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Letter: Michèle Roberts responds to an article by Sarah Moss on literary heroines being thin

This joyously bananas look at the nine-day queen features shapeshifting servants transforming into owls. It’s a wild, fun bit of escapism – perfect summer viewing

A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

The wild west coast from Cork up to Donegal has captivated writers from Yeats to Synge and Charlotte Brontë – as well as a host of lesser-known talent

Royal Family names have inspired parents-to-be for generations, but many may not be aware of some of the origins of such names, many of which hold very special meanings

Linguistic diversity, like other types of diversity, can enrich life. It’s a truism that languages and cultures are closely allied. Some believe that language imposes its own unique perceptual grid on its users.

Late in her own relatively short life, the writer Charlotte Brontë published a brief "biographical notice" about her two sisters, Emily and Anne, both fellow writers who died tragically young. Of Emily, who died in 1848 at the age of 30 after publishing her sole novel "Wuthering Heights," Charlotte wrote,…

Charles Mackay was wrong about a lot, but his wild life and times hold many lessons

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.