"I've never seen so many people talk about Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights. It's been quite mind-blowing - really, very surreal. We talk about the Brontës every day and everyone else is kind of joining in on this conversation, and it is everywhere. So many people are picking up the book for the first time and discovering the Brontës for the first time."
"People from as far as America were coming to Haworth to try and see the place where Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre and lived. So it kind of started really early on, before the museum was actually at the parsonage. Even when Patrick was still living there, people would come to visit the historic home."
Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, released in February and starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, has generated extraordinary interest in the Brontë sisters and their works. The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire reports a "mind-blowing" surge in visitors and engagement. Museum digital engagement officer Mia Ferullo notes this represents the most significant wave of Brontëmania in recent times, with many people discovering the sisters' works for the first time. Upcoming television adaptations further fuel this literary fervor. Brontëmania itself has historical roots, with literary pilgrimages to Haworth beginning in the late 19th century, even during Reverend Patrick Brontë's lifetime, as admirers sought the locations where Charlotte, Emily, and Anne created their celebrated novels.
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