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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: Sunshine of the Heart
Description: Sally treads old familiar pathways through fields of corn and wheat in Sussex, very close to the place she grew up. Her thoughts are with Charlotte Brontë, who wrote haunting poems about her own complex, equivocal feelings towards her childhood and the place she grew up. Sally reads the famous opening passage from Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. Jane, an unwanted orphan who retreats into the world of books was a pivotal figure in Sally's psychological development as a young teenager.
Charlotte Brontë (1816 to 1855) was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who lived to adulthood. She live...