Everyone of discernment has a favourite Brontë novel. For me it is Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and I also think its companion piece Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (the two books were published side by si…| Anne Brontë
We’ve looked previously at the possible reasons for the choice of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as the pen names of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and the possible reasons for them de…| Anne Brontë
As you know, we’re in the four year ‘Brontë 200 period’; a time when we can pay tribute to the 200th birthdays of Charlotte Brontë (2016), Branwell Brontë (2017), Emily Brontë (20…| Anne Brontë
When Charlotte and Anne Brontë arrived in London on the morning of 8th July 1848, they had just one thing on their mind: restoring their honour. A day earlier a letter had arrived from Charlotte…| Anne Brontë
Some works of literature have worked their way into the national consciousness and beyond. It’s difficult to imagine a world without Jane Eyre; it’s loved by readers across the globe today just as …| Anne Brontë
On this week in 1847 a new author made their writing debut. Published by Smith, Jones & Co. the book Jane Eyre: An Autobiography marked the first appearance before the public of the mysterious …| Anne Brontë
Whilst Anne and Emily Brontë didn’t live to see the success their huge talents deserved and earned, Charlotte Brontë did encounter the trappings of fame in the final years of her life, including fa…| Anne Brontë
This week was a particularly exciting one for two members of the Brontë household in 1847, for on 4th July of that year Emily and Anne Brontë sent the manuscripts of their first novels to their pub…| Anne Brontë
In the summer of 1848 Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë made a fateful journey to London, determined to prove their innocence after a ruse by rogue publisher Thomas Cautley Newby led to Charlotte’s …| Anne Brontë
Step this way, put your cloche hat or tweed jacket on and follow me back in time 94 years. A rather scandalous, so it is said, book is just hitting the newspaper reviews: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well …| Anne Brontë
The 22nd of March is World Water Day; it sounds like a joke but it’s far from funny. One in three people around the world have no access to a toilet or clean water, and that has an incredible…| Anne Brontë
Haworth has become famous the world over for three sisters who lived, all too briefly, in its parsonage at the summit of its steep hill: the Brontë sisters. At the time the Brontës lived there it w…| Anne Brontë
At church this morning, one week after Easter Sunday, the sermon recounted the well known tale of doubting Thomas. He believed because he had seen, but those of us today and in the past have not seen and yet still have to struggle with that religious hydra: belief and doubt. It was a doubt known to the Brontë siblings, as we can see from two poems in today’s new Brontë blog post.| Anne Brontë
It’s a sunny Sunday so it’s time for another new Brontë blog post, and this could be the last of my Brontë blog posts on this WordPress platform – but we’ll come to that later. For now we’ll look a…| Anne Brontë
The early days of a year are often a time for reflection. This can be a positive exercise, but for many it can lead to sad introspection and a longing for times that have gone. That certainly seeme…| Anne Brontë
Brontë fans and regular readers of this blog will be in no doubt as to Charlotte Brontë’s esteem for Constantin Heger – first her teacher and then her colleague in Brussels he cast a huge shadow on Charlotte’s life and work. There can be no doubt that Charlotte Brontë fell in love with Monsieur Heger nor that this was an unrequited love. The pain and misery this caused Charlotte Brontë was exquisite, yet it led to the creation of the immortal literary protagonists Edward Rochester o...| Anne Brontë
Brontë fans and regular readers of this blog will be in no doubt as to Charlotte Brontë’s esteem for Constantin Heger – first her teacher and then her colleague in Brussels he cast a huge sha…| Anne Brontë
This weekend marked the anniversary of the funeral service and then burial of Anne Brontë in Scarborough. As you probably know, Anne is buried in a graveyard to the side of St. Mary’s church,…| Anne Brontë
In last Sunday’s blog we took a first look at Aunt Branwell, revealing a woman who sacrificed much to step into the void left by her younger sister Maria’s death. Putting self aside she…| Anne Brontë
Aunt Elizabeth Branwell is all too easily overlooked in the Brontë story, and yet she was pivotal to the incredible story of these incredible sisters. On a very human scale she stepped into the breach after her sister Maria’ untimely death and became almost a second mother to the young children in Haworth Parsonage; it was also Elizabeth’s legacy to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë which gave them the financial freedom to pay for their first book to be published. In today’s post we wi...| Anne Brontë
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, but it’s also a day we remember another Patrick – for on this day in 1777 in Drumballyroney, County Down (that’s it at the top of this post) a local farmer&#…| Anne Brontë
I know that many people today will be laying out egg hunts in their beautiful gardens, cooking a roast and spending quality time with the people they love – to those I say Happy Easter. There’…| Anne Brontë
We all love Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and thankfully there are many good, or at least good intentioned, biographies that expand our knowledge of them. There are many others, however, who ha…| Anne Brontë
My latest Brontë blog post is a day earlier than usual, so don’t worry – you haven’t slept in and missed the England football match, Wimbledon tennis or Michael McIntyre’s ‘The Wheel’. I’m wr…| Anne Brontë
This week in 1846 saw a very important moment in the Brontë story, and, indeed, in the story of English literature as a whole. On the 6th of February 1846 three sisters, weary yet undaunted after a…| Anne Brontë
In this extra mid week post I’m going to take a look at a man who played a central part in Anne Brontë’s life: William Weightman. I believe that Weightman was loved by Anne and that he …| Anne Brontë
Apologies to all who missed my Brontë blog post last Sunday, a combination of travelling and technical glitches meant that it somehow vanished into the ether never to return – although as it was about the Brontës’ French connections it may make a return next year on or around the date of Bastille Day.| Anne Brontë
Apologies to all who missed my Brontë blog post last Sunday, a combination of travelling and technical glitches meant that it somehow vanished into the ether never to return – although as it …| Anne Brontë
Summer has finally arrived, so make the most of the sunny weather while you can. Of course, wherever you are, on a patio or beach, it’s always improved if you have a good book to hand. On this day …| Anne Brontë
Many people made a lasting impression on Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë – people such as Ellen Nussey, Mary Taylor, George Smith and Margaret Wooler. This week marks the anniversary of the passin…| Anne Brontë
We are in the midst of another heatwave here in Yorkshire, but in 1848 it was this week which changed literary history forever – for better and worse. This was the week in which Charlotte and Anne Brontë travelled to London together to finally reveal their true identities and, in doing so, disprove theories that … Continue reading What Did The Brontës Bring Home From London?| Anne Brontë
Bruce Springsteen said you can’t start a fire without a spark; I believe that a spark is also essential to kickstart great works of art and creativity, and it was just such a spark that lit up Haworth Parsonage on this week in 1836. There can be no other family which has produced such a … Continue reading The Creative Spark To The Bronte Fire| Anne Brontë
The notices column in local newspapers was often referred to as ‘hatches, matches and dispatches’ as it contained announcements of births, marriages and deaths. In today’s new Brontë blog post we will look at two landmark life events which occurred for Charlotte Brontë on the same day – 38 years apart. It was on this … Continue reading Charlotte Bronte’s Wedding And Baptism| Anne Brontë
If you live in England you can’t fail to have noticed the unseasonably hot weather. The mercury is rising, and temperatures along with them, as June climate records fall like so many drips from the edges of ice cream cones. Thankfully a cooler snap is now starting, but in today’s post we’re going to look … Continue reading Cold Poems By Emily And Anne Brontë| Anne Brontë
As followers of this blog will know, I recently launched a new venture – the House Of Brontë channel on YouTube. Just like this blog it’s always free, and it exists so that I can share my love of the Brontës with the world and hopefully reach out to even more people who want to … Continue reading A Tour Of The Haworth Parsonage Dining Room| Anne Brontë
In last week’s Brontë blog post we took a first look at the Brussels the Brontë sisters, or at least Charlotte and Emily Brontë, knew, and how it looks now. Today, we will take a further look in ou…| Anne Brontë
In search of Anne Brontë and her family| Anne Brontë
As we enter the latter half of July 2017 we can think back to a day 199 years ago, when a Cornish woman and an Irish man were awaiting the birth of their fifth child – Emily Jane Brontë. This…| Anne Brontë
Haworth is a beautiful, magical place at this time of year, but its steep Main Street (known as Kirkgate when the Brontës first arrived there in 1820) can also be treacherous in icy conditions. The…| Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë was one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century; her books Agnes Grey and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall deserve to be ranked alongside those of her sisters Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Poetry was her first creative love however, and in her verse we often get a snapshot into her thoughts and life at the time she was putting quill to paper. We’re going to look at one such poem in today’s post: ‘Night’.| Anne Brontë
There are many places associated with Anne Brontë and her sisters: Haworth, of course, where they lived the majority of their lives and which is now a place of literary pilgrimage; Thornton near Br…| Anne Brontë
On this day, May 28th, in 1849 a young woman in her twenties was dying in a room in lodgings taken at Scarborough, with her sister Charlotte and friend Ellen looking hopelessly on. She died in obsc…| Anne Brontë
This weekend we mark an anniversary that brought to an end the Brontë line, an end to the house of Brontë lineage. Patrick Brontë died on June 7th 1861 in Haworth, where he had served as Church of England curate for over 40 years. It was in some ways his great tragedy that he lived so long, as he had outlived his wife and all six of his children. When he died, his son-in-law Arthur Bell Nicholls was by Patrick’s side, the widower of his third daughter Charlotte Brontë.| Anne Brontë
The Brontë story is like no other, where else would we find three creative geniuses in one sibling group? In other ways it is a story familiar to us all, a stage we all must tread with its entrance…| Anne Brontë
At church this morning, one week after Easter Sunday, the sermon recounted the well known tale of doubting Thomas. He believed because he had seen, but those of us today and in the past have not se…| Anne Brontë
Aunt Elizabeth Branwell is all too easily overlooked in the Brontë story, and yet she was pivotal to the incredible story of these incredible sisters. On a very human scale she stepped into the bre…| Anne Brontë
Yesterday was the 208th anniversary of a very special person indeed. They were the third of six children of a couple who had moved to Yorkshire from Ireland and Cornwall. A clergyman’s daughter who…| Anne Brontë
In today’s very special post I bring you amazing news about the Brontë birthplace in Thornton. Whilst Haworth has become synonymous with the Brontë sisters, it is the former parsonage on Mark…| Anne Brontë
This week has marked a joyous anniversary in the Brontë calendar, for it was on this week in 1820 that Anne Brontë was born in Thornton, near Bradford. The sixth and final child of the Brontë famil…| Anne Brontë
I hope your new year has got off to a happy start full of health and wealth. Alas, it was not to be in the Brontë household at the start of 1849 for it was on this very day that Anne Brontë was dia…| Anne Brontë