FairOphelia

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
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I became attached to words the first time I encountered the four March sisters, about the age of six. Jo March and the pianist Beth shaped my world. I wanted to be an artist. I had already been dancing since the age of three, and had begun playing the piano; words now entered my world. Storytelling in all its forms enraptured me. I preoccupied myself with toy figures, creating tale, after tale, after tale.

The Brontes were next introduced to me; my family visited Haworth when I was nine. Even then I felt some kind of allegiance with those children and the environment out the back of their parsonage. The Yorkshire moors have contributed in many ways to my writing.

Shortly afterwards I made my first trip to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford to watch A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare was yet another writer who captured my heart and imagination. I ate Shakespeare up. Hamlet became my favourite play from the first time I saw it.

From then on I wrapped myself up in classic literature and began writing more and more stories, even venturing to try poetry now and again.

Now I am student of English Literature at university. I love my subject passionately. I have less time to write than I would like, but I still try my best to fit it in. I'm working on a novel which I began just under two years ago. I tend to write random bits of things which will hopefully be used someday. I still dance, and also choreograph and teach a bit; I'm hoping to train as a dance teacher once my first degree is finished. I still play the piano. I enjoy scrapbooking, writing letters, music, films, and tennis, and I'm interested in politics and mythology. I also love Spain!
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Things/people which/who fascinate me:

- Anne Bronte
- antique books
- Anthony Trollope
- ballet
- bears
- Beethoven
- Branwell Bronte
- Brokeback Mountain
- the Bronte Parsonage
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Bronte
- Claude Monet
- Coldplay
- dolphins
- Edgar Degas
- elephants
- Emily Jane Bronte
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Greek mythology
- Haworth
- Heath Ledger
- Jane Eyre
- John Keats
- Kate Winslet
- Latin America
- Latin American dance
- Little Women
- panda bears
- pointe shoes
- Rafael Nadal
- Satan (Milton's)
- Spain
- The Script
- the sea/ocean
- The Stereophonics
- Stratford
- Swan Lake
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Thomas Hardy
- tortoises
- turtles
- Will Shakespeare
- Wuthering Heights
- the Yorkshire moors