A very curious event will take place these days on Brontë country:
Common Ground: Reading, Writing & Walking
Charlotte Brontë: The West Yorkshire Moors, England
June 2nd - June 8th, 2019
In June of 2019, we will be returning to England to read Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, as a sacred text while engaging in one of the most ancient of traditions: a walking pilgrimage. We will go to the Brontë parsonage museum, to the village schoolroom where Charlotte taught, to locations that are said to have inspired sites from the novel such as Ferndean Manor, and wander in the West Yorkshire Moors the way that the Brontë sisters did.
We will spend these days asking ourselves one key question: what is the home that you are looking for? We will ask this question of ourselves, of each other and of Jane Eyre. Each day will include some opening words from Vanessa Zoltan, co-host of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, and local experts about Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë. It will also include a substantial walk through the moors with sacred reading and reflection practices.
We will share our meals together, and most days will include either a museum visit or a visit from an local expert. We will have time and space for writing, reflection, reading, silence, ancient reading practices like lectio divina and PaRDes and of course, for walking.
What's Included:
Six nights in a private or shared room in a wonderful country hotel: the Oakwood Hall Hotel
All meals from dinner on Sunday night through breakfast on Saturday morning
Transportation within England from Sunday, June 2nd in Manchester until Saturday, June 9th in Haworth
One-on-one chaplaincy
Admission to Elizabeth Gaskell’s house, the Brontë parsonage museum, and other famous sites.
Further information can be found in the
Boston Globe.
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