Emails and horoscopes

A couple of news published lately on the Brontë Parsonage Blog are related to Professor Maddalena De Leo, active member of the Sezione Italiana of the Brontë Society.

Un'@mica dal passato
a teenager novel in Italian (for Italian schools)
by Maddalena De Leo

2006 Esselibri, Simone per la Scuola, Collana Labirinti, 208 pages, euro 7,50,
ISBN 88 244 7640 6

Margot is a clever but solitary teenager. She loves Victorian literature and often surfs the net looking for information on her beloved authors, the Brontës. One evening she receives a surprise email from …. Charlotte herself!

Margot replies, learning about her Victorian friend when she was the same age, reading what she was writing at the time and starting a wonderful journey through the Brontë world to know her literary idols better.

The text contains some of Charlotte Brontë’s earliest juvenilia, translated into Italian for the first time by Maddalena De Leo. At the end of each of the twenty-two chapters is a review/comprehension section for use in the classroom.

The other post is in relation with a proposed horoscope for Emily Brontë:

In June this year I made a wonderful discovery while surfing the net. I found an unusual web site written by a Dutch astrologist. In it she set forth a lengthy and detailed horoscope in Dutch for none other than Emily Brontë. (...)

The author's name is Ms Iren Nooren, Dutch by birth but presently living in Curaçao. Only a few historical figures interested her enough to merit a personal horoscope.

She chose Thérèse of Lisieux and Emily Brontë. As she explored Emily's personality Nooren quickly discovered that she had an exhaustive amount of character traits. Based on a very detailed astrological reading Nooren's discussion focuses especially on Emily's personality and the most meaningful parts of her novel. Her poems are never mentioned. (Read more)

If you are interested in this kind of stuff - we are afraid we cannot hide that we are not - you can find horoscopes and maps of the heavens, whatever that means, for the Brontës here.

Categories: Books, Translations, Juvenilia, Charlotte_Brontë, Emily_Brontë, Weirdo