AUSTRALIAN BRONTĖ ASSOCIATION

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2008 Program: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/2008.pdf

 

The Australian Brontė Association is a literary society devoted to the study and enjoyment of the Brontės.  We meet in Sydney at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt St Sydney (near Town Hall Station).  We are one of several literary societies in Sydney, devoted to a single author or family of authors.  Some other literary societies, with whom we have close links, and many common members, are devoted to Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Byron, Dylan Thomas and D.H. Lawrence.

 

[As you can see our website is rather primitive.  We would welcome a volunteer who would be willing to maintain it in something that approaches professional standards.  In the meantime you’ll have to put up with what you see.]

 

The ABA is independent of the (UK) Brontė Society but it grew out of a group of Australian members of the Brontė Society and we still maintain strong links with the parent body.  In fact the current president of the Australian Brontė Association, Dr Christopher Cooper, is also the Australian Representative of the Brontė Society.

 

Membership costs $20 per year ($15 for full time students, pensioners or members of the Brontė Society).  For people living away from Sydney we offer an associate membership for $5 per year.  Associate members receive our two newsletters and one journal, by post, each year.

 

We suggest that before you join you check us out by coming to one or two meetings first.  You can join at any meeting or by clicking on http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/membership.htm

Print out the membership form and send it, together with your payment, to our treasurer.

 

For enquiries about membership email the president, Christopher Cooper, at chris@maths.mq.edu.au

 

You can see what sort of things we do through our newsletters, which are produced twice a year.

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/newsletters.htm

 

In addition, in 2004, we started a journal “The Bronte Thunderer”.  This will be published at the end of each year.

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/thunderer.htm

 

 

JUVENILIA PRESS

The Juvenilia Press is a research and pedagogic project that publishes early works of the Charlotte and Branwell Bronte and other writers.  Its Brontė publications are lively, low-cost volumes that include a critical introduction, scholarly annotation, and light-hearted illustrations.  They are particularly useful for teaching at university and secondary school level.

 

http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/juvenilia/