Thimbles, needles and blogs

Some news from the upcoming exhibition on the Parsonage:

Bronte guardians are dusting down precious artefacts in preparation for the 2007 season at the Parsonage Museum in Haworth.
Among items in a new exhibition will be a thimble and needlework box which were owned by Charlotte, author of Jane Eyre.
Museum manager Alan Bentley said: "The workbox was bought for the museum in 1933 but it has not been on display for some time.
"The thimble is interesting because it is so tiny and reflects how small Charlotte was - just 4ft 11ins."
The museum opens for the season on Thursday, February 1, from 11am-4.30pm daily.

Peter Rushford's Pinkerton's Sister and its Jane Eyre references reappear on this blog:

Pinkerton's Sister is set on a single day in 1902 in a rapidly transforming New York City. Its heroine is the eldest daughter of a bourgeois family, an intellectually acute but emotionally brittle woman who spends her days looking out her window as the world passes by, a self-acknowledged "madwoman in the attic" in the tradition of Rochester's sequestered wife, Bertha. Her commentary on the bustling, evolving neighbourhood straddles a fine line between the hyper-realistic rendering of a vanished world and the overheated imaginings of a delusional consciousness, all of it informed by the books she has not so much read as incorporated into her psychic tissue. Her riff on the appearance of the local dentist, an enthusiastic purveyor of newfangled false teeth, is representative of Alice's unique take on the world. (Stephen Amidon in The Globe and Mail)

And on the blogosphere we have found several interesting posts to mention. The Brontë Parsonage Blog publishes information about upcoming London meetings of the Brontë Society. Dante and the Lobster reviews Clare Boylan's Emma Brown... and finally Ghost of a flea links some very weird Brontë stuff published by some very freaky people ;).

Categories: Books, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Websites