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Monday, March 23, 2020

Monday, March 23, 2020 10:40 am by Cristina in , , ,    No comments
Yorkshire Live recommends 'Seven Instagram perfect spots in Bradford, Ilkley, Saltaire and Haworth':
You will be following in the footsteps of the Brontës if you take a walk down Haworth's Main Street with its quaint shops, cafes and famous cobbles. [...]
Main Street, Haworth
The street just oozes character and history. It's a favourite spot for film-makers and fans of the famous literary family, the Brontës.
Explore the shops, the alleys and don't forget to take a selfie. Everyone else does! (Andrew Robinson)
In our opinion, though, the most 'Instagram perfect spot' at the moment is your own home.

The Times gives some ideas for homeschooling:
Secondary
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Read classic novels as possible and set up a family book club. For example, see who can read the most novels by Dickens or from a certain period of literature. Books that are out of copyright include Dracula, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and the Picture of Dorian Gray. (Nicola Woolcock, Greg Hurst)
Daily Mail discusses homeschooling too.
So my pupils know I mean business, I may cultivate a more pedagogical persona. But which home tutor to model myself on?
Should I wear grey silk, like Charlotte Brontë’s defiantly principled yet headstrong Jane Eyre, heroine of one of my all-time favourite novels? Or what about one of those dashing waistcoated get-ups, as sported by Saoirse Ronan as Jo March in the recent film version of Little Women?
Perhaps the tweedier twinset look adopted by glamorous MI5 officer Celia Nashe in B. W. Black’s recent The Secret Guests? She acts as the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret’s tutor, when they are secretly evacuated to Ireland to escape the Blitz. I’m sure we will all learn lessons in the coming weeks. (Patricia Nicol)
The Medium has article on writers and pseudonyms.
The Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—were among these women writers who wrote under male pen names and went on to produce popular novels. Charlotte first published Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Emily, who wrote Wuthering Heights,went by the pen name Ellis Bell. Anne chose to write as Acton Bell and published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The three sisters wanted to avoid that prejudice as they thought people would criticize the elements of their work that were not considered ‘feminine.’ (Danica Teng)
For Mothering Sunday yesterday, AnneBontë.org shared the lives of 'Three Mothers In The Brontë Story'.

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