![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been away for about 5 days during which time I read a couple of books I’d long wanted to read - mostly because of the way I heard academic colleagues talk about them: one was Lucasta Miller’s The Bronte Myth, which seemed ever to be accompanied by phrases meaning Miller had at long last (relieved tones here) freed the Bronte sisters from a context just filled with falsehoods. Only those who have felt the like can imagine my feelings, as I sat with an assumption of smiling indifference - Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey Poeple little know the injury they do to children by laughing at their faults, and making a pleasant jest of what their true friends have endeavoured to teach them to hold in abhorrence … a surprising effect in repressing all familiar, open-hearted kindness, and extinguishing every gleam of cordiality that might arise between us … I was used now to wearing a placid smiling countenance when my heart was bitter within me. I am Heathcliffe - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights I have an inward treasure, born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to pay -Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do. ![]()
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