A Brontë Novel for the Ages: The Man in the Stone Cottage by Stephanie Cowell

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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