Ann Dinsdale and Sharon Wright

Principal Curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Ann Dinsdale is an expert on the world-class Brontë collection, appearing on numerous TV and radio programmes. She has written several books and articles on the Brontës.

Sharon Wright is an award-winning journalist and author of the Amazon #1 bestselling biography of Maria Branwell Brontë. Research for this book resulted in her winning a correction to the Brontë memorial in Westminster Abbey, which made headlines around the world.

Ann and Sharon entertained a packed Sefton Park Palm House with stories about the Brontë family and the untold secrets of the buildings that inspired the Brontë sisters and their novels.

 

Their book “Let Me In” explores the world-famous Brontë Parsonage, Bradford’s literary shrine where the sisters wrote their novels; the nearby birthplace of their early childhoods; the ghosts and legends of the real Wuthering Heights; the legacy of Ulster and Cornwall in the sisters’ DNA; the restoration of the real Lowood School in Jane Eyre – the inns and taverns of Victorian England frequented by wayward brother Branwell.