With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
4 months ago
Few people seeking to avoid the glare of publicity have had more of it turned on them than Arthur Bell Nicholls. (Picture source)Oh, absolutely! And very bad publicity at that too.
Rochester (Mrs) - Labour MP Frank Field cast doubt on the then chancellor's suitability for the top job, when he said: "Allowing Gordon Brown into No 10 would be like letting Mrs Rochester out of the attic." For those of a literary bent, Mrs Rochester is the loft-bound madwoman in the Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre who goes on to burn down the house, killing herself and blinding her husband. Ouch, Frank.The Chicago Tribune has an obituary on philanthropist Rhoda Pritzker who belonged to one of Chicago's wealthiest families and died on December 23 at 93. She seems to have been a Brontëite.
Mrs. Pritzker was also famous among her relatives and friends for taking in stray animals.The Brontës would have been delighted to have such a fan, of course.
In 1983, in an interview with the Tribune, Mrs. Pritzker said her terrier, Emily Bronte, and three cats, Lucky, Heidi and Kitty, gave her a sense of peace."
I come home at night, and it's very nice to see eight happy eyes," she said. "They really don't care what you have in a material sense." (Sara Olkon)
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