AN AMERICAN fantasy author has tweeted her thanks to the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Catherynne Valente ? this week wrote that she was “intensely grateful” for the work done by the Haworth museum over the years.

Tweeting two days before finishing her latest novel, she said she could not have written it without inspiration from the world-famous literary museum.

Valente has won several awards for her speculative future fiction novels, which include Radiance and the Fairyland series, and her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and magazines.

A long-time Brontë fan, she wrote an introduction to an illustrated edition of Jane Eyre in 2007.