Welcome to the website of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society. The site has information about the lives and novels of the Brontë Family and the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Enjoy exploring the website and we hope you will visit us soon.

The museum is closed from 4 to 31 January and will re-open on 1 February following a Heritage Lottery funded redevelopment.

It is now much easier to help to support the work of the Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum.

You can now:
Use the improved  online shop -  remember all profits from the shop go to support the work of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, preserving items once owned by the Brontë Family. 
If you are a company or individual wishing to donate money or services to the Bronte Society please contact us directly on 01535 642323 or bronte@bronte.org.uk  There is also extra information for those wishing to remember the Society and Museum by leaving a legacy in their will.

You can also raise money for the society by using the everyclick search engine.

Brontë Society events take place throughout the year. A contemporary arts programme also takes place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. To join our mailing list for events information contact bronte@bronte.org.uk/ 01535 642323. Forthcoming events include;

Events for Society Members, Spring 2010 onwards: for further details and booking forms for our 2010 Literary Lunch and Spring Walk please click on Bronte Society (at left) and then click on Events and booking. AGM dates are 4th - 7th June 2010: further details available soon.

Genius - The Brontë Story:   Major refurbishment of the main exhibition space opens with new permanent exhibition focussing on the Brontes' lives. There is also a new special exhibition focussing on Charlotte Bronte, free on admission to the Museum.

Sex, Drugs and Literature - The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë: New special exhibition focusing on Branwell Brontë - Bronte Parsonage Museum - Free on admission to the museum

Friday 5 March - Monday 3 May 2010

Jo Brown: The Sunbeam and the Storm: Exhibition of new abstract paintings by artist Jo Brown, inspired by descriptions of weather in Emily Bronte's poems - Bronte Parsonage Museum - Free with admission to the museum.

Wednesday 10 March 2010 - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2010

Lisa Appignanesi, writer, broadcaster and chair of the Freud Museum will be speaking about her book Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800. The book looks at the ways female madness has been studied over the past two centuries and includes writers such as Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath - 2pm - West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth - Admission £3, tickets on the door. For further information contact Arts Officer Jenna Holmes; 01535 640188 / jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk

Wednesday 24 March 2010

An Afternoon with Persephone Books: Persephone Books reprint neglected novels, diaries and short stories by women writers. Founder Nicola Beauman talks about some of the authors and their work, and how the books are chosen - 2pm - West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth - Admission £3, tickets on the door. For further information contact jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188.

If you wish to join our new e-mailing service and receive updates on contemporary arts events please contact jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk. 

You can also find more information about the local area and links to tourist information in weblinks