She has been a member of the Brontë Society – the membership organisation which owns the parsonage and with it the world’s largest collection of Brontë artefacts – since she was a teenager, having emailed them cold with an offer.
Lucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read Anne Brontë’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly, intensely, fell in love.
In October she was appointed the chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at the family’s former home in Haworth, making her the youngest leader of one of the oldest literary societies in the world.
‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey.
Discovering Anne Brontë, followed immediately by her older sisters Emily and Charlotte, opened the door to a new world: “They were everything that I didn’t realise was out there.”.
