tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post4751026748217659160..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: Mr. Heger's most personal and thoughtful gift yet...........Geri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-15865696954667123422015-10-30T20:27:36.568+01:002015-10-30T20:27:36.568+01:00Indeed. M.Heger was kind and thoughtful to his stu...Indeed. M.Heger was kind and thoughtful to his students. He liked doing battle in class and then making amends with gifts and tokens . The giving of a piece of a coffin ( no matter whose) doesn't sound romantic to me. Undoubtedly he and Charlotte had a lively classroom exchange about Napoleon and Wellington. This seems on Heger's part a friendly gesture and comment on that exchange. <br /><br /><i>"a small gift which could be slipped into her hand without fuss, which Madame Heger would never notice, and which, above all, was a token of her abiding place in his thoughts."...</i><br /><br />This sounds more like a novel than a history book to me because the author is interjecting emotions into the event she can't know, only guess at. What I admired about Harman's earlier works was she didn't try to come to hard conclusions without fact. But she seems to be moving away from that here. I looked up the word " definitive" <br /><br /> it means <i>conclusive, final, ultimate</i><br /><br />No one book, no one author's vision could hope to do that when it comes to Bronte imo. Of course it is going to be good, Harman. is a fine writer...but don't tell me I need read or look no further than her one book. <br /><br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com