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Bronte family --- Bronte, Charlotte, --- Bronte, Emily, --- Homes and haunts --- Brontë family --- Brontë, Charlotte, --- Brontë, Emily, --- Brontë family. --- Bronte, Charlotte, - 1816-1855 - Homes and haunts - Belgium - Brussels. --- Bronte, Emily, - 1818-1848 - Homes and haunts - Belgium - Brussels. --- Bronte, Charlotte, - 1816-1855 --- Bronte, Emily, - 1818-1848

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"The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Brontë siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Brontë enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Gérin believing that full understanding of the Brontës required total immersion in their environment. Gérin's childhood and youth, like the Brontës, was characterised by a cultured home and an intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination: polyglot parents, French history, the Crystal Palace, Old Vic productions. Winifred's years at Newnham College, Cambridge were enlivened by such eccentric characters as the legendary lecturer Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Lytton Strachey's sister Pernel, and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eugène Gérin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, during which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Vichy France, and escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for the Political Intelligence Department near Bletchley Park. After Eugène's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement by writing poetry and plays until discovering her true literary metier on her visit to Haworth"--

Women biographers --- Biography as a literary form. --- Gérin, Winifred. --- Brontë family. --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Biographers --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Lock, Winifred Gérin

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« Mes amies m'ont conseillé [...] de postposer l'ouverture de l'école de six mois, et [...] de passer cette période dans une école sur le continent. [...] Je n'irais pas en France ou à Paris. J'irais à Bruxelles, en Belgique [...] la vie là-bas est pratiquement la moitié moins chère qu'en Angleterre, et les possibilités d'éducation sont égales, voire supérieures à n'importe quel endroit en Europe. » - Charlotte Brontë, Lettre à Elizabeth Branwell, 29 septembre 1841. En 1842, Charlotte et Emily Brontë, dont les romans respectifs Jane Eyre et Les Hauts de Hurlevent compteront parmi les plus importants de la littérature, quittent les landes du Yorkshire pour Bruxelles. Âgées d'une petite vingtaine d'années, toutes deux souhaitent perfectionner leurs connaissances en langues, principalement le français, en vue d'ouvrir une école pour jeunes filles. Le Pensionnat de demoiselles Héger-Parent les accueille ; Emily y demeure un an et Charlotte deux. Bien que brève, cette expérience bruxelloise va marquer leur vie et leur oeuvre. Celle de Charlotte surtout, dont le secret attachement pour son professeur et cette vie loin des siens lui inspireront deux romans : Le Professeur et Villette. Riche de nombreux extraits (romans, lettres, « devoirs »), certains écrits en français par les Brontë, et d'une iconographie choisie, cet ouvrage retrace le séjour à Bruxelles de deux immenses talents, alors prêts à éclore. S'y révèle aussi, en filigrane, le portrait d'une ville européenne, capitale de la Belgique ; un tout jeune pays, créé à peine dix ans plus tôt.

Brontë, Emily Jane --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Brussels --- Brontë (Famille) --- Brontë (Geslacht) --- Brontë family --- Homes and haunts --- Belgium --- Brussels (Belgium) --- Bronte, Emily --- Littérature --- Histoire --- 19e siècle --- Bruxelles --- Brontë, Emily