Review: I Am Heathcliff, Various Authors
Two hundred years since the birth of Emily Brontë, sixty-one years since the birth of Kate Bush (the two of them born coincidentally on the same day), the myth of Wuthering […]
Brooding About The Brontës – All Years
Review: Nelly Dean, Alison Case
I promised myself that I wouldn’t let this one suck me in, but when I spotted a copy in the library as I was dashing in to renew my books, […]
Review: The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
I first read this about a decade ago and worked my way steadily through the series until university studying a literature degree disrupted the direction of my reading. I was […]
Review: Thornfield Hall, Jane Stubbs
More than anything, this book felt opportunistic. Last year, Jo Baker wrote the wonderful Longbourn, which looked at Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants and now […]
Readalong Review: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The readalong is here! Myself and Kirsty from The Literary Sisters have started a Book Blogging Book Club (try saying that three times fast) and our first instalment is Wuthering […]
Saturday Poem – Jane
My thanks go out to my mother for this one – she first read it to me years and years ago and it has always stuck in my memory. I […]
Visit Haworth!
On Easter Monday, I found myself in Haworth, historic home of the Brontes, in the company of my mother and grandmother. Now, this turned out to be more of an […]