Free Local Residents' Day at the Parsonage

A media release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum. As published on The Heart of Haworth:

FREE LOCAL RESIDENTS’ DAY AT NEWLY REFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM

This image shows the admission queue on the Parsonage museum's opening day in 1928. The museum is hoping for similar scenes when it opens it's doors free of charge for locals on Saturday 20 February. The museum has recently completed a project with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve the presentation of the historic rooms of the Parsonage. To celebrate, admission to the museum will be free to local residents of BD20, 21 & 22 on Saturday 20 February . Locals are asked to bring a utility bill or other official proof of address to gain admission.

The museum recently reopening following a major programme of work to improve its displays, which include a number of rare and important new acquisitions and items never previously displayed. Amongst these are items as diverse as Emily Brontë’s artist's box, purchased at Sothebys in December, and a pair of Charlotte Brontë’s stockings.

The museum is keen for local people to come along and see the changes made, since many contributed ideas to the development project through a visitor survey and a series of open evenings last year. The museum is open 11.00am to 5.00pm (last admission is 4.30pm).

We hope that people in and around Haworth will come and see the work that’s been done, which we feel has greatly improved the museum. There are some wonderful items on display this year, including things donated by local people, and these give an insight not only into the lives of the Brontës, but also life generally in nineteenth-century Haworth. (Andrew McCarthy Director, Brontë Parsonage Museum)

And an alert for today, February 17, which has been finally cancelled:

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (no longer available)
Wed, Feb 17, 2010, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Instructor: Richard A. Kaye
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street

Published in 1847, these two novels met with strikingly different fortunes in their time. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was virtually ignored on publication, whereas Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre met with an enthusiastic and wide readership. This course draws on the Norton Critical Editions and explores the formal intricacy and metaphorical richness of both works, as well as their powerful, contrasting depictions of Victorian womanhood and marriage, the figure of the Romantic hero, and such themes as power versus powerlessness, personal independence versus social restraint and romantic love versus erotic desire.

EDIT:
An alert for today, February 17, from Austria:

17. February 2010, 21:06
Ö1 Radio, Salzburg Nachstudio
Der Philosoph Rüdiger Safranski hat über das deutsche Dichterpaar Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und Friedrich Schiller gerade ein Buch herausgebracht und die Freundinnen Ellen Nussey und Charlotte Brontë sind ein weiteres Beispiel von tiefer Freundschaft. Frauenfreundschaft. Unterscheiden sich Frauenfreundschaften von Männerfreundschaften und sind zwischengeschlechtliche Freundschaften möglich? Darauf geben Psychoanalytiker Antworten. (Google translation)

One of the participants is Hilde Schmölzer, author of Frauenliebe. Berühmte weibliche Liebespaare der Geschichte.

Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Talks