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The book "Mother of the Brontes" is a biography of Maria Branwell, mother of the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known. Sharon Wright has taken a giant step to present before the readers a literary piece that's worth reading.
The book “Mother of the Brontes” is a biography of Maria Branwell, mother of the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known. Sharon Wright has taken a giant step to present before the readers a literary piece that’s worth reading.
Author’s real triumph lies in bringing out this master piece as a 200th Anniversary special. The book will be most interesting for those eager to read and make a career in Literature.
The book is divided into 9 chapters with a foreword, epilogue, acknowledgement, appendix, bibliography and index. The title of the each chapter is quite befitting and it holds the essence of the whole chapter. Authors has painstakingly written the social, political, economical as well as the literary scene of the times. Readers will be happy to note that Maria is the contemporary of Jane Austen.
The book carries the enjoyable descriptions of Penzance, Georgian Architecture, Bran well Empire, clotted cream to name a few. I quote from page 9 “Unusually for the time, Methodists were keen to let women in on the act. Families such as Branwell educated their daughters as well as their sons.” This point puts forth the initiations for women’s education has started at that time itself. We all are grateful for Branwell’s forgives us many literary figures.
For Charlotte and Emily, the music came from their grandfather, I quote from page 24 “This talent may have included Music. Maria was “possessing more than the ordinary talents, which she inherited from her father…” while Mr Branwell, the father, according to his descendants account, was a man of musical talent. ”Lilian Oldham states that he played the violin in the parlour at home. This inheritance may explain Emily Bronte’s ability as a pianist, playing with precision and brilliancy according to Ellen Nussey.”
The book unfolds many incidences with the reminiscences of Ellen Nussey and Elizabeth Gaskell. The Author’s narration also captures the impact of the French Revolution, Britain’s war, family scandal in the life of Maria Branwell.
In Victorian times, the place of honour in the earliest period was given to Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte. Similarly, now Sharon Wright’s Mother of Brontes deserves a place of honour.
Image source: Cover of the book from audible.in
Anuradha Sowmyanarayanan is a Tutor, Blogger, poet, Book reviewer and a passionate reader. Her interest in reading &writing paved way for this blog way back in 2016. From her school days, she had won many read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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