Brontë Society Gazette. Issue 50

The latest issue of The Brontë Society Gazette is now out (Issue 50. January 2010. ISSN 1344-5940).

ARTICLES

Chairman's Letter by Coreen Turner, Chairman

York Conference 2009 by Margaret Hulmes
The summer conference on 'Men in the Lives of the Brontës' provided a cultural feast for around 150 enthusiastic delegates.

Notice from Council

Membership Events Programme 2010

Remembering Patrick Brontë at Wethersfield by Margaret McCarthy
On the dedication of a plaque celebrating the 200th anniversary of Patrick Brontë leaving Wethersfield.

Thrilling Announcement!
Emily Brontë's piano has been restored and will be heard at the AGM in June. The music to be played will be from the Parsonage archive.

Report of meeting in Milan by Franca Gollini
On October 24, Maddalena De Leo, a long-standing scholar of the Brontë sisters, met with us at the British Council in Milan. She has recently devoted herself to the translation of the Juvenilia by Charlotte Brontë.

Guardian of Jenny's Soul by Brenda Graham
Final Episode.

New Brontë treasures arrive in Haworth by Ann Dinsdale, Collections Manager
On the donation to the Parsonage of personal items by Charlotte Brontë by Mr Tony Hart, whose great grandfather was the father was the nephew of Mary Anna Bell, the second wife of Arthur Bell Nicholls.

The Gift of Marmion by Ian M Emberson
On the Walter Scott's Marmion references in the Brontë opus. Both in Jane Eyre and in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the book is presented as a gift to a woman.

Poetry Corner
Across the citied North by Francis Shepard
June, Returning to the Parsonage by PH Holtam

Brontë Society plaque in Brussels gets a new look by Helen MacEwan
About the restoration of the Brontë Society plaque commemorating Charlotte and Emily's stay in the Pennsionat Heger, placed in 1979 on the arts centre (Palais des Beaux-Arts, nicknamed 'Bozar').

A Review of the Brontë Walk: the Passionate Brontës by Lorna Stephens

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