Nick Holland
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Author, 'leading Brontë expert' (New York Times) TV: 'Brontë's Britain with Gyles Brandreth', 'Britain's Scenic Railways', 'The Gunpowder Plot'
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BRONTE BOOK FOUND! This tiny Book Of Rhymes, written by Charlotte Bronte aged 13, had been thought lost since 1916. "Sold by nobody" wrote Charlotte - it sold for $520 in 1916 and is now up for auction with an estimate of 1.25 million!
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I wasn't a fan of the music of Bros, it just wasn't my thing, but after watching Matt Goss in
#Strictly
he's really risen in my estimation. It's clear that he is simply a nice person, and I think that's the most important talent of them all.
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This was Emily Bronte's sewing box - for half a century it held a secret. In 1895 Charlotte Bronte's widower Arthur Bell Nicholls was turning the box over in his hand and heard a click; a secret compartment opened and inside were the diary papers written by Emily & Anne Bronte!
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Still in great condition 170 years after it was worn, Charlotte Bronte's Wedding bonnet:
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Huge news if true: Penguin are about to publish a newly discovered sequel to Jane Eyre! Found beneath the Haworth Parsonage floorboards Jane Eyre II - Bertha's Revenge is the last book written by Charlotte Bronte. In it, Bertha Rochester returns from the grave - and she's angry
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How beautiful are these? These writing desks, or slopes, were the ones used by the Bronte sisters to write their works of genius.
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#otd
1830 Charlotte Bronte drew this beautiful sketch of "wild roses, from nature". She was 14 at the time.
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This beautiful dress of Charlotte Bronte's wasn't one of those worn by museum volunteers in 1927 - for the simple reason that it wasn't discovered until 1936, behind one of the parsonage walls!
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Let's have another fabulous dress of Charlotte Bronte's! This was worn by Charlotte to an 1850 dinner party hosted by William Makepeace Thackeray. We have this fabulous account, from Thackeray's daughter, of Charlotte's arrival wearing it!
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I have Bronte news to share! I will soon be starting a Bronte podcast called The House Of Bronte tracing the Bronte story from beginning to end, a 60 year period that changed literature forever. I hope some of you will listen in and enjoy it 😊
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All the Bronte sisters were talented artists from an early age; In 1836, aged 16, Anne Bronte drew this sublime "Man with a dog before a villa"
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BREAKING NEWS! (I don't often get the chance to type that). Sotheby's have suspended the July auction of the Honresfield Library containing Bronte treasures. They're helping negotiate a deal for these wonderful items to be bought for the nation! Really great news!
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Was this the real Thornfield Hall? This is North Lees Hall near Hathersage. In 1845 Charlotte Bronte visited the family who owned it - they were the Eyre family!
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Re-reading a recent Bronte biography, the author calls this portrait of the young Bronte sisters, by brother Branwell, crude and naive. I quite like it, what do you think?
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In this room magic was made! Every time I enter this room at Haworth Parsonage I'm awestruck at the thought that this was where Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte walked round and round the table, swapping ideas, discussing plots and creating some of the greatest books of all time
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Emily Bronte was a very talented artist (she was good at everything she turned her hand to), and I love these doggy drawings of hers. First we have her own dogs Grasper and Keeper, and then Anne's spaniel Flossy:
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Emily Bronte excelled at everything she turned her hand to, from prose and poetry to bread making, language learning, shooting and art. Here are some geometric sketches Emily made when she was 20.
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I had signed up for online dating in December but I've cancelled that and spent the money on a new bookcase and these beautiful books instead: sets by the Brontës, Jane Austen, Dickens, Agatha Christie and Poets of the English Language. I think I made the right decision! 😂📖
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BREAKING NEWS! So excited to finally be able to announce that the Honresfield collection has been saved for the nation! Among its treasures are Emily & Charlotte Bronte manuscripts, Scott's 'Rob Roy' manuscript & this: the earliest extant letter of Jane Austen (born
#otd
1775)
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Painted
#otd
1830: 'wild roses from nature' by Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte has very helpfully dated this beautiful picture. She was just 14 years old when she painted it.
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This was originally bright pink and is Charlotte Bronte's night dress with matching cape. It is situated by the Haworth Parsonage dining table around which Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne used to walk at night, composing poems and prose.
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A 16 year old Charlotte Bronte made this drawing of Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds in 1832. It's believed to be the spot where her father Patrick proposed to her mother Maria 20 years earlier.
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I love this 1908 photograph of suffragettes dressing as and carrying the names of prominent women: Charlotte Bronte, Florence Nightingale, Grace Darling, Harriet Martineau and, rather less known today, actress Ellen (Mrs Charles) Kean.
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Here's a remarkable photo from 1927 showing museum staff wearing two of Charlotte Bronte's dresses - including, right, the one she left for her honeymoon in!
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As we've seen, Charlotte Bronte loved painting flowers, but Emily Bronte preferred painting the animals and birds she saw, as in this painting of a bird she found injured and then nursed back to health: Nero, Body Of A Merlin:
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It's not just Wuthering Heights that unites them. Born
#otd
1958, exactly 140 years after Emily Bronte, the brilliant Kate Bush!
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#otd
1847 Charlotte Bronte sends Jane Eyre to publisher George Smith. He later recalled how he picked it up on a Sunday morning, cancelled a dinner party, turned away visitors and had read the book by the time he went to bed. It was published less than two months later.
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We know from a description that this blue patterned dress was the one worn by Charlotte Bronte when she attended a party at William Makepeace Thackeray's house.
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Looking in the newspaper archives I found this charming picture from the Leeds Mercury in June, 1930. Submitted by Wilfred Moore of Keighley it shows his 10 year old soon being dragged to the sea in Whitby. The boy grew up to be the late, great Captain Sir Tom Moore
#captaintom
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I can share some amazing news about the Bronte birthplace, Thornton today. It will re‐open next year and for one day on Charlotte's birthday (21 April) this month! More on my blog later but look at these amazing photos courtesy of Mark Davies. The Bronte birthplace is saved!
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This tiny little porcelain doll was found beneath the floorboards of Haworth Parsonage in 1949. It had belonged to Charlotte Bronte for the doll's dress matches the fabric of one of Charlotte’s childhood dresses.
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A Friday treat here with another dress once worn by Charlotte Bronte. It's adorned by a seashell necklace which was Anne Bronte's, as were the stockings on display:
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#otd
1939 a new plaque was unveiled in Westminster Abbey, and the Bronte sisters finally took their place in Poet's Corner. I particularly like the very fitting line from Anne Bronte used at the foot of the plaque!
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I think the BBC's 1996 The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall is a wonderful adaptation of Anne Bronte's seminal novel. Faithful to the book, unflinching and a brilliant cast - have you seen it?
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"For Annie Bronte". Branwell Bronte, born yesterday in 1817, painted this fairytale castle for his 8 year old sister Anne Bronte when he was 11.
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#otd
1849 the great Anne Bronte died in Scarborough, aged 29. In her short life she had proved herself a fine poet, a genius novelist and a kind, brilliant woman. Anne deserves to be remembered among the very top rank of British writers.
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On
#WorldPoetryDay
let's remember, and be cheered by, the brilliance of Emily Bronte - and let's remember with Emily all those staying safe and isolating and who 'will not cannot go':
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I've only just found out an article I wrote about the Bronte sisters and their love of cats was published in Your Cat magazine last September. Here it is - the Brontes loved their felines:
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I'm so pleased that Asmaa won
#SewingBee
the greatest of all time on this fabulous show! Someone should snap her dress up for next year's oscars. Amid all of the idiocy from Musk, Sunak and their hate filled followers this was such a beacon of joyousness!
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Born
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1818 in Thornton, Bradford a girl who became a shy woman, a towering genius. A skilled artist, a star baker, a wonderful pianist, a brilliant poet and author of just one book - but, in my opinion, it's the greatest book ever written. Happy 206th birthday Emily Bronte!
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Two very important Charlotte Bronte rings here: first, a ruby and diamond ring given her by Arthur Bell Nicholls and secondly her gold wedding ring.
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The proposal scene in Anne Bronte's 'Agnes Grey' is very touching. I had my own proposal scene in Lapland this week, and I'm so thrilled and delighted tp say that the most amazing woman, the love of my life, has agreed to become my wife!
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Daphne du Maurier was born
#otd
1907. Her magnificent Rebecca was hugely influenced by Jane Eyre, and du Maurier wrote a biography of Branwell Bronte and essays on the Brontes. In her final years a chief pleasure was to talk about Bronte country to her Yorkshire-born maid.
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This is the earliest Bronte writing (and art) we have - 'There was once a little girl and her name was Ane' written in 1826 by 10 year old Charlotte for 6 year old Anne Bronte
#siblinglove
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2pm tomorrow marks the 170th anniversary of Anne Bronte's death aged 29 in Scarborough. I'll be taking flowers to her in St Mary's churchyard at that time, so if anyone wants to join me there in a moment of quiet reflection you're more than welcome.
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Jane Austen was born
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1775. There's often a debate over who's best: Austen or the Brontes. Surely we can and should appreciate them both? Jane Austen was a brilliant, dazzling writer; a timeless genius who didn't just write 'romances' - she wrote hilarious & moving satires
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#otd
1849 the dying Anne Bronte is in Scarborough with friend Ellen and sister Charlotte. She has just one day left to live. She crosses Cliff Bridge (now Spa Bridge) and later asks to be left alone by the beach so she can contemplate what is to come.
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#otd
1849 Charlotte Bronte faces her first day after the death of Anne Bronte - she has outlived all five of her siblings. We know that today Charlotte visited Scarborough Castle with Ellen Nussey, a dramatic location to simply walk, think and remember.
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It's the weekend so let's wash our hands of all negativity and have something beautiful - like these dresses and bonnets worn by the Brontes:
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Happy Jane Eyre Day! Jane Eyre was published
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1847 and the world of Charlotte Bronte was changed forever! Here are four illustrations from my beautiful Edmund Dulac illustrated edition:
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#otd
1830 Charlotte Bronte was so taken by some roses she saw that she decided to paint them. Here's the result: 'Wild Roses - from nature'. Not bad for a 14 year old!
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A tragic literary anniversary today, as
#otd
1941 the great Virginia Woolf took her own life aged 59. After hearing of Virginia's death her friend T. S. Eliot said, "For myself and others it is the end of the world, I feel quite numb."
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Here is Anne Bronte's most famous painting, Sunrise Over Sea. Anne Bronte loved the sea and is buried looking out towards the Scarborough coast, but she had never seen the sea at the time she created this!
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The
#BoatRace2018
took a strange turn as Oxford were soundly beaten by Cambridge Analytica after stopping at Hammersmith Bridge to complete some facebook quizzes.
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Ah,Top Hat on BBC4 now and all is good in the world. It may be a controversial opinion, but I think the Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers films are great works of art, the zenith of movie entertainment. I could (and do) watch them again and again.
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"Our dear Charlotte is no more - she died last night of exhaustion."
Charlotte Bronte died, while pregnant, aged 38
#otd
1855. A terrible loss to her husband, father and friends but her works of genius will never die. She was a brilliant writer & a kind, brilliant human being:
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Happy Jane Eyre Day!
#otd
1847 Charlotte Bronte sent the manuscript of Jane Eyre to the publisher Smith, Elder & Co - and here it is in Charlotte's own hand! We see here the opening, the engagement scene and perhaps the greatest of all chapter openings: "Reader - I married him"
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Emily Bronte means the world to me - her book changed my life, she was an intensely shy, intensely brilliant genius. She didn't romp with Weightman, those who knew her didn't think her odd - they loved her. That's all I have to say on a certain film.
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Here is some youthful work by Anne Bronte. Right is the needlework sampler she made aged 8, and left is a sketch of Roe Head School made after her arrival there aged 15:
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Spring is in the air today so here is a beautiful painting of 'convolvulus, crocus and aster' by a young Charlotte Bronte.
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I absolutely love this 1845 doodle by Emily Bronte showing Keeper by her feet and Anne Bronte's Flossy on her bed:
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The great Charlotte Bronte was born in Thornton, Bradford
#otd
1816 by this very fireplace. Fierce spirited, with an inability to write a misplaced word, this small, shy clergyman's daughter would change the world of literature forever. Happy 208th birthday Charlotte Bronte!
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My new book Crave The Rose: Anne Bronte At 200 is out now! Order from
@valleypress
here: or Amazon or local bookshops. It contains many things unseen in a book before including Anne's final writing and first person encounters with the Brontes
#bronte200
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On
#WorldBookDay
here's the book that changed my life; the first Bronte book I read and I think the greatest novel ever written: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Full to the brim with every kind of emotion, and humanity stripped bare. Wonderful! What is your favourite book?
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On
#InternationalWomansDay
let's remember Anne Bronte's brilliant proto-feminist novel The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall. In its preface and content Anne set out a manifesto for women living their own life, and the right of women to leave abusive marriages.
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All the Brontes were talented artists. When Anne Bronte was 20 and a governess at Thorp Green Hall near York she drew "What You Please". I believe it's a self-portrait of Anne.
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Another glimpse of the dining table around which the Bronte sisters walked and wrote. Bronte servant Martha Brown gave this heartbreaking account (to a Haworth Parsonage visitor) of the three walkers becoming two, then one:
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The Black Bull pub, Haworth was a stone's throw from the Bronte Parsonage. It was Branwell Bronte's favourite haunt; on a visit to it in 2017 the sign promised a very appropriate musical guest: Kate Bush, who shares a birthday with Emily Bronte!
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When life gets tough we can often find solace in nature, like the Brontes did. Here are two portraits of roses by Charlotte Bronte, like her sisters a talented artist as well as a genius author.
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This is the upright piano played by Emily and Anne Bronte. It's now restored and working again, but a Haworth Parsonage volunteer once told me she unlocked and opened the building and heard it playing - before it had a mechanism in it!
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This is Charlotte Bronte's writing desk, along with some of her writing implements. Just imagine what works of genius were composed on this!
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Here is poet laureate Robert Southey's letter to a young Charlotte Bronte saying that literature 'cannot and should not' be a woman's occupation. An infamous letter, but Charlotte treasured it - and what neat handwriting. Thank goodness she ignored its advice!
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It's here - Anne Bronte is 200 today! 🎂🎉 At number 1 in my
#JAnneuary
countdown - the carnelian necklace in this Bronte jewellery collection worn - especially as it was worn by Anne aged around 13 in this drawing by sister Charlotte
#AnneBronte200
#AnneIversary
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A sunny Easter Sunday yet
#otd
1855 Charlotte Bronte died in the cruellest of circumstances, whilst pregnant. The Easter message is one of hope overcoming despair, and in a very real sense Charlotte Bronte will always live on through her incredible gift to us all: her writing
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Charlotte Bronte tragically died aged 38
#otd
1855, but in these times especially let us look to her beautiful legacy, after all, Charlotte will live forever through her work. She loved flowers, so let's share pictures of flowers - the first by a 14 year old Charlotte herself:
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184 years ago yesterday 20 year old Charlotte Bronte receiving a letter from poet laureate Robert Southey saying 'literature cannot be the business of a woman's life & it ought not to be.'
Nevertheless the Brontes can be seen today alongside Southey in Poet's Corner:
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I love madeleines - these look like the best food items ever made!
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Some more of the Bronte toys discovered under the Haworth Parsonage floorboards in 1949, alphabet blocks and a miniature iron!
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One of Charlotte Bronte's little books is up for auction shortly! Here are extracts from one such book, an edition of Branwell's Blackwoods Magazine featuring The Enfant by Charlotte Bronte and a play, Nights, starring Gravey and Genius Taly aka Emily Bronte and Charlotte:
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#otd
1847 Charlotte Bronte received her first royalty payment for Jane Eyre - around four times the annual salary of a governess! As Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey have just been published too it looks like being a happy Christmas in Haworth Parsonage!
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Many popular Victorian novels are now little known, works by the likes of these four: Catherine Gore, Rhoda Broughton, Violet Fane and Jean Ingelow. I'm thinking of publishing them myself in good quality new editions with notes & illustrations - would anyone be interested?
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The shops may have changed, fashions may have changed, but every time I walk down this street I think 'these are the cobbles the Brontes walked on, these are the views the Brontes saw'. That's why Haworth is a magical place to visit, any time of the year.
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There's a wonderful campaign to save the Bronte birthplace, Thornton Parsonage, for public use, for educational and leisure purposes. You support the campaign & the house that saw the births of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Bronte at this link:
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On
#WorldPoetryDay
here is the memorial to the Bronte sisters, featuring a very fitting phrase from Emily Bronte, in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. Installed in 1939 it wasn't officially unveiled until 1947 due to the war.
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Here is Emily Bronte's 'How beautiful the Earth is still' in her own handwriting. Emily was, quite rightly, pleased with this poem as she has added her own review at the bottom: "Never was better stuff penned"
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This morning I start re-reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte - from my stunning 1905 Dulac illustrated editions 😍
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It was in this week 1820 that the Bronte family, including 3 month old baby Anne Bronte, moved from Thornton Parsonage to their new home 6 miles across the moors, and the world changed. Here it is: Haworth Parsonage
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This is the reputedly haunted 'red room' at Anne Lister's Shibden Hall. Did Emily Bronte see it when a teacher at nearby Southowram - and if so could it have inspired the haunted red room in sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre?
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Suffragette & writer May Sinclair wrote of Anne Bronte's The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall that 'the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England'
#InternationalWomensDay
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#otd
1820 the great Anne Bronte was born in Thornton, Bradford. She wrote just two novels, but they're as powerful and relevant as ever. Charlotte Bronte called her "the darling of my life". Happy 203rd birthday Anne!
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Not one to bang my own drum but I absolutely love this review of my new book Emily Bronte: A Life In 20 Poems. Reviews like this make it all worthwhile!
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A tragic day in the Bronte story.
#otd
1849 Anne Bronte died aged 29. In today's new post we look at the sunset and death of Anne Bronte:
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Charlotte Bronte made three portraits of her youngest sister Anne Bronte, but none of her other siblings. This is my favourite on display in Haworth Parsonage and close up - to the right of the picture Charlotte has sketched Anne's eyes looking straight ahead rather than down
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The Bronte Sisters pillar portrait by Branwell Bronte had been thought lost until it was found folded up and wrapped in brown paper on top of a wardrobe! Here it is today and this report from 1914 shows its state when it was discovered!
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I loved celebrating the 200th birthday of Anne Bronte in Haworth today - well done
@BronteParsonage
your new exhibition is amazing! I was so emotional seeing it that I burst into tears 😭 great to see Anne honoured at last
#AnneBronte200
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When did parasols drop out of fashion? We could certainly use them in this weather ☀️ Here are some of the parasols used by the Bronte sisters - practical as well as beautiful
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1852 Charlotte Bronte finished the first draft of her final completed novel, Villette. A novel full of power, of melancholy; a novel that lingers.
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For those who couldn't be in Scarborough today & those there in spirit I've made a short video (my 1st, so excuse the quality) to mark today's 170th anniversary of the passing of Anne Bronte:
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