Charlotte Bronte Bicentenary

A new Bronte visitor attraction could be created at a derelict farmhouse in Liversedge where Patrick Bronte lived prior to Thornton and Haworth

New Bronte visitor attraction could be created at derelict farm

Red House in Gomersal is being turned into a holiday home and wedding venue

Red House in Gomersal is being turned into a holiday home and wedding venue

Holiday stays and weddings at Bronte-linked home one step closer as plans passed

All photos via Bradford Literature Festival for the 2022 programme of events.

All photos via Bradford Literature Festival for the 2022 programme of events.

Hockney, vintage coach trips and history tours: See the first Bradford Literature Festival highlights

The Brontë Society in Haworth has won an auction to bring one of Charlotte Brontë’s rare ‘little books' back home. It is now on show at the museum as Principle Curator Ann Dinsdale views the collection

The Brontë Society in Haworth has won an auction to bring one of Charlotte Brontë’s rare ‘little books' back home. It is now on show at the museum as Principle Curator Ann Dinsdale views the collection

Charlotte Bronte 'little book' goes on display in Haworth

Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth.

Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth.

China to make a movie based on Bronte novel?

Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi

Festival of Women’s Writing is selling out fast

Arts Minister Michael Ellis with Brontë Parsonage Museum executive director Kitty Wright as they examine the Pillar Portrait. Picture by Simon Warner

Arts Minister Michael Ellis with Brontë Parsonage Museum executive director Kitty Wright as they examine the Pillar Portrait. Picture by Simon Warner

Arts Minister meets the Bronte sisters

Author Frances Brody.

Author Frances Brody.

Bronte sisters inspire today’s writers in Haworth

Renowned poet Patience Agbabi is returning to Haworth for more events about the Brontës

Renowned poet Patience Agbabi is returning to Haworth for more events about the Brontës

Emily year continues in autumn

200th anniversary at the Bronte Parsonage. Museum Manager Nicola Peel (right) with her deputy Georgina Kimberley

200th anniversary at the Bronte Parsonage. Museum Manager Nicola Peel (right) with her deputy Georgina Kimberley

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Audience struck dumb by Lily Cole’s hard-hitting film

Bronte rebel in the spotlight

One of the rare books on sale to Bronte enthusiasts. Picture by peterharrington.co.uk

One of the rare books on sale to Bronte enthusiasts. Picture by peterharrington.co.uk

First Wuthering Heights goes to auction

Ann Bronte usurps sister Emily during her special year

Emily Bronte's birthday bash is bursting at the seams

The Gothic for Girls event at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Picture by John Sargent

The Gothic for Girls event at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Picture by John Sargent

Gothic time in Bronte weekend

Diane Fare from the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Diane Fare from the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Going Japanese for a creative

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Cllr Zafar Ali, with artist Kate Whiteford at the launch of her exhibition Wings of Desire at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Cllr Zafar Ali, with artist Kate Whiteford at the launch of her exhibition Wings of Desire at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Wings of success for busy Bronte Parsonage

South Square Gallery in Thornton is installing artwork created by the village's school children based on Emily Bronte.

South Square Gallery in Thornton is installing artwork created by the village's school children based on Emily Bronte.

Children’s art in the Bronte birthplace

Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator, with the painting

Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator, with the painting

Bronte portrait returns home

Dr Claire O'Callaghan has written a new biography entitled Emily Brontë Reappraised

Dr Claire O'Callaghan has written a new biography entitled Emily Brontë Reappraised

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We’ve got it all wrong about Emily Brontë

Artist John Agard is taking part in the Brontë ‘walk of life’. Picture by renaissanceone.co.uk

Artist John Agard is taking part in the Brontë ‘walk of life’. Picture by renaissanceone.co.uk

Follow the footsteps of the Brontës

Kate Bush returns to Wuthering Heights

Sir Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, pictured left with Brontë Parsonage Museum representative Rebecca Yorke and David Austin Senior Rosarian Michael Marriott. Picture by Welcome to Yorkshire

Sir Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, pictured left with Brontë Parsonage Museum representative Rebecca Yorke and David Austin Senior Rosarian Michael Marriott. Picture by Welcome to Yorkshire

English rose Emily Brontë proves popular

Diane Fare from the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Diane Fare from the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Sisters finally return to their Brontë home in Haworth

Young animators Henly Turner and Kaydie Rhodes from Thornton Primary are creating stop motion animation of the Bronte family

Young animators Henly Turner and Kaydie Rhodes from Thornton Primary are creating stop motion animation of the Bronte family

Schoolchildren bring literary sisters to life in animation for Emily’s bicentenary

Celebrated rose breeder David Austin has named his new English Rose ‘Emily Brontë’ (Ausearnshaw)

Celebrated rose breeder David Austin has named his new English Rose ‘Emily Brontë’ (Ausearnshaw)

Emily Brontë is a true English Rose

Retail manager Danielle Cadamarteri holds the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Museums + Heritage Award, with, from left, retail assistant Laura Kerry, museum manager Nicola Peel and retail assistant Leigh Perryman.

Retail manager Danielle Cadamarteri holds the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Museums + Heritage Award, with, from left, retail assistant Laura Kerry, museum manager Nicola Peel and retail assistant Leigh Perryman.

Brontë museum shop is Strictly good!

Women’s fantasies are perverse

Principal Curator Ann Dinsdale puts the finishing touches to The Childrenâs Study at the BrontÃ « Parsonage Museum in Haworth.

Principal Curator Ann Dinsdale puts the finishing touches to The Childrenâs Study at the BrontÃ « Parsonage Museum in Haworth.

Bronte shrine celebrates 90th

One of the birds of prey involved in the Wings of Desire film at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

One of the birds of prey involved in the Wings of Desire film at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Take flight with the Brontës’ wild girl

Activist, artist and model Lily Cole will unveil her latest film Balls during the weekend.

Activist, artist and model Lily Cole will unveil her latest film Balls during the weekend.

Emily Brontë enters the labyrinthfor her birthday

Good appointment? Lily Cole

Good appointment? Lily Cole

Emily Brontë’s birthday attracts high-profile guests

HRH Duchess of Cornwall with Principal Curator Ann Dinsdale during her visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in February 2018.

HRH Duchess of Cornwall with Principal Curator Ann Dinsdale during her visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in February 2018.

Bronte museum visitor numbers on the rise again

Sisters coming home

Quilt joy for Brontë fans

Emily Brontë's picture of her hawk Nero

Emily Brontë's picture of her hawk Nero

Birds of prey fly into Brontë museum

Keighley Playhouse are staging Wuthering Heights at the Devonshire Street theatre. Picture by BBPhotoshop

Keighley Playhouse are staging Wuthering Heights at the Devonshire Street theatre. Picture by BBPhotoshop

New take on a dark romance

Brontë pals come to life in Haworth

Brontë play revived

The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth forms a fitting backdrop for Michael Stewart's new novel about Heathcliff, Ill Will

The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth forms a fitting backdrop for Michael Stewart's new novel about Heathcliff, Ill Will

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Author reveals secrets of Heathcliff’s adventure

Syima Aslam, one of the founders of Bradford Literature Festival

Syima Aslam, one of the founders of Bradford Literature Festival

Brontës at Bradford Lit Festival

Celebrating the shortlisting of the Brontë Parsonage Museum shop in the Museums + Galleries Awards are retail assistants Lynda Lofthouse and Liz Marsh with retail manager Danielle Cadamarteri.

Celebrating the shortlisting of the Brontë Parsonage Museum shop in the Museums + Galleries Awards are retail assistants Lynda Lofthouse and Liz Marsh with retail manager Danielle Cadamarteri.

Brontë museum shop vies for national award

Emily Bronte a star of Great Exhibition

Michael Stewart, author of the new novel about Heathcliff, is visiting Haworth

Michael Stewart, author of the new novel about Heathcliff, is visiting Haworth

Heathcliff alone

Author Michael Stewart, left, with Ben Myers, who was involved in creating the new Emily Brontë exhibition Making Thunder Roar

Author Michael Stewart, left, with Ben Myers, who was involved in creating the new Emily Brontë exhibition Making Thunder Roar

Emily Brontë roars into Haworth for new exhibition

A Bronte children's workshop

A Bronte children's workshop

Wednesday is wildly Bronte

Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

Bronte museum continues regular talks and behind-the-scenes visits

Chris Ridell, a former UK Children's Laureate, will lead an illustration workshop for teenagers

Chris Ridell, a former UK Children's Laureate, will lead an illustration workshop for teenagers

Chris Riddell illustrates his work to teens

A pupil of Haworth Primary School helping write the new manuscript for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

A pupil of Haworth Primary School helping write the new manuscript for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Start of a Wuthering year at Bronte shrine

Top Withens, reputedly the setting for Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff was involved in the fictional tragedy

Top Withens, reputedly the setting for Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff was involved in the fictional tragedy

Author to discuss Bronte research

Samantha Ellis, who will talk about Anne BrontÃ « in Haworth.

Samantha Ellis, who will talk about Anne BrontÃ « in Haworth.

Take Courage - a Bronte in paperback

Kirsty Smith and Kat Martin, leading lights of the new Brontë play Jane Hair, which takes place in a hair salon

Kirsty Smith and Kat Martin, leading lights of the new Brontë play Jane Hair, which takes place in a hair salon

Bronte sisters in Eyre-raising new play

Author Christopher Riddell is coming to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth

Author Christopher Riddell is coming to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth

Bronte girl ready to roar

Fiona Mozley was beans about her debut novel Elmet, which has drawn multiple comparisons with Wuthering Heights

Fiona Mozley was beans about her debut novel Elmet, which has drawn multiple comparisons with Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights writer Emily Bronte has her 200th birthday

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