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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:01 am by M.   No comments
The Guardian covers the obituary of June Benn, aka June Barraclough, writer of several novels (The Heart of the Rose, Portrait of Maud, ...) and non-fiction books (The Woman's View or her autobiographical book First Finds: A Yorkshire Childhood).

In her biography we found unequivocal trends of being a Brontëite:

She began lecturing in colleges, on French and the philosophy of education, and also gave a course on 19th-century novels, which she had loved ever since reading Jane Eyre as a young girl - she got very cross with Jane for refusing to live with Mr Rochester after discovering about the mad wife in the attic: love, she already thought, was far more important than marriage. Then came her career as a romantic novelist.

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