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Michael Stewart (British writer, born 1971)

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as 'a terrific tribute to the Brontës – and to the landscape that shaped their literature', demonstrating 'how landscape grows in the imagination and lays bare the "invisible" world of the heart and mind'. The chapter on Anne Brontë's last three days in Scarborough was published separately in a
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in Thornton, which was commissioned by the then owners in association with Bradford Civic Society, along with financial support from locally based supermarket chain Morrisons. The blue plaque was part of Stewart's efforts to bring the Brontë birthplace 'to people's attention and connect it to
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newspaper and described as a 'literary sensation'. It follows teenager Paul Cooper's obsession with birds. To escape a troubled home life, Paul compares the people he knows with different species of birds, but he embarks upon a chaotic journey of self-discovery when he befriends a dangerous
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Stewart has won several awards for his scriptwriting, including the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and the King's Cross Award for New Writing. His short fiction has been published in
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The Brontë Stones is part of Stewart's wider portfolio of literary and cultural projects connected to the Brontës. His novel,
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across Northern England and investigates the geographical and social features that shaped their work. It was praised in
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for their Space Circus project. The piece toured 115 institutions and was shortlisted for the Brian Way Award (2009)
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performed as a double bill at Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, London
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and attended "a failing comprehensive that also 'educated' most of the
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project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the
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Walking the Invisible: Following in the Brontës' Footsteps
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Stewart has also written for screen. His credits include
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We're All In It Together: Poems for the Disunited Kingdom
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in London. Headlined a festival of New Writing March 2002
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became an exhibition at Artworks, The Everybody Gallery,
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Stewart, Michael (2020). "Introduction: Brontë Fever".
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His hybrid memoir, 14: 255:includes illustrations by artist 841: 40:Huddersfield Literature Festival 1251:Thorpe, Vanessa (8 July 2018). 1199:Carter, Helen (23 April 2012). 955:BBC Alfred Bradley Award (2003) 909:A Black Sheep in the White Swan 544:The Cabinet of Terrible Terrors 231:limited edition with the title 1501:21st-century English novelists 1225:Dastur, Rupert (23 May 2016). 1: 1277:Sethi, Anita (15 July 2021). 819:The Intelligent Woman’s Guide 667:The Intelligent Woman's Guide 504:premièred, The Albany, London 546:premièred LBT, Huddersfield. 178:Bradford Literature Festival 913:A Few Circles in the Waters 1527: 1511:21st-century English poets 1302:: CS1 maint: url-status ( 1018:University of Huddersfield 1000:University of Huddersfield 915:for ChalkManVideo (2012), 272:Britain's Novel Landscapes 72:University of Huddersfield 38:. 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Happy Mondays
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the 1939 film
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Brand
The Reader
Brontë Stones
Brontë birthplace
Brontë Parsonage Museum
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Kate Bush
Carol Ann Duffy
Jeanette Winterson
Jackie Kay
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