I have new prints up on my Etsy shop! Inspired, yet again, by the Bronte Sisters! Three photo intaglio printed portraits of the famous trio, perfect for any Bronte lover!
This is the view from Charlotte Brontë’s bedroom (now the Brontë Parsonage Museum), Haworth, Yorkshire. Charlotte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.
“‘Is it really for love he is going to marry you?’ she asked. I was so hurt by her coldness ans scepticism, that tears rose to my eyes. ‘I am sorry to grieve you,’ pursued the widow; ‘but you are so young, and so little acquainted with men, I wished to put you on your guard. It is an old saying that “all is not gold that glitters”; and in this case I do fear there will be something found to be different to what either you or I suspect.’”
“I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.”
wuthering heights is essentially an academically acclaimed tea session lmfao. that’s right nelly sis, keep spilling on catherine and heathcliff! the people wanna know!
“Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jeweler’s shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation. As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back, feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten – the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee. ‘It would, indeed be a relief,’ I thought, ‘if I had ever so small an independency; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester, or sitting like a second Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me.’”
“Much enjoyment I do not expect in the life opening before me: yet it will, doubtless, if I regulate my mind, and exert my powers as I ought, yield me enough to live on from day to day.”
“Of course, happiness of such shallow origin could be but brief; yet, while it lasted it was genuine and exquisite : a bubble–but a sweet bubble–of real honey-dew.”
Happy Birthday Charlotte Brontë, born April 21, 1816, died March 31, 1855
Charlotte Bronte believed believed art was most convincing when based on personal experience; in Jane Eyre she transformed her experience as a governess into a novel with universal appeal.
ReadJane Eyre, one of the classics of English Literature.
