Opposite References

Two Brontë references in two books recently published. As different as you could imagine.

From the frivolous:

But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous by Jancee Dunn (Harper Collins)

We read on VenusZine:

What is surprising and warm about her memoir is how grounded and honest Dunn is about her life, which seems charmed and exciting to the reader. Despite her public persona as the cool, hip, smart, and funny twenty-something gal with access to major celebrities, Dunn admits that she gravitates towards being more introverted and interested in the Civil War and Charlotte Bronte’s mysterious death than she is in clubbing and schmoozing with the stars, not fitting in as a savvy hipster like her colleagues.

Mysterious death? We hope that Jancee Dunn is not reviving Tully's...erm... theories.

To the medical:

In the Cambridge History of Medicine (edited by Roy Parker) published last month by Cambridge University Press, guess who is used as an example for the way in which mental illness was treated on the XIXth Century:

The presence in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) of the first Mrs Rochester, raving mad and hidden away in the attic, suggests that such informal procedures continued into the nineteenth century.



Categories: References, Jane_Eyre