Juliet Barker, a former curator of the Bront Parsonage Museum, is to receive an honorary degree from Bradford University.
The historian and writer, an internationally-recognised authority on the Bronts, will become an honorary Doctor of Letters.
Mrs Barker - who was curator and librarian at the Parsonage Museum for six years until 1989 - wrote the award-winning biography The Bronts.
She has also produced scholarly editions of the sisters' works and has been a frequent contributor to television and radio. She is currently working on a major new biography called The Wordsmiths to be published next year.
Mrs Barker was brought up and educated locally and has lived near Haworth all her life.
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