Mothering Heights: Finding Mrs Brontë
Sharon Wright
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £120 including expenses.
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 2nd March 2022
- Tagged:
- 18Th Century | Womens History | Brontë | Smuggling
Before Cathy met Heathcliff, before Jane Eyre met Mr Rochester, Maria Branwell met Mr Brontë. Reader, she married him and their real Regency love story rivals any Brontë novel.
Maria gave us Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known then vanished from history for 200 years. So who was the missing mother of genius?
Sharon shares her quest across the West Country and native West Riding to unearth Maria’s remarkable, untold life story for her bestselling biography, Mother of the Brontës ...and make headlines around the world.
Views: 580 | Enquiries: 0About Sharon Wright
I'm an author and journalist with a long career writing and editing for magazines, newspapers and websites such as The Guardian, Daily Express, BBC, Glamour, Red, The Lady and New York Post.
I'm also the author of the Amazon #1 best-seller Mother of the Brontës, the first biography of the mother of genius, and The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts. My first book was serialised in The Mail on Sunday and I appeared on BBC Woman's Hour.
My research into fascinating, forgotten women of history makes for lively and enjoyable talks. I've spoken everywhere from the British Library and LSE to local libraries and church halls; cathedrals and literary societies to U3As and local history groups.
If there’s a teapot and an audience, I’m there.
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