Panoramic Views

Retelling the story of the Brontë sisters in Normandy
On a warm evening in early April, over 70 people crowded into the 18th-century court-room of the hôtel de ville, the mairie, of a small village in Haut-Normandie to hear a talk about Les Sœurs Brontë. The speaker, Myriam Campinaire, well known to members of the Brussels Brontë Group as its long-standing treasurer and one of […]
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Brontë Birthplace and the Brussels Brontë Group
I was in Haworth over the weekend of 29-30 March, doing a recce for a trip to the Brontë village that I am organising for a small group of Brussels Brontë enthusiasts in June. In my travels, I visited the recently opened “Brontë Birthplace” in the village of Thornton. This is the house where Charlotte, Branwell, Emily […]
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Marie Gevers and the Brontës
Author Éléonore Desclée mentioned in her Feb. 15 presentation to the Brussels Brontë Group that one of her assigned books in literature class in high school was a novel by the Belgian author Marie Gevers (1883-1975). This writer has a curious Brontë link. In 1955, she visited the Congo to give a lecture tour. On a flight […]
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