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The 160 homes will be built near to the village of Thornton where the literary sisters were born.

THEIR LITERARY works remain as treasured by aficionados across the globe nearly two centuries on from when they were first written.

English novelist. Born 1816. Died 1854. Charlotte Brontë was the daughter of clergyman Patrick Brontë and wife Maria, and the third of six children. O...

VCG Wilson / Corbis via Getty Images When it comes to England’s literary heritage, few figures command quite as much fascination as the Brontë sisters. Over two centuries on from their births, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849) remain celebrated figures, heralded for works like Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, respectively. Emily was relatively little-known in her lifetime, having written her famous tragic love story in 1847, a year be...

Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 08.37 EDT An “incredibly rare” handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems, with pencil corrections by her sister Charlotte, is going up for auction as part of a “lost library” that has been out of public view for nearly a century. The collection was put together by Arthur Bell Nicholls, the widower of Charlotte, who of the six Brontë children lived the longest, dying in 1855 at the age of 38. Nicholls sold the majority of the s...

“I wanted to claim Charlotte Brontë as one of our own because she is,” said Irish actress Maxine Linehan, who portrays Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, in the one-woman show Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte by William Luce. “Charlotte’s schoolmates have remarked that she spoke with an Irish accent,” says Linehan. “Her father, Patrick, was born in County Down at Emdale, Drumballyroney, near Rathfriland, about 20 miles from my own home place in Newry. The more research I did, the mo...

Good fan fiction can be some of the most rewarding reading. Most people have read something that can be called fanfic, whether it’s Virgil’s “Aeneid,” based on Homer, or “Paradise Lost,” based on the Bible, or a more modern title, such as John Gardner’s “Grendel” or “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Seth Grahame-Smith.  Since their books have been wildly popular and critically acclaimed for nearly 200 years, and since they left such a small body of work, the Brontës�...