tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post7396584627777878069..comments2024-03-14T07:34:26.650+01:00Comments on BrontëBlog: Lyrics by Anne BrontëCristinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863082224534612494noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post-49371846906719837572017-05-30T16:50:13.973+02:002017-05-30T16:50:13.973+02:00Very glad Mary is featured. She was perhaps the fi...Very glad Mary is featured. She was perhaps the finest mind( outside the family )CB knew well....besides Héger's. Those two stand at the top, with Mary imo ,getting the nod for first place. I base this opinion on the letters we do have and Mary's later statements. Mary was a kind of genius herself...that it didn't translate into a deathless novel just shows that's not a given for geniuses either. Mary lived her life fully, yet tended to treat her talent like a dram horse to carry her ideas, protests and ideals( like in Miss Miles)...while on the other hand , CB reined in her personal life, yet let her genius run free. Oh the Brontë /Taylor letters! How fine would it be to have them? And for Mary's letters as well as Charlotte's. Sadly Mary burned CB's letters when living in rented rooms and apparently did not trust her landlady or lord and the bulk of Mary's letters to CB seem to have disappeared in the round robin way letters were treated, sending them among the Taylors, Nusseys, Carrs etc ...or perhaps CB burnt them? She was a burner of letters too<br /><br />I think Mary was silent later in life about CB in part because she knew the truth about Belgium and that's what Victorians did...button up about such things. As to the Brussels part of CB's story and the role Mary played; Mary inspired and told CB to go aboard, she also told Charlotte when to leave...plus Charlotte believed Mary was carrying CB's last hope for a message from Héger,and Mary witnessed CB's reaction when she informed her that she saw Héger and there was no letter. It was after that, CB finally accepted it was over and Mary was there at that moment. A great veil was pulled over the truth of CB's love for Héger and Mary was not the type to lie,thinking it a humbug,besides wrong , and so stayed silent. And besides,Mary never allowed herself to be defined by others, even Charlotte Brontë . <br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com