“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë
Good night, dear magical Twitter folk. Tonight I will leave you with this enchanted illustration by

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A week of wonderful Bronteversaries! This week saw the Bronte move to Haworth & the birthdays of Martha Brown & Charlotte Bronte - and also of this woman! Ellen Nussey was born 20/04/1817; Charlotte's best friend, loyal Ellen did more than anyone to preserve the Bronte story!

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23rd April 1814: Maria Brontë, the first child of Patrick and Maria Brontë was christened in Thornton,  Yorkshire. The first of six children, she was intelligent, lively and kind and much beloved by her four younger sisters and brother.
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Artwork: BornInPrimroses by EmilyInGondal

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“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Brontë
My painting

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in 1816, Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire.

Brontë is best remembered for Jane Eyre, her 1847 masterpiece.

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816

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April 21 - Charlotte Bronte's Birthday

How does a novel, written almost 200 years ago, passed the test of time and stays relevant to today's readers? 📖🧐
Read our post about Charlotte Bronte the author of Jane Eyre and find out!⬇️🧵

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Charlotte Brontë, born on this day - 21st April 1816.
Longest lived and most prolific of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte is best known for her wonderfully gothic novel, ‘Jane Eyre’, which inspired this piece, made in 2020.

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1816 in Thornton, Bradford to Reverend Patrick and Maria Bronte a girl was born. She would grow up to be a very kind, perceptive, passionate woman, and one of the greatest writers of all time. She will always be loved the world over. Happy 206th birthday Charlotte Bronte!

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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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"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed."

to English novelist and poet CHARLOTTE BRONTE, in (1816-1855).

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Dino medal for Uinta (Uintatherium) A vivosaur similar to Brontoth and Elasmoth, Uinta has a variety of confusion skills. To reflect that, I wanted to give him as baffling a design as possible.

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Final ratings for another pallet cleanser - North & South 2004. Tomorrow we are back with Jane Eyre 1996 with &
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Day 7/10 of and this is a linocut with silkscreen titled ‘Windy Moors’. It’s inspired by imagery in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ of Cathy as a lapwing.

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Emily Bronte [エミル] without her bonnet❤


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My afternoon is all about creating sauropod so in honour of that, here's a suite of sauropodomorphoramas featuring classic taxa for Brontosaurus, Giraffatitan, Plateosaurus, and Diplodocus.

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1846 Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte of course) writes to Aylott & Jones to offer them three books that he and his 'brothers' were writing. The offer was turned down, but look what these remarkable books became! Perseverance is key in the publishing world, then and now!

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