tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617127303581824313.post6136420970388395584..comments2024-02-01T12:06:37.764+01:00Comments on Brussels Brontë Blog: Brontë weekend talks on 25 April with Claire Harman and Bonnie GreerHelen MacEwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13095748374815049140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617127303581824313.post-83715035683058229492015-05-16T18:36:35.796+02:002015-05-16T18:36:35.796+02:00It will be interesting to see how Claire Harman wi...It will be interesting to see how Claire Harman will handle CB's relationship with George Smith , her publisher as that seemed a mini redo of Brussels...and there was even a Madame Beck in the person of Smith's mother...all in a much more minor key of course , yet still striking in its similarities.<br /><br />Smith wasn't married, but the impediments to anything serious developing were almost as biding; Smith's youth and public London life among them. <br /><br />CB was never going to live in London. Smith certainly wasn't moving to Haworth. He is also on record stating Charlotte didn't attract him! Mother Smith didn't need to worry.<br /> <br />I would also say it was CB's childhood writings that colored her letters to Heger as much if not more than her letters to Heger colored her later writing.<br /> <br />It was all of a piece begun long before. However Brussels is where CB's parallel worlds of fantasy and reality, kept separate all her life, finally collided...and with astonishing, ever lasting results <br /><br /><br /><br /> Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com