In the Footsteps of the Brontës' Novels

A course and a talk. Brontë alerts for today, April 9:

1. A course at The Salem Athenaeum in Salem, MA given by Dr. Sue Lonoff (in the picture, source), a renowned Brontë scholar:

The Brontë Sisters and Their Novels
Dr. Sue Lonoff
Thursday evenings, 7:00-9:00 p.m.:
April 9, 16, 23, 30; May 7, 21
Six week course: $220 / $195 for members

Among the spring offerings is Dr. Sue Lonoff’s literature course on “The Brontë Sisters and Their Novels.” Perhaps the most famous sister-act among fiction-writing families, the Brontës are major nineteenth-century writers whose novels continue to fascinate readers, fans, film-makers, and scholars. Among the novelists of this era, only Jane Austen has rivaled their popularity. How did these sisters from a little English village in Yorkshire become a cultural phenomenon? What makes their work so enduringly appealing? This course will investigate these questions as participants read and discuss four Brontë novels: Jane Eyre and Villette by Charlotte Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Dr. Lonoff will also consider the lives of the Brontës, the myths that have grown up around them, and the dissemination of their work in film, art, and popular culture.

Sue Lonoff is Senior Associate of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University and lecturer on Expository Writing and Victorian Fiction. She is the translator of The Belgian Essays of Charlotte and Emily Bronte, editor of Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and author of Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers. She is also a founding trustee of The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is likewise a winner of Harvard’s Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Prize.

2. A talk at the Holmfirth Civic Hall, Holmfirth, UK:

In the Footsteps of the Brontës'
Thursday 16th April 2009, 7:30PM
An illustrated talk by speaker Trevor Moody. Organised by Holme Valley Civic Society.

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