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Intrigued by the title and hoping it would help to deal with personal loss and grief — review of ‘The Brontës, My Mother and Me’ by Anna M Biley. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2024/11/book-r…

The festive season wouldn't be complete without the Brussels Brontë Group's annual Christmas lunch. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2024/12/brusse…

What a great surprise to find that the recently revamped Grand Hotel Astoria in Brussels — now rebaptised Corinthia — has a Brontë suite! brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/01/revamp…

From the ghostly nun in ‘Villette’ to Jane Eyre hearing Rochester’s voice across the moors, Stavroula Kremmydiotou gave the BBG an enthralling talk on the supernatural and gothic in the Brontë novels (plus some hauntings by the Brontës themselves). brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-go…

Brussels-based author Éléonore Desclée uses Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre as the driving force in her novel 'Charlotte in Love.' Éléonore discussed her book and how she came to write it in a discussion with the Brussels Brontë Group. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/02/eleono…

Marie Gevers and the Brontës: Éléonore Desclée mentioned in her presentation to the Brussels Brontë Group that one of her assigned books in high school was a novel by Belgian author Marie Gevers. This writer has a curious Brontë link. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/02/marie-…

Read about a small but special link between the Brontë Birthplace in the English village of Thornton and the Brussels Brontë Group. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/04/bronte…

Brussels Brontë Group speakers tomorrow (Saturday, May 10): Nick Holland on ‘Doubt, Defiance and Devotion – Faith and the Bronte sisters’ Charlotte Jones on “Some untamed ferocity” – The Brontës among the Moderns Info on the website: thebrusselsbrontegroup.org/events/

Here I am at St Gudula's, the Catholic Cathedral in Brussels. It was here that Charlotte Bronte took confession in 1843, a scene she featured in her novel Villette.

A small village in Normandy received a special retelling of the story of the Brontë sisters, including windswept moors under a lowering sky. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/05/retell…

In my new Bronte blog post I'm following the Bronte footsteps to Brussels: annebronte.org/2025/05/11/fol…

Calligraphy work by Brussels Brontë Group member Marina Saegerman is presented to Queen Camilla at Brontë Birthplace in Thornton. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/05/callig…

Look at these beautiful illustrations of poems by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, sent to me by Belgian artist Marina Saegerman!

‘Doubt, Defiance and Devotion' — Nick Holland looks at faith and religion in the Brontë novels, plus Charlotte’s encounters with Catholicism in Brussels, in a talk to the Brussels Brontë Group. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/05/nick-h…

Dr. Charlotte Jones talked to the Brussels Brontë Group about “The Brontës among the Moderns,” focusing on Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/05/charlo…

Louise Héger, daughter of Charlotte Brontë’s influential teacher when she was in Brussels, was the subject of an interesting talk by Belgian art historian Eline Sciot in Tervuren. brusselsbronte.blogspot.com/2025/05/tervur…

Members of the Brussels Brontë Group enjoyed a wonderful excursion in Brontë Country on Saturday, organized by Helen MacEwan and Joanne Wilcock. First stop was the newly opened Brontë Birthplace in Thornton, followed by visits to Oakwell Hall, Roe Head School and Shibden Hall.

On Sunday in Haworth, members of the Brussels Brontë Group visited the Parsonage Museum and then trekked out to Top Withens, led by Michael Stewart, with a stop at the Wuthering Heights pub on the way back.

A photo of the beautiful Scarborough Castle I took in 2018. Anne Bronte loved it and the views it offered, and she is buried at the foot of it in the annexe of St Mary's church.

On the last day of our Haworth trip, members of the Brussels Brontë Group went to Scarborough to meet up with the Anne Brontë Association, walk on The Sands and see Anne’s grave. The trip included a visit to the Maritime Heritage Centre, which has a lovely “Anne Brontë Corner.”