Another alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
Friday 25 March 2022, 19.30 h
Exclusive evening event with Ann Dinsdale
Charlotte Brontë’s husband described his wife’s letters as being as dangerous as ‘Lucifer matches’, and extracted a promise from her friend, Ellen Nussey, that all future correspondence would be destroyed. Fortunately for Brontë biographers, Ellen did not keep her promise and preserved several hundred of Charlotte’s letters. Letters were the primary means of communication in the nineteenth century and much of what we know about the Brontës’ lives is gleaned from their surviving correspondence. This event looks at the range of the Brontës’ correspondence and highlights gaps, suggesting what may have become of such missing letters.
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