Brussels Brontë Blog

1 September, Thursday – Weather: 9 to 19 C, quite clouded, some evening rain, strong wind On this day an art exhibition was opened in ...

1 August, Monday – Weather: 13 to 19 C, clouded morning, some sunshine in the afternoon The actress Rachel gave her fourth performance...

1 July, Friday – Weather: 18 to 20 to 13 C, clouded, rain around 4 pm, stormy wind After the heat of June the month of July brought ni...

1 June, Wednesday – Weather: 8 to 23 C, cloudless 2 June, Thursday – W: 12 to 18 C, clouded, with a little bit of rain On this da...

Little more than a month after the death of Martha Taylor , another English friend of the Brontës, Julia Wheelwright, died in Brussels, on ...

After about two weeks of illness Martha Taylor, the beloved friend of the Brontë sisters, died on 12 October 1842 in Koekelberg. It has b...

1 May, Sunday – Weather: 11 to 22 C, largely unclouded At the beginning of chapter 23 of Villette Lucy Snowe says that “on the first ...

1 April, Friday – Weather: 11 to 7 to 11 C. The (northwestern) storm that began yesterday continued, until the end of the morning, with a ...

1 March, Tuesday – Weather: 8 to 12 C, wholly clouded with rain in the afternoon 2 March, Wednesday – W: 3 to 9 C, bright morning, contin...

8 February, Tuesday , the Brontës leave Haworth, for Brussels. With Joe and Mary Taylor they traveled by train from Leeds to London where t...

Newspapers are a wonderful source of historical information, and in these years Belgium was already blessed with a very good freedom of pre...

Charlotte Brontë clearly liked living in Brussels. Had there not been this somewhat problematic relationship with M. and Mme. Heger she wou...