Bronte Parsonage Museum

This September, the British Library is releasing a very special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The Wuthering Heights presentation box contains facsimile volumes of the first edition of the novel and Emily’s personal copy of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, together with copies of pages from her two manuscript poetry notebooks. Each element has been created di...

180 years ago, the first publication by the “Bells” appeared: an obscure volume of poems which sold only two copies. Eighteen months later Jane Eyre would become a bestseller.This Parsonage Unwrapped will be delivered by author, teacher and Museum volunteer Tamar Yellin and Principal Curator Ann Dinsdale. They will be exploring the history of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bel...

Are you motivated, creative and looking for a new challenge?  We’re looking for a dynamic individual to lead on marketing and development at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire. Haworth Parsonage is the former home of the Brontë family and the place where the world-famous novels Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. As the ...

This introductory talk explores the relationship between two giants of 19th-century literature. Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell were opposites in many ways, yet they were profoundly interested in each other’s work and lives. Their first meeting in the Lake District in 1850 led to a real friendship. Charlotte had written the instant classic Jane Eyre and then Shirley, whil...

This workshop series explores the Brontë siblings' relationship to the Gothic. We’ll explore the Gothic influences that shaped their fiction, dive into their juvenilia and its use of Gothic elements from murder to necromancy to tragic ghosts, and look at how they changed the Gothic forever. The day also includes a visit to the Museum's Research Library to examine collection mate...