Mr Earnshaw's Business in Sydney

An alert from the Australian Brontë Association (ABA), at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts.

8th NOVEMBER
Annette Harman

Trade and Wuthering Heights:
Speculations concerning Mr Earnshaw's Business in Liverpool

In Wuthering Heights, why does Mr Earnshaw travel to Liverpool? What business does a farmer have there? What is he really trading?

By the way, the June 2008 issue of the Australian Brontë Association Newsletter (No 21) is online and full of interesting articles (some of them quoting some of our posts) and a selection of Brontë mentions in Australian newspapers. We can highlight:

Vale Ann Lock by Patricia Stebbings-Moore (and some more articles remembering the figure of the former treasurer of the ABA, recently deceased)
Thoughts on the BBC Jane Eyre by Roslyn Russell
Does Jane Eyre lend itself to adaptation for television? by James Phillips, The School of History and Philosophy at The University of New South Wales
The Brontë Encyclopedia by Robert and Louise Barnard. Reviewed by Annette Harman.
Jane Eyre on Stage in Australia. There have been three recent stage productions of Brontë Novels in Australia. Reviews by Christopher Cooper and Grace Naug.
Branwell and the Graduate by B.J. Tanke.
Report to the Brontë Society.
Each year, as Australian Representative to the English Brontë Society, I report on our ABA activities of the previous year for inclusion into their Annual Report by Christopher Cooper.
Manning Clark and the Brontës by Roslyn Russell

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