The Brontë Parsonage Museum opens again

Today February 1, the Brontë Parsonage Museum opens its doors again

The Brontë Parsonage Museum is now open. New features for 2007 include a exhibition on Charlotte Brontë and her first biographer Elizabeth Gaskell to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Life of Charlotte Brontë". The exhibition features Charlotte Bronte's newly restored "going away" dress. (More information on this old post)

Other items on exhibition include Charlotte Brontë's thimble and needlework as The Yorkshire Post publishes today:

A thimble used by the Brontë sisters in the 1840s will go on display today as a Yorkshire museum opens its doors for the first time this year.
The item was discovered in a sewing box belonging to sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne and will now form part of an exhibition at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth. (...)
The thimble is part of a permanent display about the Brontë sisters which has been revamped for this year. And the museum is also hosting a new exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell's biography: The Life of Charlotte Brontë. The exhibition runs until the end of the year and will include objects, personal belongings and letters not usually on display along with Mrs Gaskell's original handwritten manuscript on loan from Manchester University Library which will be at the museum for a short period.
The museum's librarian, Ann Dinsdale, said: "Mrs Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë late in life and they became friends. She developed a bit of an obsession with her and was more interested in the life of Charlotte Brontë than in her work. She was upset by criticisms of Charlotte's novels as containing coarseness and vulgarity and she wrote the biography to set the record straight."(John Roberts)

Categories: Brontëana, Brontë Parsonage Museum