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Three sisters in 1846 wrote three romantic novels. One of them was of such vitality that nearly a century later it is making money for Samuel Goldwyn. Of the seven novels the Brontë sisters produced, Emily's Withering Heights has been hung up to dry as a movie, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre is a pickled classic. The darkling moodiness of these books reflects the Brontes' unnatural seclusion in an English village parsonage, where genius was forced like strawberries in a hothouse. The three girls, who were intended to be housewives, reached fame; their only brother...
...childhood Branwell Brontë showed as precocious a talent for writing as his sisters did, and added to it an ability to paint. His father idolized him, earmarked him for fame, then spoiled him and his chances. The darling of the family, Branwell enjoyed his tantrums unchecked; he grew to be an irresolute exhibitionist. When he began to realize that he was only a frustrated artist, he took the byroad to ruin via liquor and laudanum, while his helpless family stood by and watched...
Jane Eyre (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Actor-Producer Orson Welles adapts Charlotte Brontë's novel for radio drama...
...King." Of the Duke of Windsor: "Without base flattery, nobody I think could have called him artistically or intellectually gifted, nor have attributed to him a subtle, remarkable or especially interesting mind. ... At the age of 40 he had not heard of the great writer who was Charlotte Bront...
...forward swains she could be "very fridged indeed''; of one Hooker Hammersly she states: "He is not the man for My Sister by a long short." She must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd observer. Of General Phil Sheridan she notes: "When anyone makes a commonplace remark or says something that does not interest him, he says, 'um, um, yes. yes,' in the most aggravating manner...