Brontë witches

The Brontës are present in all aspects of life as we are discovering day after day, post after post. But the discussion is not limited to their own original language, English. Oberon Editores is publishing these weeks a new essay named "Escrito por brujas" (Written by witches) written by Antonio Ballesteros González.

The book (description here in Spanish) traces the life and work of nineteenth-century women writers like Mary Shelley and other gothic English writers, the German romantic ones, the Argentinian Juana Manuela Gorriti, the Brontë sisters or even Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant or Alexandra David-Néel, explorer of the Tibet. According to the author, all of them, were in some way modern witches that in other, darker times, would have ended up in stakes - symbolic or real ones. All of them had a great aim: to exercise their freedom of thought through a literature of the supernatural.

The chapter devoted to the Brontë sisters is named "Tinieblas en los páramos: Charlotte y Emily Brontë " (Darkness in the moors: Charlotte and Emily Brontë). The book also devotes a chapter to Elizabeth Gaskell. You can find a review of the book here (in Spanish, you always can use... if you dare... babelfish)

Categories: Books, Scholar, Charlotte_Brontë, Emily_Brontë