{"id":302,"date":"2016-04-14T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:52:00","slug":"successful-brontes-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/2016\/04\/14\/successful-brontes-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Bront\u00ebs Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the occasion of the bicentenary of Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s birth the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture held a symposium on 18<sup>th<\/sup> March entitled <em>Writing the Bront\u00ebs 200 Years After<\/em>. Although much has been written about the Haworth sisters and their works since Gaskell\u2019s <em>The Life of Charlotte Bront\u00eb <\/em>(1857) the public is as eager as ever to read about them. But how much is left to be told? And, how are the Bront\u00ebs being written nowadays? To explore this question of the Bront\u00ebs\u2019 published afterlife, the Centre gathered three outstanding experts in Bront\u00eban biography and dissemination.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium started off with Dr Siv Jansson who, in her capacity as Literary Advisor for the forthcoming BBC drama about the Bront\u00ebs, is actively immersed in the process of writing the sisters.\u00a0 Dr Patsy Stoneman (Hull) continued the discussion about \u201chistoriographic metafiction\u201d going through a varied list of published biographies which included \u201cbiographical fiction\u201d and more factual or critical works.<\/p>\n<p>After Jansson and Stoneman had offered a vivid insight into the wide variety of biographies written about the Bront\u00ebs, it was then the turn of Sarah Fermi, author of <em>Emily\u2019s Journal<\/em> (2006). Fermi\u2019s fictional biography of Emily Bront\u00eb was inspired by a question that is shared by many: how did Emily, who led a life of semi-seclusion, write <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The talks were followed by a Q&amp;A roundtable hosted by Dr Sara Lyons (Kent). This was the moment when the audience could engage with the three speakers who managed to create an atmosphere where dialogue and ideas flowed in all directions. A very special occasion led by very special women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the occasion of the bicentenary of Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s birth the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture held a symposium on 18th March entitled Writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/2016\/04\/14\/successful-brontes-symposium\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2411,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/englishresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}