Welcome

To the Australian Brontë Association website

The Australian Brontë Association is a literary society devoted to the study and enjoyment of the Brontë family: Charlotte (author of Jane Eyre, among others), Emily (Wuthering Heights) and Anne (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), together with their brother Branwell, and other sisters Maria and Elizabeth.

The Australian Brontë Association meets approximately every two months at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts. At each meeting, a paper on some aspect of the Brontës' life and work is presented. In 2009, we are also having a joint weekend conference with the NSW Dickens Society.

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