Charlotte Brontë Collection

Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre
Villette
Shirley
The Professor

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years-present years are dusty, sunburnt, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn.
If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting, perhaps towards the middle and close of the meal, but it is resolved that the first dish set upon the table shall be one that a Catholic-ay, even an Anglo-Catholic-might eat on Good Friday in Passion Week: it shall be cold lentils and vinegar without oil; it shall be unleavened bread with bitter herbs, and no roast lamb.

Über Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë nació en 1816 en Thornton (Yorkshire). En 1824, junto con sus hermanas Emily, Elizabeth y Maria, acudió a una escuela para hijos de clérigos; Elizabeth y Maria murieron ese mismo año. Estudiaría posteriormente un año en una escuela privada, donde ejerció asimismo como maestra; fue luego institutriz, y maestra de nuevo en un pensionado de Bruselas, donde en 1842 estuvo interna con Emily. De vuelta a Haworth, en 1846 consiguió publicar un volumen de poesías con sus hermanas Emily y Anne, con el pseudónimo, respectivamente, de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell. Como Currer Bell, publicó con éxito Jane Eyre. Otras obras suyas son Shirley y Villette. Charlotte se casó con el reverendo A.B. Nicholls un año antes de morir en 1855.


Verlag:

Books on Demand

Veröffentlicht:

2018

Druckseiten:

ca. 2017

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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