ABA's June Newsletter

The latest Australian Brontë Association newsletter has been online for a while and now it's a good moment to comment about it:

Australian Brontë Association
Newsletter #19 (2007) June 2007

Patrick Brontë's 230th Birthday: St Patrick's Day 2007
On Saturday 17th March Catherine Barker gave us a wonderful talk on the Reverend Patrick Brontë. (She has kindly allowed the text of the talk to be published in our journal, the Brontë Thunderer, at the end of the year.)

Brontës in the Dungeon
On Friday 13 th April a few brave members allowed themselves to be incarcerated in a dungeon to hear a number of Brontë poemsthat have to do with dungeons and prisoners.

2006 Report to the Brontë Society by Christopher Cooper

Brontës in the Media
Several items sent in by Ann Lock.

The Extended Brontë Family
A website www.freespace.virgin.net/pr.org has a gallery of spoof biographies of members of the Brontë family that no-one knew existed!

A Highland Weekend with Charlotte Brontë and Sir Walter Scott
Friday 21 st – Sunday 23 rd Sept 2007, Ranelagh House, Robertson

Hair DNA Shows Brontës ate well
From the UK Weekly Telegraph 2-8/5/07. Spotted by Catherine Barker

Brontë World Theme Park

Brontë Birthplace Sells for £178,000.

Perfumed Letters: An Invention of Jane Austen and the Brontës

Charlotte Brontë and the White Rabbit (where this post of ours is quoted)

Some More Pictures from St Patrick's Day and the Dungeon Evening.

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