Revealed: smuggling past of the Brontë sisters’ grandfather
Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre might never have been published without patriarch’s ‘dirty money’, says new book
May 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: What can I give a child to help them with losing a parent?
Nonfiction and novels to support young people dealing with grief
April 2019
Charlotte Brontë's hair found in ring on Antiques Roadshow, say experts
How Dickens, Brontë and Eliot influenced Vincent van Gogh
December 2018
The Emily Brontë Song Cycle: wandering in the wuthering heights
Folk band the Unthanks and Adrian McNally have made an audio soundtrack pairing music with the writer’s poems as the listener walks the landscape of West Yorkshire. What is it like?
November 2018
Book of the day
Gentleman Jack by Angela Steidele review – seductions of a secret diarist
A new account of a pioneering lesbian life draws on a diary with graphic descriptions of sex in code
October 2018
British writers scoring highly in huge US poll to find ‘Great American Read’
Nationwide contest that has drawn millions of votes enters closing stages, with Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and JK Rowling ranking high
September 2018
Wasted review – sex, drugs and headbanging … meet the rock'n'roll Brontës
The doomed sisters let out their inner goths in this fantastically witty, mischievous and camp musical update of their tragic lives
July 2018
I hated you, I loved you, too: essay on Brontë hit withering heights
Out on the wiley, windy moors, Kate Bush sings new praises to Emily Brontë
April 2018
Kate Bush makes second tribute to Emily Brontë with art installation
Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Kay also set to celebrate Brontë sisters’ legacy
February 2018
Book clinic
Book clinic: recommended literary page-turners
This week, our expert suggests a selection of books to rekindle the joy of reading in even the most battle-hardened litterateur
January 2018
Jane Eyre review – gripping, good-hearted and full of gothic terror
Jessica Baglow captures the plain-speaking pragmatism of Charlotte Brontë’s heroine in a light and lucid adaptation directed by Elizabeth Newman
Ignore the moaners. The Brontë Society’s appointment of Lily Cole is inspired
Stephanie Merritt
It’s misogynistic to assume that women can’t be both beautiful and brainy. If Cole’s glamour brings a wider audience to literature, it can only be good, says Stephanie Merritt, who writes as SJ Parris
Lily Cole responds to Brontë Society row as member who quit is branded a snob
Author Nick Holland is criticised for his response to Cole’s appointment, after calling decision ‘rank farce’
August 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 twists in fiction
Court dramas, classic mysteries and bloody crimes ... from Du Maurier to Lehane, Sophie Hannah chooses her favourite twists in novels (or does she?)
July 2017
Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses
Country diary
Organic forces take over Brontë's land of secrets
June 2017
It's time to bring Branwell, the dark Brontë, into the light
Though his life was dense with literary and other failures, he was a decisive influence on their work and his own story is worth hearing
April 2017
Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë's unlikely defender against prurient gossip
Where Gaskell was gregarious and conventional, Brontë was an introverted maverick – but the former did fierce, invaluable work to protect the latter’s reputation
