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Just like his sisters, Branwell was always attracted by music and tried to learn more than one instrument. Between 1832-34 he took piano lessons with Emily and Anne from Abraham S. Sunderland, the teacher hired by Reverend Brontë.  Branwell also enjoyed to play the organ at St. Michael & All Angels, the local church, and …

Patrick Branwell Brontë is the only brother of the authors of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. He was born on June 26, 1817, one year after Charlotte, one before Emily and two before Anne. Though his name and his life are necessarily tied to those of his sisters, and though …

Branwell’s weak and volatile character was shaped in his childhood when, after his mother’s early death, an already very sensitive child had to withstand the death of his older sister Maria, who had replaced his maternal figure. It was her, as a matter of fact, who taught her little brother and sisters games and stories, …

Two months already passed since Thursday 21st April and we would like to resume in this article the events that took place in Italy to celebrate the first of the four Brontë- bicentenaries. Of course the Italian representative for the Brontë Society in Italy, Professor Maddalena De Leo, was very active. She was asked to …

In this article we want to tell you, briefly, how and when the Brontë Society in Italy was born. This is an interesting story about a group of passionate Brontë-scholars who decided to start organizing meetings and cultural events entirely dedicated to the Brontës in Italy. Everything started in November 1997, in Bologna, where Franca …