Bronte Sisters勃朗特姐妹

English moors- Heather
勃朗特姐妹故居位于约克郡Bradford（布拉福 德）西北部的Haworth（霍华斯）小镇。
Haworth是那种典型的英格兰小镇，放眼望过去都是那种英国四处可见 熟悉的山谷，绿色的牧场，灰紫色的荒原，还有纵横的石头矮墙。天空 中下起了细雨，厚厚的灰云压着远方的山峦。勃朗特姐妹似乎成了这里 的标志，商店、酒吧、公司几乎全以勃朗特命名。
The Bronte Sisters
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Charlotte Bronte (1818-1848) Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
Charlotte Brontё Jane Eyre 《简．爱》
Emily Brontё Wuthering Height 《呼啸山庄》
• He was never rich as curate but made a reasonable living as permanent curate in Haworth.
Her father
• He was a typical Victorian father that left the household in the hands of his sister-in-law who was tasked to look after the children. • His neglect meant the children were left to their own resources from infancy and were largely isolated. • They formed deep emotional ties with each other and created a world of imagination that was far real to them than any outside world could be. • Raised in Spartan simplicity becos of their ‗poverty‘, they found excitement and novelty in a world of ideas, not things.
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Novelist and Poet. Charlotte was the daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bronte,with her sisters Emily and Anne, Charlotte was brought up in a small parsonage in the Yorkshire village of Haworth. Whilst still in her childhood the Bronte sisters lost their mother and as the eldest Charlotte took up the a role of looking out for her sisters Emily and Anne. Charlotte was described as: "the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters,"
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Her Father
• Her father Patrick was a Church of England clergyman who had emigrated from Ireland. • The oldest son of an Irish labourer, he had to struggle very hard to educate himself. • Entered Cambridge (St John‘s College) to read theology and became a ‗gentleman‘.
从一楼上到二楼的走廊上悬挂着其弟为她三姐妹画的肖像画，看看三姐 妹当时正值妙龄，意态高贵典雅，三个人都非常漂亮，这张照片是在夏 洛蒂的房间里拍摄的，墙正中悬挂的便是她的画像，艾米丽便是死在旁 边的这个沙发上的。
这张照片是故居中的厨房，艾米丽经常在这里试新的菜谱，为家 人做各种点心、面包。
• The village stocks are to the right of the steps leading to the parish church (the Church of St. Michael and All Angels) where the Brontes' father, Patrick, was the curate. • The Bronte family are not buried in the churchyard but in a vault beneath the church itself. • Anne Bronte, the youngest of the three sisters, died in Scarborough and is buried in St. Mary's churchyard, overlooking the sea. • All died of tuberculosis at a young age. Charlotte (18161855) was 38, Emily (1818-1848) died aged 30, and Anne was only 29 when she died in 1849. • Patrick outlived all his family and died in 1861 at the age of 84. • There were three other children in the family apart from the famous authors - Maria 1814-1825, Elizabeth 18151825 and his only son, Branwell 1817-1848.
故居与教堂墓地之间的石径不过五六十米，一如勃朗特姊妹短暂的生 命历程，而其内涵却是深邃而丰富的。教堂是三姐妹的父亲布道的地 方，夏洛蒂的婚礼也是在这里举行的（她嫁给了她父亲的助手，也是 一名牧师，不过婚后八个月就去世了）。勃朗特三姐妹都挺短命的， 分别活了３９岁、３０岁和２９岁。夏洛蒂已经是三姐妹中最长寿的
Father’s influence
• he was also a published if unsuccessful writer • he had written poems and short tales – 5 volumes in all. • => may have influenced his children’s literary ambitions.
Haworth（霍华斯）小镇
Bronte Parsonage (牧师公馆 )
The Bronte Birthplace
以前认为勃朗特姐妹家庭并不富裕，父亲也只是一个小牧师而已。但勃朗特姐妹故居之行， 彻底改变了这种印象。三姐妹的父亲虽然是牧师，但也绝不是那种没文化的人，她们的父亲 16岁就考取奖学金进了剑桥。勃朗特故居，一幢两层楼的英式宅子，一个干净朴素的花园， 和小镇上其他房子比起来，显得相当富足。故居上下两层楼，几十间房间，专门还有佣人房 间，通过介绍也可以看到家里每时每刻都至少有两个仆人。三姐妹又学法语、德语、音乐、 弟弟也是学绘画的、大钢琴摆在房间里。看一下当年姐妹们的衣饰，估计她们的家境在当时 怎么都要算是中产阶级啊。
Father’s influence
• He was largely self-taught and was in the habit of developing his intellect in isolation (a trait his children shared). • heowed an unusual number of newspapers and periodicals which undoubtedly enriched the cultural lives of his children. • =>the Bronte children were better informed about current events then many of their more conventionally educated contemporaries.
Father’s influence
• His rapid rise to the status of gentleman albeit poor man in an age of still rigid social divisions was nothing short of miraculous => his daughters’ sensitivity to social status and their ambition & perseverance in pursuing a writing career.
Tres cosas irrevocables para la Vida son:
y las oportunidades ...
El orgullo ...
La arrogancia ...
Y tu destino ...
La autoestima
North Yorkshire Moors
• Haworth, an attractive village in West Yorkshire, is in an area often called Bronte country because of its association with the Bronte authors - Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and Anne Bronte. • The family moved to the Haworth parsonage in 1820, which is now the Bronte Parsonage Museum. • The main street with the Black Bull public house on the right, a regular drinking haunt of Branwell, their brother. • Branwell was an alcoholic and an opium addict, addictions that ultimately led to his death at the age of 31.