As always, everytime we get back to Haworth, the first place we want to see is the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Last August, during our visit, we had the chance to interview in person the Principal Curator of the Museum, Ann Dinsdale. She really is a charming person, so passionate, knowledgeable, and kind. Meet her through her words, …
A Coffee With Glynis Charlton, Writer and Creative Writing Tutor
In Haworth we had the chance to meet lots of lovely people who really made us feel at home and made this trip so special that that we can’t help telling you everything about it. One of them is Glynis Charlton, author and professional tutor who runs amazing creative writing workshops in England and Italy. We …
Our pictures from the Brontë Parsonage Museum
We’ve just come back from our latest trip in the footsteps of the Brontës. This year, our Yorkshire adventure has been particularly interesting. Our first step, as usual, was the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, house of the most famous sisters writers in English literature. This year, for the first time, we had the chance to …
Celebrating Charlotte Brontë At The National Portrait Gallery- by Maddalena De Leo
In order to celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary the National Portrait Gallery organized a special exhibit this year (22 February – 16 August 2016)- Celebrating Charlotte Brontë. In this gallery in the very heart of London, just behind the popular Trafalgar Square, an entire room, room n. 24, is dedicated to Charlotte. In a corner you …
Wuthering Heights and Eclipse: the Thousand Lives of Emily Brontë’s Novel
When first published in 1847, Wuthering Heights didn’t get the expected success and was harshly criticised for not matching the moral standards of the Victorian Age. Despite this, the only novel written by Emily Brontë survived century after century, reader after reader, edition after edition, proving itself a masterpiece of the English literature, capable of adapting to …