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April is the birth month of Yorkshire author and poet Charlotte Bronte, in honour of this we have taken a look at her background and what novel made her famous.
When Charlotte Brontë sat down to write Jane Eyre, she didn’t yet know she was writing a major work of English literature. The gothic novel about a governess’s romance with the brooding Mr. Rochester was an instant classic in its time and is still much loved today. After all, who can resist a tale featuring a mysterious woman locked in an attic? 1. Like Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë worked as a governess. Jane Eyre was a provincial girl hired to work as a governess among strangers. So was Charlotte Brontë. In 1839, the wealthy Sidgwick family employed Brontë to live in their country es...
Intimate letter writing has lost its popularity in today’s culture of instant gratification through our mobile phones. Sweethearts today have a field day at exchanging digitally-coded memos instantly at a whim − together with pictures. Relationships are quickly developed; indeed, so is their end. Nowadays everything happens so fast. But in the past, things took time, which probably helped couples to savour their relationship longer. Letter writing was a slow process with a certain anticipation at what the follow-ups might be. There was an intrinsic charm in the whole practice. We can savo...