Word: bronte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHARLOTTE BRONTË: THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS by Winifred Gérin. A meticulous biography illuminates the murky legend of the baffling, star-crossed Brontë sisters, especially Charlotte, the author of Jane Eyre...
...often the artist's escape. Such was the case of Charlotte Bronte, the most prolific of the Brontë sisters, who flowered briefly in England during the 1840s with strange, powerful novels and poetry. Charlotte was shy and ugly, proud and ambitious. Her three novels, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, are all switches on the old Cinderella theme: the rejected girl is not only poor but plain; her Byronic hero must see not only through the rags but also through the flesh itself to her spiritual beauty...
That Charlotte tried to escape in her writing is well documented in this painstaking biography. British Scholar Winifred Gerin has already written biographies of Anne Brontë and ne'er-do-well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result...
...bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky, tenacious, she proceeds moment by moment from incredulity to seductiveness to violence to the awful realization that she is merely a bright ephemeral...
Like the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Bergman's heroine is a shy young servant (Mai Zetterling) who falls in love with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take...