As was reported recently in the news, a Brontë-related photographic exhibition in Halifax:
A Brontë Reader
Photographs by Helen Burrow
Photography Gallery, Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 5AX
09/02/2019 - 10/04/2019
If life is a rudder, fiction is the sea. Photographer Helen Burrow has previously shown at Dean Clough with hard-edged essays that reflected her Lancaster farming heritage. This series of 38 images ostensibly document the Brontë’s world but are equally stained with biographical echoes...
“I first read ‘Jane Eyre’ as a teenager,” says Helen. “My parents and church had damaging, restrictive ideas about life; so I avoided my ‘favourite boy’ and dreamed instead of my own Mr Rochester. “When I read Mrs. Gaskell’s ‘Life of Charlotte Brontë’, I was so disappointed that Charlotte settled for her father’s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, as a husband. It was beyond my comprehension. “Years later I discovered that Nicholls was a good fellow. That Charlotte could be funny and waspish and independent minded. That Emily was not born taciturn and that her poem about silence, winter and honesty (‘How Still, How Happy’) means more to me now than high passions and wild storms.”
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