Letters, Godard and Brontëites

Just surfing the blogosphere we have found this great post on Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover about Charlotte Brontë's letters:

I have a copy of Juliet Barker's The Brontes: A Life in Letters which is a must have volume for all Bronte lovers. What I would really like to own are the complete collected letters of Charlotte Bronte, but at £100 or so per volume, that is a pipe dream. In the meantime, Ms Barker's volume is an excellent substitute as it contains a selection of letters to and from all the family.
Out of all Charlotte's letters, I find those she wrote on her return from Brussels where she fell passionately in love with Monsieur Heger, quite heart breaking. These chronicled her anguish and despair at being separated from her 'Master'. She haunted the post office in Haworth hoping that he would write back to her, but he never did. (Read more)

The rest of the post is so engaging as this paragraph. Please check it and also the comments (as this one by Elaine Simpson-Long)

(...) You just have to read Villette and see how she suffered. I am glad she married ABN and found happiness with him but it is so sad that it was so shortlived. I can never read about her death bed when she wakes and says to Arthur 'Oh I am not going to die am I? He (God) will not separate us we have been so happy' without a tear coming into my eye. It is now.
And oh yes, those Mary Taylor letters, one of those literary if onlys...

Regan Luke's blog posts about Jean Luc Godard's 1967 Weekend film. It's one of the most bizarre films in all his filmography and Emily Brontë happens to appear in a brief scene. The post contains some images of the film.

Traffic jams from horrific car wrecks, cannibal revolutionaries, and finally Emily Bronte, Tom Thumb in a forest (Emily Bronte is later set ablaze by the husband with his cigarette lighter)

Finally, another Brontëite. Blogger and author, Thomma Lynn:

Thirteen Woman Writers Who ROCK MY WORLD!

1 & 2. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. Jane Eyre and Villette were written by Charlotte, Wuthering Heights was written by Emily. All three novels are still amazing and wonderful after all these years and will continue to be amazing and wonderful until the day the sun goes red giant and toasts them to ashes. To my mind, the Bronte Sisters are the reigning Queens of Gothic Romance and Dark, Brooding Heroes. Well, thinking in terms of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, that is. Charlotte Bronte's Villette is a different critter altogether: a brilliant study of a young woman's quietly courageous nature.

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