An alert for tomorrow, August 17, in Haworth:
Tue 18 Aug, 10:00am
Brontë Event Space in the Old School Room
This workshop series explores the Brontë siblings' relationship to the Gothic. We’ll explore the Gothic influences that shaped their fiction, dive into their juvenilia and its use of Gothic elements from murder to necromancy to tragic ghosts, and look at how they changed the Gothic forever.
The day also includes a visit to the Museum's Research Library to examine collection materials. It is worth noting that the Museum will be closed on this day.
| 10 - 11am |
Introducing the Juvenilia: In this session we’ll explore Charlotte’s accounts of their fantastical imaginary world’s construction. We’ll also use extracts from Branwell and Charlotte to explore how the siblings constructed different versions of the same world. |
| 11am - 12pm |
Influencing the Brontës Juvenilia: In this session, we’ll explore some of the authors and works that inspired the Brontës’ juvenile writing: from Edinburgh magazines, to Gothic novels, to Byron’s poetry, to contemporary geographies, and the Arabian Nights. We’ll look at the tiny magazines that the siblings produced in their imaginary world and what they reveal about the wide-ranging interests and reading of all the Brontë children. |
| 12 - 1 pm |
Lunch break |
| 1 - 2pm |
Introducing Our (Anti-)Heroes: In this session, we’ll dive into the interlocking worlds of the juvenilia by exploring some of the key figures and their ever-changing and evolving stories. |
| 2 - 3pm |
Evolving from the Juvenilia: In this final session, we’ll explore the ways in which story points, themes and characters that are famous from the Brontës’ later work come out of the juvenilia. We’ll trace the development of ideas and question some of our assumptions about the novels and what influenced them by looking at how very early several tropes and concerns appear. |
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