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Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontes through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed.
This was a nice brief , accessible way to learn about the Brontes. Sometimes, I think the author was a bit overly speculative, but the objects were interesting and the research well done. ( )
Oh man, I wanted to love this, but I kind of didn't. I think it was just too hindered by trying to connect the biographical information to the stuff. I think this would be a great read for a new entrant into the world of the Brontes, but obsessives won't really find any new scholarship. ( )
An interesting twist on the usual biography, with tons of historical context beyond the Brontë family, as well as information about each of the Brontës which I didn't know before. A worthwhile, introspective read. ( )
Lutz shapes her biography of the Bronte sister (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) around nine common objects that they owned, including a walking stick, tiny books they created as children, a silver dog collar, a lap desk, a collection of pressed ferns, and more. With some insight, some research, and a considerable amount of speculation, she connects the objects both to known events in their lives and to their novels and characters. The dog collar, for example, may have belonged to Emily's fierce companion, Keeper, but Lutz also connects it to the various dogs in Wuthering Heights: Cathy's favorite dog, Isabel's spaniel, and Heathcliffe's vicious guard dogs, among others. She also spends time discussing the role of dogs in Victorian society: which breeds were most popular, what kinds of dogs were owned by various famous persons, a notorious dognapping ring, etc. One might say that, like Emily wandering familiar territory (the moors), so Lutz wanders through each chapter, keeping her eye on the central object but often straying far afield. It's an interesting approach but might be frustrating to readers who were hoping for a well-researched and detailed biography or those already familiar with the Victorian era and its milieu. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The strange bed in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has always haunted me.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. As shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon...finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes on. - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Happy Thought"
I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book. Heathcliff kicked his to the same place. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. - Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
She by no means thought it waste of time to devote unnumbered hours to fine embroidery, sight-destroying lace-work, marvelous netting and knitting, and, above all, to most elaborate stocking-mending. She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her "mission" nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. - Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
Come, the wind may never again Blow as it now blows for us. - Emily Brontë, "D.G.C. to J.A."
Wood you need not frown on me Spectral trees that so dolefully Shake your heads in the dreary sky - Emily Brontë, Untitled poem
The dog was throttled off; his huge, purple tongue hanging half a foot out of his mouth, and his pendent lips streaming with bloody slaver. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
I began to study the outside of my treasure: it was some minutes before I could get over the direction and penetrate the seal; one does not take a strong place of this kind by instant storm - one sits down awhile before it, as beleaguers say... The seal was too beautiful to be broken, so I cut it round with my scissors. - Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Graham would endeavor to seduce her attention by opening his desk and displaying its multifarious contents: seals, bright sticks of wax, pen-knives, with a miscellany of engravings... - Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Long neglect has worn away Half the sweet enchanting smile Time has turned the bloom to grey Mould and damp the face defile
But that lock of silky hair Still beneath the picture twined Tells what once those features were Paints their image on the mind. - Emily Brontë, Untitled poem
The violet's eye might shyly flash And young leaves shoot among the fern - Emily Brontë, Untitled poem
Our hills only confess the coming of summer by growing green with young fern and moss in secret little hollows. - Charlotte Brontë, in a May 1851 letter
Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves! How still the lonely room appears! How strange this mass of ancient treasures, Mementos of past pain and pleasures; These volumes, clasped with costly stone, With print all faded, gilding gone; These fans of leaves, from Indian trees - These crimson shells, from Indian seas - These tiny portraits, set in rings - Once, doubtless, deemed such precious things; Keepsakes bestowed by Love on Faith, And worn till the receiver's death, Now stored with cameos, china, shells, In this old closet's dusty cells. - Charlotte Brontë, "Mementos"
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Is there a better place to look to find heroines on which to model one's life?
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Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontes through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed.