It's me, it's Cathy...

Whilst staying in Yorkshire to see some old friends I took the opportunity to visit the Bronte Parsonage and museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire. If you have ever read any of the novels by the Bronte sisters then this place will enthral you.

The centre of the village itself is a real treat, all old stone cottages and terraced streets – though two pieces of advice, first it's very touristy so if you are the kind of person who gets would up by places with loads of tourists and cameras snapping as well as an 'ye olde shoppe' kitsch and the accompanying high prices it may not be for you. Secondly, it has some very steep hills so if you have any elderly relatives with you they may struggle and wheelchairs would be tough getting about I think.

Then of course there is the parsonage itself where Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte lived with their brother and pastor father. Their brother liked a drink I can tell you that and daddy was a strict disciplinarian.

If you're not familiar with the work of the Bronte sisters (to be totally accurate I should also mention that the women originally published under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton – it was difficult for a woman novelist in those days – especially when you are producing what to the cultured reader of the day was quite dangerous and shocking in content) then the most famous work of Charlotte is Jane Eyre about an orphan, educated in a stark and uncaring orphanage who becomes governess to the daughter of a mysterious Mr Rochester, who has a grisly secret – a mad woman in the attic. It's a gripping read.

Emily of course is almost equally famous for her one novel, Wuthering Heights a dark, brooding and violent tale of thwarted love on the moors – who hasn't heard of Heathcliffe and Cathy? Anne's work is less well known – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – but worth a read sometime once you have been ensnared by the deep and dark tales of her sisters.

At the parsonage you can still see poems and sketches that were etched on the walls by the sisters as their artistic talent developed. Tragically consumption was to claim them all.

If you prefer to watch the movie then Laurence Olivier's Heathcliffe is the one to see, though it was filmed in California not Yorkshire and also dispenses with a lot of the more problematic second part of the book in which Heathcliffe's savagery is given full reign. The nineteen forties version of Jane Eyre with Orson Welle's as Rochester is also a great movie and though Welle's didn't direct he was said to have given advice to the director and his stamp can be seen in several trademark scenes.

Silk Stocking Stories – a great sexy read.

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