A group of heritage campaigners who stepped in to buy the house where the Bronte sisters were born for the nation have won a government grant to renovate it. Bronte Birthplace Ltd, a community ...
Ponden Hall, in Stanbury, West Yorkshire, dates back to 1541 and played host to Bronte and her family during their childhood. Several features of the property are said to have inspired her work.
Yorkshire and cricket go together like bat ... to Heathcliff and Cathy is a stalwart at most karaoke nights. The Bronte’s old home at Haworth is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum – visited ...
singer Kate Bush is contributing to a monument to the Bronte sisters on the Yorkshire moors. In a rare public work, she has written an inscription for a stone that will be placed near the Brontes ...
Their other children were (Patrick) Branwell (died 1848), Maria and Elizabeth. Both of these daughters became ill while attending a harsh clergy school in Lancashire (which was later the model for ...