Branwell Brontë's 207th birthday

Today is Branwell Brontë's 207th birthday. The Brontë Parsonage Museum shop celebrates with a discount on Branwell items as you can see on this Instagram post.

The West Australian features The Pod Well Travelled's lastest episode: travel destinations for bookworms.

In this week’s episode, special guest William Yeoman from Writing WA returns to The Pod Well Travelled to chat about literary-inspired travel destinations with fashion writer and stylist Megan French and travel editor Stephen Scourfield.

From the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth to Dylan Thomas’ writing shed in Wales, join the trio of bookworms as they dive into their favourite literary hot spots. (Megan French)

Catholic Herald links the recent controversy about the Brontë Parsonage Museum 'queering' the Brontë sisters to 1984's Ministry of Truth, to abortion and euthanasia and to several religious writings.

In 2021, Channel 5 produced a miniseries depicting Anne Boleyn as a black woman. In 2022, Shakespeare’s Globe put on a show called “I, Joan”, which depicted St Joan of Arc as “non-binary”. And now the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth (the Yorkshire home where the three Brontë sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels), has “queered” Charlotte, Emily and Anne because they used male pseudonyms when writing (who knows what J.K. Rowling will turn out to be in 200 years).  

All such moves are part of a deliberate attempt to feed the dictatorship of relativism.

As Pope Benedict XVI asked in the context of Jesus’s proclamation of the Kingdom, “Is it not true that the great dictatorships were fed by the power of the ideological lie and that only truth was capable of bringing freedom?” [...]

Anne Boleyn was not black. St Joan of Arc was not confused about being a woman. The Brontë sisters were not the Brontë Brothers or the non-binary Brontës. But our latter-day Ministry of Truth tells us to submit to a conception of reality not reached by virtue of reason and uses every trick in the book against those who refuse.

As Christians we have a duty to show the children running the nursery what it means to be a grown up. [...]

“You’re crazy,” some will say, though, when someone ventures that babies used to grow in the wombs of women, that people over 65 used to be allowed to live out the natural span of their lives, that parents were allowed custody over their own children – and that the Brontë sisters weren’t queer. (Katherine Bennett)