Brontë Society Gazette. Issue 48

The last issue of The Brontë Society Gazette is now out (Issue 48. April 2009. ISSN 1344-5940).

ARTICLES

Chairman's Letter by Coreen Turner, Chairman

Ongoing Brussels Research by Eric Ruijssenaars
Check this post on the Brussels Brontë Blog.

Pinhole Photography of the Parsonage - A New/Old Art Form by Thea Prothero
I have been making pinhole images for roughly 4 years, moving from the basic homemade tin style camera, to a more sophisticated hand-made wooden one, with a precision-drilled hole (...)

American Chapter Region 7 Gathering 2008 by Tyler Cloherty
Brontë Society Region 7 memebers, friends and guests gathered for Brontë fellowship and sightseeing in Asheville, North Carolina on Saturday 27 September; at the University of North Carolina in Asheville at the laurel Forum. Eleven participants were in attendance, with some travelling great distances to join the group. Kudos and thanks to Betsy Sherman for her trek down from Northern Virginia, and to Ginny Esson of Region 6, and former Region 7 Representative, who flew from Florida to Charlotte where she was met by Jill Jones; Society friend and author of Emily's Secret. (...)

Award-winning jazz vocalist Val Wiseman reveals her passion for the Brontës by Val Wiseman
Check this previous post of ours.

At Home with the Brontës by Margaret Hulmes
The Brontë sisters wrote poignantly of the powerful appeal of their moorland home whenever they were exiled from it by the need to earn a living. I feel a similar nostalgia when revisiting the windswept Pennine villages of my native West Riding and recalling my first introduction to Haworth Parsonage over half a century ago (...)

Where were you Mr Lockwood? by Mary A Haigh, American Representative for Region 10, USA
Some of the American Chapters decided to share their views about the new BBC, PBS production of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel. We watched the unfolding interpretation with great expectations.
We mostly agreed that great license was taken by beginning the story in the middle of the novel, and much work was required to make sense of the plot - no matter how many times we had read the book. (...)

Farewell Greetings by Theresa Connors
The American Region 7 representative Theresa Connors gives way to the new representative, Randall Grimsley.

Parsonage People:
Brid Wright, Brontë Society Museum Assistant
(...) If you decide to visit this most inspirational of places, drop in, and if I am working, I promise I will try and share with you my new-found passion for everything Brontë.

Sarah Laycock, Library and Information Officer
Haworth native, Sarah Laycock, is a full time employee at the Brontë Parsoange, where she works in the research library. Laycock says the museum is always on the look out form Brontë-related material in auctions or for private sale and appreciates any donations for the library or the museum collection. (...)

Australian Brontë Association and the New South Wales Dickens Society
Weekend Conference 29-31 May 2009
Theme: The Colonial Connection
For more information, check the Australian Brontë Association webpage.

Remarkable Children of the Moors
About Mary Haigh's illustrated children's book about the Brontës. Check this previous post.

Wuthering Heights in Edinburgh by Brenda M Graham, Honorary Scottish Representative
On Saturday 8 November, twelve members of the Scottish Section of the Brontë Society, including one Angrian member, attended the matinee performance of Birmingham Repertory's production of Wuthering Heights, at the Kings Theatre Edinburgh.

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