No Soft Nonsense: Presenting the Bold Anne Brontë
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- Join Christine Nelson, Drue Heinz Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, for a fresh look at Anne Brontë (1820-1849), bold author and truth-teller, through the artifacts she left behind. After Brontë published a pseudonymous novel featuring graphic depictions of addiction and domestic abuse, one reviewer accused the author of harboring “a morbid love for the coarse, not to say the brutal.” She issued a written retort: “If I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense.” With highlights from the Morgan’s collection of Brontëana, one of the finest in the world, this presentation complements the current bicentenary installation in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.
Held Monday, November 23, 2020.
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She's an underrated author. Loved tenant of wildfell Hall 😎👍
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Most enlightening, powerful and moving. Brilliant! Most helpful for an understanding as to why Anne Bronte has never received her full due. This is so important. Christine Nelson - Thank you.
Her sister Charlotte said of the subject matter of "Tenant"that it was so incongruous with Anne nature and demeanor.She took it out of publication for ten years after Anne passed.My question is did Charlotte really know her sister or was she jealous?
just read both books by anne bronte and was amazed at her psychological observations of human behaviour. her writing was more realistic than those of her sisters’ and seems to stand the test of time better.
Charlotte and Emily may have produced page turners but their stories seem too convoluted/coincidental and they jar in certain sections. in contrast, anne’s story telling flows naturally and seems so realistic that i am there!
I can't help wishing that Anne's work had remained in Haworth Parsonage.😢
Interesting.
First, let me commend Christine Nelson on her presentation. I have done extensive research on Anne Bronte myself and can attest that this video accurately presents the facts of the Bronte’s lives, as I know them.
The video does not do justice to her writing, however. Emily and Charlotte wrote gothic romances, with a heavy emphasis on the supernatural and sometimes the supranatural woven into rather pedestrian melodramatic plots and animated by equally melodramatic characters. They both wrote in the style of their time and wrote quite well. But they wrote to entertain and, in Emily’s case, perhaps to shock the reader.
Anne was very different in her artistic vision - more serious, to be sure, but also more realistic. Her anger and indignation at the lot of the poor, the paucity of opportunities for women, the dangers of alcohol and drug addiction (Branwell was her model for this, among others), and the abuse of women and children by men, especially privileged men of property, run through both of her novels. Unlike her sisters, who wanted literary recognition and a little money to keep the wolf from the door, Anne wanted to be an agent for change - and she succeeded, although the remedies she sought came long after her death.
Charlotte was offended by Anne’s novels and suppressed their publication after Anne’s death, perhaps to protect her own literary reputation. Because of Charlotte’s mismanagement, Anne’s own novels were long ignored by academics and her own exceptional merit seldom recognized in anthologies of English literature. That must be rectified. Both of her novels, written by the age of 27, are extraordinarily well-written, even though she was largely self-taught and never attended college.
Which illustrates that anyone with talent can write superior fiction without a college degree and notwithstanding the male presence in the world. Anne Bronte and Jane Austen both succeeded in writing renowned novels in a far more chauvinistic world that our present one. Therefore, the apologia at the beginning of his video regarding the paucity of female authors and their images in the Morgan collection is misconceived. J. P. Morgan was highly receptive to literary art by women; there simply isn’t much of it. That may be due to the unique role of women as wives and mothers (Austen and Bronte were free of those responsibilities) and it may be due in part to a lack of something to say and the discipline to persevere (both of which those authors had in abundance). But the success of the many male authors in the Morgan is not evidence of male suppression of female talent. All it takes to write great literature is a piece of paper and a pen and a literary mind - of which there are in any age very few.
I had previously seen only a few of the artifacts shown in this video, although most of them relate to her sisters rather than to Anne. They are certainly evocative. While not shown here, I would also recommend to viewers the group portrait of his sisters by Branwell, at about age eighteen, which captures both Anne’s piety and her seriousness. While we don’t have a photograph of Anne, we do have several of Charlotte in later life, and Branwell’s portrait of her in the group painting is a skilled resemblance. We must assume his portrait of Anne is as well. I also recommend the watercolors of animals by Emily Bronte, especially the painting of her own falcon and of Anne’s dog, Flossy. While we have no paintings by Anne, her sister’s very life-like representations illustrate the attention to detail that is found in the works of all three sisters. They were all three keen observers of life and the natural world. There can hardly be any better training for a literary writer than the discipline to see the world as it is and then to reproduce those perceptions in words on paper.
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What exactly do you mean by "no soft nonsense"? Are you saying she wasn't a Christian Universalist? Have you read her books? From what I've read by her, she was very obviously a believer in everything/everyone being reconciled back to God.
I don't think that's waht she means. Although i haven't finished the video, I imagine that's probably a reference to how Anne is portrayed by media and by the retelling of her surviving sister as a soft, mellow and very passive woman. How her legacy usually goes overshadowed and her writing dismissed. My interpretation of it at least.
She was a Christian Universalist at heart.