A couple of alerts for tomorrow, April 10, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
Thu 10 Apr, 2:00pm
Brontë Space at the Old School Room
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 reticence induced by her natural shyness.
This talk will explore how she navigated this challenging new scenario, what she made of the famous people she met and their impressions of her, including romantic rumors related to George Smith & James Taylor.
With Sharon Wright
Thu 10 Apr, 7:30pm (Zoom Only)
To mark the anniversary this month of Maria Branwell Brontë’s birth, we explore the life of the mother of genius from her first birthday in Penzance to her last in Haworth. This illustrated Thursday Talk includes how items in the Brontë collection reveal the legacy of this enigmatic lady of letters in the lives and works of her daughters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
This talk will be given by Sharon Wright – award-winning journalist, author of the best-selling Mother of the Brontës: The Life of Maria Branwell and Editor of Brontë Society Gazette. Sharon recently had the misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters corrected in Westminster Abbey.
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