One set of lithographs, produced in 2002 and published in book form in 2004, gives us Jane Eyre from Paula's perspective. Paula Rego was a Portuguese-British artist who produced artworks inspired by fairytale, storybooks and literature, often reflecting girlhood and feminism and her Portuguese heritage. So it's fascinating when we get a glimpse into someone else's imaginary world and can look at how their interpretation is different to our own. This landscape infuses Charlotte Brontë's work and as a reader, we build a whole world of sights, sounds and smells, from her words. Emily embarked on her future masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, Anne penned Agnes Gray, and Charlotte composed her first novel, The Professor. Her own greatest novel, Jane Eyre, is celebrated in its own right as a seminal gothic romance that is still widely read and, in its numerous film adaptations. By Karen Swallow Prior The actress Joan Fontaine as. You can experience both the openness and opportunity and the confinement and bleakness that made their way into Charlotte's works and those of her sisters, Emily and Anne. Charlotte Bront’s 1847 novel helped introduce the idea of the modern individuala surprisingly radical concept for readers at the time. You can visit the family home at the Brontë Parsonage Museum - 'a historic, intimate space' - and then walk up onto the moor and smell the heather and watch the weather move in. With its steep cobbled and narrow streets neighbouring vast moorland spaces, Brontë’s setting is at the same time claustrophobic and confining yet overwhelmingly open.
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