A Brussels Walk

Today the news are scarce. But the blogosphere always offers something to the Brontë aficionado:

The Brontë Spirit Blog informs that

Brontë Spirit has put in a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to fund the next stage of development work.
The bid - should it be successful - will fund a conservation plan and an officer to carry out other surveys and to put together reports which are necessary for getting further money from grant making bodies.
We are expecting to know the answer by the end of April. (Alan Bentley)

Good luck from BrontëBlog.

The Brussels Brontë Blog that we introduced some days ago has another proposal to make:

We are organising a day of events around the Brontë places in Brussels for members of our Group from Belgium and the Netherlands, who will be joined by a small group from the UK. Those coming from the Netherlands will include the Group's founder members Eric Ruijssenaars, the author of Charlotte Brontë's Promised Land: The Pensionnat Heger and other Brontë places in Brussels and The Pensionnat Revisited: More light shed on the Brussels of the Brontës, and Selina Busch, who illustrated the books. (...)
This time we will be guided round the Brontë places by Derek Blyth, author of numerous guide books and articles on Brussels (his Brussels for Pleasure - 13 walks through the historic city includes a Brontë walk). The walk will of course include the Palais des Beaux Arts on the site of the former Pensionnat; Place Royale, which Charlotte Brontë knew well and used in Villette; the park (the setting of Lucy Snowe's hallucinatory wanderings in the novel) and the cathedral where Charlotte went to confess when suffering from depression.
Weather allowing, members will picnic in the park. The day will end with a variety of evening events including talks and a Brontë quizz.
If you are interested in joining our group and participating in such events, please email helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu for details. (Helen)

It sounds really interesting, indeed.

Finally, Laniers Books offers on this post a real example of love for Jane Eyre:

(...) God forbid that there should ever come a day that girls are not reading Jane Eyre. Men and women, too, for that matter, but I think primarily of its noble influence upon young minds. I know its ideals somehow became a part of me back when I was fourteen, without my even realizing it. And as a woman I’ve had my faith immeasurably strengthened by it. I feel simpler, broader, more resolute for the time I’ve spent pondering its verities. Thank you, dear Charlotte…with all my heart.

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