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Anne Brontë

March 2026

  • Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in a scene from Wuthering Heights (2026).

    Ranked
    Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontës’ novels – ranked!

    As Emerald Fennell’s film sparks debate, we celebrate the pioneering brilliance of the siblings’ work

December 2025

  • Kate Bush’s hit re-enacted on the moors … this year’s ‘Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever’ on Penistone Hill, Yorkshire.

    Margot Robbie in red latex, Kate Bush impersonators and a pint of Emily ale: my crash course in Brontëmania

    As Wuthering Heights gets a raunchy Hollywood remake, our writer takes a pilgrimage through Haworth, the village where its author lived – and finds her spirit still electrifying the cobbled streets and windswept moors

May 2025

  • Queen Camilla visits the cottage in Thornton where the Brontë children were born.

    Brontë sisters’ Bradford birthplace opens for visitors

    Queen Camilla opens house, refurbished after 18-month fundraising campaign, where you can stay ‘in the same room the Brontës slept in’

December 2024

  • Lucy Powrie standing outside a property leaning on a wall

    ‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

    Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum

September 2024

  • A conservator puts dots on the sisters' names which are listed on the plaque, from top to bottom Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne

    Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey

    Amended memorial to the writers unveiled at Poets’ Corner 85 years after misspelled plaque first installed

April 2024

  • ian mckellen in a leather jacket holding a drink, as falstaff

    The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review

  • Adele James (Emily), Gemma Whelan (Charlotte) and Rhiannon Clements (Anne) in Underdog: The Other Other Brontë at the Dorfman theatre.

    Underdog: The Other Other Brontë review – modern mashup pits deceitful sister as a ruthless rival

March 2024

  • Suppressions and alterations … from left, Rhiannon Clements, Gemma Whelan and Adele James in Underdog: The Other Other Brontë.

    Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians

    Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters

November 2023

  • The Bronte Birthplace, Market street, Thornton, Bradford.

    Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters

    Crowdfunding and significant donation from Nigel West – who has a family connection to Charlotte’s husband – secure property, with plans to transform it into a cultural and education centre

October 2023

  • The Brontës’ birthplace in Thornton, near Bradford.

    Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

    A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

May 2023

  • The four Brontë siblings.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The North Wind by Anne Brontë

    This free-spirited romantic adventure story is one of Anne Brontë’s ‘Gondal poems’

October 2022

  • Captivating … The Moors.

    The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche

    The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie

June 2022

  • Salts Mill on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, Saltaire, near Bradford.

    Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture

    From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul

May 2022

  • Stones collected by Anne Brontë

    Student helps reveal Anne Brontë’s skills in geology

    Sally Jaspars says novelist’s rock collection shows youngest Brontë sister ‘was in tune with the scientific inquiry of the time’

April 2022

  • Emma Swan, Claire-Marie Seddon and Sophia Hatfield in I Am No Bird.

    I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history

    This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking

July 2021

  • Moody and atmospheric scene of a damp moorland day with stone wall<br>M7RDF2 Moody and atmospheric scene of a damp moorland day with stone wall

    Book of the day
    Walking the Invisible by Michael Stewart review – following in the Brontës’ footsteps

    A walking tour of the north of England becomes a celebration of the Brontës’ work and a love letter to the wily, windy places that inspired them

June 2021

  • Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë, Autograph manuscript birthday notes, with sketches by Emily, 1841 (6)

    UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers

    Friends of the National Libraries launch ‘once in a generation’ effort to raise £15m to buy the Honresfield library, packed with works by Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and Walter Scott

May 2021

  • A rare handwritten manuscript of Emily’s poems, mentioned in the preface to Wuthering Heights, with pencil corrections by Charlotte (est. £800,000-1,200,000) - in situ (2)

    ‘Priceless’ Brontë manuscripts could be lost to private buyer, warn experts

    Historic holdings including handwritten poems by Emily Brontë are set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s, but MPs are being urged to save them for the public
  • Birthday notes by Emily and Anne Brontë, 1841, with sketches by Emily, included in the Honresfield House library sale at Sotheby’s.

    Emily Brontë’s handwritten poems are highlight of ‘lost library’ auction

    Collection of rare books and manuscripts first assembled by Charlotte Brontë’s widower has been out of public view for nearly a century
  • British author Bernardine Evaristo poses with her book Girl, Woman, Other.

    Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse UK exam texts

    OCR board asks teachers to vote on books to make A-level and GCSE English courses more inclusive
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