![]() ![]() They are tiny and yellow and have a pineapple finish. Orchard features California redwoods and Ohio apple trees – with a graft of an old variety originally from Worcestershire called a Pitmaston Pineapple. ![]() I set myself the challenge to write a novel that features trees, making them silent characters. I have long loved trees – I am an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust, a UK charity dedicated to planting more trees in Britain and protecting its ancient woods. The other is a new novel, At the Edge of the Orchard (8 March 2016). It features 21 contemporary women writers (five of us RSL Fellows) who have written stories inspired by that famous line. ![]() One is a collection I edited that is attached to Charlotte’s 200 th it’s called Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre (7 April 2016). (Poor Anne is rarely considered – though she should be, as The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a cracking novel.) I am in the Charlotte camp, for Emily – like Bryon – is just too extreme for me. Recently I’ve been working with the Bronte Parsonage on Charlotte Bronte’s bicentenary (21 April 2016), and discovered there are two Bronte groups: the Charlottes and the Emilys. When I was invited to become an RSL Fellow and told I would sign the register with either Byron’s or Dickens’ pen, I’m afraid there was no choice there: it had to be Dickens. Tracy Chevalier was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008. ![]()
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