# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Elizabeth Gaskell’s famous biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë went a considerable way to creating the myth of the famous writer living up on the moors. But what of the image of Charlotte’s two groundbreaking literary sisters, Emily and Anne Brontë? How has our view of these trailblazing writers changed over the years?

Emily Brontë’s enduring classic Wuthering Heights makes her the author of one of the finest novels in English language and shows her to be a woman of great passion. What was she like as a person and how was she depicted outside the family? Her sister Anne has been overshadowed by both siblings but her debut novel Agnes Grey and feminist masterpiece The Tennant of Wildfell Hall are now critically acclaimed. Compared with Charlotte, both sisters’ left little behind beyond their work, creating a vacuum others have been happy to fill with their own theories; and this has sometimes obscured our understanding further.

So, what did Elizabeth Gaskell discover about Emily and Anne in her research? How have opinions on their trailblazing works changed over the years and how has our image of them changed? Sue Newby, Education Officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, reveals all the answers.

The last in the Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell mini-season, in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Wednesday 6 May, 7-8pm

£6 per ticket

Book now https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/elizabeth-gaskell-house/online-talk-a-girl-again-half-savage-and-hardy-and-free-emily-and-anne-bronte/2026-05-06/19%3A00/t-aaqegov?fbclid=IwVERDUAOmemxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR44ZnqMMIMQzLs8AD--QI91R3B6HSgbI0Uq1JTi1NXFHAWkDvie1BUW74ndGA_aem_hB2teWI1k0eBlrxbbgNz1w
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/online-talk-‘i-wish-i-were-a-girl-again-half-savage-and-hardy-and-free’-emily-and-anne-brontë/200029362671546
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 28

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Manchester
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Elizabeth Gaskell's House, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester
- **lat**: 53.46351
- **long**: -2.2212
- **full address**: Elizabeth Gaskell's House, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë being held?
  - **A:** Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë takes place on Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Elizabeth Gaskell's House, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë?
  - **A:** Online Talk: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’ – Emily and Anne Brontë is organized by Elizabeth Gaskell's House.

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