Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes

Next time I need a “comics do in fact lead to other reading” anecdote for a concerned parent in a library, I’ll honestly be able to use myself as an example. Glynnis Fawkes’ pencil drawings really brought them all to life for me, and led me to read a bit more about the Brontës after I finished this book. I’ve read Jane Eyre and other books by Charlotte Brontë’s sisters, but had no idea about their lives. Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre (Center for Cartoon Studies Presents) di Glynnis Fawkes and Alison Bechdel e una grande selezione di libri, arte e articoli da collezione disponibile su. This is one of the times my love of comics leads me to learn about something I wouldn’t otherwise be interested in. Charlotte Bront before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes Illustrated by Glynnis Fawkes Foreword by Alison Bechdel Cover design or artwork by Glynnis Fawkes ebook Hardcover Trade Paperback 9. (Fawkes says in her notes that this was the only time the serious and reserved Brontë was ever in trouble at school, and explains how she made up that tale Brontë tells in the book.) My favorite moment in Brontë’s life story is when, as a student, she gets in trouble for scaring another girl with a story late at night in a school dormitory, when they’re all supposed to be asleep. Charlotte has ambitions of writing and publish, and this seems to carry her sisters along later in life as they struggle to work as teachers and governesses. She and her remaining sisters and brother have vivid imaginations and make up stories together.

Her father sent her to school, hoping to make her into a teacher and prepare her for her future. The story then flashes back to her family life at Haworth Parsonage where, as a child, she lost not only her mother but her two older sisters in the space of a few years. This graphic novel opens in 1837 with Charlotte Brontë receiving a letter from Robert Southey warning her against writing for celebrity.

92pp plus a postscript, discussions of source material for pages, and a bibliography. Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes.

Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes