"Life, death and eternity. These were Emily's great themes."
Novelist, poet and self-confessed graveyard fan Muriel Spark visits the cemetery adjoining the Brontë home in Haworth. She imagines how these surroundings may have influenced Emily Brontë's writing.
"This graveyard here at Haworth was one of the very first things
that Emily Brontë ever saw. And she saw this churchyard
and the tombs and the everlasting
moors beyond it. No wonder she had
a sense of eternity."
"In Wuthering Heights, her two characters, Cathy and Heathcliff have a love that endures
beyond the grave."
"She was a woman with a vision
of a dark, essential world hidden within the world
of appearances."
Originally broadcast 16 April, 1961.
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