How the hell did these chicks get so good at writing?
>>24110959there was nothing else to do
>>24110959didn't have shit else to do
Fuck, Marry, Kill?
>>24110959they had booktok instead of tiktok as in they had a library growing up not an ipad.
>>24110959I keep emailing my local university asking for funding to recruit three autistic girls to live with me in a remote mansion on a wild moor, so as to observe how their literary powers develop in isolation (I have a theory), but so far they haven't responded. No wonder the humanities are dying.
>>24110984good luck getting the funding for something like that in current economy ..
>>24110959I don't particularly care for the Brontës
Have yet to read something besides some of Emily's poems. Those are actually pretty good. But very womanish (well, makes sense, right?). I've tried to read Wuthering Heights before but stopped at the first pages. Not sure why. I do have a bit of prejudice as I've seen lots of feminists praise it just by being written by women. But that's my fault. I should read it sooner or later. But answering your question I'm a bit astonished that we did not have many female writters considering the XVIII-early XX life. I mean, there was pretty much nothing to do besides walking, reading, playing piano/whatever and chatting. An upper middle class/upper class woman had lots of spare time. We should have had more than them, Emily Dickinson and the other half a dozen famous ones. Nowadays they just browse instagram.
>>24110968Yes
>>24111134"An example of such lies inWollstonecraft’s resolute criticism of the way (young) women, mostly of a “genteel life”,choose to amuse themselves and employ their talents in card games – a diversion thatbrings no true value or development to their characters, nor to their educationalexperiences. “Cards are the universal refuge to which the idle and the ignorant resort,to pass life away, and to keep their inactive souls awake, by the tumult of hope and fear”(366), the author declares, further describing how such games corrupt their minds and“sour their temper”."Even then people chose what to do with their lives and time. But yes, they were not as free as men nor as free as anyone in a demideveloped country nowadays.
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>>24110982preach, dad
>>24111093>I'm a bit astonished that we did not have many female writters considering the XVIII-early XX life. I mean, there was pretty much nothing to do besides walking, reading, playing piano/whatever and chatting. An upper middle class/upper class woman had lots of spare time.You forgot the part where their heads are all full of air.
>>24111093>I'm a bit astonished that we did not have many female writters considering the XVIII-early XX life. I mean, there was pretty much nothing to do besides walking, reading, playing piano/whatever and chatting.picrel should be your next read it talks about this exact thing
>>24112848Is there a biological explanation for this? I would ask Claude but I'd get some boilerplate lies.
>>24112848few women were well educated enough to pull it off, probably even too shy or embarrassed to try, i suspect though that many women wrote private poems and letters to friends, nothing remarkable, sort of like the equivalent of social media posting today
honestly, part of it was that they must've been unusually brilliantwuthering heights is so modernist it dizzies me
Novels are essays for women. When men start writing them it is a sign of decline.
>>24114161Emily and Charlotte in particular were both exceptionally talented and ahead of their time.Wuthering Heights is proto-modernism and Jane Eyre is proto-20th century Feminism.
>>24115647damn, it gives me shivers. always gets me weepy remembering how young they all died. def need to add WH to the reread stack
