Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

Patrick Brontë, Homeschool Dad

The dining room where novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë studied and later honed their craft together. I didn’t know Patrick Brontë, father of famous authors Charlotte, Emily and Anne, was a homeschool hero. But that’s what I figured out on a...
In Search of the Real Jane Austen

In Search of the Real Jane Austen

The Jane Austen Centre in Bath says this is what she really looked like. What could I find out in Bath, U.K., about the real Jane Austen? The writer, the woman. This was a major question on my recent trip to England. Her plight as a woman of poor fortune, forbidden to...