This is a blog about the Bronte Sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. And their father Patrick, their mother Maria and their brother Branwell. About their pets, their friends, the parsonage (their house), Haworth the town in which they lived, the moors they loved so much, the Victorian era in which they lived.
Thank you for posting! Love those videos . Perhaps Anne is over looked by the general public compared to her sisters , but for the Bronte fan she is a Bronte bonus , and as Margaret Lane said. " Eventually the Bronte enthusiast must come to to Anne "
Indeed
"Gentle" Anne was a Bronte though and though
... Such humble talents as God has given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
People think in general that Anne is the gentle, sweet, beautiful sister. But Anne had a will of her own. She went alone to her employers and is the only one who could keep her (difficult) job. Beside this she wrote 2 books.I find it irritating that Charlotte had the nerve to say that Anne mad a mistake by picking up the subjects for her book.
Indeed. Charlotte's nerve went further in that. She would not allow a reprinting of " Tenet" , only " Agnes Grey" , she rewrote a good many of Anne's poems when they were republished . She said " Tenet " it was morbid in its subject, the very criticism others said about " Jane Eyre" which made Charlotte so angry ...and as you say, she even went to far as to call it a "mistake"
Charlotte also stated, about Emily's novel “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.”
What we see as shocking disloyalty is someone trying to live in Victorian times and answer the critics chargers But rather than having too much nerve, I'd say Charlotte lost her nerve...she never should have agreed with the critics about her sister's work as she did in the hope they would then leave off their wounding censure and condemnation of these works and them .
I don't think it was right or advisable for Charlotte to submerge herself in her sister's works and prepare them for reissue so soon after their deaths... she was in no emotional shape to do so. She was in a poor way for some time afterwards
Also while we are given the picture of sisterly unity as they wrote their books and walked around the the dining room table after evening prayers, the sisters were not in agreement about much .Each has found quite different answers to the morel questions and felt strongly about their positions .( as a Bronte would )
Some say "Tenet of Wildfield Hall " itself was written as answer to the calm acceptance of evil in " Wuthering Hights " That would not be Anne's way at all , evil was to be fought and over come.
These were not abstract questions to them at this time . Branwell brought up the topic of morel failings and what such be the answer every day in the most painful manner as he lurched to and from the Bull ..and so the three sister's differences were underlined in their day to day life to a remarkable degree.
Anne writes about this in a poem
And as my love the warmer glowed The deeper would that anguish sink, That this dark stream between us flowed Though both stood bending o'er its brink, Until at last I learned to bear A colder heart within my breast ; To share such thoughts as I could share, And calmly keep the rest
Thank you for posting! Love those videos . Perhaps Anne is over looked by the general public compared to her sisters , but for the Bronte fan she is a Bronte bonus , and as Margaret Lane said. " Eventually the Bronte enthusiast must come to to Anne "
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIndeed
"Gentle" Anne was a Bronte though and though
... Such humble talents as God has given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
Anne Bronte
Anne, the obscure. For a Brontë fan, Anne's books are a must read. Yet, so many people don't have an idea about her works, which is sad.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenPeople think in general that Anne is the gentle, sweet, beautiful sister. But Anne had a will of her own. She went alone to her employers and is the only one who could keep her (difficult) job. Beside this she wrote 2 books.I find it irritating that Charlotte had the nerve to say that Anne mad a mistake by picking up the subjects for her book.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIndeed. Charlotte's nerve went further in that. She would not allow a reprinting of " Tenet" , only " Agnes Grey" , she rewrote a good many of Anne's poems when they were republished . She said " Tenet " it was morbid in its subject, the very criticism others said about " Jane Eyre" which made Charlotte so angry ...and as you say, she even went to far as to call it a "mistake"
BeantwoordenVerwijderenCharlotte also stated, about Emily's novel “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.”
What we see as shocking disloyalty is someone trying to live in Victorian times and answer the critics chargers
But rather than having too much nerve, I'd say Charlotte lost her nerve...she never should have agreed with the
critics about her sister's work as she did in the hope they would then leave off their wounding censure and condemnation of these works and them .
I don't think it was right or advisable for Charlotte to submerge herself in her sister's works and prepare them for reissue so soon after their deaths... she was in no emotional shape to do so. She was in a poor way for some time afterwards
Also while we are given the picture of sisterly unity as they wrote their books and walked around the the dining room table after evening prayers, the sisters were not in agreement about much .Each has found quite different answers to the morel questions and felt strongly about their positions .( as a Bronte would )
Some say "Tenet of Wildfield Hall " itself was written as answer to the calm acceptance of evil in " Wuthering Hights " That would not be Anne's way at all , evil was to be fought and over come.
These were not abstract questions to them at this time . Branwell brought up the topic of morel failings and what such be the answer every day in the most painful manner as he lurched to and from the Bull ..and so the three sister's differences were underlined in their day to day life to a remarkable degree.
Anne writes about this in a poem
And as my love the warmer glowed
The deeper would that anguish sink,
That this dark stream between us flowed
Though both stood bending o'er its brink,
Until at last I learned to bear
A colder heart within my breast ;
To share such thoughts as I could share,
And calmly keep the rest