If you love reading, why not join our monthly Brontë Book Group
The Brontë Book Group meets once a month at the local café Cobbles and Clay on Main Street, Haworth. This informal and friendly group is open to everyone who loves reading anything from historical fiction to contemporary novels. For more information contact louisa.briggs@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 3 June 2pm and we'll be discussing Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret - and her vocation - is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free.
An instant success on its publication in 1926, LOLLY WILLOWES is Sylvia Townsend Warner's first and most magical novel. Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility, a theme that would later be explored by Virginia Woolf in 'A Room of One's Own'.
Everyone welcome!