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I think it might be hard to overestimate just how revolutionary this book might have been when it was published. I have not yet read as widely as I intend of 18th and 19th century British literature, but I know that Jane Austen (whose writing I'm most familiar with) would not have gone into this level of detail about vices and the cruelty they may cause. And to have a wife leave her husband, taking his child, must really have been scandalous in that time when both wife and child were a man's pro
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This was my year for reading Anne Bronte. Based on what I've read, I like Charlotte a bit better but definitely prefer Anne's books to Emily's. It may be my modern sensibilities and today's climate of being hyper aware of men who can't seem to realize when there attentions aren't wanted, but initially I had a hard time reading the book through Gilbert's perspective. The book is supposed to be about Helen and for the longest time we only get to know her though his point of view. His reactions to
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Jun 02, 2015
Angela
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There are two BBC adaptations of this book, one from 1968 and another from 1996; I must see them both. Who's watching with me?!!! :-)
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Sep 02, 2010
Laura
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The Lady Anna
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