In The Reading Room: The Professor- Review

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Thanks to our collaboration with Fazi Editore, we’ve been among the first Italian readers who had the chance to read the new Italian edition of The Professor (“Il Professore”), by Charlotte Brontë. Published for the first time after her death in 1857, this is actually the very first novel written by the authoress of the …

Charlotte’s Bicentenary in Italy

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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 …

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush

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Wuthering Heights  is a song by  the British singer Kate Bush released as her debut single in  1978 (The Kick Inside).  The lyrics to this song were written by Bush when she was 18. Bush was inspired to write the song by the 1976 BBC mini-series based on Wuthering Heights. (Just click on the image below to add it to your Amazon …

View From The Window: BBC To Walk Invisible

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It seems like everybody’s talking about it, and on social networks we can easily find the first pictures from the set of To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters, but what is it about? Well, if you love English Literature, if you are Brontë enthusiasts, if you still re-read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, we’ve got some …

In The Reading Room: Charlotte Brontë, A Passionate Life (Una Vita Appassionata) – A Review

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We’ve just re-emerged from a long and pleseant immersion into the pages of Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, a biography by Lyndall Gordon published in Italy last April by Fazi Editore. This biography is something different from every other Charlotte Brontë’s biography we’ve read, and Lyndall Gordon tells us the story of this authoress in …