AUSTRALIAN BRONTĖ ASSOCIATION
[Other literary societies in Sydney: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/litsoc.htm]
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2008 Program: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/2008.pdf
Draft 2009 Program: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/2009.htm
Combined Weekend Conference with the NSW Dickens Society
at Coolangatta Estate near Berry on 29th 31st May
2009
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~chris/bronte/conference.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.
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/