Anne Brontë and her sisters will forever be associated with Yorkshire, and indeed she only ever made one journey outside of her home county, but what a journey it was! I’m lucky enough to be spending some time in England’s capital myself, so in a series of three blogs I’ll be following Anne’s footsteps and … Continue reading The Chapter Coffee House: Anne Brontë In London
When Charlotte and Anne Brontë visited London in July 1848 it changed literary history completely, for two very different reasons. Firstly, it was on this occasion that the sisters threw off their pen name masks and announced that the authors generating so much interest were not the Bell brothers, but the Brontë sisters. Without that … Continue reading Charlotte and Anne Brontë And The Fateful Coffee House
I’ve been visiting London again this week, and as always I stayed in Bankside on the south shore of the River Thames. It’s a great location, walked by the likes of Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer and many others – and across the Thames via the Millennium Bridge lies the majestic St. Paul’s Cathedral designed by Sir … Continue reading The Brontes In The Shadow Of St. Paul’s
This weekend marks the anniversary of a special event in the Brontë story which we have looked at before in previous years, but it’s such a special event that I had to mark it again in today’s new post. It is exactly 175 years ago to this weekend that Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë made … Continue reading The Weekend That Changed Literary History Forever
On this weekend 174 years ago two small, shy women were making their first visit to London – and it was to change literary history forever. They were Charlotte and Anne Brontë (home loving Emily had remained in Haworth) and their visit to London lasted four days between 7th and 11th of July. In today’s … Continue reading George Smith’s Account Of The Brontës In London
On this day in 1848 two tired yet happy sisters boarded a steam train at Euston Station (that’s it at the head of this post) en route to Leeds, Keighley and finally Haworth. They were Charlotte and Anne Brontë, and they had just completed a four day sojourn in London which changed literary history forever. … Continue reading Charlotte Brontë’s Account Of Her Visit To London
This week in 1846 saw a very important moment in the Brontë story, and, indeed, in the story of English literature as a whole. On the 6th of February 1846 three sisters, weary yet undaunted after a series of rejections, sent their collection of poetry to a specialist publisher in London; the publisher was Aylott … Continue reading The Story Of ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell’
