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Friday, April 07, 2006

Friday, April 07, 2006 7:20 pm by M.   No comments
We can imagine the journalist looking to the terrifying blank page and thinking... how can I start an article about the wonders of having an attic. Yes, you have guessed right... an attic, you said? The madwoman just comes next.

Few remember either Grace Poole or Bertha Mason, but they were exceptional in that they gave attics a particularly bad name. The clangings on the third floor of the mansion Thornfield in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" foreshadowed the discovery of caregiver Poole and her ward, the insane Mason.

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