Lady into Fox (1922) by David Garnett. A piece of art: a fable recounted in a deceptively simple style. One day, a man’s wife ...

For the first time ever the enthralling story of Jane Eyre is being brought to ... 3-show run of this evening-length adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s tale of love, and self-discovery this ...

Rather a red room with warm white woodwork, Cassandra is partial to an warm white room with large red pieces, like built in ...

Well, it doesn’t! My mother’s blood didn’t wash away my father’s sin!” I’m fully aware “Jane Eyre” can be a hard sell for modern audiences, but there are innumerable reasons as to ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

But there’s an endless supply of devices authors use to augment their work, including some that demand such a high degree of ...

ONE magical night. Three mysterious ghosts. And the journey of a lifetime, to discover the true meaning of Christmas.

For a brief but intense period after the publication of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë was ‘the rage’ in the world of Victorian letters. Only such a phrase can describe the fascination she had for ...

In this letter to William S. Williams of the firm that had published Jane Eyre, Brontë reacted to some of the early reviews of her first published novel. She defended her portrayal of Helen Burns, a ...

Harman also states that, after their two sisters had got so ill with tuberculosis there that they came home to die, Patrick sent Charlotte and Emily back to the Clergy Daughters’ School (which Brontë ...

Brontë wrote this letter to her friend William S. Williams of the firm Smith, Elder, & Co., which had published Jane Eyre, to send him a wrenching update of her sister Anne’s decline. She wrote on ...