secret staircase
10 Dec 2004[BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Bronte’s ‘secret staircase found’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4068905.stm) |
Because I read a lot of Nancy Drew books, I had kind of an obsession with hidden passages and staircases when I was a kid, and spent a lot of my wasted youth wandering around my suburban home tapping on walls and pressing knots in the panelling and looking for long-forgotten hiding places that weren’t actually there.
I would have been completely the envy of every ten-year-old girl in my neighborhood if I had found anything. But to find the staircase that had been the inspiration of an nineteenth century novelist who wrote about a guy who stashed his insane wife in the attic so he could romance another woman? Whoa.
(I got it from Darren who got it from Mirabilis)
Posted on 10 Dec 2004 • in blog-archive •