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Le Monde du dessous
Tout le monde connaît les soeurs Brontë : Charlotte, Emily et Anne. Mais le frère, Branwell? Et leur enfance dissimulée à inventer des mondes et des langages ?
A travers poèmes et proses inédits, ce recueil reconstruit le cheminement imaginaire - >> le monde du dessous >>, écrivait Charlotte - au coeur de la création romanesque des Brontë et lui donne tout son sens.
A travers poèmes et proses inédits, ce recueil reconstruit le cheminement imaginaire - >> le monde du dessous >>, écrivait Charlotte - au coeur de la création romanesque des Brontë et lui donne tout son sens.
496 pages, Pocket Book
Published October 27, 2023
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Charlotte Brontë
2,143 books19k followersCharlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.
In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:
'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'
After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.
Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.
In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:
'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'
After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.
Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.
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September 8, 2024
girls are weird
August 31, 2024
Il y a des barbies et il y a Ken mdrr (après j'ai rien compris à l'édition en elle même)
April 13, 2025
fascinante cette plongée dans le monde de la famille Brontë
January 5, 2022
Bramwell est le frère méconnu des sœurs Brontë. Mais a l'époque il était appelé à un grand et bel avenir. Comme on peut s'en douter avec notre regard actuel : ça n'a pas fonctionné pour lui il est tombé dans la déchéance puis dans l'oubli.
Pour autant il avait un certain talent pour la poésie. Comme cela nous est montré dans ce magnifique livre.
Page 139 le poème Ne me bois que des yeux daté au 4 février 1839:
<< Ne me bois que des yeux
Et je mettrai le vin en gage !
Car les anges ignorent les joies
Que je goûte en cette heure !
Oh, verre glorieux qui me donne
Toutes les visions de mon ciel
Qu'aucun miroir réel
Ne reflétera jamais ! >>
Nous retrouvons également les talents d'écrivaines des sœurs Brontë. Le poème est divisé vis-à-vis des écrits de chacuns suivis par des Brontëana donc des notes aiguillant le lecteur sur l'ensemble qu'il vient de lire.
Tout cela dans une édition des plus esthétique dans laquelle on retrouve de nombreuses illustrations.
Pour autant il avait un certain talent pour la poésie. Comme cela nous est montré dans ce magnifique livre.
Page 139 le poème Ne me bois que des yeux daté au 4 février 1839:
<< Ne me bois que des yeux
Et je mettrai le vin en gage !
Car les anges ignorent les joies
Que je goûte en cette heure !
Oh, verre glorieux qui me donne
Toutes les visions de mon ciel
Qu'aucun miroir réel
Ne reflétera jamais ! >>
Nous retrouvons également les talents d'écrivaines des sœurs Brontë. Le poème est divisé vis-à-vis des écrits de chacuns suivis par des Brontëana donc des notes aiguillant le lecteur sur l'ensemble qu'il vient de lire.
Tout cela dans une édition des plus esthétique dans laquelle on retrouve de nombreuses illustrations.
April 17, 2024
“Nous avons tissé une toile à l’enfance, une toile aérienne et ensoleillée et dans la prime enfance détecté une source d’eau fraîche et non souillée.”
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