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3 days ago · The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and novelists.
1 day ago · In poetry Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat is a key text, but many works by Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning also show the influence of Orientalist tropes and ideas. In theater it is one of the constant strands of much popular drama and other forms of popular entertainment like panoramas and pageants, while travel writing from Charles Kingsley ...
6 days ago · Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë face all the restrictions of women in the mid-1800s, including a bleak future: with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline, they have no male relative to support them. Without a solution, the sisters face homelessness and destitution.
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2 days ago · Mention the Brontës and how many people picture the sisters strolling on the boulevards in Brussels? Yet they did – and so do some of their fictional characters. Although it is not hard to see why the connection can be missed.
6 days ago · They were also the first popular novels to present strong heroines as agents of liberation and transformation. This work offers the missing chapters of the Gothic story, from the imaginative creations of Ann Radcliffe and the Bronte sisters to the bestseller 50 Shades of Grey.
5 days ago · However, my favourite book as a pre-teen was The Witch, The Lion and The Wardrobe. My natural progression was to the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy after Ms Heyer and Tolkien's Middle Earth after C.S. Lewis. I lose myself in books and become witness to the action until the very end.
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4 days ago · I also took part in another reading/performance, about our beloved Brontë sisters. This play used a technique called contrasting theatre, which stages two plays simultaneously. This time, it was “The House of Bernarda Alba,” in Spanish and “The Brontë Sisters of Haworth,” in English.
