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The other Brontë sister: why do we always forget about Anne?

A recent trip to Haworth, in West Yorkshire, got me thinking about Anne Brontë, who died 177 years ago this month. Stepping into St Michael and All Angels’ Church, a carved stone pillar prominently declares the location of the Brontë family vault. All members of the Brontë family – parents…

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Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontës’ novels – ranked!

As Emerald Fennell’s film sparks debate, we celebrate the pioneering brilliance of the siblings’ work

The Guardian - UK

New Wuthering Heights film sparks fresh tourism boom in Yorkshire village: ‘It’s been quite mindblowing’

A new wave of Brontëmania has swept through Haworth

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Digested week: Spa days for nerds and other coping mechanisms

Discovering Oxford’s Norrington Room, leaning into Pancake Day sainthood and dreaming of a house just for introverts

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Voices: Readers say Wuthering Heights is a ‘masterpiece full of nuance’ – but films rarely do it justice

YOUR VIEWS: As Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated Wuthering Heights adaptation arrives this week, our community said the novel is meant to unsettle rather than seduce – and that its cruelty, complexity and discomfort are precisely what make it one of the greatest works of fiction ever written

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Landscape that inspired Brontë sisters’ books made a nature reserve

The vast expanse of 1,270 acres encompasses peat bogs, heaths and wetlands

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‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum

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Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey

Amended memorial to the writers unveiled at Poets’ Corner 85 years after misspelled plaque first installed

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Best biographies of all time to add to your 2024 reading list

Intricate, academic explorations of lives and careers past

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: The North Wind by Anne Brontë

This free-spirited romantic adventure story is one of Anne Brontë’s ‘Gondal poems’

The Guardian - UK

Review: Wuther true or false, 'Emily' weaves a passionate portrait of a Brontë sister

"Wuthering Heights" was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. "Jane Eyre" was published under Currer…

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Emily review – the wildest Brontë sister is set free in full-blooded gothic fable

The author of Wuthering Heights is no sickly recluse in actor turned director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous, spine-tingling feature debut

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Film Emily will introduce Brontë sisters to younger audiences, says co-star

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays illicit lover, says outsider theme is ‘hugely relatable’

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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.

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Frances O’Connor: ‘I’m putting Emily Brontë in the centre of her own story’

The actor turned writer-director is taking an unconventional approach to her feature film debut about the Wuthering Heights author

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With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment

Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company

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University of Aberdeen finds Anne Bronte was a renowned rock collector

THE University of Aberdeen has helped reveal that renowned novelist Anne Brontë had a keen interest in geology.

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The Guardian - UK

I used to read novels for pleasure, then for exams – now I read them for their little jewels of wisdom

Reading Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I found her lines about living in London resonating intensely, so many years later

The Guardian - UK

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

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