The Brontës and Dickens: Christmas in Victorian Literature and Tradition

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @heidikuijer3612
    @heidikuijer3612 21 день назад +6

    A lovely video in your beautiful house! A Christmas Carol is a favorite reread each year on Christmas Eve. Wishing you a happy Christmas Kate. Looking forward to 2025 and many videos to come.

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and I have so many ideas for next year. I wanted to look into the Dickens and Brontes connection as I knew Charlotte wasn't a fan. Making this video allowed me to do that, yippee.

    • @MayKelly-i5q
      @MayKelly-i5q 20 дней назад +1

      I really enjoyed this video, I love Dickens. A Christmas Carol is my favourite. Happy Christmas

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      @MayKelly-i5q it was the perfect Christmas topic I thought. x

  • @verynearlyinteresting
    @verynearlyinteresting 18 дней назад +1

    This is such a great episode Kate, so enjoyable. Merry Christmas! Tez

  • @christysmith1058
    @christysmith1058 19 дней назад +1

    I'm a huge Charles Dickens fan and love how gracious he was about Charlotte. Your lovely evocative videos have been a real bright spot for me this year, and to quote Charles Dickens ~ A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      Thank you so much for your kind words. I am definitely putting more Dickens books on my TBR list for 2025. I love classic novels and it’s about time I dipped into some of his other work.

  • @my-mysknitsaloon
    @my-mysknitsaloon 20 дней назад +2

    Heartly thanks Kate for your lovely dedication for The Brontë's Sisters and I wish you too; A Joyful Merry Christmas. Bless you, dear. 🎄🌟☃️🎅🏻🎄

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and your lovely comment. Merry Christmas to you and yours too.

  • @CurtRowlett
    @CurtRowlett 21 день назад +2

    Love the Dickens history, but I particularly admire your fireplace! It just looks so cozy and Christmas-perfect. Best wishes to you and yours this holiday season.

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад +1

      I am one of those people that could sit very close to a fire and never get too hot so I was more than happy to spend my morning making this video next to it. Glad you enjoyed it and festive best wishes to you too.

  • @cathyenfield
    @cathyenfield 19 дней назад +1

    Thank you for this video! I love this topic, it's so beautiful to see how much of an impact our beloved stories have in the world even so many years later 🥲

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching and I agree, Dickens would never know what an impact that story had on the world and for so many years after. Like the Brontes and their writing.

  • @user-qh8nh7oe6d
    @user-qh8nh7oe6d 20 дней назад +1

    Health and happiness for you too Kate; Merry Christmas. Thank you for the Brontesisters, and all the joy and interest it brings. It was a moving comment made by Dickens when Charlotted died.A Christmas Carol is re read every Christmas, and my favourite film version is the animated one with Alistair Sim. I do struggle a bit with the rest of his books, but feel could happily read anything sitting by that lovely fire!

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад +1

      Thank you. I think the comment after Charlotte's death was a lovely one. I plan to watch the 1950 version today with my daughter, she's never seen it and I think she will love it. Merry Christmas.

  • @butterflygirlenergy
    @butterflygirlenergy 20 дней назад +1

    Thank you for such a festive and heartwarming video 🙏🎄 The fireplace was so soothing. Lovely to hear what Charles Dickens wrote after Charlotte's death🙏Thank you for your joyous, fascinating videos! ✨ Wishing you and all your viewers a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful, abundant New Year! 🎉❤🎀

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and your you lovely comment. Have a wonderful Festive Season and New Year. xx

  • @tinainglima
    @tinainglima 19 дней назад +1

    I loved this so much❤

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      Thank you. So lovely to have you along on my adventures with me.

  • @pennywise333
    @pennywise333 18 дней назад +1

    Beautiful Video

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  18 дней назад

      Thank you. It warms my heart to have lovely comments like yours. Merry Christmas.

  • @isabellemenez5704
    @isabellemenez5704 19 дней назад +1

    I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas 🎄☃️

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      Thank you, we are all very excited now and I can't wait to give my family their gifts and see their faces. Merry Christmas to you and yours too.

  • @sezhouse7897
    @sezhouse7897 20 дней назад +2

    Very informative and interesting thank you. Merry Christmas 😊

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and joining me, I so pleased you liked it. Merry Christmas.

  • @johngreene347
    @johngreene347 21 день назад +1

    Brilliant video. You do the background work and it shows. Love Dickens and the Brontes; this was pure pleasure. 👏

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      I am sure I spent too much time thinking, reading and planning for my videos. But...I love doing it. Thank you again for your support and lovely comments.

    • @johngreene347
      @johngreene347 20 дней назад +1

      The effort that you put into making the videos shows. They look so professional but your enthusiasm makes them so special. Thanks for the joy you bring.....Merry Christmas 🎅

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      @@johngreene347 you are so lovely, thank you. Merry Christmas too and I hope you get plenty of reading done.

  • @iestynovich
    @iestynovich 19 дней назад +4

    'Two iconic writers, the Brontes and Charles Dickens...' That would make at least three.

    • @sheliamaynus9869
      @sheliamaynus9869 19 дней назад +1

      Wow.

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +4

      Maybe I should have said 4, the 3 Bronte Sisters and Dickens. :-)

    • @ΕλληΦεαρινου
      @ΕλληΦεαρινου 14 дней назад

      ​@@brontesistersuk There were also one or two mentions to Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South. I loved the 2004 BBC's tele adaptation with Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe.
      So that would make it the fabulous 5+.😊
      Merry Christmas 🎉 & a happy New Year 🎊

    • @ΕλληΦεαρινου
      @ΕλληΦεαρινου 14 дней назад +1

      ​@@brontesistersuk There were also one or two mentions of Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South. I loved the 2004 BBC's tele adaptation, with Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe, so very much! So, I believe that makes them 5+. 😊
      Merry Christmas 🎉 and a happy New Year 🎊 to all.❤

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  12 дней назад +1

      @@ΕλληΦεαρινου Happy New Year to you too.

  • @Sue-np9fp
    @Sue-np9fp 20 дней назад +1

    Merry Christmas, Kate! A Christmas Carol has always been a favorite of mine. I have never watched the Muppet's Christmas Carol, because it offended my Dickensian purity! However, I have heard very good things about it, so- in the interest of balance, I might give it a go! The connections you made between these two brilliant writers, ('The Bronte sisters were in their 20's when Dickens was writing') is breath-taking, and makes the connections somehow more alive and real, if that makes sense?
    That Elizabeth Gaskill acted as a 'bridge' between them; what a discrete diplomat, she seems to have been! is it just me, or do you ever wonder if Charlotte had a bit of a crush on Thackery...until she met him, and that did not seem to go well...for either of them? Lovely to see you warm and cosy, at home-rather than freezing in some Church yard! lots of love, sue xxx

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      I grew up with the Muppets and so to merge three of things that make me happy, The Muppets, Christmas and Dickens's A Christmas Carol is a winner. It actually uses quite a few quotes from the book. Do try it and laugh a lot.
      I wanted people to see that Dickens and the Sisters were around at the same time and they would have know about the popularity of his book.
      Thank you got watching. Merry Christmas.

  • @RainyDayBookshelf
    @RainyDayBookshelf 18 дней назад +1

    Merry Christmas 🎄

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  18 дней назад

      Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for watching my videos.

  • @argentinagalos6205
    @argentinagalos6205 20 дней назад +1

    Thank you and have a very Merry Christmas !❤

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you too for watching. Merry Christmas. x

  • @genem3785
    @genem3785 19 дней назад +1

    I'm SO happy the good ol' algorithym brought me here! Merry Christmas, and God bless us everyone :)

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      Hello and welcome, so pleased the algorithm matched us. 😆 Hope you enjoy my other Brontë adventures. Thank you for watching.

  • @TheRickie41
    @TheRickie41 20 дней назад +1

    That impact’s still alive. I read my classics, offer loads of homemade Christstollen to friends, neighbours and clients. And prepare smoking bishop and mince pies. I’m german living in France...🤣

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      I bet your house is wonderful at Christmas, full of lovely smells and cheer. Thank you for watching. Merry Christmas. xx

    • @TheRickie41
      @TheRickie41 19 дней назад +1

      @brontesistersuk And to you! I cherish the Brontë 's sisters' œuvre (also the poems) and Dickens' works. Non autumn without the heights or Jane Eyre or the tenant, no Christmas without Dickens. Thank you for your dedicated work.

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      @@TheRickie41 I agree, its a tradition. We need a summer book now.

  • @stephaniec3619
    @stephaniec3619 21 день назад +1

    Merry Christmas! This was a lovely video. I do have to agree with Charlotte on Charles Dickens, I know he was paid by the word but I find it very hard to read him. I loved A Tale of Two Cities only to find out later on that it was a deviation on his regular style. I have tried to read a Christmas Carol since my favourite Christmas movie is the 1951 Alastair Sim A Christmas Carol, but I find it hard going, short as it is. I seem to have a problem with make Victorian authors. Thank you so much for your lovely video!

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад +2

      My husband is the same, he can't get on with Charles Dickens's style of writing. I am saving the 1951 version to watch with my daughter who did the book this year at school. I hope she likes it as much as I do. Thank you for watching and Merry Christmas. x

  • @johngreene347
    @johngreene347 15 дней назад +1

    Hi, did you see Haworth and Oakworth in the Railway Children new version yesterday? Spotted the graves and Parsonage etc.

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  14 дней назад +1

      Yes, I’ve seen how they have used the Parsonage, it’s great it was used for both the old and the new version. I love The Railway Children film (original one the most).

  • @jcmullins3871
    @jcmullins3871 19 дней назад +1

    You should look at the 1843 Facsimile of the Christmas carol

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      I will google it, thank you, I love to see original things, it makes it more real.

  • @brigittebeche4117
    @brigittebeche4117 20 дней назад +1

    A lovely video indeed ! I have just finished reading, rereading a Christmas Charol by charles dickens, I read it with a video reading, some kind of audiobook, it’s great since english is not my native language, it makes the reading much more lively and easy to follow, so I keep thevtext undrr my eyes and...my headphones as well😊. I received a couple of days ago ”devoirs de Bruxelles ” by emily Brontë, I am in awe at her fantasic command of the French language! By the way, I was relieved to see you struggling with a word😅, it happens to me so often ! Looking forward to your next video !

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and yes, I am always struggling with words. It drives me mad and sometimes it is the silliest of words I struggle with. What a great way to improve your English, love being read to so this would work for me as well. Merry Christmas.

    • @brigittebeche4117
      @brigittebeche4117 20 дней назад +1

      @@brontesistersuk thank you 😊. Merry Christmas too!

  • @jcmullins3871
    @jcmullins3871 19 дней назад +1

    I have several 1st edition of the Household Words

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      I bet they are so interesting reflecting ideas and tastes of the time. Do you have any with Mrs Gaskell's work in? Thank you for watching.

  • @BrontëChick
    @BrontëChick 19 дней назад +1

    I wonder if they followed the tradition of a Christmas pudding mentioned by Dickens and who would have made it? Tabby or Emily? Or would Tabby, Charlotte, Emily and Anne all have gathered in the kitchen to be a part of its making?

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      I imagine Emily would have made it but under the strict instruction of Tabby. Maybe not the Dickens style pudding but some form of plum pudding I would have thought. Xx

    • @BrontëChick
      @BrontëChick 19 дней назад

      @@brontesistersuk My favorite movie version of A Christmas Carol is the one with Alister Sim. I watch it every year. One of my favorite parts is where they talk about the Christmas pudding. That's what Christmas used to be..... enjoying food that you didn't have year round..... because it was special.....just being together. Maybe hand making gifts for each other. I absolutely love that movie version of the book....it captured the beauty of the story so well.
      ruclips.net/video/bsMYwgnfKAE/видео.htmlsi=GVkqbUtarY-dZ3DQ

  • @tinainglima
    @tinainglima 19 дней назад +1

    Where is the “who drinks what tea”?❤

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад +1

      In my video called Brontë Trees, Myths, and Superstitions: The Secrets of Haworth’s Graveyard, about 8 minutes in I start talking about tea (no surprise) and I ask everyone how they drink/like their tea. This is the video here: ruclips.net/video/wqM99Jm0lUg/видео.html
      Lots of people commented about not just Breakfast Tea but all the different sorts of tea they drank. It was fascinating.

    • @tinainglima
      @tinainglima 19 дней назад +1

      @@brontesistersuk thank you so much, Merry Christmas 🎁

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  19 дней назад

      @@tinainglima Thank you for being part of this brilliant Bronte Community we have here.

  • @Екатерина21
    @Екатерина21 20 дней назад +1

    В России больше отмечают Новый год, примерно как в Европе Рождество, но без религиозной части, а Рождество - так, проходит мимо. Так что книги английских писателей кажутся очень уютными

    • @brontesistersuk
      @brontesistersuk  20 дней назад

      In the UK before Dickens most people celebrated 12th Night more than actual Christmas. Try and read A Christmas Carol if you get the chance. Very Christmasy. Merry Christmas. x