AN artist is inviting more than 10,000 visitors to the Bronte Parsonage Museum to recreate a long-lost manuscript of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
The new commission, ahead of the bicentenary of Emily Bronte’s birth, will allow visitors to copy the novel a sentence at a time into a handmade book in the house where it was written.
Thousands of pencils, specially commissioned by artist Clare Twomey, have been produced to write the book, and visitors will be invited to keep these as a memento of their participation in the project. The completed book will be exhibited at the museum next year as part of the bicentenary celebrations.
Twomey will be at the museum in Haworth on Thursday for the project launch, alongside museum curator Ann Dinsdale (pictured) who will write the first sentence at 10am.
‘Wuthering Heights: A Manuscript’ will run until January 1.
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