AN ACTRESS will bring to life the works of Charlotte Brontë in Haworth this month.

Prudence Edwards will showcase Charlotte’s poetry, letters and fiction including her masterpiece Jane Eyre.

An Evening With Charlotte Brontë, from Little Red Hen Theatre, aims to give audiences a glimpse into the mind of a genius.

The 70-minute show will be performed on July 15 and 16 at 7.30pm in the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth.

It is part of the Brontë200 festival, which over the next five years is celebrating the 200th anniversaries of the birth of all four Brontë siblings.

An Evening With Charlotte Brontë was first performed in 2006 and has since been presented many times across the North West, including at the Buxton Festival Fringing 2013.

Prudence said: “Little Red Hen Theatre has had a long-held ambition to perform the show in Haworth, close to the parsonage where many of her famous words were penned.

“We are also hugely excited to be part of the Brontë 200 celebrations.”

Charlotte Brontë, who lived from 2016 to 1855, was the eldest of the three sisters.

Her first published efforts were in a joint collection of poems with sisters Emily and Anne, published under their assumed names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

Although only two copies of the collection of poems were sold, the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first novels.

Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, but at the publisher’s prompting she submitted Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.

Charlotte went on to write the novel Shirley, completing it after the death of a sisters, and later Villette. The Professor was published after her death.

• Tickets for An Evening With Charlotte Brontë cost £8 and £7. Buy tickets by visiting eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-charlotte-bronte-tickets, calling 07971136509 or on the door.