Brussels Brontë Blog
Thursday 14 March 2024
Member talk: The Brontës and fake news
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Member talk: ‘Wuthering Heights’ and pop culture
Ana Gauthier gave the Brussels Brontë Group a whirlwind tour through the far-reaching influence of Wuthering Heights on the broader culture, showing how Emily Brontë’s novel echoes through our collective consciousness, sometimes in surprising ways.
In her talk on Saturday 24 February 2024, Ana touched on Kate Bush, Merle Oberon, Celine Dion, Jim Steinman, Giorgio Armani and a host of anonymous social-media users as she demonstrated the widespread echoes of Wuthering Heights that can be found rippling through our culture.
Saturday 2 March 2024
Enjoying the 'World of the Brontës' in a different way!
Monday 15 January 2024
The Brontës come to a grocery store in Merchtem
Thursday 30 November 2023
Napoleon relic that Charlotte Brontë picked up in Brussels
When Charlotte Brontë was in Brussels perfecting her French in the mid-1840s, she was gifted a Napoleonic relic — a fragment of Napoleon’s coffin that her tutor Constantin Heger gave her.
In an article in The Brussels Times Magazine, Helen MacEwan tells the story of one of the most curious items in the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
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