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To escape Brontemania, I head for the moors

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070722
Author:Olivia Gordon

'I live and breathe the Brontes,' the middle-aged woman from Toronto happily confesses, adjusting her trim yellow waistcoat. 'It's an obsession, my love for them. There's not a day goes by that I don't think of them. I go up past the church onto the moors and I carry that home with me. I yearn to be here when I'm not.'

'Here' is Haworth, where aficionados the world over have gathered for the Bronte Society's AGM and to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte. Nearly all are female and over 40 (there are about five men in the packed Baptist Church ...

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