Wuthering Heights Walter was guide. His mother’s cousin Inherited some Bronte soup dishes. He felt sorry for them. Writers Were pathetic people. Hiding from it And making it up. But your transatlantic elation Elated him. He effervesced Like his rhubarb wine kept a bit too long: A vintage of legends and gossip About those poor …
View From The Window: the Brontë Parsonage Museum
Every time we go to Haworth, the first thing we want to see is always the Brontë Parsonage Museum. From Main Street, just follow the stairs up to St Michael & All Angels, go past the church and follow Church Street– you’ll find the green graveyard on your left, with green and wet moss all …
Storie di geni e di fate by Charlotte Brontë-curated ad translated by Maddalena De Leo
Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday is getting closer and closer, and lots of amazing surprises await the Italian readers. The first one is “Storie di Geni e di Fate”, a collection of tales by a young Charlotte, translated and curated by Professor Maddalena De Leo, representative of the Bs in Italy, and just released by L’Argolibro …
How Did The Brontë Sisters Eat?- by Maddalena De Leo
What did our beloved sisters eat in Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire? In the magazine “New Statesman” Bee Wilson, author of an article appeared on January 24th, 2000 under the title “Swill for tea food”, wished that Charlotte ate better than Jane Eyre. All those who have read this very well-known novel may remember that on Sundays, at Lowood, …
In The Parlour: reading Shirley
On Saturday 23rd January we organized a reading entirely dedicated to Shirley, since a new Italian edition was recently released by Fazi Editore, and we met again at Libreria Tra Le Righe in Rome. The lovely bistrot inside the bookstore was very crowded, and we even run out of teapots! But eventually we managed, and once …