Patrick Brontë died on a day like today in 1861 - the last of his family (not including brothers and sisters) to die. Sadly there are no allusions to this on the internet today.
But if something weighed on his life it was TB, which killed at least 5 of his children.
Health Watch looks at this ferocious, destructive illness.
Convents, prisons, asylums, and poorhouses became breeding grounds for the infection. The disease did not spare the famous and affluent.
Distinguished victims included Eleanor Roosevelt, Anton Chekhov, John Keats, Moliere, Frederick Chopin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka and Charlotte Bronte and her five siblings. (Dr. Clif Cleaveland)
The
Denver Post reviews the play
Every Secret Thing by Judith GeBauer, now on stage at the
Bug Theatre.
GeBauer, who bases the play on her own childhood experiences, opens with a fluid montage inside three classrooms: a Polish literature teacher reading Bronte, a war hero teaching tenets of American justice, a music teacher espousing the universality of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It's an ordinary day - until a foreign-born math teacher is unjustly arrested, and others are asked to sign loyalty oaths. (John Moore)
We read in
The Huffington Post An Open Letter from Erica Jong to Jane Smiley (On the ghettoization of female writers).
But you mustn't conclude from your own good fortune that there is no prejudice against women writers. It has been there from the start and it still lingers in new guises. [...]
Charlotte Bronte was attacked as an evil, unemployable governess.
We never know how to take what
Ms Jong writes. But, though she might have a point, we don't see what one thing has to do with another. Charlotte Brontë used Currer Bell as her pseudonym to avoid being judged solely on the grounds of her sex. But who was it that said that of her? Probably her employers, not her literary critics. So we are unable to see the prejudices against women WRITERS in that.
Prejudices or not, women writers gladly abound,
Paula Morris, author of Trendy But Casual, is interviewed on
Leaf Salon.
Q: Jane [Shore, main character of her book] is brought to her knees with one life-blow after another, before she hits rock bottom and stops being so shallow… is the unexamined life worth living?
A: Jane is still very shallow at the end of the novel: she's busy criticising Jane Eyre because she didn't have a publicist. Like Ignatius and Jim, who both make their escapes, she's making an escape too, of sorts. But like them, Jane's essentially still the same flawed person.
Some short items now. Les Hauts de Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights in French) is reviewed by
Nadia from Tunis.
Ritengo Il Mondo talks about 1996 Jane Eyre film in Italian. And two bloggers write about the Brontë Parsonage Museum:
¿Jandicapés del qué? daydreams about going there one day (in Spanish) and
Angelic Teacher has just been there.
Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Brontë, References, Reminder, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
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