The worst off was Charlotte Brontë. Her written work, like Kafka's, was influenced by her work-for-pay. Unlucky for her, Brontë's job as a governess paid terribly -- her adjusted annual salary would be less than $2,000 today -- and while meals were free, her employers deducted petty fees such as clothes washing. Lucky for us, her resentments surfaced in "Villette" and "Jane Eyre." (Carolyn Kellogg)
zaterdag 20 maart 2010
Tales of Angria
Charlotte Brontë
Edited by Heather Glen
ISBN: 9780141035628
Published : 04 Mar 2010
Publisher : Pocket Penguin Classics
In 1834 Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict an aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic language. She creates an exotic, scandalous atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions, with a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend, the cynical, gossipy narrator.
zondag 28 februari 2010
feminist individualism
In its deployment of a variety of generic forms and strategies—romance, gothic, bildungsroman—Jane Eyre is representative of numerous eighteenth and nineteenth-century textual traditions, and as Gilbert and Gubar have remarked, also accessible to readers, as “we tend today to think of Jane Eyre as…the archetypal scenario for all those mildly thrilling romantic encounters between a scowling Byronic hero (who owns a gloomy mansion) and a trembling heroine (who can’t quite figure out the mansion’s floor plan)” (337). Yet, despite a growing interest in how didacticism shaped the reading public of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the acknowledged pervasiveness of advice books specifically addressed to female audiences, there has been no attempt to explore how didactic traditions influenced mid- nineteenth-century novels like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.(1) Scenes of women teaching and learning comprise a substantial portion of Jane Eyre’s action and function to shape the terms of its discourse, but these scenes are generally overlooked in the interests of emphasizing Jane’s escape from this servitude, an escape associated with the novel’s influential portrayal of feminist individualism
woensdag 24 februari 2010
Bronte films
Overgenomen uit: http://theartofclothes.blogspot.com/
It looks like there are some new Bronte films in the making. A new Jane Eyre is set to release in 2011 starring Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) Michael Fass bender (300), Judi Dench (Cranford) and Jamie Bell (King Kong).
There's also an upcoming film about the Bronte sisters entitled Bronte. I'm not sure if this film will come about or not as it's been on IMDB for a few years and is still in pre production.
It's good to know there are more costume dramas on the way! Even if Jane Eyre has been made a hundred times. I'm excited to see what they're like!
It looks like there are some new Bronte films in the making. A new Jane Eyre is set to release in 2011 starring Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) Michael Fass bender (300), Judi Dench (Cranford) and Jamie Bell (King Kong).
There's also an upcoming film about the Bronte sisters entitled Bronte. I'm not sure if this film will come about or not as it's been on IMDB for a few years and is still in pre production.
It's good to know there are more costume dramas on the way! Even if Jane Eyre has been made a hundred times. I'm excited to see what they're like!
maandag 22 februari 2010
zaterdag 20 februari 2010
Charlotte Bronte and her association with Banagher
http://www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/content/offaly/people/bronte_charlotte.htm
http://www.charlottesway.com/
Charlotte's Way
Charlotte's Way (Hill House)Charlotte's Way, formerly known as Hill House, is located in a prominent setting close to Saint Paul's Church of Ireland church. This house was once the home of Charlotte Brontë's husband, Mr. Nicholls, who returned to Banagher after Charlotte's death. Nicholls remarried and lived at Hill House until his death in 1906. The house was sold to a Major Bell in 1919. He died in 1944 and his wife inherited the property. Florence Bell died in 1959. This connection to Brontë, one of the most renowned writers of the nineteenth century, is revealed in its present name, giving the house cultural interest. It is a detached three-bay two-storey house, built in 1753, with a gabled central bay to the façade with modern porch and single-bay two-storey wing to the south and two-bay two-storey wing to the north.[40] It is now used as a bed and breakfast and visitors can enjoy its restored appearance and sense the history of a place connected in a curious way with the Brontë family.
http://www.charlottesway.com/
Charlotte's Way
Charlotte's Way (Hill House)Charlotte's Way, formerly known as Hill House, is located in a prominent setting close to Saint Paul's Church of Ireland church. This house was once the home of Charlotte Brontë's husband, Mr. Nicholls, who returned to Banagher after Charlotte's death. Nicholls remarried and lived at Hill House until his death in 1906. The house was sold to a Major Bell in 1919. He died in 1944 and his wife inherited the property. Florence Bell died in 1959. This connection to Brontë, one of the most renowned writers of the nineteenth century, is revealed in its present name, giving the house cultural interest. It is a detached three-bay two-storey house, built in 1753, with a gabled central bay to the façade with modern porch and single-bay two-storey wing to the south and two-bay two-storey wing to the north.[40] It is now used as a bed and breakfast and visitors can enjoy its restored appearance and sense the history of a place connected in a curious way with the Brontë family.
Do you know authors who, as a child, wrote in tiny books?
Als kind schreven de Bronte Sisters in kleine boekjes
ik weet dat meer schrijvers dit deden
en vond alleen de naam van
Jenny Oldfield
weten jullie nog meer schrijvers?
Tot mijn verbazing blijkt er een hele ART vorm
rond kleine boekjes te zijn.
een voorbeeld is
je moet in Google eens
bij tiny books
zoeken
een wereld gaat open.
donderdag 18 februari 2010
Arthur Bell Nicholls
He packed up his belongings and all his mementos of Charlotte and returned to Ireland taking Plato, Patrick's last dog, with him. In Banagher the Royal School was now being run by Dr. Bell's second son, James, who had taken it over on the death of his father. He was living in Cuba House, so his mother, Arthur's aunt, had gone to live in a small house at the top of the hill in the little town, with her daughter Mary Anna. After Cuba House, Hill House must have felt minute, hut it was pretty, opposite the church and stood in twenty acres of land. It is still there though much changed over the years.
Arthur made his way to Hill House where he joined his aunt and cousin, Mary Anna. He became a small farmer, giving up the Church altogether. Martha Brown, one of the faithful Brontë servants came over from time to time and took over the housekeeping. She had nursed Charlotte and was one of Arthur's last links with the old days. When he was forty three and Mary Anna thirty two they decided to get married. She had always loved her cousin and he was fond of her. They married in 1864 and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Joseph Bell, Mary Anna's brother, and Arthur's cousin. It seemed to be more of a marriage of convenience, a friendship than anything else. There were no children of the marriage. Arthur died in 1906 at the age of eighty eight and Mary Ann in 1915 aged eighty five. They are both buried across the road from Hill House in the Churchyard of St. Paul's. Arthur's aunt, Mary Anna's mother, lived to the great age of 101, dying in 1902, a wonderful old lady. Arthur never recovered from Charlotte's death. He loved her to the end of his long life. He and Patrick Brontë were very different personalities, hut it is curious to see how much they had in common, and of course Charlotte will always link them together.
Arthur made his way to Hill House where he joined his aunt and cousin, Mary Anna. He became a small farmer, giving up the Church altogether. Martha Brown, one of the faithful Brontë servants came over from time to time and took over the housekeeping. She had nursed Charlotte and was one of Arthur's last links with the old days. When he was forty three and Mary Anna thirty two they decided to get married. She had always loved her cousin and he was fond of her. They married in 1864 and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Joseph Bell, Mary Anna's brother, and Arthur's cousin. It seemed to be more of a marriage of convenience, a friendship than anything else. There were no children of the marriage. Arthur died in 1906 at the age of eighty eight and Mary Ann in 1915 aged eighty five. They are both buried across the road from Hill House in the Churchyard of St. Paul's. Arthur's aunt, Mary Anna's mother, lived to the great age of 101, dying in 1902, a wonderful old lady. Arthur never recovered from Charlotte's death. He loved her to the end of his long life. He and Patrick Brontë were very different personalities, hut it is curious to see how much they had in common, and of course Charlotte will always link them together.
Arthur Bell Nicholls
Arthur Bell Nicholls, photographed on his honeymoon
in Ireland. 1854.
Arthur took his bride home to Ireland for their honeymoon, and a great surprise awaited her when she met his delightful family and saw Cuba House for the first time.10 She must suddenly have realised that she had married a real 'gentleman' in every sense of the word. On all sides she heard great reports of him. One of the servants told her she had got 'one of the best gentlemen in the country'. In her letters home she wrote, 'I was very much pleased with all I saw, but I was also greatly surprised to find so much English order and repose in the family habits and arrangements. I had heard a great deal about Irish negligence.' Describing Mrs. Bell, Arthur's aunt... 'with her English manners — like an English or Scottish matron, quiet, kind and well bred', Charlotte began to revise her former opinion of her husband and his family.
Tully Farm, birthplace of Arthur Bell Nichols.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are famous the world over for their writing. Many books have been written over the years portraying their short and tragic lives, and the struggles of their ambitious and clever father Patrick, who rose from humble origins to enter Cambridge University and on to a life dedicated to the Established Church. Only one of his children married. In 1854 Charlotte, his surviving daughter, married Arthur Bell Nicholls, then curate of Haworth, and there lies another story.
Lees verder:
http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume10/volume10-5.html
woensdag 17 februari 2010
The Parsonage, Henry Houston Bonnell
One room, the dining room or parlour, has a particular fascination. It is where Charlotte, Emily and Anne did most of their writing. Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – they all came from this room. And one of their remarkable routines, perhaps done to gain inspiration, was to walk round and round the dining room table reading and discussing their writings and the plans they had. This could go on late into the night. After both Emily and Anne had died Charlotte continued to pace around the table on her own, unable to go to sleep until she had carried out this nightly ritual.
There is also a black horse hair sofa made by the local carpenter in Haworth (he also made the original dining table and other furniture in the house). It is on this sofa that Emily is thought to have died, having refused to see a doctor until it was too late.
In 1927 the parsonage was bought for £3,000 from the Church by Sir James Roberts, a local man who had made a great deal of money in the textile industry. He donated the house to the Brontë Society, formed in 1893, which had always hoped to get hold of the house but with only fifty pounds in the bank could never have afforded it! Sir James gave them another £1500 towards the cost of setting up the museum and in the autumn of 1928 thousands of people flocked to Haworth for the official opening.
Once the parsonage became a museum, all sorts of Brontë pieces, which had been sold off over the years, were returned and donated, including furniture and the superb collection of manuscripts, drawings and books which were sent to the museum as a bequest from the collection of Henry Houston Bonnell in America.
Look at this website: The Bonnell Collection, with beautiful photo's)
Thanks to the hard work and foresight of the Brontë Society the long climb up the main street of Haworth to visit the Brontë Parsonage is an unforgettable experience. Once there you glimpse what seems to us now a simple but contented way of life. But when you remember that this house produced the most famous literary family in the world and that more than 150 years later their novels continue to fascinate and intrigue millions of readers it makes it all the more remarkable. Our advice is simple. Go there if you possibly can and soak it all up.
The Brontë Society
The Brontë Society (founded 1893), whose museum started in one room over the Pennybank, was given the parsonage in 1927 and transferred there the next year, which also saw the arrival of Henry Houston Bonnell's collection of Brontëana from Philadelphia. The Society's annual periodical, Transactions, contains the first printing of many Brontë documents. Its comprehensive guide to the house, which has been restored to resemble the Brontë home, contains a short history of the family. A leaflet lists the places which influenced their work, including a favourite walk to the Brontë waterfall, Ponden Hall (setting of Thrushcross Grange), and High or Top Withens (ruins), the possible site of Wuthering Heights. Elizabeth Gaskell, who visited in 1853, contrasted the bleak aspect of the house outside with the ‘snugness and comfort’ of the interior. She walked on the moor with Charlotte, who told her stories of the families there which made her think Wuthering Heights tame in comparison.
Matthew Arnold's poem ‘Haworth Churchyard’, written after Charlotte's death, says in error that the grass ‘Blows from their graves to thy own’ as the Brontës (with the exception of Anne) were buried in the family vault in the church (rebuilt 1881), where a plaque marks the site. A stained‐glass window is an American tribute to Charlotte Brontë, and the Memorial Chapel has been added.
Matthew Arnold's poem ‘Haworth Churchyard’, written after Charlotte's death, says in error that the grass ‘Blows from their graves to thy own’ as the Brontës (with the exception of Anne) were buried in the family vault in the church (rebuilt 1881), where a plaque marks the site. A stained‐glass window is an American tribute to Charlotte Brontë, and the Memorial Chapel has been added.
the Parsonage
Built in 1778, the interior of the house has been recreated to appear much as it would have done when the Bronte's lived here. The collection contains many items of furniture which actually belonged to the family, and also a great many of their personal possessions and creations.
The ground floor of the museum displays the dining room where the children did most of their early writing, Mr Bronte's study, the kitchen - much altered since the family lived here, although it has been reconstructed as far as possible - and the store room that Charlotte had converted into a study for her husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls.
On the upper floor, in what was once Mr and Mrs Bronte's room and subsequently became Charlotte's room, is a display containing some of her clothes, and her shoes, which are tiny and look particularly uncomfortable. It's immediately obvious from both the shoes and the dress just how diminutive she was - probably no more than 4' 10".
This is also the room Charlotte and Arthur shared following their marriage on 29 June, 1854, and where she died less than a year later on 31 March 1855.
Across the hallway is Patrick Bronte's room which he moved into following the death of his wife.
The ground floor of the museum displays the dining room where the children did most of their early writing, Mr Bronte's study, the kitchen - much altered since the family lived here, although it has been reconstructed as far as possible - and the store room that Charlotte had converted into a study for her husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls.
On the upper floor, in what was once Mr and Mrs Bronte's room and subsequently became Charlotte's room, is a display containing some of her clothes, and her shoes, which are tiny and look particularly uncomfortable. It's immediately obvious from both the shoes and the dress just how diminutive she was - probably no more than 4' 10".
Next to Charlotte's room is the tiny bedroom thought to have been used as Emily's bedroom. Prior to some alterations carried out during the 1850s, this room would probably have been larger and was used as a nursery and playroom by all the children. It was probably here that they played with the toy soldiers and where they wrote their tiny little adventure books. One of these books is on display in the exhibition room.
Across the hallway is Patrick Bronte's room which he moved into following the death of his wife.
Patrick shared the room with his son Branwell once the latter's addiction to drugs and alcohol had reached the stage where he was likely to be a danger to himself and others.
Both Branwell and Patrick died in this room; Branwell at the age of 31, and Patrick thirteen years later, at the age of 84.
Beyond the room containing examples of Branwell's paintings is the exhibition room, telling the story of the lives of the famous Bronte family, and downstairs, the "Bonnell Room" - named after the American bibliophile who donated his collection of Bronteana to the museum - which houses temporary exhibitions.
Ashmount Country House
The former home of Charlotte Brontë’s doctor,
Amos Ingham
Ashmount Country House
Mytholmes Lane
Haworth, West Yorkshire
BD22 8EZ
United Kingdom
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