Like the Brontës, William Crimsworth’s new acquaintance Hunsden Yorke Hunsdsen appears to ascribe to physiognomy and phrenology:
Charlotte Brontë, The Professor (1857).
The Professor, published posthumously, is an odd duck. Of greatest interest: its principal characters (both teachers), its depiction of marriage, and, in the person of Mr. Hunsden, its barely coded presentation of a gay man.
Also from Charlotte Brontë
A word : Three words : Jane Eyre, descriptivist
[X—— is a mill town.]
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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I'm really enjoying the Charlotte Bronte quotes!
ReplyDelete(And that's all my poor little brain can get together to say.)
I have a few more lined up. Warning, though: one is a sentence that helped me decide to give up on Shirley.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to that sentence--
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Now I wish I'd recorded the sentences that have stopped me reading a book.
"I can go no further."
--Fresca
Stay tuned!
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