An exhibition exploring the short life of the author of one of the most famous books in the English language has been opened at the Brontë shrine, in Haworth.

It is the first time the Brontë Parsonage Museum has assembled a display of every item it owns connected with Emily Brontë, the writer of Wuthering Heights.

And it has been put together in response to popular demand from people wanting to know more about the author, who died aged just 30, in 1848.

The exhibits range from intimate items like her ink-scribbled blotting paper - academics have poured over it in a desperate bid to get more information about the most illusive of the Brontë clan - to her writing desk, poetry manuscripts and costumes, to more mundane items like her Christening mug.

Almost all of it is rare and precious because Emily was the most mysterious and private of the Brontës. So Brontë Parsonage collections manager Ann Dinsdale hopes the exhibition will give people a new insight into the life and soul behind the legend.

Hence the title of the display, "No Coward Soul", the name of her most famous poem.

The exhibition runs all year.