Buy a Friend a Book Week and more on Haworth

Prize draw 1: As BAFAB week is fast approaching it seems fortuitous that I have a copy of The Road to Haworth. This little hard back volume covers the Bronte story in Ireland (facts, not a fictional version) and I am offering it as a prize. It is secondhand (I am a used book dealer after all) but I also have a small selection of mint postcards from the Bronte Parsonage Museum Shop which I will include as well. The postcards show interiors of the parsonage plus the famous Apostles cabinet which is mentioned in the red room in Jane Eyre. To enter all you have to do it leave a comment on this post.

Prize draw 2: I also contribute to the Ibooknet blog Books4All and on there I am offering a paperback novel. It is fairly recent, it is literary and it is yours if you are first out of the hat after commenting on the appropriate post on the Ibooknet blog.

N.B. To enter both draws you have to comment on both blogs.

Lastly, returning to Haworth the photos were taken a few weeks ago, not when we went to the Simon Armitage reading, but when we went to see the Fay Godwin exhibition at the Museum. It is Fay Godwin whose photographs so beautifully illustrate Ted Hughes' Elmet.

I have a few more Haworth photographs which I shall add below as I know from the stats that many visitors here are from outside of the UK and may not know, or have a Chance to see the landscape that it is so important to the Bronte novels. Most of them are just shots of the countryside. You'll notice that there are plenty of trees; Mrs Gaskell says otherwise. The difference is economic I think. The apparent barrenness of the area when Mrs Gaskell was there was not just her famous exaggeration, but also the over-grazing of land and over-felling of trees caused by having a fast increasing and very poor population.

The first photograph is of the parsonage from behind and above from the conservation meadow. The rest are snaps of the outlook from Haworth and some features from within the village.

 

Comments

[Juliet]

Oooh, seeing those words 'Timothy Taylor' has made me feel quite thirsty. And it's only 9.09 in the morning!!! I've never been to Haworth at this time of the year - only in the autumn/winter, so it's lovely to see those meadows in flower.

[Becca]

Hello! Add my name to the draw please - even though I've been woefully remiss and not commented for ages!!!

[Judy]

Found you via Karen's blog and wanted to say.. please count me in :-) I love your site and will definitely be back to visit.

[anne]

What great photos. Your site is fascinating. Please enter me and thanks for this chance.

[Ivan Girl]

awesome place you got there. love the 1st 2 shots. :)

if you're sending international, please toss my name in the hat.

thanks. :)

[Elaine Simpson-Long]

I have The Road to Haworth so will not enterm but just wanted to comment as I adore Haworth and am going up again in September with my little camera so expect lots of photos from me as well!

[tanabata]

Lovely photos. I was disappointed we never got to Haworth when we were in England. I'd love to have my name thrown in the hat.
BTW, I've added the links to your giveaways on my giveaway post.

[Nicole]

Those are great photos! I'd love to add my name to the hat, please.

[emilysmother]

Your photos make a trip to Haworth very tempting and I will add it to my list of places to visit next time I am in England. In the meantime, please do toss my name in that hat. I would love to read the book!

[Nancy, aka Bookfool]

Oh, oh, oh, that sounds wonderful! Please sign me up! I found you through In Spring it is the Dawn. Lovely photographs! I particularly like that ram on The Fleece's shingle. He made me smile.

[Nancy, aka Bookfool]

Oh, oh, oh, that sounds wonderful! Please sign me up! I found you through In Spring it is the Dawn. Lovely photographs! I particularly like that ram on The Fleece's shingle. He made me smile.

[Jennifer Dee]

I love everything to do with the Bronte's. I was born and brought up in Yorkshire, although I've spent most of my life in Cornwall, I am still a Yorkshire girl at heart. When I was in my teens I used to go up to Haworth and stayed with my Auntie who lived nearby. I just loved the whole area and I swear you could feel the atmosphere all around you. My favourite of the books is 'Wuthering Heights', know matter how many times I've read it I always seem to find something new in it.But really they are all brilliant. I haven't been back for many years but I'm now going to put it on my list of where to go in my retirement.

I love your blog so interesting and so informative as well. I read the Fearny book when it first came out and yes it is a book that stays with you for a long time.

Jennifer Dee

[Simon T]

Oo, how interesting. Throw me in, please!

[Nancy]

Include my name too. Thanks

[Jan Mayo]

Thanks for the prompt delivery and for directing me to this fascinating blog - Susan Hill's book is now on my 'to read' list. Please add me to the draw too.

[Tanith]

Please count me in, too.

[C.B. James]

I think I'm too late, oh well. Please enter me if I'm not.