We Need to Talk About Branwell and Charlotte Brontë Revisited

A couple of alerts for today, October 7. At the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Brontë 200 - We Need to Talk About Branwell   CANCELLED
Simon Armitage discusses Branwell Brontë with actor Adam Nagaitis
October 07th 2017 02:30pm - 04:00pm

Simon Armitage discusses Branwell Brontë with actor Adam Nagaitis, who played Branwell in Sally Wainwright’s To Walk Invisible. The two creatives discuss how they approached Branwell from very different disciplines, and  in the process reached their own understandings of both his early brilliance and his tragic end.
Adam Nagaitis graduated from RADA in 2012, where  he won the Carlton Hobbs Award. His television credits include The Terror (AMC), Happy Valley, Banished, Outlaws (BBC), and film credits include The Commuter (2016), The Man With The Iron Heart (2015), Frankenstein (2014), The Inbetweeners 2 (2014), Suffragette (2014).

And at the Cuckfield Bookfest:

Sophie Franklin and Helena Kellywith Martine McDonagh
Saturday 7th October 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Queen’s Hall

Sophie Franklin (Charlotte Brontë Revisited) is forging a successful academic career studying 19th century fiction and culture. She has worked in an editorial capacity for a small publishing house and in bookselling, and she is currently completing her PhD on violence in the fiction of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. This is Sophie’s first book.
Helena Kelly’s Jane Austen: The Secret Radical introduces us to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution. In her novels she grappled with feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution, at a time when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.
Sophie and Helena will be discussing the lives and works of these two iconic writers with Martine McDonagh whose third novel Narcissism for Beginners was long listed for the Guardian’s Not The Booker prize this year.