Today I’m working on my 25 April SoG Brontë talk about finding connections for family history researchers. It’s looking like a case of working out what to leave out!
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#FamilyHistory #Brontë #Talk
The spines of three books in front of a line of other books on a bookshelf: “Shirley” by Charlotte Brontë, “Villette” by Charlotte Brontë, and “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë.
I’m going through the #classics on my bookcase and it’s here a #Brontë, there a Brontë, everywhere a Brontë-Brontë. I have never read a book by a Brontë. These copied go back 30 years. Yellowed pages. Shall I make the plunge? Or just donate them? #books #booksky
Easter Monday in Haworth - steam trains & Brontë history including a ‘Banksy’ type piece of wall art from last year’s Bradford City of Culture
#Haworth #Brontë #SteamTrain #BrontëSisters #WestYorkshire
My latest blog post is about a unique literary history location in West Yorkshire, pivotal to the lives of the Brontë Sisters. You can even sleep in the same room the sisters slept in over 2 centuries ago.
#Brontë #BrontëSisters #WestYorkshire #BrontëBirthplace #BronteCountry
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If you’re looking for an Easter outing I can recommend a unique literary history location in West Yorkshire, pivotal to the lives of the Brontë Sisters. It’s not Haworth, though you could easily combine both in a day
#Brontë #BrontëSisters #Thornton #BrontëBirthplace #BronteCountry
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The Brontë Birthplace April What’s On Guide.
Located at Thornton, 6 miles from Haworth, it’s a fantastic community initiative & a must visit for any #Brontë & local history enthusiasts. A perfect Easter holiday day out. Please do share.
#WestYorkshire #BrontëSisters
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#Brontë Sisters Power Dolls
This is the first film ever made by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors of Project Hail Mary. The fake commercial was made in 1998 for a series of educational shorts about action toys based on historical figures. It was never aired.
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Here’s the link for the Brontë Birthplace opening times etc.
#BrontëFamily #BrontëSisters #Brontë #WestYorkshire
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Another visit this morning to Thornton, the birthplace of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë. The house, with such a central role in this country’s literary history, is a must for any Brontë enthusiasts. It’s near #Haworth, so easy to combine the two. #Thornton #BrontëSisters #Brontë #WestYorkshire
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 12 March 1837, the British poet laureate #RobertSouthey wrote in reply to #CharlotteBrontë (20), charmingly informing her that "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." Thankfully, #Brontë had resolve.
It’s happening on 25 April.
For Brontë-loving family historians - details of my Society of Genealogists talk.
#FamilyHistory #Brontë #BrontëSisters #LocalHistory
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Charlotte Bronte's pencil portrait of her sister Anne, 1833. Anne would later write the novel 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. Published in 1848, Anne used the pseudonym Acton Bell to avoid preconceptions and prejudices about women's work #WomensArt@womenart.bsky.social #Brontë #Art
More details about the online Brontë-themed family history talk I will be giving in April for the Society Of Genealogists #FamilyHistory #Brontë #WutheringHeights #Talks #BrontëSisters
Any excuse to visit Haworth. So today’s outing was all in the interests of research. #WestYorkshire #Haworth #Brontë #BrontëSisters
Aimee Lou Wood gaat de hoofdrol spelen in de nieuwe serie ‘Jane Eyre’ #AimeeLouWood #JaneEyre #Brontë #SexEducation #TheWhiteLotus
I’m delighted to let you know I will be giving an online talk for the Society of Genealogists on 25 April about Brontë Connections for Family History.
All the details are below.
#Brontë #BrontëSisters #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Talks
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Tom Lowe lampoons Fennell’s Wuthering Heights as an oversexualised castration of Brontë’s complexity, robbing it of all which made it valuable to a Victorian age as riven by (class) war as our own.
#Brontë #WutheringHeights #Social #Society #Opinion
Visited the #Thornton house where the Brontë sisters were born (& probably conceived!) The local community bought it & it opened as a museum last year, a fab local history initiative. Brilliant tour, can recommend. Also saw the Bell Chapel ruins & baptismal font
#Brontë #BrontëSisters #WestYorkshire
Couldn’t resist this. Some ideas for local Brontë themed walks…when it stops raining!
#SpenValley #Brontë
A superb evening @bibsoc.bsky.social learning about the early print editions of the works of the #Brontë sisters. Thanks to all involved.
Unpopular opinion from someone who is otherwise an avid Brontë fan: "Wuthering Heights" is a thoroughly unpleasant novel and any movie made from it is bound to suck. #IsaidwhatIsaid #Brontë #WutheringHeights
A morning walk round Hightown and Hartshead. Someone lost their head, and my attempt at snapping #Quaker headstones had an unusual photobomber. Some #Brontë history thrown in given Wuthering Heights mania. And who doesn’t love a bit of Robin Hood arrow legend too.
#WutheringHeights #RobinHood
Taking The Man in the Stone Cottage to the historic Brontë Birthplace in Thornton - where the Brontë Sisters were born!
Such a fascinating, enriching space, and where the Brontë Sisters' own story began!
📷: @bronteeverafter
#brontë #brontesisters #wutheringheights #emilybronte #literaryacademia
A colour photo of an orange with a green apple behind it (Wikimedia Commons). The orange has big cartoon eyes and a goofy expression, the apple has emoji eyes, a straight monobrow, and an irritated expression. The orange is saying “We’re both edible?”. The apple is thinking “We’re both fruit, dumbass.”. Apples and oranges: not alike in most ways!
#randomthoughtsonaTuesday #Austen #Brontë #Englishfemalewriters #writing
Comparing Jane Austen to Charlotte Brontë is like comparing Evelyn Waugh to John Steinbeck.
Gotta give the ladies props for still being popular 200+ yrs later, though.
#BBC #R4Today
Haven’t “heaving bosoms” been around since #Brontë days?
Grow up, Nick f’ing Robinson.
House with links to Charlotte Brontë on the market.
If only I had a spare £1,150,000
#LocalHistory #MrRochestor #Brontë #WestYorkshire
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Two fools in dense fog-
call it fate, call it passion,
pure limerence love.
#poetry #haiku #wutheringheights #brontë #chaosart
