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Charlotte Brontë

The Brussels Brontë Group organises meetings and events in Brussels throughout the year. You will find details of these below.

Annual Brontë weekend: each year we organise a weekend of events around the date of Charlotte Brontë's birthday (21 April). Details of past Brontë weekends below.

Guided walks: we organise regular guided walks around Brontë places in Brussels. The walks take around one and a half hours and are usually held on a Sunday morning in central Brussels. If you'd like to register for the next one, please email helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu. Your name will be put on a mailing list and you will receive details of the next walk organised.

Reading group: our reading group specialising in 19th century literature (not just the Brontës!) meets every few weeks for an informal discussion.


Brussels Brontë Group Reading group
Are you tired of reading groups that only read modern fiction?

We invite you to join our group specialising in 19th century English literature, for people who are interested in books by and about the Brontës and in the history and literature of the 19th century in general.

We want to return to the classics that have stood the test of time and also fill in our knowledge of the period by reading:
 
  • The Brontës and works relating to them (biography, criticism, modern novels inspired by the Brontës....)
  • Jane Austen, Hardy, Dickens, George Eliot....
  • Biography and history providing background to the 19th century

Books on our reading list:

   - Charlotte Brontë : Villette
   - Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
   - Charles Dickens : Bleak House
   - Elizabeth Gaskell : Wives and Daughters


Contact
helen.macewan@ec.europa.eu for more information

Past events

18-20 April 2008: Annual Brontë weekend

For the second year running we organised a weekend of events to mark the anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birthday. It opened with a meeting in Waterstone's bookstore with writers Robert Barnard, Eric Ruijssenaars, Maureen Peeck and Derek Blyth. The Bibliothèque des Riches Claires, assisted by our Group, organised an exhibition and one-day conference on Les Soeurs Brontë à Bruxelles at which Robert Barnard and Eric Ruijssenaars spoke alongside Brussels historians and the Héger descendant Paul Héger. We also repeated our very popular guided walk around Brontë places in Brussels.

See our Blog entry for 27 April 2008:
http://brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2008/04/bront-weekend-in-brussels-18-20-april_27.html

18 October 2007

Letters to Brussels: Charlotte Brontë's letters to Constantin Heger. Talk by Derek Blyth at Cercle des Voyageurs, Rue des Grands Carmes 18, 1000 Brussels.
See a report on this talk in our Blog entry for 27 October 2007:
http://brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2007/10/letters-to-brussels.html

21-22 April 2007: Annual Brontë weekend

Our weekend of activities coinciding with Charlotte Brontë's birthday included social events and guided walks around Brussels places with Brontë associations, led by Derek Blyth. Members in Belgium were joined by those from the Netherlands and also by a group of Brontë Society members from the UK.

See our Blog entries for 24 April and 6 May 2007:
http://brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2007/04/bront-weekend-in-brussels-21-22-april.html
http://brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2007/05/photos-of-april-weekend.html