It’s been a few weeks since I last took posted a Weekly Geek article, but this is one I could hardly not take part in, when you see who one of the literary families that hail from my home town are.

This week, take us on a literary tour of your hometown!

Do you live in a place where a famous author was born? Does your town have any cool literary museums or monuments? Does Stephen King live at the end of your street? Was Twilight set in your hometown?

Share your fun literary facts about the town or area where you live. You can talk about famous (or not so famous) authors who live there, novels that have been set in your area, or any other literary facts that you know about where you live. Feel free to embellish with pictures of places and/or authors, maps of the area, and fun facts about the authors.

So, if I was to start by giving you the names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, they might ring a bell, but these were only pseudonyms. The three sisters became much better known, under their real names of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. I am of course talking of the Brontë sisters.

Born in the village of Thornton and raised in the nearby village of Haworth (both of which are now part of the Metropolotain Disttict of Bradford.

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were the authors of some of the best-loved books in the English language. Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre (1847), Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) were written over a hundred and fifty years ago, yet their power still moves readers the world over today.

Born in what he described as an “ultra-respectable” suburb of Bradford was another Bradfordian author and playwright, JB Priestley.

Priestley is probably best known for his play, An Inspector Called, he also had a number of successful books under his belt, The Good Companions, Angel Pavement are both amoung his well known early works.

See his Wikipedia entry for more information.

Bradford-born John Braine is known as one of the so-called “Angry Young Men” of the 1950s, whose literature was a protest against class distinctions and middle-class manners. His first novel, Room at the Top, was an overnight success and has been made into a highly successful film, which won two Oscars.

 

See his Wikipedia entry for more information.

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