Bronte 200

In addition to last weekend's Shakespeare quatercentenary, April 2016 also marks a second literary anniversary, as it's 200 years since the birth of Charlotte Bronte, on April 21, 1816.

In celebration of this, the Walker Library is currently running an exhibition about the novelist's life and works, and has recently added to its shelves Reader, I Married Him, a collection of 21 short stories inspired by Bronte's best-known novel, Jane Eyre: contributors include Lionel Shriver (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Emma Donoghue (Room) and Susan Hill (The Woman in Black).

The collection is edited by Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring), who has written about why Charlotte Bronte is her literary hero here, and has also curated an exhibition at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, in Haworth, once the Brontes' family home: you can read more about how she put the exhibition together here.

If you're already a fan of Bronte's fiction, you can test yourself in the Guardian's Charlotte Bronte quiz:

and if you're particularly keen on Jane Eyre, there are even some questions which will let you work out which character from the novel you are.  Have fun!