Our latest journey to Haworth was short but really intense. Amongst our favourite memories there is the happiness to come back to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, bringing with us something very special this time: our book about Emily and the places of Wuthering Heights. Can you imagine how fast our hearts were beating, knowing that …
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What did the Brontë sisters look like? – The Pillar Portrait and the Gun Group
What did the Brontë sisters look like? For sure this is something all Brontë enthusiasts have wondered about, but it’s not a simple question to answer. There aren’t any photos officially portraying the three sisters that can satisfy our curiosity at once; all we know about their appearance comes from some descriptions, a few paintings or …
Making Thunder Roar- Emily’s bicentenary at the Brontë Parsonage Museum
This year at the Brontë Parsonage Museum we enjoyed a very special exhibition entirely dedicated to Emily and entitled Making Thunder Roar. The name was inspired by Virginia Woolf‘s essay The Common Reader (1916), where Woolf writes about Emily: “Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts; with a few touches indicate …
Italy- A new Wuthering Heights edition published by Bompiani
Well, there are plenty of celebrations, in Italy as well as in the rest of the world, for Emily Brontë’s bicentenary. Lots of events at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, meetings in the bookstores, and a great number of new book releases entirely dedicated to the author of one of the most controversial, still loved, novels …
Emily’s 150th… in 1968! – An Article by Maddalena De Leo
The entire world is getting ready to celebrate Emily Brontë’s bicentenary on July 30th. Could be fascinating though to look back at 50 years ago and see how our famous literary icon’s 150th birthday was celebrated in England, before the arrival of the Internet and before the media got so much interested in Emily. It was a Tuesday, and …