Charlotte and Celebrity

 An alert for today, March 9, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

A Thursday Talk

Charlotte and Celebrity

Thursday 09 March 2023

Bronte Event Space at the Old School Room 2pm (Live)

7.30pm (online)

In October 1849 Charlotte’s publishers suggested that revealing her identity would allow her access to literary circles and deserved fame and recognition; she wrote back extolling the virtues of being able to ‘walk invisible’.  Within a year she had given way to the lure of these attractive new opportunities to widen her horizons beyond Haworth, but retained an equivocal attitude to her new found celebrity status, torn between the prospect of intellectual excitement and the reticence induced by her natural shyness.  

 

This talk will explore how she navigated this challenging new scenario, what she made of the other famous people she met and their impressions of her, including romantic rumours related to George Smith and James Taylor.