Brontë Society Gazette. Issue 41

The September issue of the Brontë Society Gazette (Issue 41) is already available. The Gazette editor is Richard Wilcocks (who also runs the Brontë Parsonage Blog, where some news that now appear in the Gazette were previously posted and is the present Chairman of the Brontë Society). The Gazette will be available for download in the Brontë Parsonage website.

In the Chairman's letter, Mr. Wilcocks expresses his wishes that the new Jane Eyre from the BBC (and eventually the new Wide Sargasso Sea) will hopefully increase the number of visitors to the Parsonage.

Theatres and cinema publicity departments often talk about ‘putting bums on seats’ when they are referring to some crowd-pleaser, which could be anything from the direst rubbish to a Shakespeare play on the current prescribed list for school examinations. I am guessing that these new productions will be the opposite of dire.

They might not put bums on seats in the Parsonage but they might well put feet on floors, which is what happened just over thirty years ago when Anna Calder Marshall’s passion was pouring from large screens and when the excellent Brontës of Haworth series was showing on small ones. Visitors to the Parsonage (and to Haworth) have been decreasing in numbers recently, so any increase, with the extra income it brings, must be welcomed. (...)

The contents of this issue are as follows,

Television Treats
About the on-going BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre and the upcoming Wide Sargasso Sea. (more info)

Using Scientific Tools
About Cornelia Parker's Brontëan Abstracts exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (more info).

The Brontë Project
Jennifer Vandever talks about her novel The Brontë Project.

Guests of honor
About the seventh-milion visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, last June (more info).

June Weekend 2006 by Coreen Turner
Covering the AGM Weekend, reporting the the presence of Justine Picardie, Anne Calder Marshall, Dudley Green ... (more info)

John Robert Turner 1938-2006 by Carol O'Dwyer
An article tracing the life of the former Treasurer of the Brontë Society, John Robert Turner.

Newly Acquired Letter
About the recent purchasing of a Charlotte Brontë letter by the Brontë Society (more info)

The Brontës in Pakistan by Wali Aslam.

The Brontës in Wisconsin
About the recent performances of the dance piece 'Written on the body' based in the Brontës' lives (more info).

Such a stimulating speaker by Coreen Turner
About the April 2006 Literary Luch with the presence of Lucasta Miller as guest speaker (more info).

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