The corner

Please don’t tell Mr. Museum manager scary guy, but I did sneak a few pictures at the “grave sites” (where there were remembrance plaques – big whoop) of these famous poets and writers. I was extremely excited to see the one and only (times three) Bronte Sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne’s names on the concrete floor of the museum, but was later only met with disappointment when the guides told me they were not actually buried there. While I was unable to see their grave, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are buried alongside their brother Branwell, their parents, and the rest of their family in the Bronte “family vault” in their church, the Haworth Parish Church, in West Yorkshire. Sadness for Belle because she did not see their grave and give them all a little love wink, but gratefulness to even have their works at all! And then there was Dickens… Charles Dickens! What a major surprise and gift to see where this legend was buried. Seeing his plaque and knowing that I was standing on top of where he was resting was absolutely unreal. I learned while discovering Poet’s Corner that he actually did not have a big hoopla about his funeral and burial; that it went against his wishes to even have a funeral, but people get what the people want. Not an author but an actor, we say Laurence Olivier’s plaque is displayed in the museum’s corner as well. I thought it was super special to see a director and actor displayed and recognized here, and not just literary legends. While it was hard to find details about him, I want to point out that I was a little disappointed by the poet’s corner. I thought that the idea and preservation is neat, but for how crowded it was, and for there not being a lot of direction or information there, I was overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time.