The author Harriet Martineau did have an opinion to offer, describing Charlotte Brontë as “The smallest creature I had ever seen (except at a fair)”: a rather unsisterly put-down… though very funny.
Toft Gate lime kiln, on Greenhow Hill...
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
The Brontës...
Emily Brontë was born exactly 200 years ago, which puts Wuthering Heights under the literary microscope once again. Never having read anything by the Brontë sisters (or Jane Austin, or Charles Dickens), I have no opinion to offer about her only novel. But I did identify closely with Branwell Brontë; like me he had clever sisters and liked a drink.
The author Harriet Martineau did have an opinion to offer, describing Charlotte Brontë as “The smallest creature I had ever seen (except at a fair)”: a rather unsisterly put-down… though very funny.
Toft Gate lime kiln, on Greenhow Hill...
The author Harriet Martineau did have an opinion to offer, describing Charlotte Brontë as “The smallest creature I had ever seen (except at a fair)”: a rather unsisterly put-down… though very funny.
Toft Gate lime kiln, on Greenhow Hill...
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