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Events : Your Spring Season Online – The Brontë Sisters and Elizabeth Gaskell

Since its publication in 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë has divided opinion. It attracted immediate controversy and became a bestseller. But how true is it? A new short season of online events with the Brontë Parsonage Museum tells the real story of the friendship between Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell, and the literary legacy it inspired. The Invention of Charlotte Brontë  Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as her

Events : 2026 Online Reading Workshops – The Gothic

Take a walk on the wild side with our new reading course looking at horror, mystery and the darker side of the human condition. We’re taking on some giants of the Gothic to explore literature’s supernatural forces, from the terrible monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the wild and windy moors of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Many of your favourite women writers wrote Gothic novels so now is the time to dig a little deeper into the underbelly of nineteenth-century literature.