The desk on which Charlotte Bronte wrote her classic novels will go on display at her former home in West Yorkshire, having been hidden for over a century. The desk is to be shown at the Bronte ...

A woman who helped reveal the character of the Yorkshire Ripper through his writing has been using her skills to find out more about the Brontes. Graphologist Diane Simpson has been scrutinising the ...

From Jane Austen to George Eliot, Virginia Woolf to Mary Shelley, plenty of women made a name for themselves in British literary history. Perhaps the most famous literary sisters, however, are the ...

I FIRST CHANCED on photos of the Brontë Parsonage, home of the literary family, while edging toward a redesign of my own tiny writer’s quarters in my London apartment. Having developed a block induced ...

YORKSHIRE, England — Staring at the horizon, I might have been looking at a vast canvas where the technique of chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark, was used to create a specific mood. One ...