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Charlotte Brontë

April 2024

  • ian mckellen in a leather jacket holding a drink, as falstaff

    The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review

  • Adele James (Emily), Gemma Whelan (Charlotte) and Rhiannon Clements (Anne) in Underdog: The Other Other Brontë at the Dorfman theatre.

    Underdog: The Other Other Brontë review – modern mashup pits deceitful sister as a ruthless rival

March 2024

  • Suppressions and alterations … from left, Rhiannon Clements, Gemma Whelan and Adele James in Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

    Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians

    Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters

November 2023

  • The Bronte Birthplace, Market street, Thornton, Bradford.

    Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters

    Crowdfunding and significant donation from Nigel West – who has a family connection to Charlotte’s husband – secure property, with plans to transform it into a cultural and education centre

October 2023

  • The Brontës’ birthplace in Thornton, near Bradford.

    Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

    A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

August 2023

  • Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

    The books of my life
    Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’

    The Booker-longlisted Nigerian author on the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes, crying with LP Hartley and the joys of rereading

January 2023

  • ‘What misery to be wise’ … Greg Hicks as Tiresias in The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles at the National Theatre in 1996.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels and stories about prophets

    Whether sad, fierce or downright murderous, these clairvoyant figures have enthralled writers from Sophocles to Charlotte Brontë and Hilary Mantel

October 2022

  • Captivating … The Moors.

    The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche

    The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie

August 2022

  • Curator Sarah Laycock uses a magnifying glass to inspect the miniature manuscript.

    Why Charlotte Brontë’s tiny £1m pamphlet proves that little things mean a lot

    Louisa Young
    The book of 13 works has returned to her childhood home

June 2022

  • Salts Mill on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, Saltaire, near Bradford.

    Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture

    From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul

May 2022

  • Lee Child

    The books of my life
    Lee Child: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale changed me – hopefully for the better’

    The Jack Reacher novelist on Shakespeare’s casual knack for magnificence, finally discovering the joy of Jane Eyre, and the transformative power of Margaret Atwood

April 2022

  • Emma Swan, Claire-Marie Seddon and Sophia Hatfield in I Am No Bird.

    I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history

    This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking
  • Charlotte Brontë’s 'little book'

    Charlotte Brontë’s $1.25m ‘little book’ of 10 poems returns home

    Manuscript entitled A Book of Ryhmes measures 10cm by 6cm and was written by the author when she was 13
  • A woman determined to be at the heart of her own story … Eleanor Sutton with Tomi Ogbaro.

    Jane Eyre review – who is the true ‘mad woman in the attic’?

    Chris Bush’s gripping new adaptation – the centrepiece of a Brontë festival – adds an interesting psychological twist

February 2022

  • Olivia Laing … ‘I was seduced by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester.’

    The books of my life
    Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’

  • A drawing of Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond.

    New exhibition of clothing reveals Charlotte Brontë’s sensual side

December 2021

  • A selection of Charlotte Brontë's 'little books', which form part of Honresfield library collection

    Rescued library of literary treasures evokes closeness to authors

  • Robert Burns' First Commonplace Book, from the Honresfield Library auction at Sotheby's.

    Lost library of literary treasures saved for UK after charity raises £15m

August 2021

  • Pete Postlethwaite as King Lear.

    Top 10s
    ‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature

    Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism

July 2021

  • Moody and atmospheric scene of a damp moorland day with stone wall<br>M7RDF2 Moody and atmospheric scene of a damp moorland day with stone wall

    Book of the day
    Walking the Invisible by Michael Stewart review – following in the Brontës’ footsteps

    A walking tour of the north of England becomes a celebration of the Brontës’ work and a love letter to the wily, windy places that inspired them
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