Memories From Haworth, Brontë Country In Black And White
Some black & white mood inspired by Patti Smith's book of b&w photographs "Camera Solo" while I'm contemplating a return to my beloved Haworth after a long long absence. Stairs to the Brontë Parsonage cellar. The Brontë children ran up and down these stairs countless times as they loved to play and enact the stories they wrote in the cellar which they called "dungeon". I had a chance to see the cellar not normally open to the public in 2019 when there was a very interesting installation taking place as part of Patrick Brontë's incumbency bicentenary celebrations. The installation, entitled "How My Light Is Spent", commemorated Patrick's cataract surgery on his eye and subsequent convalescence period in Manchester, in 1846. Part of 2019 "How My Light Is Spent" installation in the cellar of Brontë Parsonage Museum which commemorated Patrick Brontë's cataract surgery on his eye and subsequent period of convalescence in ...