in the footsteps of the Brontës
Britain’s breathtaking scenery has inspired generations of artists, musicians and writers, from Wordsworth’s Lake District to Elgar’s beloved Malvern Hills. And it’s the wild, rugged beauty of West Yorkshire’s Pennine moorlands that is embedded in the compelling worlds created by the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
When Cathy Earnshaw, the heroine of Wuthering Heights, says: “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary,” you can hear Emily Brontë’s own passion for the landscape that moved her.
The young Brontë siblings moved to Haworth in 1820 when their father, Patrick, was offered the living of the church of St Michael and All Angels. The parsonage, perched on the edge of the village with the moors beyond, was a far cry from their birthplace in Thornton, on the outskirts
