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'To Walk Invisible' - BBC Biopic on The Bronte sisters (December) |
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Cooooo, it's a bit tedious
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Have never read any Bronte.
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Just read that their father was a poor Irish clergyman in the church of England. So that's probably why they had slight Irish accents.
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I like them. Way better IMO than that awful Jane Austen ....
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Jane Eyre or Agnes Grey are good ones to start with although I think Villette and Wuthering Heights are the greatest.
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Ooooh he's dead.
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I really enjoyed that and it has inspired me to reread their works
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You can't get tuberculosis from catching cold.....
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They didn't mention how Charlotte died.
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Totally different but Daphne Du Maurier trumps them all imo
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I really enjoyed that and it has inspired me to reread their works
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You can't get tuberculosis from catching cold.....
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They didn't mention how Charlotte died.
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Would like to have learned more about the sisters and how all their work came about.
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No but if her lungs were weakened with a heavy chill and then exposed to TB, with no antibiotics, it is usually fatal
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True, but they should have made that plain. It's as bad as saying you caught a cold because you went out and it was cold ....
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This is what Wiki says: Brontė became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness."[29] She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855, aged 38, three weeks before her 39th birthday. Her death certificate gives the cause of death as tuberculosis, but many biographers[who?] suggest that she died from dehydration and malnourishment due to vomiting caused by severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum. There is also evidence that she died from typhus, which she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontė household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her.[citation needed] Brontė was interred in the family vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels at Haworth.
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This is pretty depressing. The brother is really annoying. Not sure I can endure this for 2 hours.
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Yes, I know what you mean but, for me, this gave an interesting potential background into their daily lives and how much Branwell was so much a burden and an inspiration
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Jane Eyre or Agnes Grey are good ones to start with although I think Villette and Wuthering Heights are the greatest.
As for the programme, I enjoyed it. The accents were maybe a bit much and Charlotte seemed to be permanently cross and/or worried, but I feel it did give a window into the life of this extraordinary family who were on the surface pretty ordinary. Branwell couldn't be described as ordinary, I suppose, but there's always one, isn't there? I can't help wondering what he might have done if he hadn't turned to drink, he might have written something wonderful too, but we'll never know now.
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wow, Branwell, Emily and Anne died within 6 months of each other. Life was hard in those days. Emily died one year after Wuthering Heights was published.
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I certainly couldn't. In fact I only lasted barely ten minutes watching it. I turned it down to start with because the music and Branwell shouting but when two of the sisters started talking they were whispering and I couldn't make out what they were saying and had to turn the volume up on the telly. Then after I did Branwell started to shout again and said "fu*k" and seriously saying using that word back then and in the parsonage I hardly think he would have said that so I switched off! Shame because I was looking forward to it.
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I certainly couldn't. In fact I only lasted barely ten minutes watching it. I turned it down to start with because the music and Branwell shouting but when two of the sisters started talking they were whispering and I couldn't make out what they were saying and had to turn the volume up on the telly. Then after I did Branwell started to shout again and said "fu*k" and seriously saying using that word back then and in the parsonage I hardly think he would have said that so I switched off! Shame because I was looking forward to it.
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Villette is IMO the best Brontė book, a true masterpiece. It always irritates me that Jane Eyre gets all the attention and Villette is ignored. Anyone who hasn't read it yet, please do, I guarantee you'll remember it long after you've read it.
As for the programme, I enjoyed it. The accents were maybe a bit much and Charlotte seemed to be permanently cross and/or worried, but I feel it did give a window into the life of this extraordinary family who were on the surface pretty ordinary. Branwell couldn't be described as ordinary, I suppose, but there's always one, isn't there? I can't help wondering what he might have done if he hadn't turned to drink, he might have written something wonderful too, but we'll never know now. ![]() |
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