Why Did The Brontë Sisters Use Male Names?
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- Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2024
- Why did the Bronte sisters use male names to get published? Bronte biographer Nick Holland looks at why Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte became Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell, and reveals the moving stories behind their choice of names.
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Great video thanks. The publishers couldn't believe it when Charlotte and Anne visited the publishers and they found out they were women writers. I don't think Emily travelled to London at that time with Charlotte and Anne, I am not sure
That's right, it was just Charlotte and Anne who went to London.
Emily was a recluse and hated socialising. Her sisters were shy and reserved but fully capable of interacting with strangers.
@@marijo1951 she was. I always thought her poetry the best out of the three sisters.
@@pennydreadful5217 I agree. Some are sublime, especially 'No Coward Soul Is Mine'.
@@marijo1951 Reserved yes Shy yes Homesick Yes Reclusive No She did travel
Do you think Charlotte had in mind the infamous letter she received from the Poet Laureate Robert Southey, in which he told her ''Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be''? It's sweetly ironical that the Brontës are now known, loved and respected as great writers, with all their books in print, whereas Southey is just a footnote in literature, known as the colleague of greater poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the writer of that patronising letter to Charlotte.
@@marijo1951 True. How they proved him wrong. And surely Southey would have heard of Jane Austen by that time he was writing such words to Charlotte.
Very interesting about the names. I did read a long time ago that the names the Brontes chose were not really male or female. It was hard to work out what they were. Emily hated publicity. I don't think Emily would like to be around today with so much intrusion into people's lives.