An alert for tomorrow, July 13.It's not only opera at the Buxton Festival:
Buxton Festival
Claire Harman
In conversation with Simon Seligman
Dates: Wednesday 13 July, 10.15am–11.15am
On the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, literary biographer Claire Harman presents the story of a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She encouraged her sister Emily to publish Wuthering Heights when no-one else believed in her talent. She took charge of the family’s precarious finances when her brilliant but feckless brother Branwell succumbed to opium addiction. She travelled from Yorkshire to Europe to the bright lights of London, met some of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation, and became a bestselling female author in a world still dominated by men. And in each of her books, from Villette and Shirley to her most famous, Jane Eyre, Charlotte created brand new kinds of heroines, inspired by herself and her life, fiercely intelligent women burning with hidden passions.
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