With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
Third Coast Review gives 4 stars to Red Orchid Theatre’s take on The Moors.
Ah, gothic romance. It is always a dark and stormy night with sexually repressed spinsters sitting in the parlor of a creaky old mansion with ivy growing inside. The winds howl as the storm rages and a mastiff sits forlornly looking out of the window. A Red Orchid Theatre’s The Moors takes the lid off the staid and murky tales of unrequited passion with a few moments of zen thrown in via Moor Hen and the Mastiff. Yes, there is a governess, a sinister maid, typhus fever, and someone in the attic for the purist. However, The Moors takes DuMaurier, the Brontës, and even Henry James and tells the story behind the tales of our high school reading lists. [...]
The Moors is a literate and beautifully staged show. The scenic design by Milo Blue encapsulates decay and madness in the intimate Red Orchid setting. The fog, vines, and cracked portraits form physical boundaries where this strange collection of characters live. The Moors is a show that holds up a mirror into the times in which we live as well. Some accept these limits and others go against restraints to break free no matter the consequence. It is a wickedly funny take on the gothic romance novel where the macabre blends with forbidden desires and suppressed passion. The moral of the story could be that schemers sometimes do prosper and dogs will be dogs. Go see this play and draw your conclusions. I highly recommend The Moors as a refreshing return to true Chicago-style theater—fearless and provocative. (Kathy D. Hey)
Love Belfast reports that the inaugural Linen Hall Library Enlightenment Festival (February 1-5 and in Spring) will include
a performed reading of Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea; a post-colonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
Metropolitan Magazine (Italy) had an article on Anne Brontë for her birthday yesterday.
“Agnes Grey” può essere considerato a suo modo un romanzo femminista sebbene la protagonista sia all’apparenza una donna mite e meno ribelle dell’eroine di Charlotte ed Emily Brontë. Questo perchè non smette mai di chiedersi come una donna possa sopravvivere in un epoca dura per le donne come quella vittoriana e come possa ottenere la sua emancipazione. Un indipendenza che Agnes Grey riesce a conquistare aprendo una scuola con la madre
“La signora di Wildfell Hall” ci porta invece in dote una donna estroversa, ribelle e artista come Helen Graham che fugge da un marito alcolista. Scritto in forma epistolare questo libro per la franchezza del linguaggio e per i temi trattati attirò subito polemiche e l’interesse dei lettori. Proprio da quest’opera si evince come Anne Brontë non sia affatto un’autrice inferiore alle sorelle ma che invece possa essere pienamente considerata un precursore del realismo moderno. (Stefano Delle Cave) (Translation)
AnneBrontë.org celebrated the birthday as well and so did the Brontë Parsonage Museum by sharing on YouTube the performance of Say It Anyway by poet Jasmine Gardosi commissioned when she was one of the museum's writers in residence in 2020.
Where Was The Real Thornfield Hall?
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Spring has not yet sprung and we are still enjoying dark nights where you
can snuggle up with a good book. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is one of
those bo...
Member talk: The Brontës and fake news
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There have been wild speculations and baseless theories about the Brontë
sisters and their novels virtually since the books were first published in
1847. J...
Celebrating Anne Brontë
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Wishing a happy belated birthday to Anne Brontë, born on 17th January 1820
in Thornton. She was an English novelist and poet and her works include the
prot...
Goodbye, Jane
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As two wonderful years come to an end, Piper and Lillian reflect on what
we've learned from Jane Eyre.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Happy...
The Calderdale Windfarm
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*The Calderdale Windfarm*
Sixty-five turbines, each one of them forty metres taller than Blackpool
Tower! All of them close by Top Withens. This is what ...
Hello!
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This is our new post website for The Anne Brontë Society. We are based in
Scarborough UK, and are dedicated to preserving Anne’s work, memory, and
legacy. ...
Final thoughts.
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Back from honeymoon and time for Charlotte to admire her beautiful wedding
day bonnet before storing it carefully away in the parsonage.
After 34 days...
Charlotte Bronte and the Great Exhibition of 1851
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A Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, celebrating industrial advances,
had been promoted from July 1949 by Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole, the
sam...
Ambrotipia – Tesori dal Brontë Parsonage Museum
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Continua la collaborazione tra The Sisters’ Room e il Brontë Parsonage
Museum. Vi mostriamo perciò una serie di contenuti speciali, scelti e
curati dire...
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kcarreras:
I have an inward *treasure* born with me, which can keep me alive if all
extraneous *delights* should be withheld or offered only at a price I...
Livre «Quel Brontë êtes-vous ?»
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Un nouveau livre en français au sujet des Brontë est paru le 20 février
2020 aux éditions Librinova : Quel Brontë êtes-vous ? par Anna
Feissel-Leibovici. ...
Brontë in media
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Wist u dat? In de film ‘The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society’
gebaseerd op de gelijknamige briefroman, schrijft hoofdrolspeelster Juliet
Ashto...
Researching Emily Brontë at Southowram
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A couple of weeks ago I took a wander to the district of Southowram, just a
few miles across the hills from Halifax town centre, yet feeling like a
vil...
Handwriting envy
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The opening facsimile of Charlotte Brontë’s hand for the opening of the
novel is quite arresting. A double underlining emphasises with perfect
clarity tha...
Html to ReStructuredText-converter
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Wallflux.com provides a rich text to reStructredText-converter. Partly
because we use it ourselves, partly because rst is very transparent in
displaying wh...
Display Facebook posts in a WordPress widget
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You can display posts from any Facebook page or group on a WordPress blog
using the RSS-widget in combination with RSS feeds from Wallflux.com:
https://www...
5. The Poets’ Jumble Trail Finds
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending with some friends a jumble trail
in which locals sold old – and in some instances new – bits and bobs from
their ...
How I Met the Brontës
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My first encounter with the Brontës occurred in the late 1990’s when
visiting a bookshop offering a going-out-of -business sale. Several books
previously d...
Radio York
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I was interviewed for the Paul Hudson Weather Show for Radio York the other
day - i had to go to the BBC radio studios in Blackburn and did the
interview...
CELEBRATION DAY
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MEDIA RELEASE
February 2010
For immediate release
FREE LOCAL RESIDENTS’ DAY AT NEWLY REFURBISHED BRONTË MUSEUM
This image shows the admission queue on the...
Poetry Day poems
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This poem uses phrases and lines written by visitors at the Bronte
Parsonage Museum to celebrate National Poetry Day 2009, based on words
chosen from Emily...
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
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Firstly, I would like to thank the good people at Avon- Harper Collins for
sending me a review copy of Syrie James' new book, The Secret Diaries of
Charlot...
With... Bethany Turner-Pemberton
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Sassy and Sam chat to researcher and curator Bethany Turner-Pemberton.
Bethany is PhD candidate in Textiles and Museum Studies at Manchester
Metropolitan...
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