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New self-portrait by Charlotte Bronte is discovered and she drew it by looking in the mirror [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| October 27, 2015
| Dayla Alberge
Posted on 10/27/2015 6:30:04 AM PDT by C19fan
It is hardly the most flattering of likenesses, but a pencil sketch of a woman's head has been identified as a rare self-portrait by Charlotte Brontë. It dates from 1843, four years before she was to publish Jane Eyre, one of English literature's great masterpieces, and when she was suffering the acute agony of unrequited love. The discovery has been made by the acclaimed literary biographer, Claire Harman, who describes it as 'massively significant' as there are only two other known lifetime portraits.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: art; bronte; charlottebront; charlottebronte; claireharman; daylaalberge; janeeyre; literature; victorian
Victorian selfie.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:30:04 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
...and she drew it by looking in the mirror.Well...duh.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:37:06 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: C19fan
The portrait does look like how I envision “Jane Eyre” would have appeared.
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
It looks very much like her brother's painting of the sisters that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. So, it must bear a strong resemblance to the real person. Of course, for those of us who know and admire the Brontes, Charlotte was a stalker. Her “unrequited” love involved driving her poor, married Belgian teacher nuts as she stalked him all around Brussels, sending him love notes, having meltdowns and badgering his wife until he hid from her. Thackeray hid from her too, not because she was smitten with him, but he couldn't stand her Hillary-like personality.
Of course, she was a literary genius but I much prefer her wild and impetuous and granite-like sister, Emily.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:40:21 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: C19fan
Mirror images
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:43:19 AM PDT
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: katana
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:50:56 AM PDT
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: C19fan
Contrast: This is George Richmond’s portrait of Charlotte Bronte held at the National Portrait Gallery
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:58:28 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell
This is George Richmond’s portrait of Charlotte BronteKind of looks like Uma Thurman.
Separated at birth?
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posted on
10/27/2015 8:17:43 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: martin_fierro
To: C19fan
She looks like she could deliver an epic stink-eye.
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posted on
10/27/2015 2:17:15 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Boogieman
To: C19fan
Those sisters wrote the most remarkably depressing novels ever
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:20:37 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: miss marmelstein
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:27:00 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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