I had a very impromptu Brontë walk on Saturday with the poet Emma Conally-Barklem. She had come all the way from Yorkshire to Brussels for the weekend with her partner to see Pink! on her Summer Carnival Tour in the King Baudouin stadium and to walk in the footsteps of Charlotte Brontë.
In one weekend, she managed to combine “meeting” two of her idols: one a hugely popular singer songwriter, real pop royalty from the U.S.; and the other an equally popular novelist who has been dead for more than 150 years, but whose work has lived on and is loved by many generations of readers.
