The Mother of the Brontës
We're thrilled to kick off the Brontë Lounge for 2021 by welcoming author and biographer Sharon Wright. In this zoom event, Sharon will discuss with our host Helen Meller why Maria Brontë is such a shadowy figure, and how she set out across Britain in search of this clever, resilient and witty lady of letters.
This year marks the bicentenary of the death of Maria Branwell Brontë in 1821. In the first biography of the enigmatic mother of genius,
The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick Sharon Wright reveals the extraordinary, forgotten life of the first, last and only Mrs Brontë.
Sharon was born in Bradford and is an award-winning journalist, nonfiction author and playwright. She began her career on the local paper that covers Haworth before moving to the national press. Sharon has written for
The Guardian, Daily Express, New York Post, BBC, The Lady, Glamour and Red. Her first book
Balloonomania Belles about the first women to fly was published in 2018, followed by Maria’s biography in 2019. She is also the author of critically acclaimed plays
Full Fat and
The Social Notwork, plus
Friller based on a true story from Edwardian Haworth. The Brontës even feature in her new paperback
The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts, out in Spring 2021.
Thursday 28 January at 7.30pm. Tickets £6