"There was just this moment of, I suppose, feeling like I'd come home. It was just better than anything I had ever found in my life."
Already a wildly enthusiastic reader, she had been blogging about books since the age of 12 and hosting a book review channel on YouTube since she was 13. Discovering Anne Brontë, followed by her older sisters Emily and Charlotte, opened the door to a new world: "They were everything I didn't realise was out there."
Powrie started talking about them on her blog and channel, "and I realised very quickly that there were a lot of people who also loved the Brontës and wanted to talk about them because they didn't have anybody to talk about them with [either]".
Powrie is only 25 but - as is doubtless apparent - she is not a person who believes in hanging around. In October she was appointed the chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at the family's former home in Haworth, making her the youngest leader of one of the oldest literary societies in the world. She is now the guardian of the legacy of some of the most fiercely loved writers in all of English literature.
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