How many tourists in Brussels know that the two most famous Brontë sisters lived here for a time?
Charlotte Brontë's experience of teaching, and falling in love in Brussels, where she and Emily stayed in 1842-43, inspired her last, most autobiographical novel, Villette.
How to book this event:
Early bird membership paid before 30 September 2020: €70
Membership paid after 30 Sept 20: €80
Guests Zoom lecture: €8.00
Helen MacEwan
Helen MacEwan is a British-born writer turned biographer, who studied modern languages at university, but English literature has always been her passion- literature and also literary biography - finding out what her favourite authors were like as people, which experiences formed them.
Helen has formed the Brussels Brontë Group with talks. Check out her website for more details: www.thebrusselsbrontegroup.org.
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