With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
1 week ago
EDIT:Missing Charlotte Brontë letter returns to Haworth after spending over 80 years in USAOver 4000 miles away from where it was first written, an important Charlotte Brontë letter to her publisher William Smith Williams has been bought by the Brontë Parsonage Museum with financial help from a grant given by the MLA and V&A Purchase Grant Fund. The letter will be on display at the Parsonage this weekend.
Written at a significant point in her life, the letter, signed in the pseudonym ‘C. Bell’, discusses reviews of her recently published novel Jane Eyre and also makes reference to the second edition of the world famous novel.
Collections Manager Ann Dinsdale said “Charlotte’s correspondence with her publisher is particularly important and interesting. It gives us a deeper insight into her creativity, her influences and her ideas”.
Originally written in Haworth just three months after the first publication of Jane Eyre on the 13th January 1848, the letter was purchased over seventy years later by an American Brontë Society member visiting England and it was brought back with her on her return to the USA. It was eventually inherited by Patti Engels of California who sold it to the Brontë Parsonage Museum just a few weeks ago. For most of it's time in the USA, the whereabouts of the letter remained unknown.
This interesting and exciting new addition to our collection will be on display at The Brontë Parsonage Museum from 28th August 2008 onwards.
Mrs Dinsdale said: “She was keen that it should come back to Haworth and not be sold in America. We were very excited and the Bronte Society decided we should have it.Categories: Brontëana, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Charlotte Brontë, Messages from BB
“It has now come back home to the place where it was written all those years ago. Her letters to Mr Williams are interesting. In this she has written just after Jane Eyre was published and he has sent her some reviews on which she comments.”
Charlotte writes: “You have just culled the best sentences in each review, as if you have been gathering flowers in a parterre, rejecting which is superfluous and unsightly like weeds…….”
Mrs Dinsdale said: “Charlotte wrote a lot to Williams. He was the first person to spot her potential as a novelist. After the loss of her sisters, she came to rely on his letters.”
It will now join the 100 other letters in the Bronte collection written by Charlotte.(Clive White)
Arrrgh! Even the Bronte Society doesn't know that "it's" is the contraction of "it is" or "it has" and NOT, NOT the possessive form of "it" - this is really inexcusable.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, and we know the difference. But in this case we just re-posted what was sent to us.
ReplyDeleteI was sure the people at BronteBlog know the difference and that it was in the original press release. I know you had no choice put to post it as is.
ReplyDeleteThis "it's" error is popping up everywhere now and driving me insane; to see that even the BRONTE SOCIETY can't seem to tell the difference is enough to send me over the edge. Once again, arrrgh!
O.K. Rant over.