This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë‘s birth. Second youngest child of six, Emily lived most of her short life (1818-1848) in the remote Haworth village in Yorkshire, except for nine months spent as a student in a Pensionnat in Bruxelles with Charlotte.  For biographers defining her many-sided and impenetrable character has always …

During one of our trips to Brontë country we went up to Ponden Hall, an ancient farmhouse located on the moors. Apparently, Ponden Hall  has many connections with the Brontës and it is thought to be a place that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. As well as being a very fascinating place, it is nowadays a lovely bed&breakfast. When …

This year we’d like to commemorate Emily with an article that once again brings together art and literature. We’ve already told you about The Brontë Weather Project, an art project created by Rebecca Chesney at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in 2012. Those of you who have read the article by art historian Elena Lago from Art Plug …

In August 2013  I went to Conwy in Wales since I knew my Charlotte had spent her first night there after her marriage in June 1854. I looked for it and stopped outside The Castle Hotel for photos and videos, knowing it was the inn where Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nicholls had taken a rest before …

During these last, dark and rainy days of fall we particularly enjoyed reading E come un sogno la vita vola, a collection of Branwell Brontë’s letters, curated and translated by Alessandranna D’Auria and published by flower-ed. In this collection we can find fourty-three letters written by Branwell between 1835 and 1848. We can find them …