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Gorgeous exteriors from Haddon Hall, home of Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester.
Part of our Literary Britain Tour.
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I want to visit. And take a Literary tour of Britain …
I haven’t watched much of his other work, but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t do this barely-opens-his-mouth thing in everything. Does he? Because (with the cravats) it creates this incredible intensity… almost like you can feel all he’s trying to repress.
A handwritten manuscript by Charles Dickens of Great Expectations, which is on display at the Museum of London. It is the largest exhibition on Dickens, and opened in December 2011 to mark the 200th Anniversary of his birth in February 2012.
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“The Dickens Museum felt for many years a bit like Miss Havisham, covered in dust.” After an extensive renovation, the London home where Charles Dickens lived as a newlywed has reopened to the public.
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One of the places I really wanted to visit when I was abroad last year. I was heartbroken to find it closed for the renovations, but I hope it was worth it.
I’m so glad I chanced upon this on Netflix. It’s the perfect inspiration for the Victorian era and keeping on with my senior thesis research.
Maybe the Victorian poets are exciting after all. Although I suppose this is all fiction. Oh well. It makes for a great summer treat.
When I read this novel first, I disliked it because of Margaret Hale. When characters of my namesake, it’s harder for me to forgive stupidity (and in her case, complete oblivion and prejudice against her soul mate). But now I see her as a much stronger character than before.
“I was quite sorry Miss Thornton came to take me to the other end of the room, saying she was sure I should be uncomfortable at being the only lady among so many gentlemen. I had never thought about it, I was so busy listening; and the ladies were so dull, papa—oh, so dull!”
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, page 167
Maybe now I can watch the BBC miniseries, once I finish the book of course.
July 30, 1818: English Author Emily Brontë is Born
Emily Brontë, of the famous Brontë sisters writing trio, was born on this day in 1818 in Yorkshire, England. Because of the harsh living conditions in disease-ridden 19th Century England, the Brontë sisters witnessed the deterioration and death of nearly all of their family members, which deeply impacted their writing. Emily Brontë herself was met by an early death in 1848, leaving behind the legacy of a single novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic work of English literature.
Take a behind-the-scene look at Masterpiece’s film “Wuthering Heights” based on the Emily Brontë novel.
I like Charlotte better, but still a novelist with mad talents. And twisted ideas about human relationships.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot
