Brontë Microficton Project: I’m Just Going To Write Because I Cannot Help It (Again)

Calling all creative writers and Brontë fans. It's no secret I haven't been in the best of health recently. However I recently discovered a Twitter account which features microfiction which has given me a bit of motivation. I'm putting together a microfiction project and I'd love some submissions from others to join my "Ode to…

I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.

The Keep of the Bridge by Charlotte Brontë

It's been a little while since my last post on here so I thought it would be nice to get back to basics with another look at a piece of Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia. "The Keep of the Bridge" is a short tale, little more than a fragment, but like other pieces of her early fiction,…

Beyond the Brontë Juvenilia: Discovering More Child Authors

When setting up Brontë Babe Blog it was my intention to introduce readers to the Brontë juvenilia in the hope of inspiring people to actually read texts from Charlotte and Branwell’s Glass Town/Angrian saga. Sadly most of Emily and Anne’s writings have been lost to time and what remains is difficult to piece together and…

5 Overlooked Brontë Women

The Brontë sisters created some of the most memorable characters in literary history, many of them female, which may perhaps be why their work still seems refreshing today. However, dig beneath the surface a little and you will find there are more inspiring and intriguing female characters in their works. I thought it might be…

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

I have many literary passions but right at the top are things such as the works of the Brontë family, detective stories, and science fiction. An eclectic mix, I agree, so you can imagine my delight when I came across The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde which promised to combine all three. I admit that I bought…

Re-Discovering Jane Eyre: Reader, I Love It

Reader, it's no secret that my favourite author of all time is Charlotte Brontè, and that my favourite novel of all time is her 1847 masterpiece, Jane Eyre. It might therefore seem strange that I've never dedicated a post to it, but perhaps that's simply because I love it so much and there is so much I…

Reading Challenge 2021

Happy New Year all! Let's hope for a much better 2021 and the less said about most of 2020, the better. I have no resolutions other than my reading challenge however I will follow Charlotte Brontë's advice and see where it gets me - “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to…

Reading Challenge 2020: The Results

What a year 2020 has been. It's safe to say that nobody was expecting anything quite like it. At the start of the year I had a lot of resolutions for 2020; things to do, places to see etc., however, like most bookworms I also had some reading resolutions. Following a mainly successful 2019 Reading…

The Enfant by Charlotte Brontë

It's been quite a while since I've posted anything exclusively on the Brontë juvenilia or an in-depth look at one of Charlotte or Branwell's early Glass Town Tales. In the past I've gone right back to the beginning and looked at texts such as Charlotte's Two Romantic Tales. I thought it would be nice, and perhaps…