My guest today is Stephanie Cowell, author of The Man in the Stone Cottage: Novel of the Brontë Sisters listed in the LIterature category on Art In Fiction.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eYPoIKk9pOk
- Why Stephanie decided to write about the Brontë sisters inThe Man in the Stone Cottage; how she first read and loved Wuthering Heights when she was a young girl.
- How the story is told from the point of view of both Charlotte and Emily.
- The character of Emily, author of Wuthering Heights; how she was very solitary but also an excellent cook.
- Did the "man in the stone cottage" who Emily falls in love with in the love exist? Stephanie says he's both real and not real.
- How the sisters wrote their novels and how their struggles contributing to them being able to write.
- Is the author the least expert on a book because it comes through them?
- Time spent in Haworth and how moving it was to go to the parsonage and see where they lived and worked.
- How and why the parsonage was preserved and how the curators are still collecting items from all over the world.
- The portrait of the sisters hanging in the National Portrait Gallery and the story behind why it was damaged.
- Theme of The Man in the Stone Cottage.
- One thing that Stephanie learned from writing this novel that she didn't realize before.
- What Stephanie is working on now.
Read more about Stephanie Cowell on her website: https://www.stephaniecowell.com/
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