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Old 29-12-2016, 22:01
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Um... it's a bit...

...shit.

The BBC should've said in advance that it was a pure fantasy.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:02
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No wonder he ended up killing himself with drink and drugs. He is a gobshite though. I'd slap him into next week the good for nothing lay about.
I imagine they made him like that though
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:04
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I suppose everyone has their own ideas about what the Brontës were like but this isn't how I picture them at all.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:04
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I imagine they made him like that though
Probably. They are not exactly a laugh a minute. Or even a decade.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:05
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I suppose everyone has their own ideas about what the Brontës were like but this isn't how I picture them at all.
Me neither. I wonder if there's any real evidence of what they were really like.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:06
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This is very heavy going, I usually put the iPad down for dramas but this isn't keeping my attention at all. I'll stick with it but will re-watch another time.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:06
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I suppose everyone has their own ideas about what the Brontës were like but this isn't how I picture them at all.
Same here. I've never pictured them as being angry all of the time.

Charlotte looks nothing like how i imagine her.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:08
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Has anyone read Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte? I thought it was very good.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:09
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Same here. I've never pictured them as being angry all of the time.
It's very odd. Emily is nothing at all as I imagine her. The whole dynamic between them all just seems wrong.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:10
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Charlotte is the source for much of what we know about them but unfortunately she felt the need to embroider and censor.

Apparently they had slight Irish accents.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:11
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Me neither. I wonder if there's any real evidence of what they were really like.
I doubt it. It's interesting to see a "negative" perspective. I imagine 3 sisters competing for top dog is plausible (and Charlotte prevented the publication of Wildfell Hall after Anne's death pretexting it wasn't good enough). They would be very bitchy, and Branwell would have rebelled against all this "oestrogen"....
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:12
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It's very odd. Emily is nothing at all as I imagine her. The whole dynamic between them all just seems wrong.
I mistook Charlotte for Anne before. The actress playing Anne looks more like Charlotte to me.

The siblings don't look Victorian either. Only Jonathan Pryce's depiction of Patrick looks and acts Victorian.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:14
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Charlotte is the source for much of what we know about them but unfortunately she felt the need to embroider and censor.

Apparently they had slight Irish accents.
Yes. I have never imagined them speaking Yorkshire.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:14
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Does the title "To Walk Invisible" refer directly to Branwell, so this is his story..... He was eclipsed by his sisters but may have had as much talent.....
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:17
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Does the title "To Walk Invisible" refer directly to Branwell, so this is his story..... He was eclipsed by his sisters but may have had as much talent.....
No. I think it refers to their pen names: Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:18
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Charlotte is the source for much of what we know about them but unfortunately she felt the need to embroider and censor.

Apparently they had slight Irish accents.
They were all born in Yorkshire so wouldn't have Irish accents. Only their father came from NI, their mother from Cornwall. You have the accent of the place you grow up in, not that of a parent....
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:18
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Yes. I have never imagined them speaking Yorkshire.
Me either. It seems like a strange creative choice and completely at odds with what the sources say.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:19
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No. I think it refers to their pen names: Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
Ah OK
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:19
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No. I think it refers to their pen names: Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
And the fact that I think that it was Charlotte that said earlier that to be heard (in literature) that they needed to walk invisible.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:19
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They were all born in Yorkshire so wouldn't have Irish accents. Only their father came from NI, their mother from Cornwall. You have the accent of the place you grow up in, not that of a parent....
A friend of Charlotte's said she spoke with a noticeable Irish accent.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:21
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A friend of Charlotte's said she spoke with a noticeable Irish accent.
That would be ridiculous. As they were born and raised in Bradford. Charlotte making up fanciful stuff perhaps?
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:23
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£50 would be over £4,000 today.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:24
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The T word.

Never.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:25
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That would be ridiculous. As they were born and raised in Bradford. Charlotte making up fanciful stuff perhaps?
Ridiculous or not, it seems to be true.
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Old 29-12-2016, 22:25
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Branwell is a wimp.
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