The Bronte sisters, Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848) and Anne (1820-1849), were all born in Thornton, Bradford, but moved in 1820 to their more famous home at Haworth Parsonage in West Yorkshire, when their father was appointed Curate of Haworth. It was here where their famous classics of English Literature (Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. Their works were first published under the respective pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; this was to disguise their gender as they lived in an age of prejudice against female writers. The Parsonage today houses the Bronte Museum.
The actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright Alan Bennett was born in 1934 in Leeds. His many works include The History Boys, Forty Years On and the renowned series of monologues collectively entitled Talking Heads. Bennett first achieved fame as part of the cast of the satirical revue Beyond The Fringe (in which he collaborated with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller) at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960. One sketch from the show, Take A Pew (which was written by Bennett based on his own recollections of his days as a choirboy at St Michael's Church, Headingley) is now used in theological colleges as a way of showing trainee clergymen how a sermon should not be preached! Bennett's self-deprecation and modesty are well-illustrated by his claim that "[his] only claim to literary fame is that I used to deliver meat to a woman who became T S Eliot's mother-in-law".
Simon Armitage, who was born in 1963 in Huddersfield, is an award-winning poet but has also written song lyrics, plays, screenplays and novels. Hiis poems are often studied for GCSE; hence he is well-known to young readers.
John Boynton (J B) Priestley (1894-1984) was born in Bradford. He published 26 novels (including The Good Companions), and numerous dramas, several of which (including Dangerous Corner, Time and the Conways and An Inspector Calls) include an ingenious element of time-slip.
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has a rule that only those born within the county can play cricket for it. On this basis, several other prominent literary figures who would never be allowed in the cricket team have nonetheless left an indelible mark on Yorkshire's literary heritage.
There is a rule that only those born in Yorkshire can play cricket for the county. On this basis, there are several renowned literary figures who, whilst they would never qualify for the county's cricket team, have nevertheless left an indelible mark on its literary heritage.
James Alfred Wight (1916-1995), better known as James Herriot, was born in Sunderland, County Durham, but his famous series of novels set in the Yorkshire Dales are based on his real-life experiences of working as a vet in the North Yorkshire town of Thirsk.
The poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) came originally from Coventry, but for thirty years he worked as the university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University, and it was during this period that he produced most of his published work.
The city of Hull has now honoured its famous adopted son with a tourist trail, and a statue of the poet (together with five slate plaques featuring his work) can be seen at the city's railway station. Larkin is buried in Hull at the Cottingham Municipal Cemetery.
The actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright Alan Bennett was born in 1934 in Leeds. His many works include The History Boys, Forty Years On and the renowned series of monologues collectively entitled Talking Heads. Bennett first achieved fame as part of the cast of the satirical revue Beyond The Fringe (in which he collaborated with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller) at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960. One sketch from the show, Take A Pew (which was written by Bennett based on his own recollections of his days as a choirboy at St Michael's Church, Headingley) is now used in theological colleges as a way of showing trainee clergymen how a sermon should not be preached! Bennett's self-deprecation and modesty are well-illustrated by his claim that "[his] only claim to literary fame is that I used to deliver meat to a woman who became T S Eliot's mother-in-law".
Simon Armitage, who was born in 1963 in Huddersfield, is an award-winning poet but has also written song lyrics, plays, screenplays and novels. Hiis poems are often studied for GCSE; hence he is well-known to young readers.
John Boynton (J B) Priestley (1894-1984) was born in Bradford. He published 26 novels (including The Good Companions), and numerous dramas, several of which (including Dangerous Corner, Time and the Conways and An Inspector Calls) include an ingenious element of time-slip.
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has a rule that only those born within the county can play cricket for it. On this basis, several other prominent literary figures who would never be allowed in the cricket team have nonetheless left an indelible mark on Yorkshire's literary heritage.
There is a rule that only those born in Yorkshire can play cricket for the county. On this basis, there are several renowned literary figures who, whilst they would never qualify for the county's cricket team, have nevertheless left an indelible mark on its literary heritage.
James Alfred Wight (1916-1995), better known as James Herriot, was born in Sunderland, County Durham, but his famous series of novels set in the Yorkshire Dales are based on his real-life experiences of working as a vet in the North Yorkshire town of Thirsk.
The poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) came originally from Coventry, but for thirty years he worked as the university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University, and it was during this period that he produced most of his published work.
The city of Hull has now honoured its famous adopted son with a tourist trail, and a statue of the poet (together with five slate plaques featuring his work) can be seen at the city's railway station. Larkin is buried in Hull at the Cottingham Municipal Cemetery.
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