{"id":112,"date":"2013-08-12T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/08\/12\/what-did-charlotte-bronte-think-of-jane-austen\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:27:00","slug":"what-did-charlotte-bronte-think-of-jane-austen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/08\/12\/what-did-charlotte-bronte-think-of-jane-austen\/","title":{"rendered":"What did Charlotte Bronte think of Jane Austen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7a8O7Myw9xE\/UgMT6B6to1I\/AAAAAAAAF3M\/1wRpYYm8PLg\/s1600\/Heathcliff+vs+Darcy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7a8O7Myw9xE\/UgMT6B6to1I\/AAAAAAAAF3M\/1wRpYYm8PLg\/s400\/Heathcliff+vs+Darcy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"140\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A Bronte Rogue or \u00a0an Austenian Gentleman?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cI had not seen\u00a0<i>Pride and Prejudice<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00364K6YW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00364K6YW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=tamasta-20\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">with Colin Firth as Darcy<\/span><\/a> till I had read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerrotyped [photographed] portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck [stream]. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And you thought only contemporary authors could be snarky! \u00a0(More <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/408384\/jane-austens-most-famous-trolls-critics-and-doubters\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Considering Bronte had been told to write like Austen, she might have been justified for being a bit miffed. She decided to go a step further and slam her rival in classic nineteenth century style.<\/p>\n<p>Was this more than writerly rivalry, though? Does it represent a real difference in what kind of writing &#8212; \u00a0and what kind of hero &#8212; or indeed, what kind of\u00a0society, is preferable? Bronte was a Romantic, who idealized the violent passions, whereas Austen captured the aspirations of the nascent middle class. Both were rebels, I think, against the existing order, but Austen&#8217;s heroines were\u00a0determined\u00a0to conquer the class divisions of the old system through sense and sensibility, whereas Bronte heros were more likely to burn it to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronte Rogue or \u00a0an Austenian Gentleman? \u201cI had not seen\u00a0Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth as Darcy till I had read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerrotyped [photographed] portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,93,111,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlotte-bronte","category-colin-firth-as-darcy","category-darcy-vs","category-jane-austen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}