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The Brontë Brussels Calendar: August 1842
1 August, Monday– Weather: 13 to 19 C, clouded morning, some sunshine in the afternoonThe actress Rachel gave her fourth performance in Brussels. Franz Liszt went to the St Gudule, to judge an organist...
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The Brontë Brussels Calendar: September 1842
1 September, Thursday– Weather: 9 to 19 C, quite clouded, some evening rain, strong windOn this day an art exhibition was opened in Koekelberg. The aim was to raise money for a new local church. “Les...
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Emily Bronte talk and reading on October 13th - report
The Brussels Brontë Group commemorated Emily Brontë's bicentenary on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, with a talk on Wuthering Heights by John Bowen, professor of 19th-century literature at the University of...
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Aspects of the Brussels of the Brontës: The Panoramic View of the City, the...
The problem of the protected panoramic view of the city from Place Belliard, mentioned in a previous article, surfaced again in 1856, in connection with the renovation plan for the Pensionnat Heger. A...
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New novel about the Brontës’ time in Brussels: "Si j’avais des ailes", by...
In recent years there has been no shortage of biographical fiction about Charlotte and Emily Brontë, but we had to wait until 2013 and Jolien Janzing’s De Meester for a novel focusing on their Brussels...
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights - movie screening
Ola Podstawka and Georgette Cutajar treated our group to a great Brontë day on Feb. 16 with a screening of the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights -- the one with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche...
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Emma Butcher on Heroes in the Brontë Juvenilia
A major feature of the main male characters in the early fantasy stories of Charlotte Brontë and her siblings was a combination of militarism and dysfunctional fatherhood, Dr. Emma Butcher said in a...
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A Belgian Reads the Brontës
Belgian academic Dr. Kristien Hemmerechts remembers a time when she could look out from the university classroom where she was teaching literature and see the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula,...
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Boeklezing Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’
Dutch sisters Maartje and Janneke Schut launched a website dedicated to the Brontë sisters (www.brontezusjes.nl) two years ago and started organizing talks on the literary sisters in the Netherlands....
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‘A little romance’? -- Taking liberties with Brontë biography
Patsy Stoneman, Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Hull and distinguished Brontë scholar, on Oct. 12 gave us a fascinating critical tour of some of the highways and byways of Brontë...
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A Conversation With Belgian Author Nathalie Stalmans
Belgian historical novelist Nathalie Stalmans visited the Brussels Brontë Group on Oct. 12 to talk about her novel Si j’avais des ailes (If I Had Wings). The book, published earlier this year, is a...
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The Brontës and Fanfiction
Ana Gauthier managed to connect the Brontës with Star Trek and Harry Potter in an entertaining presentation on the Brontës and fanfiction to the Brussels Brontës Group on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.While...
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Mind-Mapping the Brontës
Mark Cropper has used mind-mapping to create memorable images of a couple of the talks we have enjoyed at the Brussels Brontë Group. On Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, he shared his insights on how this...
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Exploring Anne Brontë’s Poetry
Emelie Sannenhelped the Brussels Brontë Groupcontinue the celebration of Anne Brontë’s bicentenary with a very evocative analysis of three of Anne’s poems. As one of the youngest members of our group,...
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Visit to Mariemont Museum to See Charlotte's 'L’Ingratitude'
Fourteen members of the Brussels Brontë Group visited the Musée Royal de Mariemont on 7 March 2020 to view Charlotte Brontë’s French essay L’Ingratitude and other items in the museum’s ‘Reserve...
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Whirlwind Journey Through Time at the Mariemont Museum
Brussels Brontë Group activities are events for which I willingly wake up early on a Saturday. Last Saturday was no exception; I was excited to make the pilgrimage to the Musée Royal de Mariemont with...
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In Memoriam: Maureen Peeck O’Toole
With the death of Maureen Peeck O’Toole (28 August 1935-13 June 2020), the Brussels Brontë Group has lost a leading light of the group, who gave us much support over the years since we started up in...
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Brussels square to be named after the Brontë sisters
Since 1979 Charlotte and Emily Brontë have had a plaque on Bozar, the central Brussels arts centre, commemorating their stay there in 1842-43. The building is on the site of the Pensionnat Heger where...
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'Brontë Places and Poems': fascinating view of Brontë world
In these weird corona times when travelling is not advisable, not recommended, not desired or not possible, I came across this book by Geoff and Christine Taylor called Brontë Places & Poems.The...
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Brontë2020: Virtual Conference 4 September 2020
‘There was no possibility of visiting the Parsonage that day ... So, Reader, we met on Zoom.’ The Brontë Parsonage has now re-opened, but because of COVID-19 the Brontë Society’s September 2020...
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