It was very interesting reading about the Brontë sisters and Haworth as I revisited the village last June. We used to live quite near before I left home.

It was very amusing because I went with my sister, Jane Eyre, and after she signed the visitors’ book at the parsonage, American visitors kept asking her for her autograph! The hotel we stayed in even gave her copies of Charlotte Brontë’s birth certificate and her parents’ marriage certificate.

For my 70th birthday, my sister, Jane, and cousin came over for a holiday and brought as a gift my family tree, which goes back to 1573 and every generation has a Jane Eyre – apparently Eyre is a Viking surname.

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