Friday, March 25, 2005
Reader, I shagged him
Tanya Gold, The Guardian: "Elizabeth Gaskell is a literary criminal, who, in 1857, perpetrated a heinous act of grave-robbing. Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her. In a "biography" called The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published just two years after the author's death, Gaskell stripped Charlotte of her genius and transformed her into a sexless, death-stalked saint...(continues)..."
Edited to add: Brontë Parsonage Museum To Hold Minute's Silence For Charlotte (24 Hour Museum)
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Tanya Gold, The Guardian: "Elizabeth Gaskell is a literary criminal, who, in 1857, perpetrated a heinous act of grave-robbing. Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her. In a "biography" called The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published just two years after the author's death, Gaskell stripped Charlotte of her genius and transformed her into a sexless, death-stalked saint...(continues)..."
Edited to add: Brontë Parsonage Museum To Hold Minute's Silence For Charlotte (24 Hour Museum)
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