From Haworth to Eternity: The Enduring Legacy of The Brontes
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Eternity: The Enduring Legacy of the Brontës is the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s headline exhibition for 2025, exploring how the Brontës’ home in Haworth became a place of literary pilgrimage.
- Focuses on the Parsonage and surrounding moorland as central to the Brontë myth
- Examines how their lives became part of their global literary appeal
- Includes material on the impact of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1857 biography
- Traces the rise of Brontë tourism, from early visitors to modern mass appeal
- Features letters, manuscripts, souvenir albums, and rarely seen material from the Museum’s drama archive
- Explores how film and TV adaptations have shaped public perception of the Brontës and Haworth
The exhibition offers a unique look at how place, myth, and media have kept the Brontës at the centre of literary culture.