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Os Manuscritos Perdidos de Charlotte Brontë
Resgatado de um naufrágio e perdido por quase dois séculos, este livro tem uma história tão incrível quanto as escritas pela família Brontë.
Viajando por quase duzentos anos entre o Velho e o Novo Mundo, os manuscritos passaram por diversas mãos e sobreviveram até a um naufrágio. Mais do que os primeiros rascunhos do que viria a se tornar a obra de Charlotte, o material revela detalhes da vida de uma das famílias mais talentosas da literatura mundial.
Tudo teve início em 1810, quando Maria Branwell, que se tornaria mãe das famosas irmãs Brontë, obteve um livro, em sua terra natal. Dois anos depois, ela se mudou e o exemplar estava entre seus bens que naufragaram em um navio.
O livro foi recuperado intacto e tornou-se precioso para toda a Família Brontë, sendo não apenas uma fonte de leitura, mas também de anotação pelas irmãs Charlotte, Emily, Anne, seu irmão Branwell e seu pai, Patrick.
Em 1861, o livro foi vendido em um leilão depois da morte de toda a família. E, nos anos seguintes, passou por diversos donos, eventualmente, viajando para a América, onde permaneceu em uma coleção particular até 2015.
Comprado pela Brontë Society, descobriu-se joias literárias e históricas escondidas entre suas páginas. Isso inclui anotações, esboços e dois textos nunca publicados de Charlotte Brontë.
Mas este trabalho vai além: especialistas foram convidados a examinar os documentos e apresentam muitas reflexões, incluindo uma sobre a inspiração de Emily Brontë para um dos maiores livros da história: O morro dos ventos uivantes.
Viajando por quase duzentos anos entre o Velho e o Novo Mundo, os manuscritos passaram por diversas mãos e sobreviveram até a um naufrágio. Mais do que os primeiros rascunhos do que viria a se tornar a obra de Charlotte, o material revela detalhes da vida de uma das famílias mais talentosas da literatura mundial.
Tudo teve início em 1810, quando Maria Branwell, que se tornaria mãe das famosas irmãs Brontë, obteve um livro, em sua terra natal. Dois anos depois, ela se mudou e o exemplar estava entre seus bens que naufragaram em um navio.
O livro foi recuperado intacto e tornou-se precioso para toda a Família Brontë, sendo não apenas uma fonte de leitura, mas também de anotação pelas irmãs Charlotte, Emily, Anne, seu irmão Branwell e seu pai, Patrick.
Em 1861, o livro foi vendido em um leilão depois da morte de toda a família. E, nos anos seguintes, passou por diversos donos, eventualmente, viajando para a América, onde permaneceu em uma coleção particular até 2015.
Comprado pela Brontë Society, descobriu-se joias literárias e históricas escondidas entre suas páginas. Isso inclui anotações, esboços e dois textos nunca publicados de Charlotte Brontë.
Mas este trabalho vai além: especialistas foram convidados a examinar os documentos e apresentam muitas reflexões, incluindo uma sobre a inspiração de Emily Brontë para um dos maiores livros da história: O morro dos ventos uivantes.
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176 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2019
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Charlotte Brontë
2,534 books20k 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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December 12, 2019
O livro é repleto de artigos que explicam os significados tanto dos manuscritos da juvenília de Charlotte Brontë quanto dos rabiscos e anotações feitas no livro de poemas de Henry Kirke White, onde foram encontrados os manuscritos.
Mas, para mim, o artigo mais interessante é aquele no qual O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes é analisado sob a ótica dos poemas e da ausência de Maria, mãe das Brontë. Nele descobrimos muitas coisas, mas uma me chamou a atenção: Cathy não assombrou Lockwood à toa, mas sim porque ele foi mexer em seus livros, o que irritou o espírito dela. MARAVILHOSO!
Mas, para mim, o artigo mais interessante é aquele no qual O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes é analisado sob a ótica dos poemas e da ausência de Maria, mãe das Brontë. Nele descobrimos muitas coisas, mas uma me chamou a atenção: Cathy não assombrou Lockwood à toa, mas sim porque ele foi mexer em seus livros, o que irritou o espírito dela. MARAVILHOSO!
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