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Simona Scarfogliero wrote Emily Brontë Natura e Religione, a book entirely dedicated to the author of Wuthering Heights, and that we have recently read (you can find our review here.) We had the pleasure to interview Simona for you readers of The Sisters’ Room: let’s read together about her deep passion for the Brontë sisters, expecially for Emily, and about …

How did people start to think that Wuthering Heights had not been written by Emily Brontë, but by her brother Branwell instead? This very widespread doubt arose for the first time in 1867, when inside the June edition of The Halifax Guardian, a very well known Yorkshire periodical, the writer and poet William Dearden wrote …

Charlotte Brontë’s room is located on the second floor, on the right of the children’s study. It is a bright, large room with a big window and a small fireplace. Last summer, on the occasion of Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary, some of her personal belongings were displayed in this room, like Charlotte Brontë’s tiny spectacles, some …

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 …

15-02-2017 was a date to remember for our blog, because we lived a new and exciting experience- we had the chance to take part in a very interesting Master at Roma Tre University, as guests. As a matter of fact Professor Barbara Antonucci and ProfessorMaddalena Pennacchia invited us to talk about our blog in a …