Review: I Am Heathcliff, Various Authors
Two hundred years since the birth of Emily Brontë, sixty-one years since the birth of Kate Bush (the two of them born coincidentally on the same day), the myth of Wuthering […]
Brontës
Brooding about the Brontës: Closing Thoughts
And … I’m done. Brooding about the Brontës has been dominating the site for about three months, far longer than intended! Life has been rather hectic offline so keeping up with the […]
Brooding about the Brontës: The Mythology
Brooding about the Brontës this time around has been quite the ride – eighteen books read around the topic, various costume dramas watched on the television and an awful lot of […]
Review: A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
As a final read for Brooding about the Brontës, this felt like a perfect pick. Midorikawa and Sweeney are a pair of female writers and friends who chose to investigate the […]
Review: Charlotte Brontë Revisited, Sophie Franklin
As one of my final stops along the Brontë train, I read Sophie Franklin’s Charlotte Brontë Revisited, the companion piece to Dr Claire O’Callaghan’s Emily Brontë Reappraised. I do hope that the […]
Brooding about the Brontës: In Bed with the Brontës
What was it that made the Brontës so revolutionary? What was it that left the contemporary media so captivated and confounded? The Brontë sisters managed to be the literal embodiment […]
Review: Emily Brontë Reappraised, Dr Claire O’Callaghan
Emily is a perennial conundrum to Brontë fans and biographers alike and for the most part this does seem to be because she willed it so. I have been trying […]