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  1. #7books
    (these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
    Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
    The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
    Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
    Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
    Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
    The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday)

    #books #bookstodon #reading

  2. #7books
    (these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
    Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
    The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
    Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
    Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
    Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
    The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday)

    #books #bookstodon #reading

  3. VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats

    Career Authors
    Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.
    VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats Paula Munier…
    careerauthors.com/variations-o

    #Craft #AmaAtaAidoo #AndrewStanton #AnnaQuindlen #CharlotteBront

  4. Today is Charlotte Brontë’s birthday.

    Do you love her poetry, or know her only through Jane Eyre?

    Her first novel was rejected, but the next changed #literature. She had to publish under a man’s name, Currer Bell, because in the 1840s a woman writer could be dismissed before anyone had even read the first page.

    One of the most famous authentic portraits of Charlotte was drawn by George Richmond in 1850 👇

    #books #writers #bookstodon #reading #janeeyre #bronte #charlottebronte @bookstodon

  5. I have finished Jane Eyre.

    I don’t hate it as much as Wuthering Heights, but it was predictably disappointing.

    The naive Tenant of Wildfell Hall said, “I can fix him!” And learned to her horror that she could not.

    Jane Eyre said “I can fix him!” And god showed him the error of his ways and he was fixed. The liar didn’t deserve an unearned redemption arc.

    No wonder Charlotte hated Anne’s book so much.

    #Reading #JaneEyre #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #Literature

  6. It feels very British that there is a mystery that could be solved by opening a door and talking to someone, but that simply is not done.

    Especially a secret that all the servants seem to know except one.

    #Reading #JaneEyre #BluebeardsBride #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #Literature #Mystery

  7. And of course Jane Eyre will fall in love with the first man who isn’t terrible to her.

    Not that she has the opportunity to meet anyone outside her new employer.

    #Reading #Literature #JaneEyre #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë

  8. Since Jane Eyre is not the most shocking of the Brontë novels, I know it won’t have a lesbian romance. But with how much she adores Helen Burns there’s got to be a slash fic out there somewhere.

    Of course knowing the Brontë’s love of tragedy, I’m bracing myself for Helen to die of consumption at age 19.

    #Reading #Literature #JaneEyre #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #Sapphic #SapphicRomance #LGBTQA

  9. "If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should— so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
    —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847

    #Reading #Literature #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #JaneEyre #USPol #Fascism

  10. Okay, I like Jane Eyre for this description of ADHD alone.

    "That is curious," said I; "it is so easy to be careful."

    "For you I have no doubt it is. I observed you in your class this morning, and saw you were closely attentive: your thoughts never seemed to wander while Miss Miller explained the lesson and questioned you. Now, mine continually rove away; …“

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    #Reading #ADHD #Literature #Brontë #CharlotteBrontë #JaneEyre