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In 1820, Frances Currer—"head of all female book collectors in Europe"— published a catalogue of her collection. She was also a philanthropist—Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym 'Currer Bell' might be a homage to the financial help Currer gave the Brontë family. https://t.co/qMQDnzA7oW

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2022-06-27

'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

"The birds that now so blithely sing
Through deserts, frozen dry,
Poor spectres of the perished spring,
In famished troops will fly."

From Emily Brontë's "A Day Dream"

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2021-12-18

Charlotte Brontë's literary hero was William Makepeace Thackeray. She dedicated Jane Eyre to him. Charlotte didn’t know that Thackeray had a mad wife he kept confined in his home. Many in London society assumed this Currer Bell knew Thackeray & modeled Rochester on him.

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2021-10-16

Happy Birthday to Charlotte Brontë, born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on April 21, 1816. Christopher Lane explores Brontë's "tension between hatred's expression and curtailment" in "Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating", from : https://t.co/rIZ1mFKjuF

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2021-04-22

On the Moors, (Illustration to Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights")
Clare Leighton

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2019-04-03

Some of Santiago Caruso's illustrations from The Folio Society edition of Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre',2014

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2017-07-31

Charlotte Brontë's Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters https://t.co/y2lLc57bWU via

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2017-03-27

Charlotte extraordinary description of *Wuthering Heights*, from her 1850 editor's preface.

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2017-03-17

It's the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth. I can't help sharing our old friend Brontësaurus again.

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2016-04-22