In 1829-30, Charlotte Brontë was 13 and her brother Branwell Brontë 12. Creating fantasy worlds they called Angria and Glass Town, the siblings made teeny tiny books. Measuring less than 1 inch by 2 ...
The most famous painting of the Brontë sisters – in fact, the only group portrait in existence – hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London, depicting diminutive Anne, Emily and eldest sister ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Directed by Sarah Nilsen, the cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Marc ...
THE INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTË(336 pp.)—Daphne Du Maurier —Doubleday ($4.50). Everyone knows of the Brontë sisters; fewer people recall that they had a brother. Yet before his 21st year, ...
Branwell Bronte's Tale, by Chris Firth, published by Electraglade Press at £8.99 IT is September 1848. Two men set out by coach to visit an ailing acquaintance in the unsalubrious village of Haworth, ...
Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847, when she was 31 years old, but she was already making books when she was a teenager in West Yorkshire, England. The Young Men’s Magazine, one of six ...
This April the world will celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. International events are planned: Never-before-seen artifacts will be on display in her childhood home, the BBC will air a drama ...
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The contours of the Brontë story have been burnished over time into legend: those bleak, wind-swept moors; that isolated West Yorkshire parsonage; the children whose sole playmates were one another; ...