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The Brontë Sisters: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey & More
with Dr Joan Passey
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What you’ll explore
- How three sisters in one Yorkshire parsonage reshaped English fiction
- Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in their true context
- The radical ideas about gender, class and morality beneath the novels
- What the sisters' letters and lives in Haworth reveal about their art
- Why the Brontës still resonate with readers today
About this talk
Three sisters. One parsonage. A literary revolution that reshaped fiction forever.
From the windswept moorlands of Wuthering Heights to the fierce moral independence of Jane Eyre, and the bold, ahead-of-its-time realism of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, this talk explores how Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë transformed personal experience into groundbreaking literature.
Drawing on their letters and lives in Haworth, Dr Joan Passey uncovers the radical ideas about gender, class, morality and artistic ambition that challenged Victorian expectations — and still resonate today.
A peek inside
Your speaker: Dr Joan Passey
Dr Joan Passey is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, specialising in the gothic, horror and folklore. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she contributes to BBC Radio 3 and has spoken at Hay Festival and the BBC Proms. She edits anthologies for the British Library's Tales of the Weird series and wrote Cornish Gothic, 1830–1913, the first study to define a Cornish Gothic tradition.
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