Tag: #Professor Maddalena De Leo

La Biblioteca del Vascello Editions, by Robin Publishing, has been promoting since February another work translated and curated by me, professor Maddalena de Leo. In this new book, I’ve collected four little-known and engaging stories written by Charlotte Brontë and published under the title Juvenilia. Two of these stories are quite long – like short …

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is one of the Victorian authors British readers love the most. She wrote very important social novels like Mary Barton and Ruth, and some other interesting novels like North and South, Cranford and Wives and Daughters. Italian readers have come to know these latters during the last years thanks to some recent …

In December “I componimenti di Bruxelles” will be published by Ripostes Edition. In this book I’ve collected and translated in Italian some very little-known French compositions by Charlotte Brontë, written during her stay as a student -with her sister Emily- at the Pensionnat in Brussels, in 1842. I had already translated and published Emily’s compositions …

On August the 19th 2016 the well known Australian Brontë scholar Christine Alexander presented her latest publication, Celebrating Charlotte Brontë Trasforming Life into Literature in Jane Eyre, written with the Canadian scholar Sara L. Pearson, at the Brontë Society Conference in Manchester, during the event organized at the very elegant Midland Hotel. Christine Alexander is …

In order to celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary the National Portrait Gallery organized a special exhibit this year (22 February – 16 August 2016)- Celebrating Charlotte Brontë. In this gallery in the very heart of London, just behind the popular Trafalgar Square, an entire room, room n. 24, is dedicated to Charlotte. In a corner you …