Happy Birthday, Charlotte! I’ve visited your home several times.
Did you destroy Emily’s last book?
In 1848, Elizabeth Rigby reviewing Jane Eyre in The Quarterly Review, found it “pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition,” declaring: “We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre.”
My husband and I will be in York for a week this June. he has a friend who is planning on taking us there during our visit.
The Young Brontes was the first "real" biography I ever read and on which I had to do a book report. I remember reading about the miniature books they wrote, the poverty in which they lived, and that the chimney of their house collapsed! Important stuff!