Guides for everyone

ThisIsBradford reports what the Brontë Parsonage Blog announced a few days ago:

The museum dedicated to the Bronte sisters is becoming a global shrine to the famous authors. The Chinese, once rare visitors to Haworth, are now becoming so frequent that the Bronte Parsonage Museum has published its first leaflet in Mandarin Chinese. It joins seven other foreign language leaflets, which reflect the museum's growing world-wide popularity. They are designed to guide visitors around the building where the sisters and their wayward brother, Branwell, lived in the early 1800s. Guides are available in Japanese - one of the first to be published - Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Korean. Arabic and Russian leaflets are in the pipeline and future leaflets are also expected in Polish and Portuguese.

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Museum director Alan Bentley said the expansion in the number of different nationalities visiting the museum proved the worldwide popularity of the Bronte novels and the story of the authors' tragic lives in the village.

He said every year just short of 83,000 people visited the museum, of which 20 per cent were foreign fans.

And, okay, this might be a totally unrelated comment but - how fitting it is that a Walter Scott should work at the parsonage? :D

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