Bradford Literature Festival 2014

Bradford Literature Festival 2014
26th – 28th September

Welcome to the Bradford Literature Festival, celebrating the written and spoken word and showcasing the intimate relationship between words and art forms such as film, theatre and music, set against the city’s distinctive backdrop. With over 25 events featuring 60 speakers, artists and authors, Bradford is the place to be during the weekend of 26^th to 28^th September.

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The Bradford District is home to Bronte Parsonage, where the country’s most eminent literary siblings used masculine pen names to write their famous classics of English literature: Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1818-1855), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1818-1848) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte, 1820-1849). The sisters’ former home, set amid the breath taking moorland immortalised in Wuthering Heights, is beautifully preserved by the Bronte Society, one of the oldest literary societies in the world.

Mark Davis in Conversation

True Stories: Murder by Gaslight in Victorian Bradford

11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Saturday 27 September

 

Christa Ackroyd

Historical Bradford Tour: Bronte Heritage

10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Sunday 28 September