'I wished to tell the truth': Anne Brontë at 201September 04th 2021 09:00am - 08:00pm
The Brontë Society 2020 Conference on Anne Brontë, due to take place in Scarborough in September 2020, will now take place online on Saturday 4 September 2021.
The conference will celebrate the life and work of Anne Brontë in her bicentenary year, and presents an ideal opportunity to challenge the long-held perception that the youngest Brontë sibling was the least talented, and lacked the genius of her sisters. We’re delighted to announce three keynote speakers:
Professor Kathryn Hughes, literary journalist, historian, and Guardian columnist, who has published four books, including
The Victorian Governess;
Professor Marianne Thormählen, author of
The Brontës and Education,
The Brontës and Religion, and editor of
The Brontes in Context; and
Jane Sellars MBE, co-author of the seminal study
The Art of the Brontës. The keynotes will address, respectively, the social context of Anne’s work, the realism/didacticism of her fiction, and her own artistic practice, and panel sessions will engage with a broad range of topics. We will also be joined by
Serena Partridge and
Layla Khoo, the artists responsible for the Brontë Parsonage Museum's 2016 and 2021 contemporary art installations, and
Samira Ahmed, writer, journalist, broadcaster, and creative partner at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, will close the conference with a personal talk that articulates how radical and inspiring the youngest Brontë sibling continues to be.
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