The Brontës get their ë
In Westminster Abbey.
Brontë weather
From Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Invisible woman
Agnes Grey, walking back from church, alone and not alone.
“The Moors”
Peppa Pig and her family visit the moors of the famous Brontës.
“Life apart”
Lucy Snowe insists on her selfhood.
Hand and seal
A passage from Villette.
“A stilly pause”
A passage from Villette.
Nobody and Somebody
Brontë and Dickinson.
Paving-stones
A passage from Villette.
“The radiant present”
A passage from Villette.
“Empty, quiet, cool, and clean”
Lucy Snowe in empty school-rooms.
Brontë manuscripts
“A trove of Brontë family manuscripts — all but unseen for a century — will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of what the auction house is billing as the sale of a legendary ‘lost library’ of British literature treasures.”
Words of the day: estrade and dais
What’s the word for the platform at the front of a classroom where the instructor’s desk stands? Is there a word for it? I was reaching for such a word on Saturday and later found one in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette : estrade.
Shadow-world
A passage from Villette.
“Anglaise!”
From Villette: in a coffee-room in the fictional French-speaking kingdom of Labassecour, forty miles from the capital Villette, Lucy Snowe is alone in several ways.
“Weeks of inward winter”
At Dreamers Rise, a passage from Charlotte Brontë’s Villette that seems made for these times.
The sentences that made me give up on Shirley
“Ah!” said I, shaking my head, and heaving a deep sigh. Life’s too short.
Word of the day: hogwash
As found in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849).
Some trees
From Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.
Small things
A sentence from Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley.
“In all quarters of the sky”
From Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.
Bumps
Like the Brontës, William Crimsworth’s new acquaintance Hunsden Yorke Hunsdsen appears to ascribe to physiognomy and phrenology.
Jane Eyre, descriptivist
”There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things,” sighs Jane Eyre. In contrast, Jane herself, as she sets off from Thornfield Hall to mail a letter:
Three words from Charlotte Brontë
Ing, holm, beck.
A word from Charlotte Brontë
It’s Barmecide, from Jane Eyre.
Word of the day: gormless
From Wuthering Heights.