Australian Updates

The Australian Brontë Association organized last December 5 a joint Christmas lunch together with the NSW Dickens Society. This is a good opportunity to mention some of their latest publications:

The Australian Brontë Association Newsletter. Issue No 23 July 2009
Includes:

SOME PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COOLANGATTA WEEKEND
Thanks to Carmel Nestor
MY ANCESTORS FROM SHOALHAVEN by Rodney Pyne
THE GHOST OF THE GLEN.
At the Coolangatta Weekend we were to have had a session of ghost stories in the Great Hall during the bush banquet, but the lively music and dancing frightened the ghosts away. On the Sunday, Christine Alexander read Charlotte’s “ghost story” about Napoleon and the Spectre. This is another story, claimed to be a true story, about a ghost associated with the Coolangatta Estate.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BRONTË PARSONAGE MUSEUM RECEIVES £50,000 FROM HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND TO SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM FOR THE REST OF 2009

The Brontë Thunderer Vol 5 (2008)

ANNE COLLETT: Reading Intelligence: A Discussion of the Significance of ‘Reading’ in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor
SARAH BURNS: Branwell Brontë – A Gifted Brother
ANNETTE HARMAN: Mr Earnshaw and His Visit to Liverpool

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