Without The Veil Between, An Interview With DM Denton — Anne Brontë

Thank you to Brontë scholar and biographer Nick Holland for interviewing me on his blog.
Loved Nick’s questions! Please go over to annebronte.org for my answers to:

“You’ve become noted for your historical fiction, but what made you pick Anne Brontë for a subject?”

The book’s title is ‘Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit’. What was the inspiration for the title?

The book features your own illustrations. Did Anne Brontë’s drawing skills inspire you, as well as her writing skills?

Your book looks at Anne Brontë’s time at Thorp Green Hall and at her relationship with William Weightman. Do you think she loved Weightman and did he love her?

What is your favourite Anne Brontë poem and why?

What message does Anne have for people today?

Your book has, quite rightly, had some great reviews – do you think you’ll return to the Brontë family for future books?

What do you think Anne and her sisters would have thought of the worldwide fame they’ve achieved two hundred years after their births?

What are you working on at the moment?

 

Without The Veil Between, An Interview With DM Denton — Anne Brontë

Earlier in the week I marked World Sight Day by looking at Patrick Brontë’s sight saving operation, and the impact it had on the Brontës, but today’s post is something different – an interview with DM Denton, the American author of acclaimed novel ‘Without The Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine And Subtle Spirit’.

There have been several attempts down the years to portray members of the Brontë family in a fictional form, and it can be a dangerous undertaking as I feel you really have to have a love of the family to be able to pull it off. Thankfully, Diane Denton certainly has that…

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