Name: Radical Women, Radical Truths: The Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell
Start: 2025-11-01T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-01T18:30:00+00:00
Location: The Portico Library

$Radical Women, Radical Truths: The Bront\u00ebs and Elizabeth Gaskell$

Rewriting the lives of the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell through material evidence - An evening with Sharon Wright and Graham Watson.
About this Event

Step beyond the well-worn legends of the Brontë family and into the real world they inhabited! Two remarkable new books — Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar by Sharon Wright and Ann Dinsdale, and The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson — challenge long-held myths with fresh evidence and bold new insights.

Let Me In offers an illuminating tour through the houses, schools and interiors that shaped the Brontës’ imaginations, while The Invention of Charlotte Brontë reexamines how Elizabeth Gaskell’s sensational biography helped create — and complicate — the family’s lasting legend.

Join us for an unforgettable evening with Sharon Wright, award-winning journalist and biographer, and Graham Watson, debut author and literary sleuth. Together, they’ll explore the radical artistry of the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell, the detective work behind their research, and the surprising truths they uncovered about literature’s most fascinating family.

There will also be first editions of novels by Charlotte Brontë and The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell on display.