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stargazersastronomy · 9 hours ago
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“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it. Look, Gilbert, it is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals.- Will you have it?”
 ― [Helen to Gilbert] Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad.“
― [Heathcliff to Catherine] Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“‘Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.’ … He deemed me born under his star: he seemed to have spread over me its beam like a banner. Once—unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Now, penetrated with his influence, and living by his affection, having his worth by intellect, and his goodness by heart —I preferred him before all humanity.”
[M. Paul to Lucy] ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
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Look! What is that? It’s extraordinary. It’s three suns! What is it? It’s beautiful. It’s you three.
(requested by @queenofattolia)
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ladyhawke · 6 months ago
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Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham in THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL Part I.
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peacefulandcozy · 1 year ago
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afirewiel · 2 months ago
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When you get down to it, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall basically have the same premise. They both feature a protagonist (Jane Eyre/Gilbert Markham) who falls in love with someone (Edward Rochester/Helen Huntingdon) who turns out to be already married. The books are even written by sisters. (Charlotte and Anne Bronte, respectively).
While Rochester and Helen are both unhappy in their marriages (Rochester's wife is insane and Helen's husband is unfaithful and abusive), the way they handle their situations could not be more different though. Rochester keeps his wife locked in the attic and keeps her existence a secret from all but a select few, letting the rest of the world think he is a bachelor. He deceives Jane as well and even tries to marry her, almost committing bigamy in the process. It's only the timely arrival of Rochester's brother-in-law Richard Mason at the wedding that the truth comes out.
Helen, on the other hand, runs away from her husband, taking her young son with her. She pretends to be a widow. But when she realizes Gilbert has fallen in love with her and wants to marry her, she comes clean to him about her marriage and says she cannot marry him because she is married.
Helen acts more nobly than Rochester and yet, of the two novels, it's the latter that was considered controversial at the time it was released with even Charlotte criticizing it for featuring a woman leaving her husband. Helen never tried to commit bigamy but somehow a woman leaving her abusive husband was considered worse at the time. It really is mind blowing.
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fictionadventurer · 3 months ago
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I need to get way too excited about this extremely basic edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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It's just an old Barnes and Noble edition. But it's also the best possible cover this book could have in this format. That purple is the perfect color for this book! That picture! Covers of this book usually feature the hall, but this one features Helen! She's an artist! She's looking straight at you! She's demanding to be the focus of the story! It's like it was made for this book!
And then the inside!
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That beautiful clear font! The kerning! The white space! It's so beautiful I could cry! That is how you format classic literature so people can actually read it!
I just love how all these little details come together to make this nothing-fancy edition into the ideal copy of this book for me.
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rayatii · 4 months ago
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A few years ago, I had the idea of making one of those movies about a girl who falls in love with some asshole “bad boy” with the idea that she can “fix him” with her good influence, but it’s portrayed in a realistic way, and instead of improving, he becomes more and more abusive, until she has to escape.
A couple of days ago, I started reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and finished it yesterday… and I realized that Anne Brontë already beat me to it 177 years ago.
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amicus-noctis · 1 year ago
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“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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littlestfallenangel · 4 months ago
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"You have to forgive the sexism in this book because it was a product of its time" Anne Bronte did not write The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848 just for me to put up with sexist bullshit written a hundred years later.
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petaltexturedskies · 1 year ago
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Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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ohmycavalier · 2 years ago
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Buy and print of this illustration right here
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elinordash · 2 months ago
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UNDERDOG: THE OTHER OTHER BRONTË ↦ Gemma Whelan, Rhiannon Clements & Adele James
BONUS:
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Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
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todayontumblr · 11 months ago
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heatherfield · 10 months ago
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classic lit authors on ao3 [insp]
Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party  [x]
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mikaela-92 · 1 year ago
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- Anne Brontë
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literarylumin · 4 months ago
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide.
- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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fictionadventurer · 3 months ago
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I've seen classics with "spoil every plot point in detail" introductions.
I've seen classics with "twist the book so I can analyze it through a specific lens rather than letting you come to your own conclusions based on the actual text" introductions.
But I think the introduction to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, written by some woman (Mary Augusta Ward) who died in 1920, that says "no one would remember this book if Anne Bronte didn't happen to have Emily and Charlotte (actual geniuses) as sisters" might be the worst introduction I've ever seen.
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