The Red House Museum has been in the news a lot lately for all the wrong reasons. But here's one of the right reasons: the exhibition
Mary Taylor: Strong-
minded Woman and Friend of Charlotte Brontë opens tomorrow March 3rd. As reported by the
Yorkshire Post.
AN
exhibition exploring the life of a pioneering Yorkshire woman is coming
back to a West Yorkshire museum after touring to a museum in New
Zealand.
Entitled Mary Taylor: Strong-minded Woman and
Friend of Charlotte Brontë, it will be at Red House Museum, Gomersal,
from Saturday, March 3, to March 25.
The museum was
under threat of closure by Kirklees Council but will now remain open but
could be subject to admission charges from June 1st.
The exhibition will coincide with International Women’s Day celebrations.
Mary
Taylor, who was born into a Yorkshire woollen merchant’s family at Red
House, has attracted international attention for her unusually
independent lifestyle and writings.
“Leading mountain
climbing expeditions to Switzerland; emigrating to New Zealand; setting
up a business and teaching in Germany would represent an adventurous
life even today. For a woman to do it in the 1800s was extraordinary,”
says museum officer, Helga Hughes.
The exhibition was
created in partnership with Joan Bellamy, a former lecturer who was born
in Liversedge and is author of Mary Taylor’s biography More Precious
Than Rubies.
The exhibition has shown in Wellington, New Zealand, for 18 months.
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