Saturday 10 May 2025 (morning)
Registration essential.
10.00 Talk by Nick Holland: ‘Doubt, Defiance and Devotion – Faith and the Bronte sisters’
Nick Holland will look at the depictions of faith and religion in the novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne and also in their lives and in Charlotte’s letters – including Charlotte’s encounters with Catholicism in Brussels.
Nick is well known for his books on various members of the Brontë family. He is the author of In Search of Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë – A Life in 20 poems and Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy. A new book, about Charlotte Brontë and her best friend Ellen Nussey, is to be published in April 2025.
He is also the author of the blog In Search of Anne Brontë in which he writes weekly posts about the Brontës and their circle.
11.30 Talk by Charlotte Jones: “Some untamed ferocity”: The Brontës among the Moderns
One hundred years ago, in 1925, a group of writers were producing some of the most challenging, innovative and unprecedented novels ever written. But a curious thing about many of these modernists — including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Jean Rhys and more — is that to explain how and why they wanted to ‘make it new’, they turned again and again to writers working almost a century earlier: Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë. In this talk, we’ll look at the extraordinary influence the Brontës cast through the twentieth century, from the modernists to later writers, such as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Dr Charlotte Jones teaches at the University of Oxford, where she is a lecturer at St Hugh’s College and teaches for the Department for Continuing Education. One of the courses she is teaching is ‘Beyond the Pages: the Brontës in Context’, which looks at how the Brontës ‘navigated themes such as the supernatural, religion, female empowerment and sexual desire’.
Guided walk
Sunday 11 May 2025
10.00-11.30 (approximate finish time). Guided walk around Brontë places in Brussels in the Place Royale area. Registration essential. Fee: €10 per person, to be paid in advance. Free for members of the Brussels Brontë Group.
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