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'Human Deglutition'

"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), 'Jane Eyre: An Autobiography' (1847)

Shelf-mark: C.70.d.13

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"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it and in it."
~ Emily Brontë

🎨 Willy Pogany

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"Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree—
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?"
- Excerpted from "Love and friendship", Emily Brontë

(The sketch is mine. Tap on, please!)


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After the funeral at Christ Church, was buried in 1849. Her sister Charlotte, friend Ellen Nussey & Margaret Wooler Headmistress of Roe Head School were the only mourners. 71yr old Rev Patrick was at home in

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'Tis moonlight summer moonlight
All soft and still and fair
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere
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Poem: Emily Brontë: 19th May 1840:
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Artwork: FairEvening by EmilyInGondal

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The Lovers' Chronicle 21 April - Distantly, verse by mac tag - art by Ludovico Carracci & Alfred Henry Maurer - birth of Charlotte Brontë https://t.co/a0bhPn4Bnj

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We are so so close to finishing this WIP. Drew one of my favs. 💙❄️
He reminds me of the poem Spellbound by
Emily Brontë

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

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1816 nasceva Alla fine dello scorso anno la pubblicava la Jane trasposizione dell'opera di C.Brontë. Ne parlavo a gennaio qui https://t.co/aOQPMHFB8A

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Born in 1816: English novelist and poet (1816-55)

Portrait with sisters Anne (1820-49) & Emily (1818-48) by brother Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), ca. 1834

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Fancy finding out more about the cast of character who inhabited the Brontës' imaginary worlds? This is Arthur Wellesley AKA the Duke of Zamorna AKA King of Angria (1/2)

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Su Blackwell's 'The Brontë Parsonage' from the artist's 'Literary Houses' series, 2018, re-created of well-known women writers with pages from their novels. The only surviving group portrait of the three famous novelist sisters painted by their brother Branwell

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There shines the moon, at noon of night -
Vision of glory - Dream of light!
Holy as heaven - undimmed and pure,
Looking down on the lonely moor -
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Poem: Emily Brontë: 6th March 1837
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Artwork: NightLeaves by EmilyInGondal

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ICYMI An article by The Mother of the Brontës author for :

Reader, She Married Him: The Real Brontë Love Story https://t.co/2JcfEJS03n

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Solo gli inquieti
sanno com'è difficile
sopravvivere alla tempesta
e non poter vivere senza 🦋

Emily Brontë

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Brontë 세자매는 샬럿의 제인에어,
에밀리의 폭풍의 언덕, 앤의 아그네스
그레이 등으로 세자매가 명작을
남겼다. 영국 요크셔의 Haworth는
이들 브론테 자매들이 살던 마을인데
사제관이었던 그녀들의 기념관과
마을 곳곳에 흔적들이 남아있다. 그림속의 세자매

그림 Amanda White

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The Brontës’ childhood imaginary world comes to life in ’s Glass Town —a stunning graphic novel celebrating literature and our past dreamscapes. Pre-order it online and get an exclusive signed print (only 150 available)! https://t.co/UCFx4yxtdL

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2 weeks to go until we launch the fantastic new Brontë-filled graphic novel by at ! https://t.co/AmxmEcEhIK

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