Talk:Charlotte Brontë

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[edit] Northern Ireland

What connections did she have with Northern Ireland?

Her father was born Patrick Brunty, the son of a farm labourer, in Northern Ireland. However he seemed ashamed of his origins so went to England, never to return, and changed his name to the less Irish sounding Bronte.

[edit] answers

I just did a report on Charlotte, who is one of my favorite authors and found that her child did die along with Charlotte during pregnancy. Also I think Charlottes father Patrick came from Ireland to England

[edit] The Tales of the Genii?

Is that supposed to be Genji, and not Genii? I have never heard of a Genii, while I have read parts of the Tales of the Genji, not to mention that there is an article on the Genji.

Is Genii, is the way that the sisters named her own appearances on their juvenilia.

[edit] Charlotte Bronte's child

You might have noticed that Charlotte Bronte Died in the early stages of preganancy and not childbirth. None of her immediate family had children. Most of them died before or during their mid twenties, and none save she were married

[edit] Pensionnat?

The title says it all. What does this word mean? Dictionary.com doesn't have it nor does my dictionary. Davhorn 00:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

The Oxford English Dictionary has this as a definition: "a small hotel in France or other European countries (origin: French)" Yallery Brown 21:29, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

It was the Pennsionat Héger in Belgium. Normally, Brontë scholars and biographers always use the French name.

[edit] Genre

Novel isn't a genre is it? Shouldn't it be edited to be romance? Anbellofe 23:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Governess Charlotte Bronte

Under the occupation subsection with her portrait it is said that she was a governess. Is there anybody with any knowledge of this that could either verify it and/or elaborate about it in her biography? I can see what I can do, but if somebody with a fair amount of knowledge surrounding her could help out or take charge of it that would be wonderful! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Etni3s (talk • contribs) 20:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC).

  • The article already states "In 1839 she took up the first of many positions as governess to various families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841." I'm not convinced we need to know more than that.

Yallery Brown 20:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] proposed new external link

I'd like to add a link like:

to the 'External Links' section. This links to a list of Brontë works that you can download to read on a cell phone. I have read quite a few from this site and got a lot of value out being able to read the PD texts away from the PC.

The texts are Public Domain in the US, just like Project Gutenberg, they are packaged with the reader and available under a creative commons licence (share if (attribution, non-commercial, no derivative) ). The site is non-commercial without registration, subscription, or advertising. The texts as packaged together with the reader as a java program that runs on cell phones, this is a way for people to access the authors work that adds to the range in the existing external links (hopefully translating to more reading going on).

I checked WP:EL and the link seems appropriate:

  • What should be linked: '...should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.'
  • Links normally to be avoided: it seems only #8 might apply; 'Direct links to documents that require external applications (such as Flash or Java) to view the relevant content...'. The site lets you download java programs that only run on a J2ME environment, this means most/all current cell phones. So although they are limited to being read on a phone they do add an access method to all the others in the existing External Links, in the same way that LibriVox adds a format but requires an mp3 player.

Filomath 13:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Maria/Elizabeth DoB error

There is an error in the paragraph relating to the DoBs of Maria and Elizabeth Bronte. Maria was the eldest sister, not Elizabeth.

Beth 21 September 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.206.82 (talk) 19:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] question...

The article says she is a lesbian, and that she became "deeply attached" to her boss, Constantin Heger. Do I have a "dirty mind"? Deeply attached -- is it not a euphemism for a crush, or an affair? A crush or an affair on a married man would make her bisexual, no? Not a lesbian?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 15:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Correction

Charlotte traveled to Brussels, Belgium with both of her sisters, Emily and Anne, to study at the Pennsionat Heger. The article is incorrect in stating she traveled with only Emily for the purpose of teaching. There they studied under Constantin Heger and learned French and German, and also studied literature. This was done with the intent to start their own school, which Charlotte attempted upon return to Haworth but was unsuccessful in doing so.


The source of information used for these corrections can be found at www.online-literature.com/brontec/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.174.6.108 (talk) 07:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)