Belgian Buns, Saint Barnabas, John Clare and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

About this episode

Gretel le Maître explores beauty and curiosities in life through literature and architecture.

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture. We’ve reached 63,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her as sh...

People in this episode

Host: Gretel le Maître

Topics covered

• beauty
• literature
• history
• art
• architecture
• exploration

Keywords

• Gretel le Maître
• Tom Holland
• Charlotte Brontë
• John Clare
• Saint Barnabas
• Belgian Buns
• history
• art
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Belgian Buns

Books & works: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

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