December 1848: Wuthering Heights was reviewed as; 'nightmares and dreams, through which devils dance and wolves howl.' Heathcliff as 'the epitome of brutality.' And the author Ellis Bell as 'a spendthrift of malice and profanity.' . Artwork: EmilyInGondal

Yet my heart loves December's smile As much as July's golden beam Then let us sit and watch the while The blue ice curdling on the stream - . Poem: Emily Brontë: December 1838 . Artwork: RestAwhile by EmilyInGondal

🧡 Lovely to see my book cover design Still out there!

Emily Brontë - Person Of The Year (every year for me...)

🎄If you are Christmas shopping in Haworth swing by Oh La La on Main Street, (the one with the bicycle on the side wall...!!!) You can find all my Christmas Cards on sale there plus lots of other wonderful gift ideas...

🎄 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at The Brontë Parsonage, always worth a visit, it's particularly beautiful and atmospheric at this time of year... . 📽 Brontë Parsonage Museum

Tuesday 19th December 1848: At two O'clock in the afternoon Emily Brontë died. After a short, hard conflict, she was torn from the world, turning her dying eyes reluctantly from the pleasant sun. The relentless conflict between strangely strong spirit and fragile frame was over.

This is the bronte-country.com/bronte-font.ht… in #Thornton on the outskirts of #Bradford, in which the #Bronte siblings were baptised:

Huge order just gone off to Oh La La in Haworth This is the only place you can buy EmilyInGondal cards and prints at the moment. So next time you wander down Haworth Main Street pop in, it is the place The Brontës bought the paper on which they wrote their novels..!

“This book I had again and again perused with delight.” Charlotte Bronte, “Jane Eyre” 📷Part of my bookcase

31st March 1855: Charlotte Brontë died. She became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly, she died three weeks before her 39th birthday with her unborn child. Her husband wrote; 'Our dear Charlotte is no more - She died last night of exhaustion...'

15th April 1783: Maria Branwell was born in Penzance, Cornwall. She married Patrick Brontë in 1812 and together they had six children, including Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë & Anne Brontë...

'It was spring, for the skylark was singing.' Those words they awakened a spell - They unlocked a deep fountain whose springing Nor Absence nor Distance can quell. . Poem: Emily Brontë . Artwork: GoodFridayMorning by EmilyInGondal

Happy Easter..!

21st April 1816: Charlotte Brontë born on this day, whose novel, Jane Eyre, has never been out of print since 1847. '...a tiny, delicate, little person, whose small hand ...grasped a mighty lever which set all the literary world of that day vibrating.' Anne Thackeray Ritchie

24th May 1849: Around noon Anne Brontë set off for Scarborough, with Charlotte and Ellen Nussey, in the hopes the sea air would help her help fight tuberculosis. The familiar sounds of Haworth must have been all around her as she climbed into the carriage, never to return...

25th May 1849: Anne Brontë, on the way to Scarborough, stayed in York at the George Hotel. Before they left York the next morning, at Anne's request, they paid a visit to York Minster. Anne was moved to say; 'If finite power can do this what is the...' before emotion stopped her.

28th May 1849: Anne Brontë died at two o'clock in the afternoon at a lodging house in Scarborough, overlooking the sea. Seeing Charlotte barely able to contain her grief, Anne whispered her last words, 'Take courage, Charlotte; take courage.'