Brontë Society Summer Festival 2019 (I)

 Some events of the first day of this year's Brontë Society Summer Festival:

Peter Mullins: 'Better and More Scriptural' - Patrick Brontë's Ministry in the Context of Its Time
Friday 07 June 2019
15:00 h

On the anniversary of Patrick’s death, join the Revd Peter Mullins for this insightful talk exploring the context of Patrick’s life as perpetual curate of Haworth in an age of reform and dispute in church and state.
The Revd Peter Mullins is the present Rector of Haworth and Cross Roads.  He has been intrigued for a full fifty years by how the priests of the Church of England ministered in the middle of the nineteenth century – beginning at the age of eight when he was taken to visit the tiny Wiltshire parishes of which his Mullins great-great-grandfather was the Rector and continuing on and off since then by everything from dipping into archives to reading Trollope.

Paul Edmondson: 'Inspired by Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Role in the Work of the Brontës'
Friday 07 June 2019
19:30 h

Shakespeare's impact on the work of the Brontës is pervasive, and sometimes surprising. Shirley contains a chapter entitled 'Coriolanus' which presents a political reading of Shakespeare's play. Wuthering Heights fully digests and re-dreams Shakespeare. Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall demonstrate a careful reading of his work. In this enlightening talk Shakespeare scholar Paul Edmondson will show how the Brontës were inspired by Shakespeare, and present an overview of his influence on their genius,
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of many books and articles about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare's Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers (2016, with Peter Holbrook). Paul published a volume of his own poems, Destination Shakespeare, for the Shakespeare 400 aniversary year, and his latest book has just appeared: New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity (co-edited with Ewan Fernie) for which he has written about Germany's love of Shakespeare.