It's always nice when I've pre-ordered a book and then forgotten all about it. It feels like a little surprise from the you of the recent past to your present self when it arrives

This is the first biography of Emily Bronte for decades

#books #bookstadon #nonfiction #biography #Brontes #emilybronte #reading

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via Project MUSE (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! Papers range from medieval poetry, through 18th- & 19th-century literature, to Muriel Spark & the Brontës

@litstudies

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #18thcentury #19thcentury #20thcentury #JamesHogg #RobertBurns #MurielSpark #Brontes

Gaia's Children With Uranus

The Twelve Titans – the first generation of powerful gods

The Three Cyclopes – #Brontes, #Steropes, #Arges

The Three Hecatoncheires – #Cottus, #Briareus, #Gyges

#hellenic #mythology #religion #myths #myth #greek

On the anniversary of #EmilyBronte 's birth, I thought this would be appropriate! (Cartoon by #KateBeaton)

#BronteSisters #Brontes #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #LiteraryHumor

@beexcessivelydiverting , did you see this story? I thought of you when I saw it.

Brontë country designated as one of England’s largest national nature reserves

https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/05/bronte-country-designated-as-one-of-englands-largest-national-nature-reserves/

#Brontës #BrontëCountry #Nature

Today's charity shop Puffin finds (from Hereford's superb Oxfam bookshop).

Both new to me, I read half of The Twelve And The Genii on the bus home, what an absolutely lovely book about a boy who finds some old toy soldiers in the attic, which turn out to have belonged to the Brontë children.

Nicholas Fisk - Space Hostages
Pauline Clarke - The Twelve And The Genii

#NowReading #CharityShopFinds #Puffin #Hereford #Brontes

This is absolutely the kind of MildlyInteresting nerdery I love—but are missing diacritical marks the same as mis-spelling, as the Graun insists?

#Writing #literature #EnglishLiterature #Brontes #books
@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/bronte-sisters-dots-names-corrected-westminster-abbey

#TheBrontës and #Byron: An online course with Dr Sam Hirst.

#TheBrontëParsonageMuseum is excited to be running a second #OnlineCourse with Dr Sam Hirst, a Teaching Associate at Sheffield University, who led our #Brontës and the #Gothic course last year.

https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1464/the-brontes-and-byron/7018