Title: Walking with Anne Brontë: Insights and Reflections
Author: Tim Whittome
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 978-1-6698-7822-3
Pages: 678
Genre: Historical Essays / Biography
Synopsis
Whether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Brontë and listen to her discussing the kind of truth “that always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
Join us in our academic and personal celebratory reflections on “gentle” Anne’s “core of steel,” sense of family duty, and enduring courage. Anne was the most underrated and least known of the three Brontë sisters for the better part of a century after she died in May 1849. Walking with Anne Brontë adds gravitas and personality to the growing chorus of academic and other voices honoring the youngest Brontë sibling’s inspirational life and literary legacy.
About the Author
Tim Whittome is originally from England and spent all of his childhood and early adulthood there. Although he is now living in Washington State, he has dual British and American citizenship and welcomes the benefits of both when traveling!
In late 1997, Tim moved to Los Angeles to be with his future American and Jewish wife, Amy. They quickly moved to the beautiful Seattle area.
Tim now enjoys attending Seattle Sounders FC soccer games but retains his British pride by continuing to be a proud supporter of Arsenal FC in the English Premier League and by doing his unashamed best to honor the memory of Her Late Majesty the Queen by supporting the work and duties of other senior working members of the British Royal Family. Tim watched the joint coronation ceremony of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla in May 2023 at 3.00 a.m. and envied those on the Mall in London.
Tim first “walked” with Anne Brontë when he was in his late twenties; and he has been inspired by her ever since. To borrow a phrase attributed to Anne, but which he and Brenda Whipps sadly cannot find the source of despite exhaustive search, Tim largely lives for the fact that “there are great books in this world and great worlds in books.” He finds every character imaginable in adult, teen, and children’s classical literature to be worthy of some form of love, emulation, humor, regret, loathing, or parenting—especially those works that have neurodivergent characters! He has read all of Shakespeare’s plays at least three times and loves the underappreciated and little-known Timon of Athens. He disagrees with Charlotte Brontë’s assessment of Jane Austen!
Tim is devoted to honoring the memory of not just Anne Brontë, but also those of Anne and Margot Frank. In 2021, Tim edited and published “Meeting” Anne Frank, which he has donated many copies of to those who knew Anne and Margot, to members of the British and Dutch royal families, to various luminaries in the Anne Frank world, to school and public libraries, and even to his local cheesemonger, who was touched by studying the lives of Anne and Margot at her school.
Tim has an adopted daughter whom he wrote about under the pen name of Simon Cambridge in his “Denied! Failing Cordelia” series of books. The writing part of this trilogy was inspired by adhering to Anne Brontë’s devotion to the truth, for “truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
