In a parody of the "Hampstead intellectual" scene of the time of the book's creation, the Mr Mybug character boasts of working on a biography of Branwell Brontë, his thesis being that Branwell was in ...

And what did she tell the priest? Claire Harman opens her biography, written in time for Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary in 2016, with her protagonist in crisis. It’s not just that the 27-year-old ...

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Now, the punctuation indicates that the last vowel is pronounced separately: “BRON-tay” rather than “BRONT” or “BRUNT.” But the accent mark was actually the result of some poetic ...

Brontë’s widower came to understand the public’s longing for personal traces of his late wife, authorizing Elizabeth Gaskell to write the revealing biography she published in 1857. Transcription: ...

The Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey has been amended to include the diaereses (dots) over the ‘e’ of the names of the literary sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, which have been missing from the ...

Actor Ralph Fiennes is best known for ‘Schindler’s List,’ ‘The English Patient,’ and as Voldemort in the ‘Harry Potter’ ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Conservator Lucy Ackland adds the finishing touches to the memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte at ...

"They didn't have the correct punctuation on the "e" so it sounded more like "Bront" not "Bronte"," she said. The Brontë name evolved from their father Patrick’s Irish surname of Prunty or ...

The greatest biographies ever written When someone is in the public eye, we often feel like we know them personally, despite never having met them. That’s where biographies come in. The best ...