#ig i could see him trying to get rid of them after gaskell’s visit? but why?? after all that time | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

farosdaughter · 2 years ago

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Mme Heger tore up those letters herself and then spread the rumor (that people still take at face value) that it was M Heger who got rid of them right away so she could discredit Charlotte’s ~accusations, which tbh I always found a little too convenient to be true

#charlotte brontë #constantin heger #i can only see two possible reasons why heger kept those letters for years: he forgot about them somewhere bc he didn’t gaf or he was hiding #them from his wife #either way he showed them to gaskell in 1856 #so they were still intact a decade later #and ASKED FOR HIS LETTERS TO CHARLOTTE RIGHT AFTERWARDS #because he was sure she’d kept them!!#which to me proves that he HAD written quite a few conpromising letters himself or he wouldn’t have asked for them #ig i could see him trying to get rid of them after gaskell’s visit? but why?? after all that time #i mean yes he was obviously worried about something (given his enquiry about his own letters to charlotte) but her letters to him weren’t-#compromising to him in any way #it only makes sense for mme to have destroyed and then taken possesion of those letters: she had a lot to lose if the ‘truth’ ever came up #still I really don’t buy charlotte singlehandedly embarrassing herself over this man #it takes two to tango ect ect #charlotte x heger

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