Your very devoted pupil

A couple of alerts for today, April 25. The first one from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Wed 25 April - "Your very devoted pupil"

A talk focusing on Charlotte Brontë and the "mentor-lover" by Pamela Norris, author of "Words of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath" -

West Lane Baptist Centre - 2.00pm - £2.50 - For further information contact andrew.mccarthy@bronte.org.uk 01535 640194

We already posted about the "Words of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath" and its Brontë connections.

This is an excerpt from an article in The Guardian where Pamela Norris talks about Charlotte Brontë:

"I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses." This was Charlotte Bronte's verdict on Jane Austen's novels. When one turns from Pride and Prejudice to Jane Eyre, it is hardly surprising that the rebellious Charlotte might have found her predecessor a little tame. Jane Eyre is a study in individuality, the claim of a plain girl without family, friends or fortune to be the equal of a rich, powerful and sophisticated man. Jane dares to tell Mr Rochester, "I have as much soul as you - and full as much heart!" Her fire and energy strike matching sparks from her lover. Custom, law, the presence of his living wife in an upper chamber are swept aside as Rochester strides forward to grasp his bride in an iron embrace. In creating this dark, ruthless, impassioned hero and the feisty Jane, Charlotte Bronte revealed her own secret longing for intensity of feeling and the thrill of recognition. As obscure and daring as her heroine, she claimed women's ability to feel passion and their right to voice desire. While Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester set new markers for women and love, it took the audacious imagination of Charlotte Bronte to invent their story and give it life.

The second alert comes from Beaverton, Oregon:

Classics Book Group
Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

This month our group meets to discuss Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. New members to the group are always welcome.

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