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A miniature photograph of the father of the three most famous author sisters in English literature – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte – should return to the place he made his home.We know two things for sure: 1) that any help will be appreciated and 2) that the portrait would look gorgeous anywhere in the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, would like to see the framed picture of the Rev Patrick Bronte back in the Parsonage, now a world-famous museum to the family.
The oval-shaped sepia image is being sold by auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers on June 24, and they expect it to fetch up to £600.
The lot also includes the original Sotheby’s sale catalogue, now dog-eared, which includes details of the miniature when it was first sold in 1898. Global interest could push up the price of the picture and catalogue, which was found at a Midlands antique fair hidden in an old box of papers.
Mr McCarthy said: “Later this week we will be sitting down to see how we should approach the sale – this is where the photograph belongs.
“It’s a lovely item which would enhance the museum, and we would like to acquire it, and support from the public would be appreciated.
“It is not a new image – copies are known to exist – but it is a new item on the market, and we will be reviewing our financial position.”
He stressed that with the exposure it would get in the media, the price could be inflated beyond the estimate.
The museum was the world custodian of Bronte material, he said, but in reality as a small organisation it was not possible to acquire everything without generous support, from the Bronte Society and the public.
The Brontes’ father was an enlighted and forward-thinking man who believed in equality of education.
The photograph was once proudly displayed alongside other Bronte mementoes in the Museum of Bronte Relics housed in the Temperance tea rooms in Haworth.
It was eventually auctioned by Sotheby’s in 1898 when the museum closed and sold everything off.
The Bronte Society was set up in 1893 and opened its first museum in the upper floor of the Yorkshire Penny Bank, now Haworth Tourist Information Centre.
The society acquired the Parsonage in 1928, thanks to the generosity of Sir James Roberts, a Haworth man and member of the society.
Patrick Bronte died in 1861, aged 84, outliving his wife and all his children.
Anyone interested in supporting any bid by the Bronte Society should contact the museum on (01535) 642323. (Clive White) (our bold)
But in the spring of 2008, Grahame-Smith received a phone call from his editor, Jason Rekulak. Already keen on the idea of a literary remix, Rekulak had been compiling lists with pop-cultural trends on one side and classic works of literature on the other. Wuthering Heights and Werewolves was considered and rejected. As was War and Peace and Pirates.Incidentally, Flickr user Paxton Holley has created and written a synopsis for quite a different version of Jane Eyre. It is hilarious.
“Jason called me up excitedly, which he almost never does, and said: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’. I started to laugh and instantly knew how fun it would be to write these ultra-violent, ultra-gratuitous scenes of gore and mayhem in the style of Jane Austen. (Oliver Good)
3. Wuthering Heights: This two-part dramatisation of the novel that topped a 2007 British poll of greatest love stories widens the scope of the original to include the key characters’ heirs. Cape Wrath’s Tom Hardy stars as Heathcliffe [sic].Talking about screen adaptations of Wuthering Heights: Movieline interviews - on video - Ed Westwick and asks him about his forthcoming role as Heathcliff. He says again that it is his mother's favourite book but goes a bit further and also talks about reading it for school and Yorkshire accents.
TV One, 8.30pm Sunday
Love is complicated: just ask the Brontës. Emily discovers passion with her father's curate in DENISE GIARDINA's Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters (Norton, July 27). (Barbara Hoffert)A senior-year student at The Huntsville Times:
Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" made my list simply because a friend suggested I would enjoy it.And there's of course room as well for the sexist, ignorant kind of reading choices, as seen on Wicked Local Norwood:
Girls wanting more than Trixie Belden and Cherry Ames moved quickly to the deeper and more sophisticated romances of Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters. (Charlotte Canelli)We can almost hear how that sentence would have gone on: '... before moving on to romance queens Barbara Cartland and Danielle Steel'. *sigh*
2. In the Kitchen, by Monica Ali. The turbulent life in the kitchen of London’s Imperial Hotel, overseen by a culinary version of Heathcliff. A great, long overdue idea for a novel that may just have perfect timing. Nothing says cocooning like cooking, and every restaurant kitchen is chock full of combustible personality types. Mix well and stir. (June) (Scott Eyman)Culinary version of Heathcliff? It honestly defies our imagination.
Any reviews from New Zealand about Wuthering Heights?
ReplyDeleteWe have only come across one so far: http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lot-104-and-other-news.html
ReplyDeleteOther reviewers might be waiting for the series to conclude this Sunday.