‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Bronte Parsonage Museum

Lucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read Anne Bronte's 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly, intensely, fell in love. There was just this moment of, I suppose, feeling like I'd come home. I'd found something that 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 Bronte, followed immediately by her older sisters Emily and Charlotte, opened the door to a new world: They were everything that I didn't realise was out there."