Do better and be better

One more newsround full of unrelated and quite irrelevant mentions to the Brontës, though we still like to keep track of them.

The Journal and Courier Online has an article by Pamela A. Smith on her illness - that well-known to Brontëites Hyperemesis Gravidarum, which was in the news not so long ago too.

It is thought that Charlotte Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre, died of hyperemesis. We had never heard of this condition before we experienced it.

Then the International Herald Tribune reviews The Libertine - a film on the life of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, and reminds us that "Charlotte Brontë may have named Jane Eyre's Rochester after him".

And finally we were very surprised to see Emily quoted completely out of the blue by Joan Bakewell:

Books full of such advice pour forth to meet the passionate yearnings of would-be achievers to "do better and be better" (in Emily Brontë's phrase).

We were surprised because as you know this is from Emily's 1845 Diary paper, and was written in reference to Branwell. Joan Bakewell surely knows her Brontës well!

Categories: Charlotte_Brontë, Emily_Brontë, In_the_News, Jane_Eyre