What a gloomy article!

This article from the Tillsonburg News kindly (?) reminds us that TB is far from eradicated and perhaps even on the rise.

The article is called "Killer with a taste for genius" since it is well known that many writers have died prey of this awful disease. No need to say that the Brontë family as a whole is mentioned.

Like a morbid premonition of the devastation that AIDS inflicted in the artistic communities of Europe and North America in the 1980s and ‘90s, a terrifying number of the most famous writers and artists succumbed to consumption, often driven by the telltale death sentence of a few drops of blood on the handkerchief to prodigious feats of creativity. Keats, D.H. Lawrence, Modigliani, the Bronte family, Chopin, Orwell, Kafka and Chekhov had to squeeze the work of a dozen ordinary lifetimes into four decades or fewer.

We feel morally obliged though to inform Mr Jim Pegg that not every member of the Brontë family died of TB though.

Categories: In_the_News