The Annual General Meeting of the Brontë Society will be held today, September 10:
The Brontë Society Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022 will take place at 3pm (UK BST) on Saturday 10 September 2022 via Zoom Webinar. The Brontë Society has a global membership and this year’s AGM is being held online to facilitate attendance by members who are unable to travel to a physical meeting due to distance, disability or economic factors.
Brontë Society Annual Lecture (13.00 h Zoom)Honresfield: Imagining One Man’s Collection
Professor Kathryn Sutherland
‘we are all the heroes of our collections’ (Susan M. Pearce, On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition, 1995)
The hero of the Honresfield Library as it was assembled in the late nineteenth century is William Law, a mill owner living in Littleborough, near Rochdale, Lancashire; Honresfield, the name of his house. Acquired for the nation at the end of 2021, the Honresfield Library represents a significant slice of British literary heritage and one of the finest private collections of nineteenth-century manuscripts. Filled with letters, poetry, novels, in the hands of writers who, in William Law’s youth were still contemporary and almost within touching distance—Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Jane Austen—the library also contains one of the world’s greatest collections of Brontë manuscripts. Honresfield is a snapshot of a moment in the history of collecting as well as of one man’s interests. As the Friends of the National Libraries disperses this extraordinary collection across many of the nation’s public libraries and writers’ houses, what can we discover about its contents and its hero?
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