Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Neuendorffer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
<<Douglas Noel Adams was born March 11th, 1952 in Cambridge, England.
He earned a master of arts degrees in English literature from Cambridge
University. In 1977 Adams met Simon Brett and together they managed to
persuade the BBC to broadcasting _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_.
Douglas Adams died Friday, 11 May, 2001 morning in Santa Barbara
following a heart attack, said his spokeswoman Sophie Astin.>>
"My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte,
brother of Emily & Charlotte, died standing up leaning
against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done."
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<<I have heard, from one who attended Branwell in his last illness, that
he resolved on standing up to die. He had repeatedly said, that as long
as there was life there was strength of will to do what it chose ; and
when the last agony came on, he insisted on assuming the position just
mentioned. I have previously stated, that when his fatal attack came on,
his pockets were found filled with old letters from the woman to whom he
was attached. He died she lives still,--in May Fair. The Eumenides,
I suppose, went out of existence at the time when the wail was heard,
"Great Pan is dead.">>
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Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
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http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8723/bronte.html
http://incompetech.com/authors/bbronte/
Branwell "The Forgotten" Brontė (1817-1848)
Barker, Juliet. The Brontės. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
<<Patrick Branwell Brontė was born 26 June 1817, fourth child and only
son of Patrick Brontė and Maria Branwell. He and his sisters grew up in
the town of Haworth, a relatively isolated place, though not so bad as
you may have heard. Maria died of cancer in 1821, and the two oldest
daughters died of consumption in 1825, which made the four surviving
kids (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne) really stick together.
Together they created the worlds of Gondal and Angria, epic sorts of
kingdoms populated partly by Branwell's toy soldiers. Branwell and
Charlotte worked together on poems and stories about Angria (leaving
Anne and Emily to work together on Gondal), and though he was very fond
of writing, it was decided early on that Branwell would be a painter. He
was apprenticed to a portrait painter (named Mr. ROBINSON), who passed
all of his bad habits along to Branwell. William's most notable failure
as a teacher was in neglecting to show Branwell the proper way to mix
paint. His portrait of his sisters, which now hangs in the National
Gallery and is quite popular, shows the problem with this: Branwell had
originally put himself in the painting, then decided to remove his
likeness by painting over it. This paint is now fading, revealing
Branwell's ghostly image.
In late 1839, he went to tutor two boys in the Lake District. By the
summer of 1840, he had been dismissed, probably for fathering a child by
one of the maidservants. He quickly got another job in the railroad, and
though Charlotte was horrified that he wasn't devoting his life to some
form of art, he still kept up his poetry on the side, getting quite a
bit of it published in some of the more respected literary papers of the
time. He was fired by the railroad in 1842 over a discrepancy in his
bookkeeping, and was very depressed about it. The next year, he went to
act as tutor to the oldest boy in the family where his sister Anne was
governess. This job lasted about as long as his others; in July of 1845
he was abruptly dismissed, probably for having had an affair with the
lady of the house (her name was Mrs. ROBINSON!).
Branwell started drinking heavily and generally worrying himself into
illness. Charlotte was merciless in expressing her disapproval over
Branwell's reluctance to find another job. Around this time, the sisters
published their book of poetry, and Branwell's exclusion from this
literary endeavour only depressed him further. When his mistress'
husband died in May 1846, Branwell was convinced he would now marry Mrs.
ROBINSON, though she had no intention of marrying a penniless man
seventeen years her junior. She kept Branwell away by telling him that
Mr. ROBINSON's will required her to stay away from him, never mind
marrying him. She sent him money every so often, which he promptly spent
on drink and possibly opiates.
His health was terrible by this time. He was plagued by delirium tremens
(the D.T.'s), at one point even setting his own bed on fire, which
probably would have killed him if Anne and Emily hadn't managed to put
the fire out. His debts were out of control, and legal action was
threatened. His last few days were marked by a strange calm on
Branwell's part, during which time his father persuaded him to repent.
He died fairly peacefully on 24 September 1848. Among his last words:
"All my life I have done nothing either great or good.">>
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[http://www.iag.net/~jsiebold/310mono.html]
[http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/COHEN-01.ART]
<<Asia was a name derived from Asu, which meant "rising sun" or "land
of light"; while Europa was a name that came from ereb or irib, which
meant "setting sun" or "land of darkness". Africa came from a local
Carthaginian place name.
The name America was a variant of the German Amalrich,
derived from amal. In Greek it was Aimulos, in Latin Aemelius.
In all its forms the underlying meaning was that of work; as for
example, the word for work in Hebrew is amal, and in old Norse aml, the
consonant sounds of which were retained in the verb moil. Amalrich,
which literally meant "work ruler", or "designator of tasks", might be
freely translated as "master workman". A Frenchman said that Emeric
meant "rich through work".The name appeared in Halmal, a semi-divine
mythical forefather or ancestor of the Amelungen, or royal tribe of the
Ostrogoths, which was called Ömlunger. German forms of the name were
Amalrich, Almerich, Emmerich; the Spanish form was Almerigo; the French,
Amalrie or Amaury; in England it was Almerick, or Merica in old families
in YORKSHIRE. It appeared in feminine forms in Amelia, Emilia, EMILY.>>
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"EMILY Jane Bronte (30 July 1818 - 19 Dec. 1848)
YORKSHIRE, England
http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/1709.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/Emily-Bronte.html
Emily Bronte was one of three sisters who became famous novelists.
Their lives and works are associated with the Yorkshire MOORS
of England where they were born. Emily wrote only one novel
--her romantic masterpiece "Wuthering Heights".
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For EMILY, WhenEVER I May Find Her
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EMILIA - wife to Iago (Othello)
Emilia's stabbing is so anticlimactic that it is not clear
from the various versions of _Othello_ whether it happens
BEFORE, DURING or AFTER
Othello's "no stones for THUNDER" speech.
BRONTE => Greek for THUNDER
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BEFORE:
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Staunton & Globe _Shakespeare_:
Othello, the MOOR of Venice Act V scene ii
EMILIA By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen!-
O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Do with so good a wife?
[Iago stabs EMILIA, and the runs out]
OTHELLO Are there no stones in heaven,
But what serve for the THUNDER?--Precious villain!
GRATIANO The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife!
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DURING:
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http://castle.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/Oth/Oth_F/Oth_F5.2.html
Emil. By Heauen I do not, I do not Gentlemen:
Oh murd'rous Coxcombe, what should such a Foole
Do with so good a wife?
Oth. Are there no stones in Heauen,
But what serues for the THUNDER? [3530]
Precious Villaine.
Gra. The woman falles:
Sure he hath kill'd his Wife.
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AFTER:
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EMILIA By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Do with so good a woman?
OTHELLO Are there no stones in heaven
But what serve for the THUNDER?--Precious villain!
[He runs at IAGO IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit]
GRATIANO The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife.
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At least, Emilia gets to sing her Willough Swan song:
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Aemil. What did thy Song boad Lady?
Hearke, canst thou heare me? I will play the Swan,
And dye in Musicke: Willough, Willough, Willough.
Moore, she was chaste: She lou'd thee, cruell MOORE,
So come my Soule to blisse, as I speake true:
So speaking as I thinke, alas, I dye.
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THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Cant. VII.
Ah sad AEmylia (then sayd Amoret,)
Thy ruefull plight I pitty as mine owne.
But read to me, by what deuise or wit,
Hast thou in all this time, from him vnknowne
Thine honor sau'd, though into thraldome throwne?
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[The Bronte sisters] were born at Thornton
http://www.eagle.co.uk/Bronte/birthp.html.
Patrick Bronte their father was a YORKSHIRE clergyman with Irish
origins, and brought his family to the parsonage at the top of
the hill of Haworth village on the edge of the moor in 1820.
http://www.eagle.co.uk/Bronte/haworth.html
Mrs Bronte died the next year and the six children were
cared for by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell.
<<Though it was Charlotte who was the most famous and popular of the
sisters during her own lifetime, it is Emily's _Wuthering Heights_ that
is today considered the greatest contribution that the sisters made to
literature. It is the least autobiographical of any of the sisters'
writings, depending more on imagination than experience. It is the
story of two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their
relationships with HEATHcliffe, an orphan. In contrast to most Victorian
writing, it limited itself to the world of its characters, and was
more about what the characters thought and were than what they did.>>
http://www.applebookshop.co.uk/author/bronte.htm
Because of its strong male perspective many people believe that
_(W)uthering (H)eights_ was written by Patrick Branwell Bronte.
-Ency.Brit.
_The Tenant of (W)ildfell (H)all_ was written by Anne Bronte.
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T O.T H E. g
O N L I E. n
B E G E T i
T E R.O F. r
T H E S E. e
I N S V I h
N G.S O N t
N E T S Mr u
[W H]A L L. [W H]A L L
[H A]P P I i[H A]e
N E[S]S E. l e [S]a
A N D[T]H d i [T]t
A T.E T[E] f g [E]h
R N I T I e h
E P R O M l t
I S E D.B l s
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http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Charlotte-12.html#XVI
<<"My sister Emily first declined. . . . Never in all her life had she
lingered over any task that lay before her, and she did not linger now.
She sank rapidly. She made HASTE to leave us. . . . Day by day, when
I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an
anguish of wonder and love: I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed,
I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man
simpler than a child, her nature stood alone."
In fact, Emily never went out of doors after the Sunday
succeeding Branwell's death.>>
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HEATH => WASTE land
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HEATH, n. [OE. heth WASTE land, the plant HEATH, AS. h??; akin to D.& G.
heide, Icel. hei?r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field,
L. bu[cetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh?tra field.]
1. A low shrub ({Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris}), with minute evergreen
leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in
Great Britain for BROOMS, THATCH, beds for the poor, and for
heating ovens. It is also called {HEATHer}, and {ling}.
2. A place overgrown with HEATH; any cheerless tract of country
overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted HEATH. --Milton
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http://www.applebookshop.co.uk/author/bronte.htm
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pemb0738/emily.html
<<Charlotte and Emily were sent to Clergy Daughters' School at COWAN
Bridge in Lancashire, but they returned within a year. Charlotte
later modelled Lowood School (Jane Eyre) after COWAN Bridge.
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, along with their brother Branwell, had a
great deal of freedom to explore the surrounding moors, read widely,
& create worlds of their own. They wrote what has become known as the
"Bronte juvenilia," stories of imaginary worlds in miniature books.
Their first stories were of the GLASStown Confederacy, a fantasy world
inspired by a box of toy soldiers given to Branwell by his father. The
children later paired off, with Branwell and Charlotte writing about
the exotic Angria, while Emily and Anne wrote about Grondol.
Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels in 1842 at their aunt's
expense to learn German and improve their French. Charlotte fell
hopelessly in love with a professor at the school, an experience she
later immortalized in her first novel _The Professor_. When their
aunt died 8 months later, the sisters returned for the funeral.
In the autumn of 1845, Charlotte discovered some poems written by Emily.
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne soon realised they had all been secretly
writing verse. The next year, they published a book of poems at their
own expense entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
They only sold two copies of the book.
Charlotte's first novel _The Professor_ was rejected by publishers but
her second attempt, _Jane Eyre: an autobiography_, was an immediate
success in October, 1847. Several months later Anne's _Agnes Grey_ and
Emily(/'Ellis Bell')'s _(W)uthering (H)eights_ were published together
in three volumes. The popularity of the Bronte novels allowed Anne's
_The Tenant of (W)ildfell (H)all_ to be published shortly thereafter.
The next year was one of tragedy for the Bronte sisters. Their brother
Branwell, an unstable man with a history of drunkenness and opium use
died in September 1848. Emily then fell ill and died of tuberculosis
December 19, 1848. Anne soon followed, contracting tuberculosis
that same year and died May 28, 1849 in Scarborough.
Charlotte was left alone with her father, but later married in Haworth
Church, her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. They enjoyed a brief
happiness. Charlotte fell ill during pregnancy and died March 31, 1855.
Her husband continued to live with Patrick Bronte and was able
to get Charlotte's first novel, _The Professor_, published.
After Patrick's death, Nichols returned to his native Ireland.
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<<_AMELIA_, published in 1751, was Fielding's last novel and was not
up to his other work. Perhaps it was because by this time he was
a very sick man, suffering from asthma and jaundice as well as gout.
Fielding resigned as a magistrate and sailed for Portugal in 1754.
He died near Lisbon within two months of arriving.>>
http://www.uwm.edu/People/mrdunn/cream/other/fielding
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October 8 THESEIA: Festival honoring the hero Theseus.
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1008.htm
http://www.vaxxine.com/mgdsite/history/1008.HTM
October 8, 1085 St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.
October 8, 1600 _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ entered
in Stationers' Register.
October 8, 1754 Henry Fielding dies & is buried in Lisbon.
October 8, 1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor"
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<<Fielding studied law at Middle Temple and (after writing Joseph
Andrews & Tom Jones) was appointed Justice of the Peace for Middlesex &
Westminster. He deepened the conception of the office by his long
investigations into riots & robberies and by his determination to effect
reforms in crime prevention & police efficiency.>>
<<Fielding wrote 15 plays while in London; his _Tom Thumb_ was
famous for having made Jon. Swift laugh for only the 2nd time.
Fielding composed his play Don Quixote in 1727. Although not performed
until 1734, this farce/comedy reflects Fielding's early interest in the
novel and its potential to relate the knight's madness to the madness of
society in general. The play ends with an apostrophe to the audience:
"Since your madness is so plain / Each spectator / Of good nature /
With applause will entertain / His brother of La Mancha.">>
Cervantes & Shakspere die on 23 April 1616
Shakspere buried on 25 April 1616
Henry Fielding born at Wedmore, England on 22 April 1707 (O.S.)
Gulliver observes SUNRISE MERCURY TRANSIT on 25 April 1707 (O.S.)
ROBINSON Crusoe published on 25 April 1719
Daniel Defoe died in hiding on 26 April 1731
Dodgson met MAUDlin ALICE Liddell on 25 April 1856
Princess ALICE MAUD MARY born on 25 April 1843
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Art Neuendorffer
Roundtable
has not been found)
Anyway, thanks Mr. Neuendorffer for the Bronte stuff.
I love the Bronte sisters.
I read that Branwell swallowed fluid opium, if that's possible,
not knowing much about drugs, I can't tell.
I always thought the author of The Graduate movie took the name
Mrs. Robinson from the Branwell Bronte story.
Emily's last words were "Now you can fetch the pesty doctor if you
want" when she lay down on the sofa in the living room.
Her beloved dog Keeper lay outside her bedroom door for a year
after her death, then died too.
Keeper used to lie on her bed, and Emily would get very angry
about it, one day "boxing his eyes until they were swollen" (?!!!)
as punishment, and then weeping profusely and dabing them with
a cloth and cold water.
Emily was rather savage, and definitely closed-up, shy,
strange. When she was in Brussels with Charlotte, she was so
homesick, she got very ill, and had to return home, much to
Charlottes dismay, who was desperately in love with married
Monsieur Heger, the school principle, the man she based her
male hero on in Jane Eyre.
She wrote him endless letters which he didn't read, but tore
up and threw into the waste-basket, but his jealous wife took
them out and kept every one, stitching them together, and
thanks to her they are in the museum today.
But M. Heger preferred Emily, admiring her piano-playing, saying
Emily played like a man.
It's foolish to think Patrick Branwell wrote Wuthering Heights,
and I disagree that it is not very autobiographical. There is
this odd sado-maso passion in it, that makes me wonder how
Emily felt about Branwell. He was apparently the only person
she was "nice to" and she carried him up to bed when he came home
drunk.
Charlotte's last words were "Oh no, not now, now that I am so
happy!"
She was pregnant, but suffered from that illness that causes
pregnant women to vomit at length, so that no food or fluid
can remain in the body. Nowadays, in such a case, if medication
does not work, the pregnancy is terminated, because neither mother
nor child can survive.
Actually, her husband proved to be extremely possessive, and
Charlotte almost complained in a letter to a friend that no moment
of the day was her own any more. She began to write a last novel
called "Emma" which remained unfinished after 20 odd pages.
By the way, am I the only person who thinks Daphne du Maurier's
"Rebecca" is strongly influenced by Bronte's "Jane Eyre"?
The same seemingly cold, almost forbidding husband, the same
plain girl, the mad wife becomes two people: the dead wife and
the housekeeper who sets fire to the house...
Roundtable
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Neuendorffer
> thanks Mr. Neuendorffer for the Bronte stuff.
You are most welcome.
> I love the Bronte sisters.
Ménage á Trois?
> I read that Branwell swallowed fluid opium, if that's possible,
> not knowing much about drugs, I can't tell.
It's never too late to learn:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/downyourway/haworth_intro.shtml
<<The old apothecary shop, where Betty Hardacre was in the habit of
supplying Branwell Bronte with his laudanum (a derivative of opium), is
now a gift shop and guest house.>>
<<Laudanum, n. [Orig. the same wort as ladanum, ladbdanum: cf. F.
laudanum, It. laudano, ladano.] Tincture of opium, used for various
medical purposes. A fluid ounce of American laudanum should contain the
soluble matter of one tenth of an ounce avoirdupois of powdered opium
with equal parts of alcohol and water. English laudanum should have ten
grains less of opium in the fluid ounce.>>
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> I always thought the author of The Graduate movie took the
> name Mrs. Robinson from the Branwell Bronte story.
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Robinson Crusoe rescued: December 19, 1686
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> Emily's last words were "Now you can fetch the pesty doctor
> if you want" when she lay down on the sofa in the living room.
> Her beloved dog KEEPER lay outside her bedroom door for a year
> after her death, then died too.
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http://tudorhistory.org/calendar/gtitles.html
William Cecil, Lord Burghley
KEEPER of the Privy Seal 1559-1572
Lord TREASURER: 1572-1598
(attended daughter's funeral: June, 1588)
KEEPER of the Privy Seal 1590-1598
Emily Bronte died away from doctors
with only immediate family & KEEPER
her bulldog attending the funeral: DECEMBER 19, 1848
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http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/FamTree/deVere/17th.earl.oxford.html
Edward de Vere marries daughter of William Cecil, Lord Burghley:
Anne Cecil [age 15] on DECEMBER 19, 1571
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Anne Cecil = OPHELIA/OPALIA : DECEMBER 19
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The festival OPALIA, was observed on DECEMBER 19.
<<The major temple was of OPS Capitolina, on the Capitoline Hill,
where Caesar had located the TREASURY.>>
<<OPS (Opis) The Roman goddess of the earth as a source of fertility,
and a goddess of abundance and wealth in general (her name means
"PLENTY"). As goddess of harvest she is closely associated
with the god Consus. She is the sister and wife of Saturn.>>
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> Keeper used to lie on her bed, and Emily would get very angry
> about it, one day "boxing his eyes until they were swollen" (?!!!)
> as punishment, and then weeping profusely and dabing them with
> a cloth and cold water.
>
> Emily was rather savage, and definitely closed-up, shy,
> strange. When she was in Brussels with Charlotte, she was so
> homesick, she got very ill, and had to return home, much to
> Charlottes dismay, who was desperately in love with married
> Monsieur Heger, the school principle, the man she based her
> male hero on in Jane Eyre.
>
> She wrote him endless letters which he didn't read, but tore
> up and threw into the waste-basket, but his jealous wife took
> them out and kept every one, stitching them together, and
> thanks to her they are in the museum today.
>
> But M. Heger preferred Emily, admiring her piano-playing, saying
> Emily played like a man.
Apparently she did everything "like a man."
> It's foolish to think Patrick Branwell wrote Wuthering Heights,
> and I disagree that it is not very autobiographical. There is
> this odd sado-maso passion in it, that makes me wonder how
> Emily felt about Branwell. He was apparently the only person
> she was "nice to" and she carried him up to bed when he came home
> drunk.
>
> Charlotte's last words were
> "Oh no, not now, now that I am so happy!"
> She was pregnant, but suffered from that illness that causes
> pregnant women to vomit at length, so that no food or fluid
> can remain in the body. Nowadays, in such a case, if medication
> does not work, the pregnancy is terminated, because neither mother
> nor child can survive.
>
> Actually, her husband proved to be extremely possessive, and
> Charlotte almost complained in a letter to a friend that no moment
> of the day was her own any more. She began to write a last novel
> called "Emma" which remained unfinished after 20 odd pages.
>
> By the way, am I the only person who thinks Daphne du Maurier's
> "Rebecca" is strongly influenced by Bronte's "Jane Eyre"?
> The same seemingly cold, almost forbidding husband, the same
> plain girl, the mad wife becomes two people: the dead wife and
> the housekeeper who sets fire to the house...
Sounds reasonable to me.
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Emily's death
<<Many a time did Charlotte and Anne drop their SEWING, or cease from
their writing, to listen with wrung hearts to the failing step, the
laboured breathing, the frequent pauses, with which their sister climbed
the short staircase; yet they dared not notice what they observed, with
pangs of suffering even deeper than hers. They dared not notice it in
words, far less by the caressing assistance of a helping arm or hand.
They sat , still and silent.
"Nov. 23rd, 1848, I told you Emily was ill, . . . she resolutely refuses
to see a doctor; she will give no explanation of her feelings, she will
scarcely allow her feelings to be alluded to."
When a doctor had been sent for, and was in the very house, Emily
refused to see him. Her sisters could only describe to him what symptoms
they had observed; and the medicines which he sent she would not take,
denying that she was ill.
"Dec. 10th, 1848, ". . . she declares 'no poisoning doctor' shall come
near her,--I have written unknown to her, to an eminent physician in
London, giving as minute a statement of her case and symptoms as I could
draw up, and requesting an opinion. I expect an answer in a day or two.
But Emily was growing rapidly worse. I remember Miss Bronte's shiver at
recalling the pang she felt when, after having searched in the little
hollows and sheltered crevices of the moors for a lingering spray of
heather--just one spray, however withered--to take in to Emily, she saw
that the flower was not recognised by the dim and indifferent eyes. Yet,
to the last, Emily adhered tenaciously to her habits of independence.
She would suffer no one to assist her. Any effort to do so roused the
old stern spirit. One Tuesday morning, in December, she arose and
dressed herself as usual, making many a pause, but doing everything for
herself, and even endeavouring to take up her employment of SEWING. . .
"Tuesday. [Opalia Dec. 19th, 1848]
The morning drew on to noon. Emily was worse : she could only whisper in
gasps. Now, when it was too late, she said to Charlotte, "If you will
send for a doctor, I will see him now." About two o'clock she died.
"Dec. 21st, 1848, "Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She
never will suffer more in this world. She is gone, after a hard short
conflict. She died on Tuesday, the very day I wrote to you. I thought it
very possible she might be with us still for weeks; and a few hours
afterwards, she was in eternity. Yes; there is no Emily in time or on
earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under
the church pavement. We are very calm at present. Why should we be
otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of
the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is
at peace. No need now to tremble for the hard frost and the keen wind.
Emily does not feel them."
As the old, bereaved father and his two surviving children followed the
coffin to the grave, they were joined by Keeper, Emily's fierce,
faithful bull-dog. He walked alongside of the mourners, and into the
church, and stayed quietly there all the time that the burial service
was being read. When he came home, he lay down at Emily's chamber door,
and howled pitifully for many days. Anne Bronte drooped and sickened
more rapidly from that time; and so ended the year 1848.
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Anne's death
"[Anne] left her home May 24th, 1849--died May 28th
"The night was passed without any apparent accession of illness. She
rose at seven o'clock, and performed most of her toilet herself, by her
expressed wish. Her sister always yielded such points, believing it was
the truest kindness not to press inability when it was not acknowledged.
Nothing occurred to excite alarm till about 11 A.M. She then spoke of
feeling a change.' She believed she had not long to live. Could she
reach home alive, if we prepared immediately for departure?' A physician
was sent for. Her address to him was made with perfect composure. She
begged him to say ' How long he thought she might live;--not to fear
speaking the truth) for she was not afraid to die.' The doctor
reluctantly admitted that the angel of death was already arrived, and
that life was ebbing fast. She thanked him for his truthfulness, and he
departed to come again very soon.
With calmness, came the consideration of the removal of the dear remains
to their home resting-place. This melancholy task, however, was never
performed; for the afflicted sister decided to lay the FLOWER in the
place where it had fallen. She believed that to do so would accord with
the wishes of the departed. She had no preference for place. She thought
not of the grave, for that is but the body's goal, but of all that is
beyond it.
"Her remains rest,
'Where the south sun warms the now dear sod,
Where the ocean billows lave and strike the steep and turf-covered
rock.'"
Anne died on the Monday. On the Tuesday Charlotte wrote to her father ;
but, knowing that his presence was required for some annual Church
solemnity at Haworth, she informed him that she had made all necessary
arrangements for the interment and that the funeral would take place so
soon, that he could hardly arrive in time for it. The surgeon who had
visited Anne on the day of her death, offered his attendance, but it was
respectfully declined.>>
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Charlotte's death
<<Early on Saturday morning, March 31st [1855], the solemn tolling of
Haworth church-bell spoke forth the fact of her death to the villagers
who had known her from a child, and whose hearts shivered within them as
they thought of the two sitting desolate and alone in the old grey
house.
Few beyond that circle of hills knew that she, whom the nations praised
far off, lay dead that EASTER mooring [April fool's day?]. Of kith and
kin she had more in the grave to which she was soon to be borne, than
among the living. The two mourners, stunned with their great grief,
desired not the sympathy of strangers. One member out of most of the
families in the parish was bidden to the funeral; and it became an act
of self-denial in many a poor household to give up to another the
privilege of paying their last homage to her; and those who were
excluded from the formal train of mourners thronged the churchyard and
church, to see carried forth, and laid beside her own people, her whom,
not many months ago, they had looked at as a pale white bride, entering
on a new life with trembling happy hope.
Among those humble friends who passionately grieved over the dead, was a
village girl who had been seduced some little time before, but who had
found a holy sister in Charlotte. She had sheltered her with her help,
her counsel, her strengthening words; had ministered to her needs in her
time of trial. Bitter, bitter was the grief of this poor young woman,
when she heard that her friend was sick unto death, and deep is her
mourning until this day. A blind girl, living some four miles from
Haworth, loved Mrs. Nicholls so dearly that, with many cries and
entreaties, she implored those about her to lead her along the roads,
and over the moor-paths, that she might hear the last solemn words,
"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope
of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.">>
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Art Neuendorffer
Neuendorffer
> Roundtable wrote:
> > Emily's last words were "Now you can fetch the pesty doctor
> > if you want" when she lay down on the sofa in the living room.
> > Her beloved dog KEEPER lay outside her bedroom door for a year
> > after her death, then died too.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
Neuendorffer wrote:
> http://tudorhistory.org/calendar/gtitles.html
>
> William Cecil, Lord Burghley
>
> KEEPER of the Privy Seal 1559-1572
> Lord TREASURER: 1572-1598
> (attended daughter's funeral: June, 1588)
> KEEPER of the Privy Seal 1590-1598
>
> Emily Bronte died away from doctors
> with only immediate family & KEEPER
> her bulldog attending the funeral: DECEMBER 19, 1848
> Robinson Crusoe rescued: DECEMBER 19, 1686
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/FamTree/deVere/17th.earl.oxford.html
>
> Edward de Vere marries daughter of William Cecil, Lord Burghley:
>
> Anne Cecil [age 15] on DECEMBER 19, 1571
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Anne Cecil = OPHELIA/OPALIA : DECEMBER 19
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> The festival OPALIA, was observed on DECEMBER 19.
>
> <<The major temple was of OPS Capitolina, on the Capitoline Hill,
> where Caesar had located the TREASURY.>>
>
> <<OPS (Opis) The Roman goddess of the earth as a source of fertility,
> and a goddess of abundance and wealth in general (her name means
> "PLENTY"). As goddess of harvest she is closely associated
> with the god Consus. She is the sister and wife of Saturn.>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Keeper used to lie on her bed, and Emily would get very angry
> > about it, one day "boxing his eyes until they were swollen" (?!!!)
> > as punishment, and then WEEPING PROFUSELY and dabing them with
> > a cloth and cold water.
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Keeper
Treasurer
Will Cecil ----- Mildred Cooke
(Well Treacle) |
|
| Dec.19, 1571
Anne Cecil -------------- Edward de Vere (d. 1604)
| buried at Church of St. AUGUSTINE
|
Fire ----------------------- Water
Elizabeth \ / Susan
(b. July 2) \ / (b. May 26)
[Eagle/Edith] \ VERy - ILL / [Alice]
Cranmer \ (Dormouse) / Augustine (d. 604)
Globe (breeches) \ / baptism
\ / [Susannah Shak.
\ / /Moses 6 mo.]
\ /
\ /
\ /
Earth
Bridget
(b. April 6)
[Laura/Lorina]
1580 EARTHquake
Durer/Raphael
learning to Draw Treacle
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_Ulysses_ by Joyce
<<Break the news to her gently, Aubrey! I shall die!
With slit ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles
round the table, with trousers down at heels,
chased by Ades of MAGDALEN with the tailor's shears.
A scared calf's face gilded with MARMALADE.
I don't want to be debagged! Don't you play the giddy OX with me!
Shouts from the open window startling evening in the quadrangle.
A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face,>>
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The Liddell sisters: [E]dith, [A]lice, [R]hoda & [L]orina
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<<In 1855 Charles Dodgson began to teach at OXFORD. The same year,
the dean of the college died and his successor, Henry Liddell
arrived at the Deanery with his wife and four small children...
Harry, LORINA, ALICE and EDITH.
Four more children were born at OXFORD:
RHODA in 1858, Violet in 1864,
Eric in 1865 and Lionel in 1868.
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Art Neuendorffer
Peter Zenner
>Edward de Vere marries daughter of William Cecil, Lord Burghley:
>
> Anne Cecil [age 15] on DECEMBER 19, 1571
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Anne Cecil = OPHELIA/OPALIA : DECEMBER 19
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> The festival OPALIA, was observed on DECEMBER 19.
and for that I thank him. Now we know why Anne Cecil was dubbed
'Ophelia'. But I posted the following to hlas on June 30th --
>DerColin asked --
>>But -- is Hamlet really autobiographical (of Oxford)?
>No -- it's autobiographical of Essex. It all came to a head
>in 1588. Lettice Knollys is Gertrude and Robert Dudley,
>Earl of Leicester, is Claudius. The latter bumped off
>Walter Devereux, Essex' dad, in September,1576, at
>the age of 35. Lettice, the Countess of Essex, married
>Dudley on Sept. 21st, 1578, thus making him her son's
>step-father. The story was that he was actually the father;
>not Walter Devereux.
>Ophelia was Anne Cecil. (Don't forget that Essex was a
>ward of court under William Cecil). She died on June 5th,
>1588, at Greenwich Palace. She was age 31 and was
>"seized by a burning fever", which could be indicative of
>suicide by poisoning. Dudley died on September 24th,
>1588, and again poisoning was suspected.
>Marlowe, as Francis Bacon, was a supposed cousin of
>Anne Cecil and therefore was in a position to know the
>details. Unfortunately, Oxford was her husband and that
>gives the Oxfordians another chance to come back. :-)
>(Check the DNOB, 'Leicester's Commonwealth' and
>'Leicester's Ghost')
>The Ur-Hamlet has been dated to 1588 and so it ties in
>with the deaths of Anne Cecil and Robert Dudley.
Edward de Vere was not 'Hamlet'. Robert Devereux, Earl of
Essex, was. Walter Devereux had stressed on a couple of
occasions that he wanted his son to marry Anne Cecil. Lord
Burghley obviously thought that Oxford was a better catch.
Oxford thought that he had been cuckolded and refused to
accept that Anne's child, Elizabeth, born in July,1575, was his.
There must have been lots of shennanagins between Burghley's
daughters and all those wealthy young wards....
Peter Zenner
Visit my web site 'Zenigmas' at
http://www.pzenner.freeserve.co.uk