Christmas is coming and this year we’d love to suggest some very special presents. We’re glad to announce a collaboration with Leticia Lentini from The Crow Emporium. She runs an online shop where you can find lovely literary creations made even more unique by a series of collaborations with many British artists. We met Leticia in Haworth a few years …
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New ‘Little Book’- Treasures from the Brontë Parsonage Museum
We are very proud to announce that also this year The Sisters’ Room is collaborating with the Brontë Parsonage Museum. On the last Friday of each month we will publish special contents curated by the experts of the museum. Let’s have a look at what’s inside the closets, drawers and cupboards at the Parsonage. You will find in this section some of the objects that belonged …
Sweet Anne Bronte- An Article by Maddalena De Leo
Always glad to be with her sisters, Anne Brontë had a quiet life based on love for the others; she had an enormous strength and she was willing to succeed in the difficult job of a governess that her sisters Charlotte and Emily had failed to do. God was the most important thing in the world …
Brontë curiosities: Haworth – An Article by Maddalena De Leo
The name “Haworth” comes from Old English and it means “farm surrounded by a hedge”- because all farms in the past used to be enclosed by a fence. The name of the village is not mentioned in the Domesday Book [1]. The railway we can still visit today in Haworth, with the typical steam locomotive, …
Hair Jewellery and the Brontës
Entering the room where Catherine‘s body was lying after her death, Nelly Dean could tell that Heathcliff had secretly been there- the veil on Catherine’s face was lifted, and a lock of fair hair was on the floor. That hair belonged to Cathy’s husband, Edgar Linton, and it had been thrown away and replaced in …