Brontë Parsonage to be given a decor makeover, 1830s-style

The home of the Brontë sisters is to undergo its first facelift in a quarter of a century.

Haworth Parsonage is to be re-decorated in a scheme costing around £60,000.

Using historical and scientific analysis produced by academics at the University of Lincoln, and referencing contemporary sources including watercolours and letters by the Brontës, the parsonage will undergo a major interior visual transformation.

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The house will be restored to look much as it did during the main period of the Brontë family’s occupation in the 1830s and 40s. It will also include features introduced by Charlotte as part of her makeover for the house during the early 1850s when she began to spend some of the income she had earned from her novels.

Ann Dinsdale, collections manager at Brontë Parsonage Museum, said: “This is one of the most exciting projects to take place at the parsonage in many years and is the culmination of a two-year research project. There have been attempts in the past to present the parsonage as the Brontës’ home, but no serious archaeological work has ever been carried out before. The new rigorous historical research and scientific analysis resulting from this project has informed bespoke wallpapers, new curtains and painstakingly woven rugs.

“Objects from the Brontë Society collections will be displayed for the first time in this new context and familiar works will be reinterpreted.”