The Arts Society West Wales: The World of the Brontes

Lecture starts at 11am

The literary work of the Brontë sisters is known throughout the world. Their domestic environment is less familiar. A small village in an industrial landscape of mills and bleak moorland was ‘home’ to this extraordinary family. The lecture concentrates on places known to the Brontës and how these inspired their work. Once her siblings had died, Charlotte was left alone but who was the man who won her lonely heart? Mr. Nicholls appeared briefly in her work – and is now the subject of Juliet’s new book.

Juliet studied History of Art at London University. For thirty years she lived in France where she became a lecturer on art and architecture in the Midi-Pyrenees area and gained a Masters degree in English Literature at Toulouse University. She has devised and led art study tours in some seven areas of France. As a writer, she has published many books - folktales, fiction and art - of which her History of Western Painting for Young People was translated into twelve languages. Returned to England she continues to write and hosts informal art history classes as well as lecturing widely for organisations including The Arts Society and the Ashmolean Museum. Her most recent book is Van Gogh: A Life in Places which led her to take part in the television series Art on the BBC.

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