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Saturday, March 23, 2019

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On LitHub, Emily Temple looks into the span of the careers of 80 different authors.
One of the many measuring sticks we use to compare writers (and compare ourselves to them) is age. We celebrate the women who started late. We gawk at, envy, and revile wunderkinds. Regardless of when they appeared, we love to marvel at famous writers’ early efforts, because of the careers they portend. But recently I’ve been thinking not about way (or the age) a literary career begins, but about its scope. Like any job, a writing career can last a lifetime—or less than a year.
In compiling these figures, I found it interesting to see how the length of a writer’s publishing career didn’t necessarily have any bearing on their current level of fame. Just look at the ten writers with the shortest number of years spent publishing: Shirley Jackson, Zora Neale Hurston, J.D. Salinger, Flannery O’Connor, Roberto Bolaño, Toni Cade Bambara, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Sylvia Plath, Nella Larsen. You wouldn’t exactly call any of these people “minor” or “forgotten.” [...]
Age at First Publication
The average age of first publication for men was 27; the average for women was 31. The overall average was 28.84. [...]
Charlotte Brontë – 31 (Jane Eyre) [...]
Age at Last Publication
The average age for final publication for men was 65; the average for women was 64. The combined average was 64.6. [...]
Charlotte Brontë – 37 (Villette) [...]
Length of Career
The average career length for men was 37 years; the average for women was 32 years. The average length overall was 34.8 years. [...]
Charlotte Brontë – 6 years
Onirik (France) reviews the novel Marie-Claire by Marguerite Audoux.
C’est beau, c’est rustique, c’est sincère. C’est la vraie vie de Marguerite Audoux (1863-1937), racontée un peu à la manière de Charlotte Brontë dans Jane Eyre, lorsqu’elle narre son expérience douloureuse du pensionnat. Très tôt, comme la célèbre romancière anglaise, Marguerite a eu le goût des mots, elle explique avoir lu tout ce qui passait à sa portée, des livres de contes en passant par les almanachs, si précieux à la campagne. (Claire) (Translation)
Le Soir (Belgium) has an article on the Festival Passa Porta and mentions the Brontës among the reasons why Brussels is a literary city. Philip Hamlyn Williams  has written a post about William Smith Williams and John Ruskin.

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