Historical Background

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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Éléonore Desclée and her novel 'Charlotte in Love'
Brussels-based author Éléonore Desclée uses Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre as the driving force in her novel Charlotte in Love, which sees two teenage students thrown together for a collaborate project that brings discoveries about the book and themselves. Éléonore discussed her novel and how she came to write it in a discussion with the Brussels […]
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