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Showing posts with label Jane Eyre. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 October 2023

Wonderful, Weird, Wuthering

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Wuthering Heights has perplexed readers ever since it was first published in 1847. Justine Pizzo, lecturer at Southampton University, explor...
Monday, 20 February 2017

Brussels Brontë Group, talks on "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"

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Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were the subjects of a day of talks by members of the Brussels Brontë Group on 11 February. It was a tra...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

Looking for Jane Eyre’s mad woman in the attic: A visit to Norton Conyers in North Yorkshire - Part II

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Lady Graham showed us pictures of the staircase and of Mad Mary’s Room (as the attic room is called), which is situated in a remote corner...
Saturday, 9 April 2016

France as Other: Charlotte Bronte’s Divided Response to Francophone Culture

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Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s life and works, France and the French language and culture occupied a prominent place in her mental landscape....
Thursday, 5 November 2015

Of pioneers and creative followers – Tessa Hadley on Jane Eyre through a novelist’s eyes - Ola Podstawka reports on the talk by Tessa Hadley on 17 October – see also the report dated 26 October

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One couldn’t help but hang on to every word. The silence was complete, as if everyone was holding their breath in a strange state of benevol...
Monday, 26 October 2015

‘A contemporary novelist reads Jane Eyre’: Tessa Hadley’s talk to the Brussels Brontë Group on 17 October 2015

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“No one,” they say, “can do the  impossible” – or, as Charlotte Brontë herself might have put it, following her time in Belgium, “a l'im...

Jane Eyre and the Harry Potter generation

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This piece was written by Justine Gauthier, a student at the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels where the Brussels Brontë Group hold their t...