a small book, wrapped into a classic letter envelop as the other books …

Virtual Tour of the Brontë Parsonage Museum- The Kitchen

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The kitchen as we see it today at the Brontë Parsonage Museum is not the kitchen as the Brontës used to know it, since, following Patrick Brontë’s death in 1861 the Parsonge became the home of the Revd. John Wade, who made several alterations to the house, the kitchen being the room most affected by …

The Liberty System – the Brontë sisters in music, by Nat Johnson

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The Liberty System by Nat Johnson, cover. If the Brontë sisters were songs, what would they sound like? Thanks to Nat Johnson, British singer and songwriter, we don’t need to wonder anymore. Beautiful, young, and extremely talented, Nat is the author of The Liberty System, a musical triptych commissioned by Off the Shelf Festival of Words …

New Brontë Society Publication for Charlotte’s Bicentenary- Article by Maddalena De Leo

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On August the 19th 2016 the well known Australian Brontë scholar Christine Alexander presented her latest publication, Celebrating Charlotte Brontë Trasforming Life into Literature in Jane Eyre, written with the Canadian scholar Sara L. Pearson, at the Brontë Society Conference in Manchester, during the event organized at the very elegant Midland Hotel. Christine Alexander is …