tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post5955515492821112537..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: On this day in 1846 Mrs Robinson's husband died.Geri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-14606153616026991172013-08-10T22:04:37.383+02:002013-08-10T22:04:37.383+02:00In this sad history , one thing is often over look...In this sad history , one thing is often over looked. That a large measure of Mrs Robinson's attraction for Branwell was bound up imo in the fact she was mistress of Thorpe Green .<br /><br />Branwell wanted the house as much if not more than the Lady. In all his rants there was never a suggestion he and she should run off together . No . He would go on and on about being master of such a fine home. <br /><br />Branwell's love for " his Lydia" was not for herself alone and it was this mercurial nature of his involvement that was a great heartbreak for his sisters. The Bronte women valued a guinea as well as anyone. But money would never be a motivation for personal relations . It was hard for them to even grasp such a concept and that one of their number joyfully embraced it .<br /><br />It would be too much to ask Branwell to take a good look at himself because he was trained from birth to think he was without peer...but even so, he should have been able to see the social impossibility of Mrs.R marrying her son's former tutor who is 17 years younger than herself . <br /><br />They would be an unending laughing stock, if not scandal .The very thing Branwell craved most , care free social standing and an admiring public, would be forever out of reach. They would have wound up on the Continent, so to not hear the laughter, Mrs. R was not so foolish.<br /><br />He is to be pitied Rather than grow up, Branwell chose to live and die in Angria <br /><br />As a novelist Mrs. G likes villains and heroes. and brackets people accordingly. Where she got this reputation for wisdom I don't know She was extraordinarily foolish in the cavalier way she treated living people in her book and had to take back her words on several points ....not just from Mrs R .<br /><br />Mrs G treated Patrick Bronte quite badly. But he unconsciously paid her back when he told her all about the evil seductress of the Thorpe Green who ruined his boy .A story the old man had to believe himself . Mrs G published it all without checking it out...as she did with gossip about Rev Bronte himself , but this time she paid a price<br /><br />Mrs R, now Lady Scott, was having none of it and made Mrs. Gaskell publicly consume a health slice of humble pie <br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-51558192946839367872011-05-29T04:16:23.640+02:002011-05-29T04:16:23.640+02:00Such a mess...and poor Anne, I'm sure she knew...Such a mess...and poor Anne, I'm sure she knew and was mortified by it all. Mrs. Gaskell certainly had 'words' about Lydia, she was not very fond of her.<br />xo J~24 Cornershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630767883910250689noreply@blogger.com