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.
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