#hall sisters

[omg-hellgirl]

Jerry Hall and Rosy Hall photographed by Richard Young at Lord Glenconner's party, 1989.

[zal-cryptid]

An assortment of Dorley Hall characters

[rayatii]

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.

[screaming-across-the-sky]

I finished Welcome to Dorley Hall and it was so good. Favorite part was when Christine was like "Welcome to Dorley Hall" and Dorleyed all over the hall

[selenedistress]

Wow what a compelling story about relationships and identity! Plus I love the big cast of memorable and distinct characters. I swear, everyone feels like they have their own narrative voice and unique personality, with some incredibly entertaining dialogues and banter between them to boot. And the fact it's very, very gay definitely helps. I wonder what the author was up to before writing this...

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homestuck fanfiction

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

The screenshot below is what I mean by people taking something a male love interest did, and blowing it out of proportion to make him look like the worst:

[Source — Link TW: Rape mention]

To add to my annoyance, the author of these takes thinks Charlotte and Emily Bronte were "into weird men" (they even provided a link to that obnoxious comic) merely for, what, not writing Rochester and Heathcliff as complete jerks with no redeeming features a la Arthur Huntingdon?

Ugh. Shut up about that word. Charlotte and Emily didn't "romanticize" their Byronic heroes' douchey behavior.

Rochester got punished by God.

Story-wise, Heathcliff's abusive behavior is treated as bad thing (poor Linton Heathcliff). And he died — his unwanted, "outsider" presence gone from Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

Romanticized, my foot!

[burningvelvet]

In a letter to W. S. Williams (14 August 1848), Charlotte Brontë compares Jane Eyre’s Rochester to the Byronic heroes of her sisters’ novels, Heathcliff from Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Huntingdon from Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

“You say Mr. Huntingdon reminds you of Mr. Rochester. Does he? Yet there is no likeness between the two; the foundation of each character is entirely different. Huntingdon is a specimen of the naturally selfish, sensual, superficial man, whose one merit of a joyous temperament only avails him while he is young and healthy, whose best days are his earliest, who never profits by experience, who is sure to grow worse the older he grows.

Mr. Rochester has a thoughtful nature and a very feeling heart; he is neither selfish nor self-indulgent; he is ill-educated, misguided; errs, when he does err, through rashness and inexperience: he lives for a time as too many other men live, but being radically better than most men, he does not like that degraded life, and is never happy in it. He is taught the severe lessons of experience and has sense to learn wisdom from them. Years improve him; the effervescence of youth foamed away, what is really good in him still remains. His nature is like wine of a good vintage, time cannot sour, but only mellows him. Such at least was the character I meant to portray.

Heathcliffe, again, of Wuthering Heights is quite another creation. He exemplifies the effects which a life of continued injustice and hard usage may produce on a naturally perverse, vindictive, and inexorable disposition. Carefully trained and kindly treated, the black gipsy-cub might possibly have been reared into a human being, but tyranny and ignorance made of him a mere demon. The worst of it is, some of his spirit seems breathed through the whole narrative in which he figures: it haunts every moor and glen, and beckons in every fir-tree of the Heights.”

Source: The Brontës Life and Letters (Clement King Shorter, 2013)

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[literarylumin]

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: it vexes me to choose another guide.

- Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

[adobongsiopao]

Caricature of Brontē siblings from an old issue of "Punch" magazine.

Source: The Official Bronte Group on Facebook

[fideidefenswhore]

so tired of tudor dramas where there are no women… and even when there are women… there aren’t…ykwim?

[omg-hellgirl]

Cyndy Hall, Jerry Hall and Rosy Hall photographed by Ron Galella at a party organized by Diana Vreeland, 1984.

[zal-cryptid]

Been reading Sisters of Dorley (rotting by brain). Doing my best to remember what these characters were described as looking like so I can better visualize them.

[pro-royalty]

Chloe x Halle

[fyeahblackactresses]

Chloe and Halle Bailey attend the Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY Gala at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles CA

[evie-doesnt-write]

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Ep.22//Ep.34