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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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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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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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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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2022-04-10

“You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” - Emily Brontë

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2022-04-03

“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any
particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë, 1848

[Kate O’ Keefe]

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2022-04-03

“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any
particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë, 1848

[Kate O’ Keefe]

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2022-04-02

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. "
Jane Eyre (1847)

English author Charlotte Brontë died in 1855.

Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:
https://t.co/ujVR7nML9Y

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2022-03-31

1855 m. Charlotte Brontë, scrittrice
Nonostante le disagiate condizioni familiari, anzi forse proprio anche per queste, la sua vocazione letteraria finirà per avere il sopravvento

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2022-03-31

Fanart for Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
i loved this book🍀

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2022-03-27

“Spring drew on ... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).

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2022-03-19

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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Thank you for making me laugh!😁😁😁

...and this is what a Brontë-saurus looked like...

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“Solo gli inquieti sanno com’è difficile sopravvivere alla tempesta e non poter vivere senza”

Emily Brontë🖌

🖼Rembrandt


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2022-02-25

11th February 1842: Charlotte Brontë later remembered the frenetic bout of sightseeing as: '...many a time I was fit to drop with the fever and faintness resulting from long fasting and excessive fatigue.'

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“…lei giungerà ad una stretta tra le rocce,dove il flusso della vita s’infrangerà…e allora o lei finirà sbriciolata su quelle cime scabre,oppure,sollevata da un’onda potente,si troverà a fluttuare in acque assai più calme”
C. Brontë


🎨Monet

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2022-02-09

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Brontë

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