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 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, ...
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters airs March 26, PBS The film depicts the sisters, all in their twenties, as geniuses forged in close quarters. They cache their work from each other like paranoid ...
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; ...
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 ...
drunken brutal son and brother! That is the part of the life which affects me most. George Eliot’s reaction to Elizabeth Gaskell’s dramatic account of Branwell Brontë’s malign effect on his family ...
In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë wrote one of the most popular novels of her day and a work that endures more than one-hundred-fifty years after its initial publication. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ...
A close-up of the portrait, which experts believe is of Emily Brontë, painted in about 1833 by her brother Branwell A rare portrait of the writer Emily Brontë has gone on show in West Yorkshire for ...