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...
1 week ago
... a great admirer of Charlotte Brontë, though she protested that the self-sacrifice of Jane Eyre ought to be "in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man body and soul to a putrefying carcase," and she also complained, rather oddly, that the characters talked "like the heroes and heroines of police reports" (to Charles Bray, 11 June 1848). Her enthusiasm for Villette, however, was unbounded: "What passion, what fire in her," she wrote in 1853, and "There is something preternatural in its power" (to Mrs Charles Bray, 15 Feb 1853).Coinciding with her bicentenary, Stylist wonders why great women writers are still adopting male pseudonyms, mentioning the Brontës along the way.
Bradford has the third highest number of listed buildings in the North – 2,291. Leeds just edges Bradford to second with 2,370 listed buildings. Edinburgh is top with 4,871 listed buildings. [...]Smithsonian does a good job of summing up what has been going on recently with Charlotte Brontë's little book. Reader's Digest has a short quiz to see whether you can guess the book from a single line and the Brontë-related one is 'He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.' Interesting Literature has put together 'The Best Charlotte Brontë Poems Everyone Should Read'.
Bradford is famous for its history. The Brontë Parsonage is where the literary sisters lived and wrote their famous works. Bolling Hall is a family home that became a flash point for the Civil War. And Little Germany in the city centre contains an unrivalled collection of listed buildings. (Chris Young)
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