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.
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4 months ago
As the Introduction to my paperback copy points out, “Agnes Grey is undoubtedly in many ways a deeply personal novel’ (xii). “Charlotte Brontë described the work as ‘the mirror of the mind of the writer” (xii-xiii). One of the things that Anne emphasized in her novels, comes right out of her experiences as a governess. The treatment of these young women was nothing less than atrocious. Agnes Grey speaks with the authority of experience. In addition, her moral and religious sensibilities are evident throughout the novel.Daily Mail lists some must-read books:
I hope this taste of a fantastically talented young writer will inspire you to snuggle up with Anne Brontë and delve into Agnes Grey. All you need is a cup of tea, some patience, and the reward is a thoroughly satisfying icture of young women in England of the 1840s. 5 stars! (Jim McKeown)
Take Courage by Samantha EllisA reader of the Minnesota Star-Tribune wants to change Brontës on a list of best novels:
The novelist George Moore described Anne Brontë as ‘a literary Cinderella’.
Anne was the youngest and least famous of the three Brontë sisters, and in this account of her life Samantha Ellis determines to rescue the writer from undeserved obscurity.
‘She wasn’t hungry for fame like Charlotte, who carefully managed her public image. She wasn’t unconventional like Emily, who tramped the moors in odd clothes.’ When she was 20, Anne wrote on the flyleaf of her Bible, ‘What, Where and How Shall I Be When I Have Got Through?’
In this idiosyncratic book — half biography, half memoir — Ellis explores that question not just on Anne’s behalf, but also her own, as she takes stock of her life at 40. Comparing the trajectories of their lives, she ends a long list of opportunities she has enjoyed and which Anne never had with: ‘I’ve seen Kate Bush live.’
Cinderella indeed. (Jane Shilling)
“Jane Eyre”: Replace Charlotte Brontë’s book with her sister Emily’s “Wuthering Heights,” structurally the best novel ever written. And I can prove it. (Kurt Partridge)Sonoma Index-Tribune lists the best films of the year:
Skillfully directed by William Oldroyd from a screenplay by Alice Birch, “Lady Macbeth” is reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s recent version of “Wuthering Heights,” with a trapped woman at the center and cloud-choked English moors all around. In this withering but gorgeous isolation, Florence Pugh delivers a face-melting performance as a woman who responds to her bondage by burning through a husband, a father-in-law and a lover. Playing a mute servant, Naomi Ackie is tremendous as our co-witness to the dark goings-on.Discover Northern Ireland lists some literary places to visit:
Brontë HomelandBut Jane Eyre is precisely one of the books that My República things has to be read and re-read:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." So begins Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. However, the Brontë sisters own story starts in Northern Ireland, and there is every possibility of enjoying a tour of the Brontë Homeland. It starts at the village of Drumballyroney, County Down, and the school where the sisters’ father, Patrick Brunty – he changed his name later – taught. It has been restored as a small museum.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëEl Economista (México) has the same recommendation:
Brontë’s classic novel tells the tale of a young girl’s struggle to make something of herself in the world, from the tyranny she endures as a poor orphan under her Aunt’s roof and the deplorable conditions she lives in at Lowood school to the dark secrets she encounters in her role as Governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of the enigmatic and alluring Mr. Rochester. Strong-willed and resilient, Jane longs for the independence that Victorian England denied women, and her story stands as a timeless example of a woman’s determination to choose her own path in life in the face of hardship and ridicule.
Otro gran clásico de la literatura con una nueva traducción. Alianza ha hecho un gran trabajo de varios años para acá reeditando clásicos y haciéndolos sumamente accesible.El País (in Spanish) interviews singer and author Charlotte Gainsbourg:
Jane Eyre es la historia de Jane, una huérfana desposeída que se convierte en institutriz en una gran casa en la campiña inglesa. Es una historia de amor, pero sobre todo es un relato sobre una mujer que toma ella misma las decisiones sobre su bien. (Concepción Moreno) (Translation)
Sonríe con esmero, pero no logra disimular la negritud de su ser, como un personaje de las hermanas Brontë trasplantado al corazón de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. (Álex Vicente) (Translation)
Ganas y letras, de Amir Hamed (H Editores), y Otras vidas, de Marosa di Giorgio (Adriana Hidalgo). En Otras vidas se reúnen numerosos y diversos textos de una de las poetas más importantes de la lengua, que eligió escribir desde el borde piezas que comentan obras ajenas (de Emily Brontë a Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, de André Breton a Armonía Somers), desde un lugar personalísimo, que las vuelve propias y las integra al todo de su escritura. (Translation)Naiz (in Spanish) contains an enigmatic (a portmanteau for saying basically wrong) Wuthering Heights mention:
Al disertar sobre este tema como ácratas, somos perfectamente conscientes que entramos en arenas movedizas, en terrenos pantanosos, cual los que rodeaban el castillo del malvado Heathcliff, en la tierna obra, joya de la literatura romántica inglesa "Wuthering Heighs"(sic) de E. Brontë. (Isidoro Berdié Bueno) (Translation)The Heroine's Journey interviews the writer Catherine Cavendish:
What books influenced my life and how? Wuthering Heights influenced my adolescent years. I grew up not far from Haworth, in Halifax and the moors there are similar. Curlews calling, wind whipping through the heather and whistling across the heath. It inspired me to write. Wuthering Heights awakened a love of the gothic in me that has never left me.
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