Nick Holland
Teoksen In Search of Anne Brontë tekijä
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Nick Holland is an acclaimed non-fiction writer who was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1971. His recent biography of Anne Bronte was praised by the critics, with the Mail On Sunday calling it 'an excellent book full of passion and pathos'. Nick has also written a biography of Emily Bront, and näytä lisää in 2016 he became the first author to do a book signing at the Bront Parsonage Museum in Haworth. näytä vähemmän
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The Hanover Press Language of Flowers 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1971
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Ammatit
- author
copywriter - Organisaatiot
- Brontë Society
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 9
- Jäseniä
- 61
- Suosituimmuussija
- #274,234
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.7
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 2
- ISBN:t
- 17
That said, this book shows the closeness of the sisters and, indeed of the whole household, very clearly, and their general separation as a family unit from most other members of society (isolation which may, in part, tragically account for the deaths of Emily and Anne in particular at such young ages, as they hadn't acquired any immunity to the then lethal diseases that were rife, especially TB). Anne comes across as a very sensitive, unconfident and a shy young lady (albeit not quite as much as Emily), anxious to please her sisters and be seen as good as they, but the author is keen to emphasise how she was firm in her principles and could be forthright in the face of injustice. She comes across to me as the middle ground between the ethereal otherworldliness of Emily and the more worldly and more cynical Charlotte.
Seeming to be always constantly ill in her adulthood, with colds, coughs, and asthma, Anne was sadly easy prey for the TB that she probably caught during a visit to London in summer 1848, when she and Charlotte visited their publisher to unveil themselves as the real Acton and Currer Bell. Unwittingly, she seems to have passed the disease on to Emily and their brother Branwell, causing both their deaths before the end of that year, with her own passing early in the following summer at the age of 29, not at the Haworth parsonage like all her siblings, but in Scarborough.
And thereafter followed the tragic, albeit non malicious, ruining of her reputation by Charlotte, who may also have destroyed much surviving material written by both her deceased sisters. It took over a century until Anne's reputation was restored and, in the author's words, "Readers across the world are now placing Anne where she belongs, alongside her sisters Charlotte and Emily, and in the very first rank of nineteenth-century writers."… (lisätietoja)