April 2013
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“I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered...”
– Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (via whimsies-emiliecatherine)
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“If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but...”
– Brontë, Anne. “Agnes Grey.” (via abookishtype)
December 2012
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“It was named Catherine, but [Edgar] never called it the name in full, as he had...”
– Wuthering Heights (VII, Chapter III, p. 184-5) Emily Brontë (via bibliophiling)
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November 2012
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“Lucy Snowe is the woman to be. Rising from the shadows, she looks to the future....”
– Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life, Lyndall Gorndon, p314 (via fycharlottebronte)
October 2012
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“The first duty of an Author is- I conceive- a faithful allegiance to Truth and...”
– Charlotte Bronte, in a letter to William S. Williams (via bloodygoodquotes)
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“This was very pleasant : there is no happiness like that of being loved by...”
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (via meeshmatched)
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September 2012
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“I see, at intervals, the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set...”
– Jane Eyre (via inkspotteddreams)
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“There is an old saying that those who eat toasted cheese at night will dream of...”
– from a review of Wuthering Heights in 1848 (via melusines)
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“Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed...”
– From ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Bronte (via hidinggabriel)
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“I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself,...”
– Villette - Charlotte Brontë (via hideousnight)
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“…You are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine.”
– Charlotte Brontë , Villette (via hostilities)
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August 2012
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“… I have likewise read one of Miss Austen’s works “Emma” — read it with interest...”
– Charlotte Bronte commenting on Jane Austen’s Emma, 12 April 1850
(taken from the UK Reading Experience Database)
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Branwell Brontë
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Branwell Brontë drew this while on his deathbed.
“All my life I have done nothing either great or good.”
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“…she died without sever struggle - resigned - trusting in God - thankful...”
– Charlotte Bronte in a letter written a few days after Anne’s death.
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“You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have...”
– Charlotte Bronte in a letter to her former headmistress Miss Wooler
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“The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked...”
– Villette by Charlotte Bronte (via offkanagawa)
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“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt...”
– Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (via svdbygrcty)
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July 2012
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athousandwinds asked: I already own this book. I've had it for several years and seriously wonder what could have caused any revision and a reissue. Can you tell me that?
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“Warm, jealous, and haughty, I knew not till now that my nature had such a mood;...”
– Charlotte Bronte, Villette (via bookreadingbookworm)
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“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”
– Charlotte Brontë, Villette
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Emily Bronte: 'Redbreast Early in the Morning'
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Redbreast early in the morning Dark and cold and cloudy grey Wildly tender is thy music Chasing the angry thoughts away.
My heart is not enraptured now My eyes are full of tears And constant sorrow on my brow Has done the work of years.
It was not the hope that wrecked at once The spirit’s early storm But a long life of solitude Hopes quenched and rising thoughts subdued...
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“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable...”
– Anne Brontë, The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
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