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.
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The Woman Who RanWhen it was published last year, many reviewers linked Sam Baker's The Woman Who Ran to Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The connection - partly, at least - is intentional but The Woman Who Ran is not a 21st-century retelling of Anne Brontë's trailblazing novel. As Sam Baker herself writes in the Acknowledgements,
by Sam Baker
ISBN: 9780007464357
Harper-Collins
Almost last, and definitely not least, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. In my opinion, the most original and radical of the novels written by the Brontë sisters. This is in no way an attempt to rework that great novel of 1848, more a stepping off point for looking at the many ways in which the social and economic status has changed in the last 170 years. And ways in which it hasn't.It's a very apt explanation of what a Brontëite may derive from this novel, and it's interesting to try and find out the points in common, without missing out on any of the originality of this novel.
red brick, ivy covered. Faces carved in cheap sandstone around the main door were weathered Botox smooth. If you'd gone to central casting for haunted houses you couldn't have done a better job.Wildfell is on the edge of the moors, near a small village where gossip goes around at lightning speed. Helen's arrival, then, is of much interest to locals. Among these locals is Gilbert 'Gil' Markham, a divorced, estranged-from-his-daughters, newly-retired journalist who has all the time in the world - as well as the skills - to devote to finding out who Helen may be. They become friendly in spite of Helen's reluctance and Gil's anxious interest in Helen's story.
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