Sharon Wright is an author, journalist and scriptwriter.
Based in London, England.
AUTHOR EVENTS
To book Sharon as a speaker at your event go to Public Speakers Corner.
2023
9th February Fly Me! Mrs Sage and the Mile High Club, Tea House Theatre, Vauxhall.
5th May Mothering Heights – Brontë Afternoon Tea Weaver Words: Frodsham Literature Festival
6th May Fly Me! Mrs Sage and the Mile High Club Weaver Words: Frodsham Literature Festival
2nd September Paper: ‘The records of a mind: Maria Branwell Brontë, mother of genius’ – Quills and Characters: approaches to women’s letters, 1660-1860, online conference at Chawton House, BOOK HERE
9th September ‘The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar: A Work in Progress’ with co-author Ann Dinsdale, Brontë Society Conference 2023: ‘How beautiful the earth is still’
15th September Mrs Brontë and the Ilfracombe Shipwreck, Appledore Book Festival BOOK HERE
19th September Fly Me! Mrs Sage and the Mile High Club, The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond Walking and Book Festival BOOK HERE
2022
18th to 20th March Guest author, Alderney Literary Festival, Channel Island of Alderney.
23rd June Mother of the Brontës author talk at The Edge of the World Bookshop, Penzance.
18th July Aeronaut to Her Majesty: The White Knuckle World of Margaret Graham, Summer Ladies Luncheon, Ashdown Park and Country Club.
4th October Fly Me! at Guildford Book Festival with Abigail Halley. Three centuries. Two authors. One astonishing true story.
30th October Unveiling of the gravestone for 19th-century balloonist Margaret Graham, the first British woman to fly solo. I tell her remarkable story in The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts and led the campaign to finally get her the memorial she deserves.
6th December Grove Actually – talk, supper and tour at Woodhouse Grove School, where Maria met Patrick Brontë. Apperley Bridge, Bradford Tickets here…
2021
28th January The Brontë Lounge, online interview, The Brontë Society, Haworth.
15th March Mothering Heights, online interview, Chawton House, Hampshire 18th July
13th May The Mother of the Brontës webinar, the LSE Library, London.
10th June The Brontës: Then and Now, panel discussion, Lincoln Festival of Creativity.
25th June The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts Book-signing, Wave of Nostalgia, Independent Bookshop Week
25th September Mother of the Brontës walk and afternoon tea, Richmond Walking and Book Festival.
14th October Mothering Heights, talk, Filey Library, Filey Literature Festival.
2020
4th January Mrs Brontë’ talk and afternoon tea, Southwark Cathedral, London.
18th January The Mother of the Brontës illustrated talk, Keighley Library.
20th January Meet the author: The Gothic Bookclub, Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham.
30th January The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick, paperback release.
17th February The (Wrong) Aeronauts, talk at the British Library with fellow author Lily Ford.
7th March The Mother of the Brontës illustrated talk, Bradford Library, for International Women’s Day.
17th March Mother of the Brontës: meet the author, the Susanna Wesley Foundation, University of Roehampton. POSTPONED
24th April Methodist Independent School Trust Education Conference, Woodhouse Grove School. POSTPONED
16th May Those Magnificent Women in their Flying Machines illustrated talk, Chawton House Lockdown Literary Festival
2019
30th August The Brontë Society launch of The Mother of the Brontës and Parsonage Unwrapped tour, Haworth.
31st August Meet the writers Rowan Coleman and Sharon Wright, Ponden Hall, Stanbury.
12th September Mrs Brontë and the Ilfracombe Shipwreck, Ilfracombe Museum, Devon.
2nd October, Author of the Week, Radio Gorgeous podcast interview. Listen here…
10th October Guildford Book Festival.
6th November Balloonomania Belles illustrated talk, Morrab Library, Penzance.
22nd November Paper, Locating the Brontës Symposium, University of Sheffield.
23rd November Balloonomania Belles illustrated talk, Southwark Cathedral, London.
3rd December The Mother of the Brontës illustrated talk, Surbiton and District Historical Society.
13th December Mothering Heights, Thornton Community Library event, South Square Centre, Thornton.
14th December Thornton Antiquarians book signing, Thornton Christmas Market.