Ambrotype – Treasures from the Brontë Parsonage Museum

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Our collaboration with the Brontë Parsonage Museum continues, get ready for another year of special contents edited by Brontë Parsonage Museum experts. This is going to be a unique journey in the lives of our favourite writers, browsing the closets, drawers and cupboards at the Parsonage. In this section of the blog, you’ll find some of the objects that belonged to the Brontë …

Maria Branwell- a novel about her: article by Maddalena De Leo

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Maria Branwell (1783-1821) was Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë’s mother. We don’t know much about her, and even in the Anglo-Saxon world there is very little information about her life. What we do know is the fact that she was born in Cornwall and that she spent a part of her life in Yorkshire …

Emily Brontë: is there a second novel?

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Emily Brontë died on this day in 1848. She has always been the most mysterious of the Brontë sisters. There are no evidences of any important relationships ouside the ones she had in her own family; we don’t know how she used to spend her time during her long walks on the moors. Even her well-known …

In the Footsteps of Anne Brontë: St Mary’s Church

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Standing below Scarborough Castle, St Mary’s Church is an ancient medieval church built in 1150. It came to be a place of the Brontës’ story after Anne Brontë’s death in Scarborough, when in 1849 she was buried in the church’s graveyard on the hill. While her family lie under the vault inside St. Michael and All Angels in …

The Brontë sisters in TVshows- from Downton Abbey to Sex Education

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Besides the Brontë sisters we also do love tv series so much. If you too share these passions, we bet that also you pay attention to possible Brontë quotes in tv shows while watching them. You’ll never believe how many references to the Brontës we’ve found in tv series, sometimes we couldn’t believe it ourselves. They are often …