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'Artist Clare Leighton, best known for her wood engravings, produced 12 dramatic, brooding illustrations to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in 1931. They are said to have inspired a set designer for the 1939 film version of the novel starring Laurence Olivier.'

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2022-05-25

“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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2022-04-24

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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2022-04-23

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

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2022-04-22

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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2022-04-22

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816

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2022-04-22

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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2022-04-21

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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2022-04-21

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:
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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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2022-03-14

Thank you for making me laugh!😁😁😁

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

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2022-03-06




“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