Charlotte Bronte

On publishing Charlotte Brontë’s miniature book of poems for the first time.

 
By R.B. Russell  April 14, 2025
Windham-Campbell Prizes

Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 12, 2025
Girlhood

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
literary criticism

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
What to Watch

Emily Disregards the Most Compelling Part of the Brontë Sisterhood

By Iona Glen  January 31, 2023
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: The Literature of Obsession with Julia May Jonas

By Julia May Jonas  September 6, 2022
The Hub

A tiny Charlotte Brontë book, long hidden from public view, is now for sale.

By Corinne Segal  March 31, 2022
The Hub

Want to see Charlotte Brontë’s “sensual” outfit?

By Walker Caplan  February 4, 2022
Beauty

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

By Lucinda Rosenfeld  November 1, 2021
Psychology

“The Strangest Sense of Freedom.” On Jane Eyre and the Power of Narcissism

By Josh Cohen  October 26, 2021
The Hub

Here are 7 book recommendations for Rory Gilmore.

By Snigdha Koirala  September 15, 2021
The Hub

Have £1,200,000? Emily Brontë’s lost handwritten poems are up for auction.

By Walker Caplan  May 27, 2021
The Hub

Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water.

By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
The Hub

Remember when a Brontë Society member got into a public feud with a British supermodel?

By Vanessa Willoughby  March 31, 2021
Marriage

Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre

By Kate Washington  March 15, 2021
The Hub

A Sylvia Plath fan has petitioned the Church to allow her to be buried near the poet.

By Emily Temple  March 4, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

10 superb social distancers from literature.

By Emily Temple  March 20, 2020
The Hub

The Brontë Society paid big money for a tiny, tiny book by Charlotte Brontë.

By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2019
Madness

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

By Troy Rondinone  October 31, 2019
Reading Lists

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels

By Emily Temple  August 26, 2019
Reading Lists

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

By Sara Collins  May 22, 2019
New in Nonfiction

A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

By Jeanna Kadlec  May 13, 2019
Feature

When 80 Famous Writers Published Their First (And Last) Books

By Emily Temple  March 22, 2019
Feature

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Wuthering Heights

By Emily Temple  March 8, 2019
Did you know?

Your Favorite Writers, Ranked by Height

By Emily Temple  October 4, 2018
Feature

What Your New Roommate’s Favorite Book Says About Them

By Emily Temple  September 4, 2018
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