Pain on the page: is this the end of the hysterical, ill woman of literature?
UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers
May 2021
‘Priceless’ Brontë manuscripts could be lost to private buyer, warn experts
Emily Brontë’s handwritten poems are highlight of ‘lost library’ auction
March 2021
Be more Alice! The fictional characters with lessons for lockdown
Anxiety, boredom, claustrophobic relationships... characters from Jane Eyre to Mrs Dalloway can provide vital insights into how to live in these anxious times, writes Josh Cohen
December 2020
Books blog
The sexiest moments in literature that aren't sex scenes
With the Bad sex in fiction award cancelled this year, we celebrate authors from Jeanette Winterson to Jane Austen who can charge the dryest scenes with sensuality
September 2020
TS Eliot estate steps in to help Brontë Parsonage Museum rescue appeal
A £20,000 donation has been made on behalf of the late poet to help preserve the historic home of the sibling novelists
July 2020
Brussels to name public square after Brontë sisters
Top 10s
Top 10 best-dressed characters in fiction
April 2020
Lockdown culture
'Wow, I'd love to be someone like that!' Sally Cookson on our passion for Jane Eyre
As her bold staging of the classic novel is screened as part of National Theatre at Home, the director discusses Brontë’s genius – and the seismic effects of lockdown
February 2020
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg review – inside the Brontës’ dreamworld
Top 10s
Top 10 tales about the rich
How cartoonist Isabel Greenberg brought the Brontës’ Angria to life
In a Brontë fantasy world: an extract from Isabel Greenberg's Glass Town
January 2020
Rare Charlotte Brontë ‘little book’ to go on show at Haworth
Miniature book written by author as a teenager returned to UK after fundraising appeal
Book clinic
Book clinic: where are the romantic novels that aren’t riddled with cliches?
From Jane Eyre to Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, Kate Kellaway recommends the best reads about love
From Mary Bennet to Thomas Cromwell: how novelists make us love unlikeable characters
How can Mary, the charmless Bennet sister in Pride and Prejudice, become a heroine? Author Janice Hadlow on the novelist as makeover artist
November 2019
Brief letters
A Glasgow tram ride gets the waters flowing
Brief letters: Pregnancy | Proxy votes | Charlotte Brontë | Tory ‘factcheck’ | Prince Andrew
Brontë Society secures last of Charlotte's minute teenage books
Charity raises £512,000 to buy tiny handwritten work and bring it back for public display in the Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire
Judi Dench appeals for public help to bring rare Brontë book to UK as auction looms
A miniature book by the teenage Charlotte Brontë could fetch at least £650,000 in Paris next week, and Haworth’s Parsonage museum hopes to buy it with crowdfunding
