Anne Brontë
-
The bicentenary of Charlotte’s birth next month has produced a slew of events that highlight the sisters’ appeal to all ages
-
For the BBC’s Being the Brontës, I got behind the bullied youngest sister – a feminist and social firebrand whose ideas were way over Charlotte’s head and years before their time
-
Anne Brontë’s heroine is re-imagined as a fearless war photographer in this fast-paced thriller, an arresting update of the underrated feminist classic
-
How the moors changed my mind about the Brontës
Lucy ManganCharlotte and Emily were the fantasists, Anne was the realist. That’s how I staunchly believed things to be – until a recent trip to Haworth
-
Brontë Society discovers manuscripts in ‘much-treasured’ book owned by the writer’s mother
-
An engaging study sheds new light on the siblings by examining the material remnants of their lives
-
The author and former society president lambasts ‘malevolent lamebrains’ amid broad calls for the Yorkshire society – one of the literary world’s oldest – to modernise
-
Thomas Bewick’s History of British Birds, mentioned in Jane Eyre, was owned by Yorkshire philanthropist believed to have supported Brontë family
-
Beulah Maud Devaney: Charlotte and Emily Brontë gave us romanticised, byronic heroes, but Anne refused to wear rose-tinted glasses when dealing with male alcoholism and brutality
-
As JK Rowling is revealed to have written under a 'liberating' pen name, test your knowledge of other pseudonyms down the years
-
Harry Potter author's double identity as crime novelist Robert Galbraith puts her in a long tradition of invented identities
-
Calderdale novelist Jill Robinson salutes a man whose output will be very hard to beat - though J.S.Fletcher wrote so fast that he sometimes lost the plot
-
The all-powerful Brontes sweep rivals aside as Yorkshire gets its long-for top medal at last
-
Their evocation of the Pennine landscape was matchless, but the garden at the Parsonage seems to have been another matter
-
Supporters launch appeal to save the Red House in West Yorkshire, home of one of Charlotte Brontë's closest friends
-
Editorial: All of us would be the poorer if this unique building associated with the Brontës was allowed to collapse
-
Haworth's church roof needs repairs, while plans for housing estates overshadow moors where the sisters walked
-
Brontë country, Christmas gift workshops and three of the best after-dark tours
-
The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in the public's affections. Blake Morrison on Brontëmania
-
Blake Morrison: My new adaptation will portray Natasha, Masha and Olga as Charlotte, Emily and Anne. It's not as far-fetched as you might imagine …
-
Natasha Tripney revisits Anne Brontë's tale of a governess trapped between the classes
-
Ian Sansom on three literary sisters and their 'hopeless' brother
-
Sam Jordison: Tourist trappings cannot stifle the vivid sense of their writing life to be found here
-
This walk, combined with a visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, really brings their milieu to life
-
"When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I WILL speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own."
-
Wordsworth Classics, first published 1848
-
This is biography en plein air, biography with all the old coats, mufflers and fancy thrown off, stripped down to its foundations: the letters and contemporary memoirs of the Bronte family and their friends. And how thrilling and engrossing it is. The Brontes have been the focus for fascinated analysis since the first biography of Charlotte was published by Mrs Gaskell two years after her death in 1855. They have been psychoanalysed, appropriated and redefined as feminists, anorexics, victims of patriarchy and various kinds of abuse: there have also been illuminating versions of their lives, most recently Juliet Barker's own acclaimed biography, The Brontes, a work of scholarship, passion and art. But here, to coincide with the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, Barker discards the art and gives the reader the mined ore of her profession, the gold from which formal biography is fashioned.
Pass notes Why has the Brontë Society descended into shocking melodrama?