AWARD-winning author Tracy Chevalier has visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth.
Chevalier, whose novels include Girl With A Pearl Earring, discussed plans for the forthcoming Brontë bicentenary celebrations.
The celebrations will start in 2016, the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and will run until 2020, to mark the births of Emily and Anne.
The museum, which is due to reopen on Sunday after its winter break, said further details of the celebration would be unveiled later in 2015.
Tracy Chevalier, who was born in 1962, is best known for Girl With A Pearl Earring, which was based on the famous painting by Vermeer.
The novel has since been translated into 38 languages and in 2003 was made into a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
The American historical writer, daughter of a Washington Post photographer, has penned seven novels.
Chevalier visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in late 2009 as part of the Brontë Society’s Contemporary Arts Programme.
She read from her then latest novel Remarkable Creatures, which told the story of a 19th century woman who discovered the first pre-dinosaur fossils at Lyme Regis.
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