tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post6764781470032274363..comments2024-03-14T07:34:26.650+01:00Comments on BrontëBlog: It started out in Yorkshire ...Cristinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863082224534612494noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post-7428873510353139582015-08-02T19:21:13.149+02:002015-08-02T19:21:13.149+02:00Her overwhelming desire to be seen as not just the...<i>Her overwhelming desire to be seen as not just the help but also a member of the family is fleshed out by Case...</i><br /><br />Certainly Bronte servants were treated as family. The habitual seclusion of the Bronte world was such they had to be. Family was only allowed within the Parsonage walls in day to day living. <br /><br />Patrick 's love of seclusion was the most famous of family but hardly the only case. None of them liked " strangers" in the house and would do the work themselves to avoid admitting new people <br /><br />Martha herself had to serve a though apprenticeship before gaining full entry . But once you were accepted within the tribe , it was for life...save for the Garr sisters, but that was only because they were so young they had lives yet to lead...However they were regarded as family ever .<br /><br />So Nelly as family is no stretch...in fact Emily seem to make an effort to have Nelly be a bit more of a servant in the book than she would be in the Bronte world . A Nelly Dean who served the Bronte family would not have to ask the likes of Lockwood how goes things at the HeightsAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com