In a year rich of Brontë events meant to celebrate Charlotte’s bicentenary, also The Sisters’ Room wanted to organize something special. On April 21st _ as you probably already know – we were in Naples (click here to find out more about it), but one week later, on April 28th we organized the only event in …
A Little Chat With… “Jenny”- by Maddalena De Leo
During my stay in Haworth in 2007 I had the chance to spend some time and have a little chat with a very special person- the vicar of the lovely and often crowded St. Michael and All Angels, the church where the whole Brontë family is buried except for Anne, who rests in Scarborough. At …
Our Guests: Mick Manning & Brita Granström
Our guests today are Mick Manning & Brita Granström, authors and illustrators of the “The Brontës- Children Of The Moors” . It is a wonderful book on the lives of the Brontë sisters and their family, and we had the chance to read it and review it for Hachette UK – in case you missed our review, it can be found in this blog …
Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath
The horizons ring me like faggots, Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, And their fine lines singe The air to orange Before the distances they pin evaporate, Weighting the pale sky with a soldier color. But they only dissolve and dissolve Like a series of promises, …
The Sisters’Room Meets the Brontë Society in Italy On The Occasion Of Charlotte’s Bicentenary
To celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary we had been busy organizing many different events like our Facebook contest and a meeting in Rome entirely dedicated to this great celebration but, on April 21st, on the very date of thisvery much awaited event, we decided to do something completely different: we left Rome – in good company with …