View From The Window: In The Footsteps Of Charlotte In Brussels

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To celebrate the long awaited bicentenary of Charlotte’s birth, The Sisters’ Room wants to pay homage to this writer with an article about one of the most intense moments of our adventure in the footsteps of the Brontës. Last year we travelled to Belgium and stopped in Brussels. In that very city, Charlotte and Emily …

Our Guest: Michela Alessandroni

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The Sisters’ Room has the pleasure to collaborate with flower-ed, an indipendent publisher active in Rome since 2012. This online publisher deals with texts of contemporary authors as well as texts from the past, and it was created by two sisters- Michela and Giorgia Alessandroni. Today, it’s a pleasure for us to introduce to you …

Gawthorpe Hall- by Maddalena De Leo

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In 2007, during my stay in Haworth, I had the chance to visit the majestic aristocratic house where Charlotte Brontë was hosted in the first half of the nineteenth century. Gawthorpe Hall is a magnificent late-Elizabethan building situated in the middle of a wonderful park, near the borders of Padiham – a small village in …

Wuthering Heights (Ted Hughes)

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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

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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 …