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 day ago
The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. ValenteAnd more recommendations for books about sisters from Book Riot, though not specifically for Middle Grade:
Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, along with brother Branwell, are magically transported to the world of a game they made up to play together. (Based on the real Brontës!)
Number of sisters: 3 (Annika Barranti Klein)
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family by Juliet BarkerMedium gives hilarious advice on 'How to Find Love When You’re Not a Tragic Literary Heroine'.
This book, which was considered the first “definitive” biography of the Brontë sisters upon its publication in 2012, reveals that much of what was supposedly common knowledge about them is not based on fact. Full disclosure: I have not read this one but I am really looking forward to learning more about the three literary sisters who gave us Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (Alex Luppens-Dale)
Your boyfriend will never lock his wife in the attic. What now? [...]Medium also comments on Anne Lister's 'power walks'.
Let’s face it, ladies: it’s hard out here for us now that we have to find our own men, without having the built-in advantages that so many literary heroines have. Jane Eyre? Who locks wives in attics nowadays? Elizabeth Bennet? Nobody has a nosy mother like that anymore (other than perhaps Kim Kardashian). (Zulie Rane)
In reality, Ann Walker was the horsewoman, frequently riding on the path between Crow Nest and Shibden, while Lister always preferred to walk. As a character in a television show, this distances Lister from the sexualized, often tragic horse-riding heroines of the nineteenth century and more closely aligns her to the great walking heroines like those found in the works of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. The walkers share an ability to think with both body and mind, a balance that escapes the horsewoman who’s often led astray by an overemphasis upon or exploitation of her body. [...]Cheek Magazine (France) claims that Sara Collins has created a 'black Jane Eyre' in her book The Confessions of Frannie Langton.
I especially enjoyed the moments where her bravado in the diaries runs in direct opposition to her actual reactions to Ann. She claims indifference, then vomits (twice!) at the thought of losing her. Her confusion echoes what you’d often find amongst the Byronic heroes of the literary era, especially those soon created by the Brontës, Lister’s young neighbors slightly to the north. Consider how Mr. Rochester describes Jane Eyre: “Never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable.” The same could be said of Ann Walker, who seems so fragile a thing that the internet has bestowed the treasured status of “cinnamon roll” upon her and avowals of protection abound across the fandom. (Samantha Bañal)
Quand Sara Collins était enfant, elle dévorait des livres. Elle laissait son esprit vagabonder dans la campagne britannique de Jane Eyre, dans le Genève de Victor Frankenstein et dans l’Angleterre rêvée des regency romance, ces récits romantiques très populaires au XIXème siècle. “La lecture a été mon réconfort, explique-t-elle. Elle m’a suivie toute ma vie.” [...]Manchester Evening News has an article on the Stott Hall Farm, which is 'bang the middle of M62'.
Pour elle, plonger dans l’histoire permet aussi de parler de notre présent et des thèmes qui lui sont chers: le féminisme, le racisme, l’intersectionnalité. “Quand j’ai commencé à travailler sur le roman j’avais l’idée que les noirs avaient été desservis par la fiction historique, se souvient-elle. On parle d’esclavage et des victimes, mais on ne raconte jamais d’histoires haletantes, jamais d’histoires d’amour. Je voulais donner à Frannie, qui commence comme esclave en Jamaïque, une personnalité complexe. Je voulais qu’elle soit pleine de force, qu’elle ait de l’humour, et surtout qu’elle vive une passion amoureuse comme celles que j’adorais lire dans Jane Eyre ou Les Hauts de Hurlevent.” Son récit est raconté à la première personne du singulier et retourne toutes les attentes des lecteur·rice·s. Régulièrement, Frannie prévient qu’elle ne racontera pas l’histoire qu’on attend d’elle. (Pauline Le Gall) (Translation)
Jill, who has lived at Stotthall Farm for 10 years now, added: "A lot of people say it’s bleak and like Wuthering Heights but I don’t see it like that.Cherwell reviews the Edvard Munch exhibition at the British Museum, Love and Angst.
"I think it’s beautiful." (Sam Yarwood)
Munch’s early experiences with women were dominated by tragedy: his mother and favourite sister died of consumption during his childhood, his younger sister developed schizophrenia (which Munch feared he had inherited too), and he never married. It is little wonder that these experiences led to a melancholic frustration with femininity, combined with a perceived fragility, to culminate in a repressed obsession with female sensuality. Vampire, Puberty, The Madonna, and The Kiss all revolve around the female nude. Displayed alongside each other in a row of women who resemble pre-Raphaelite muses (think Kate Bush in Wuthering Heights), each contains such deep-rooted sensual frustration that it is difficult to know where to begin. (Josh Taylor)
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