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URL:https://brontebirthplace.com/events/monthly-talk-sharon-wright-bronte-
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SUMMARY:Monthly Talk: Sharon Wright "Brontë Mother’s Day – The Woman W
 ho Put ‘Birth’ into ‘Birthplace"
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBrontë Mother’s Day – The Woman Who Put ‘Birth’ in
 to ‘Birthplace’\n\nSpeaker: Sharon Wright\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nDate: Tuesday\
 ,10 March\, 2026 in-person at 18.30\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nMaria Branwell Brontë\,
  who gave birth to Charlotte\, Emily\, Branwell and Anne Brontë\, was an 
 educated\, well-heeled Cornishwoman who married a penniless curate for lov
 e. She moved to Thornton with two little children - and left with six. Hea
 r how this often-overlooked Georgian gentlewoman was the very heart of the
  Brontë Birthplace in Thornton from Sharon Wright\, author of Mother of t
 he Brontës: The Life of Maria Branwell. Sharon reveals how her research t
 hrows light on the remarkable woman who put the ‘Birth’ into ‘Birthp
 lace’. This talk will be followed by a book signing.\n\nSharon Wright is
  an award-winning journalist\, a playwright and the author of The Lost His
 tory of the Lady Aeronauts and Mother of the Brontës. She is coauthor wit
 h Ann Dinsdale of Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar. Sharon wri
 tes for national newspapers and magazines and in 2024 won a correction to 
 the Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey\, which made headlines around th
 e world. She explained why the Brontë sisters' name deserves to be respec
 ted in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Observer\, The New York Times and on
  the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\nTickets: £10\nDoors open: 6pm\nTalk co
 mmences: 6:30pm\nLocation: Brontë Birthplace\, 72 - 74 Market Street\, Th
 ornton\, BD13 3HF\nThis talk will take place in person in the Posh Parlour
 \, Marias domain!\nLink to buy tickets here\n\n&nbsp\;
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