If Emily Bronte were alive she'd probably be climbing Mount Everest or flying to the moon as an astronaut or who knows... My point is..this lady was TOUGH.
It is not easy to diagnose a dead person and especially someone you have never known. However all the Brontes didn't fell comfortable in the presence of others, they were shy and reclusive. They kind of never fitted in. Charlotte was a little braver because she wanted to communicate and Ann was more practical, but Emily didn't seem to need the company of others except her brother and sister and her family circle.
Consumption was a kind of catch-all term, though I've heard it mostly associated with tuberculosis. Milk was not pasturized, and children were not universally vaccinated. Keats died of tuberculosis, which is truly a slow, painful and terrible death. Considering how easily TB can be spread, it's not that surprising that Anne caught it too.
i have read several things about emily in the internet,that is ,she was an egotist ,leaving her siblings working in harsh conditions,while she stayed at home ,enjoying her loneliness.I can not believe it.Is this true ?
You will read many unfair opinions about both Charlotte and Emily.My opinion is that simply Emily had psychosomatic symptoms whenever she left home.While she was at Roe Head her health failed her.Charlotte sent her home because she didn't bear to lose another sister.Emily left home another 2 times: to teach to a school (that was near 8 months I think) & to go to Brussels with Charlotte for a year.She was also acting as a housekeeper for her father when at home so in a way she worked.
She said that no doctor was going to poison her. I believe it was mainly a personal choice. In her era tuberculosis was a fatal disease, so perhaps she didn't want to spend her last days as a sick person.
@koljenny The main treatment for tuberculosis was segregation, in a sanitorium. A fair portrait of the treatment of the time, and the disease itself is Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain."
Did not Emily die quietly on the couch in the parsonage sitting room? In the parsonage, a sign says that she lay there saying she didn't need help, and then died quietly.
I only know that her last words to Charlotte were "If you send for the doctor, I will see him now". I don't know if they were all present to her death.
Do you know if the parts were Rev Bronte is speaking as an old man are taken from letters of his or just made up for the documentary? Parts of his comments I know are from his letters but some parts I don't remember?
In 6:21 Nichols could not have brought the magazine with the article about Acton Bell. He was not aware even a year after Shirley was published that Charlotte was Currer Bell, so since Anne died before Shirley was fully written, he didnt know anything about their professional life. It was introduced as a scene only to show how thoughtful Nichols was always towards Charlottes family.
Is the narration taken from actual journals--are those their actual words?
RLviddy 8 months ago
If Emily Bronte were alive she'd probably be climbing Mount Everest or flying to the moon as an astronaut or who knows... My point is..this lady was TOUGH.
jposh707 1 year ago 6
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Yes, she was, LOL!
ksotikoula 1 year ago
which was the cause of these symptoms? why did she have them?
koljenny 1 year ago
@koljenny
It is not easy to diagnose a dead person and especially someone you have never known. However all the Brontes didn't fell comfortable in the presence of others, they were shy and reclusive. They kind of never fitted in. Charlotte was a little braver because she wanted to communicate and Ann was more practical, but Emily didn't seem to need the company of others except her brother and sister and her family circle.
ksotikoula 1 year ago
@koljenny consumption looked it up after thinking it was a bacterial infection is now called Tuberculosis
2SIXimixedBABIES 1 year ago
@koljenny
Consumption was a kind of catch-all term, though I've heard it mostly associated with tuberculosis. Milk was not pasturized, and children were not universally vaccinated. Keats died of tuberculosis, which is truly a slow, painful and terrible death. Considering how easily TB can be spread, it's not that surprising that Anne caught it too.
Chrisiant 10 months ago
i have read several things about emily in the internet,that is ,she was an egotist ,leaving her siblings working in harsh conditions,while she stayed at home ,enjoying her loneliness.I can not believe it.Is this true ?
koljenny 1 year ago
@koljenny
You will read many unfair opinions about both Charlotte and Emily.My opinion is that simply Emily had psychosomatic symptoms whenever she left home.While she was at Roe Head her health failed her.Charlotte sent her home because she didn't bear to lose another sister.Emily left home another 2 times: to teach to a school (that was near 8 months I think) & to go to Brussels with Charlotte for a year.She was also acting as a housekeeper for her father when at home so in a way she worked.
ksotikoula 1 year ago
Why did not Emily want any medical help?
koljenny 2 years ago
She said that no doctor was going to poison her. I believe it was mainly a personal choice. In her era tuberculosis was a fatal disease, so perhaps she didn't want to spend her last days as a sick person.
ksotikoula 2 years ago
@ksotikoula Well, what could a doctor have done. TB was fatal in those days.
stefan103 3 weeks ago
@koljenny The main treatment for tuberculosis was segregation, in a sanitorium. A fair portrait of the treatment of the time, and the disease itself is Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain."
Chrisiant 10 months ago
Did not Emily die quietly on the couch in the parsonage sitting room? In the parsonage, a sign says that she lay there saying she didn't need help, and then died quietly.
guv859 2 years ago
I only know that her last words to Charlotte were "If you send for the doctor, I will see him now". I don't know if they were all present to her death.
ksotikoula 2 years ago
Oh! I hate how so many great artists like Anne die not knowing how much they did do good in their lives and that their art lives on. ;(.
I wish the doc had included parts of Anne's written response to her sexist critics!
iamme611 2 years ago 2
Yes that preface was pretty awesome. Simple yet powerful. Charlotte comments to her publisher that she liked it too.
ksotikoula 2 years ago
Do you know if the parts were Rev Bronte is speaking as an old man are taken from letters of his or just made up for the documentary? Parts of his comments I know are from his letters but some parts I don't remember?
iamme611 2 years ago
I really don't know if there are many letters of his that have been saved or they just made into dialogues things that we know about him.
ksotikoula 2 years ago
In 6:21 Nichols could not have brought the magazine with the article about Acton Bell. He was not aware even a year after Shirley was published that Charlotte was Currer Bell, so since Anne died before Shirley was fully written, he didnt know anything about their professional life. It was introduced as a scene only to show how thoughtful Nichols was always towards Charlottes family.
ksotikoula 2 years ago