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...
3 days ago
(...) The poet laureate’s infamous advice reminiscent of Dr. Mitchell’s:
The daydreams in which you habitually indulge
are likely to induce a distempered state of mind,
& in proportion as “all the ordinary uses of the world”
seem to you “flat & unprofitable,” you will be unfitted
for them, without becoming fitted for anything else.
Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life,
& it ought not to be. The more she is engaged
in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it . . . .
Charlotte Perkins Gilman renounced the rest cure,
regained her wits, and wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.
Charlotte Brontë followed Southey’s fatherly admonition
selectively, writing as a means of soothing the mind
& elevating it— which is also what the poet prescribed.
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