tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post2126582344388524228..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: 194th birthday to Anne Brontë! Geri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-86690575059458643552014-01-19T14:55:36.840+01:002014-01-19T14:55:36.840+01:00I really loved that introduction defending The Ten...I really loved that introduction defending The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I read it a while back when I started reading the book. I love how she says how should it matter if it was written by a man or woman? It really is an amazing work, revealing the awful way some people treat their spouses, and it seems fair, because the woman who is friends with Huntingdon seems rather as awful as he!Laura Morriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402692693911867276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-50296667079201500522014-01-17T17:23:35.839+01:002014-01-17T17:23:35.839+01:00I was just thinking about Anne yesterday...what a ...I was just thinking about Anne yesterday...what a treasure she is for the Bronte enthusiast! <br /><br />She had the Bronte wit in full measure. Here's from her October 4th 1847 letter to Ellen Nussey <br /><br /><i>Many thanks to you for your unexpected and welcome epistle. Charlotte is well, and meditates writing to you. Happily for all parties the east wind no longer prevails - during its continuance she complained of its influence as usual. I too suffered from it, in some degree, as I always do, more or less; but this time, it brought me no reinforcement of colds and coughs which is what I dread the most. Emily considers it a "dry uninteresting wind", but it does not affect her nervous system</i><br /><br />Funny!<br /><br /><br /><i> I have no news to tell you, except that Mr. Nicholl's begged a holiday and went to Ireland three or four weeks ago, and is not expected back till Saturday - but that I dare say is no news at all.</i><br /><br />Carefully saying she had no news to <i>give</i>...but that is not the same as no news ! lol " Jane Eyre" was about to be published! <br /><br /><br /><i> We were all severely pleased and grateful for your kind and judiciously selected presents - from papa down to Tabby, - or down to myself, perhaps I ought rather to say.</i><br /><br />lol<br /><br /><i>that is all, for as Charlotte is writing or about to write to you herself I need not send any message from her. therefore accept my best love and I must not omit the Major's compliments</i><br /><br /><br />If only we had more!<br /><br />Happy Birthday Anne!<br /> Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com