Writer Catherine Warr has been looking at some of the more offbeat aspects of Yorkshire history for her new book A Yorkshire Year and taking a lifetime. Phil Penfold reports on her quirky efforts.
One of the fascinating things to discover from a published author – and one of the most frequently asked questions – is “Well, how long did it all take?” Was the new book, pamphlet, or even a newspaper or magazine feature, swiftly committed to the laptop, or old-fashioned paper? Did it take hours, days, weeks, of labour-intensive commitment, or did the idea, the concept, just pop into the writer’s head? Writer Catherine Warr, it seems, has a unique answer.
'Their dissolute brother Bramwell, however, is quite another matter – to me, he’s the strangest of those Howarth children, and by far the most interesting in his relative obscurity, and his being a true misfit. The ‘Bronte tea towel economy’ just bores me to tears!” And then she adds, with a laugh: “I’m sick of the |Tudors, as well. Every TV documentary has someone in the Tower of the London, and dressing up.
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