One hundred and seventy years have passed since the novelist Charlotte Brontë took her last breath, but astonishingly, witnesses to her life still survive. They were present as she penned the last lines of Jane Eyre, walked the cobbled streets of Haworth with her sisters, and joined Arthur Bell Nicholls at the altar in the summer of 1854. Yet, until now, their testimonies have remained unheard.
Drawn from Dr Eleanor Houghton’s new book, Charlotte Brontë’s Life Through Clothes, this richly illustrated talk will give voice to the gowns, bonnets, corsets, parasols, boots, gloves and shawls that have outlived their famous owner. Through these garments, we will explore Charlotte’s life, her experiences and the fast-changing world that she inhabited. From clothing that speaks of grief, challenge, or the pressures of fame, to the tiniest baby garments worn in the house where she was born, these surviving pieces offer an intimate glimpse of the real, raw, thinking, breathing woman behind the myth.
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