Saturday Poem – Spellbound
It’s cold, it’s grey, it’s miserable. It’s blumming lockdown again and the world has lost its mind. We are snuggled up at home with a rampaging toddler, placating him with […]
Brontës
A Brontë a Day – Wrap Up & Farewell
I was a little bit apprehensive before getting started in this month’s challenge – 31 days did feel like quite a lot of Bronteing. As it happens, I have come […]
A Brontë a Day – Day 31: The Mothership
For my last post of #ABrontëADay, I wanted to share some images of Maria Branwell. I feel like she has been airbrushed out of so much of the Brontë family […]
A Brontë a Day – Day 30: Not on your Nelly
I am genuinely curious here – do people genuinely trust the word of Nelly Dean? The first time I read Wuthering Heights, I took her at total face value. The […]
A Brontë a Day – Day 29: Biographical Fiction
There’s been a lot of biographical fiction about the Brontës. I suspect that whichever version of the story you read first, or whichever one first sparked your interest in the […]
A Brontë a Day – Day 28: The Lost Brontës
I remember driving home from a day out at Kirkby Lonsdale about 15 years ago and seeing with a start a sign announcing that we were passing through Cowan Bridge. […]
A Brontë a Day – Day 27: Brontë Metafiction
What do people think of The Eyre Affair? I’m a big fan 😍