Literary bragging rights. That’s what’s promised when you spend the night at Brontë Birthplace – the actual childhood home of the famous Yorkshire authors.
Lovingly restored by a passionate committee that strives to preserve the legacy of the Brontë sisters, Brontë Birthplace in Thornton, Bradford, officially opened back in March, welcoming its first visitors after acquiring and restoring the property to reflect how it was when the Brontë family lived there.
Transporting guests to the early 19th century, the team has painstakingly sourced antique items as close to the originals (which currently live at the Brontë Parsonage Museum), so guests can be truly immersed in the time period. But the coolest part? The bedrooms have been restored, too, so you can even stay overnight in the Brontë sisters’ former bedroom.
📣 Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the opening of the Brontë Birthplace Café this Saturday, alongside Thornton Village Street Market ☕🍰
Come and enjoy a nice brew and homemade treats in the historic setting where literary legends were born. While guided tours won’t be available, you’re more than welcome to explore through the house at your own leisure on a self guided tour and our amazing volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions and help you navigate your way round ☺️
🕒 Opening from 10am this Saturday, we can’t wait to welcome you!
And 'Branwell Brontë' will face a grilling from the host of a tongue-in-cheek TV show about why he was dismissed as a railway station clerk. (Alistair Shand)
Author Katie Collom: 'I was drawn to Yorkshire as birthplace of the Brontës'
Katie Collom needed little more than two words to persuade her to consider Yorkshire as her next home - The Brontës. "A friend who is from the area was really selling Yorkshire and she sold it to me on the basis of the Brontë sisters being from here,” Katie says. “I was like oh okay, if it’s got a literary angle, I’m in.” (Laura Reid)
Nerdable lists the most popular novels of all time:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is an 1847 novel by English author Charlotte Brontë which tells the story of a plain and simple girl named Jane. As a child, Jane is abused by her Aunt, faces harsh conditions at the Lockwood School, and then becomes a Governess for a man named Mr. Rochester. The novel tells the story of Jane and Mr. Rochester’s romance.
Jane Eyre is known for revolutionizing prose fiction as it was the first novel to use the first-person narrative. This created a newfound psychological intensity within novels as it examines a storyline through the eyes of the protagonist. Jane Eyre, along with Pride and Prejudice, is known as not only one of the most famous romance novels but also as one of the most popular novels ever written. (Kathryn Carvel)
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë, by Graham Watson
Graham Watson critiques biography itself while exploring the fraught life, creative output, and frenzied eulogizing of “Jane Eyre” author Charlotte Brontë. No one comes off great – not the father, the husband, nor friends such as writer Elizabeth Gaskell, who takes on the herculean task of chronicling “England’s great enigma.” It’s a compelling look at narrative-making. (Erin Douglass)
Classic adaptation
Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966) brought Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights into an Indian cultural landscape. The stormy passion of Heathcliff and Catherine was mirrored in Dilip Kumar and Waheeda Rehman’s characters. Its timeless themes of love, revenge and obsession demonstrated how Western literary classics could seamlessly adapt into Bollywood storytelling traditions. (Sonal Khandelwal)
A hat called the Highgrove Visor, inspired by the “timeless silhouette of the bonnet”, is going on sale at the King’s country estate.
Award-winning milliner Emily Hurst – one of the first graduates of the Chanel and The King’s Foundation’s millinery fellowship – was specially commissioned to produce her chic straw headwear for the Highgrove Shop.
The 15 limited edition pieces – edged in a dark green known as Highgrove Green – were made using the endangered traditional craft of straw plaiting. (...)
The original visor, which sparked the creation of the Highgrove one, was navy-edged and called ‘Shade – shall earth no more inspire thee’ – with the end phrase from an Emily Brontë poem about the healing power of nature.
Stanage Edge
Start/finish: Hathersage train station | Maps: OS Explorer OL1 – The Peak District, Dark Peak (1:25k scale) | Distance: 8.8 miles/14km | Ascent: 1,250ft/381m | Duration: 5 to 6 hours | Transport: Northern train services run hourly between Manchester and Sheffield, stopping at Hathersage
There is plenty of lay-by parking under Stanage Edge for a short walk and you could approach from Redmires reservoir in the northeast, but this route sees you ascend from Hathersage. Incidentally, the Peak town and its surroundings inspired Charlotte Brontë in her writing of Jane Eyre, the most notable example of which is North Lees Hall (also included in this route) which provided the model for Mr. Rochester’s Thornfield Hall. (Francesca Donovan)
Cosmopolitan (Spain) recommends a romance novel, which is neither bad nor good. But the way in which they put in the same group Jane Austen, Emily Brontë as romantic authors (not capital R) is so silly that it is almost a parody in itself:
Soy una gran lectora de novela romántica y este libro que recuerda a las grandes historias de amor de Jane Austen y Emily Brontë es mi favorito del verano. (...)
Las lectoras de romántica han desarrollado una sensibilidad especial. (...) Históricamente tenemos referentes como Jane Austen, clave del desarrollo del género, que con obras como
‘Orgullo y prejuicio’ o
‘Sentido y sensibilidad’ marcó el camino a seguir. También es importante mencionar a Emily Brönte (sic) y su pasional ‘
Cumbres borrascosas’; y no nos olvidamos de firmas más contemporáneas como Julia Quinn de ‘
Los Bridgerton’ o Elísabet Benavent.
(Nerea Panicello) (Translation)
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USA Today's puzzle of today contains a Brontë question: Brontë's Jane.
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