Warner Bros.
A new film about the author mixes biography with mythology and some dramatic reinvention.
Sydney Theatre Company/Prudence Upton
Anne Brontë’s novel was a skewering of her sister’s romantic heroes. Now a new adaptation finds something completely modern in her words.
The three Brontë sisters with their brother Branwell.
Woodend, Scarborough
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
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Brontëk is a rare work that encourages Brontë fans not to take the sisters too seriously.