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A great book for those who appreciate the history of the Bronte family
I have enjoyed this biography a great deal more than Elizabeth Gaskell's. In fact, Juliet Barker makes contradictory comment throughout her work regarding statements made by Gaskell. For instance, the condition of the schools in which the children were taught are much more developed in Barker's work. "It is easy to fall into the same trap as Mrs. Gaskell and assume that the Bronte children's interests were 'of a sedentary and intellectual nature'...This is only a very small part of the story, and, indeed, in some ways a major distortion of the truth."The reader learns that the order of the Clergy Daughters' School was severe. It practiced public beating and wearing a sign with the inscription “neryakha”. Food was often stale and contaminated, and one day this led to an outbreak of the typhus epidemic. Conditions at the school were terrible, and many students fell ill with fatal ailments, including Mary and Elizabeth. From there, the children were placed in the Roe Head School."Things were different at the Roe Head School. It was everything the Clergy Daughter's School was not. A rather grand three-storey building, wih an ununsual double-bowed frontage, it had been built for the Marriotte family in 1740...and had only a very small number of pupils, apparently between seven and ten....The regime was disciplined by kindly. With so few pupils it was possible to take into account each girl's foibles and capabilities and there is no doubt that Charlotte not only benefied from the education offered, but also actually enjoyed her time at the school." (page 200)
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The reader learns that the order of the Clergy Daughters' School was severe. It practiced public beating and wearing a sign with the inscription “neryakha”. Food was often stale and contaminated, and one day this led to an outbreak of the typhus epidemic. Conditions at the school were terrible, and many students fell ill with fatal ailments, including Mary and Elizabeth. From there, the children were placed in the Roe Head School.
"Things were different at the Roe Head School. It was everything the Clergy Daughter's School was not. A rather grand three-storey building, wih an ununsual double-bowed frontage, it had been built for the Marriotte family in 1740...and had only a very small number of pupils, apparently between seven and ten....The regime was disciplined by kindly. With so few pupils it was possible to take into account each girl's foibles and capabilities and there is no doubt that Charlotte not only benefied from the education offered, but also actually enjoyed her time at the school." (page 200)
A great book for those who appreciate the history of the Bronte family
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023
I have enjoyed this biography a great deal more than Elizabeth Gaskell's. In fact, Juliet Barker makes contradictory comment throughout her work regarding statements made by Gaskell. For instance, the condition of the schools in which the children were taught are much more developed in Barker's work. "It is easy to fall into the same trap as Mrs. Gaskell and assume that the Bronte children's interests were 'of a sedentary and intellectual nature'...This is only a very small part of the story, and, indeed, in some ways a major distortion of the truth."Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023
The reader learns that the order of the Clergy Daughters' School was severe. It practiced public beating and wearing a sign with the inscription “neryakha”. Food was often stale and contaminated, and one day this led to an outbreak of the typhus epidemic. Conditions at the school were terrible, and many students fell ill with fatal ailments, including Mary and Elizabeth. From there, the children were placed in the Roe Head School.
"Things were different at the Roe Head School. It was everything the Clergy Daughter's School was not. A rather grand three-storey building, wih an ununsual double-bowed frontage, it had been built for the Marriotte family in 1740...and had only a very small number of pupils, apparently between seven and ten....The regime was disciplined by kindly. With so few pupils it was possible to take into account each girl's foibles and capabilities and there is no doubt that Charlotte not only benefied from the education offered, but also actually enjoyed her time at the school." (page 200)
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Rúben Jorge
Uma grande biografia em excelente estado
Reviewed in Spain on February 18, 2023
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Reviewed in Spain on February 18, 2023
Recomendo este livro para quem quer saber mais sobre a vida das irmãs brontë.
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Lady Listera
plenty of authorial sympathy for the sad plight tin which these human beings found themselves
Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2017