* In the 1853 Charlotte Brontë novel Villette the narrator refers to the green-room when preparing for a performance in an amateur play.

" Tynan described the play as " a minor miracle ": " All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage — the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of ' official ' attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour ( Jimmy describes an effeminate male friend as ' a female Emily Brontë '), the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.

Wood has been attached to play writer Anne Brontë in the film Brontë, the title character in Flora Plum and will be involved in the film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

Brontë Mitchell ( MacDowell ), a horticulturalist and an environmentalist takes part in a sham marriage with Georges Fauré ( Depardieu ), an illegal alien from France, to allow him to obtain a Green Card.

* Shirley ( novel ), an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë

* Lines ( Emily Brontë poem ), written in December 1837

* An area of County Down is known as the Brontë Homeland ( situated between Rathfriland and Banbridge, where Patrick Brontë had his church ), after Patrick Brontë ( originally Brunty ), father of Anne, Charlotte, Emily and Branwell.

At some point, the father of the sisters, Patrick Brontë ( born Brunty ), decided on the alternative spelling with the diaeresis over the terminal e to indicate that the name has two syllables.

Patrick Brontë ( 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861 ), was born in County Down, Ireland, of a very poor family of farm workers.

Patrick's wife Maria Brontë, née Branwell, ( 15 April 1783 – 15 September 1821 ), originated from Penzance, Cornwall and came from a comfortably well off middle-class family.

The Victorian period was the golden age of the realistic English novel, represented by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters ( Charlotte, Emily and Anne ), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

* Heathcliff ( Wuthering Heights ), the central character from the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Her subsequent feature films included three with director André Téchiné: French Provincial ( Souvenirs en France, 1975 ); The Bronte Sisters ( Les Sœurs Brontë, 1979 ), in which she portrayed Charlotte ; and Barocco ( 1976 ), for which she won a second César for her performance alongside Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.

An exemplar post-colonial novel is Wide Sargasso Sea ( 1966 ), by Jean Rhys, a predecessor story to Jane Eyre ( 1847 ), by Charlotte Brontë, a literary variety wherein a familiar story is re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, who, within the story and the plot, is a socially oppressed minor character who is renamed and variously exploited.

* Villette ( novel ), a novel by Charlotte Brontë.

Some are commemorated in groups, such as the joint memorial for the Brontë sisters ( commissioned in 1939, but not unveiled until 1947 due to the war ), the sixteen World War I poets inscribed on a stone floor slab and unveiled in 1985, and the four founders of the Royal Ballet, commemorated together in 2009.

* " Spellbound " ( poem ), written by Emily Brontë

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

:* Emma, by " Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady ", published 1980 ; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.

File: Charlotte Brontë. jpg | A postum idealized portrait by Duyckinick, 1873, based on a drawing by George Richmond

* The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, 3 volumes edited by Margaret Smith

* Charlotte Brontë – Drawing by George Richmond ( National Portrait Gallery )

* Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter, from Project Gutenberg

The three Brontë sisters, in a 1834 painting by their brother Branwell Brontë | Patrick Branwell.

* Some poems by Emily Brontë

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

Guided by the works of authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë, the Female Gothic permitted the introduction of feminine societal and sexual desires into Gothic texts.

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

Contacted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to arrange an interview to determine her marriage is legitimate, Brontë tracks down Georges, who is working as a waiter.

Advised by her attorney she could face criminal charges if their deception is uncovered, Brontë reluctantly invites Georges to move in with her.

* Brontë by Polly Teale ( Co-production with Shared Experience )

Authors published originally by Harper include Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters and William Makepeace Thackeray.

It is believed that the character of Caroline Helstone was loosely based on Anne and it has been speculated that Brontë originally planned to kill off Caroline but changed her mind because of her family tragedies.

In addition to his television and film work, Almond has also produced and directed several plays on television by such authors as Henrik Ibsen, Tennessee Williams, William Shakespeare, as well as creating his own adaptations of works by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Somerset Maugham, to name but a few.

Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics.

After a handful of film roles, most notably as John Barrymore's old flame in Reunion in Vienna, she returned to Britain, but concentrated on theatre work, including roles as Charlotte Brontë in Clemence Dane's Wild Decembers, in Sweet Aloes, and as Gilda in the British premiere of Noël Coward's Design for Living.