Tiny Mix Tapes is a bit on the hyperbolic side today:
After all, it's Sean effing Ono Lennon! He's got more talent in his blood than the Brontë sisters combined, prose and poetry included. (Erika H)
The Faster Times sticks to the facts a bit more:
Because food can make a difference in whether you feel well-taken-care of or not (I think of Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre and George Orwell’s memoirs – all accounts of children boarding gone awry manifested mostly through lack of good food). (Kathryn A. Higgins)
Associated Content has an article on 'Popular Victorian Authors and Literature' which of course includes the Brontë sisters and
Flavorwire says of George Sand,
Like her British counterparts, the Brontë sisters and George Eliot, this pioneering French writer (born Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin) took a male pen name before it was acceptable for women to publish books. (Judy Berman)
In the case of the Brontës, however, there was a good measure of wanting to preserve their anonymity too.
BlackBook recommends the
Coralie Bickford-Smith designs for Penguin Classics.
Savvy Verse & Wit writes about the Brontës's poetry and
Just Another Stories (in Malayan) is reading
Jane Eyre.
And don't forget we have
a Christmas contest going on!
Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Victorian Era
Agatha A. Nitecka has finished shooting the promotional photos Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights:
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