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Publication of "Let me in The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar" book

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  A new, exciting and long awaited book has just been published at the Brontë Society of which I am a proud member as well as employee of its Brontë Parsonage Museum. The book is co-written by our distinguished and devoted Principal Curator of the BPM, Ann Dinsdale and a Brontë biographer and award winning journalist, Sharon Wright. The title, "Let me in The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar" is about a personal journey of the authors around the houses with Brontë connections in England and Ireland and the significance of the houses in the lives of the Brontës including the authors' intimate thoughts and feelings as well as secrets and little known stories related to these places. It is a large format illustrated book with some old as well as never-seen-before photographs, and I was thrilled to be chosen to supply photographs for the Haworth sections of the book. Below are the seventeen photographs of mine in the order they appear in the book. This is a truly beautiful, intere...

June 2025

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  "Twas a rich night in June. The air was all Fragrance and balm, and the wet leaves were stirred By the soft fingers of the southern wind, And caught the light capriciously, like wings Haunting the greenwood with a silvery sheen." - Nathaniel Parker Willis - The Summer Magic Of June A Trip To Glasson Dock, Lancashire  A Visit To Cowan Bridge Brontë School, Cumbria  Tunstall Church Attended By The Brontë Sisters While At School At Cowan Bridge Walking In The Footsteps Of The Brontës: Little Ouseburn, North Yorkshire