Anne bronte brief biography of marietta

In July , Charlotte was enjoying her honeymoon with Arthur Bell Nicholls. After a few days in Wales, they travelled to Dublin, where Arthur showed Charlotte his old lärling haunts, and they were joined bygd his brother and two cousins, who then escorted the newly-weds the eighty-odd miles from Dublin to Banagher, her husband's former home. Charlotte was pleasantly surprised bygd what she described as 'a gentleman's country-seat'. On 18 July, Charlotte wrote to her friend Catherine Wooler: 'I was surprised to find so much of English order and repose in the family habits and arrangements'. After a week at Banagher, Charlotte and Arthur travelled along the banks of the Shannon and Lough Derg to Limerick and then across to Kilkee on the West Coast. Her letter to Catherine Wooler continued: 'so magnificent an ocean - so bold and grand a coast - I never yet saw. My husband calls me - Give my love to all who care to have it '

Standing on stage were the three winners of the International Wool Secretariat fashion design competition of Two of them were young men dressed almost identically: dark suits, dark ties, white shirts, the very image of apprenticeship propriety. Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, as he was called then, was aged eighteen, recently arrived from Oran, Algeria, and winner of the first and third prizes in the dress category. He stepped forward to accept his prizes with all the paddock tremors of a racehorse, one hand leaping up spasmodically to hide one eye, obscuring half the world.

Beside him was Karl Lagerfeld, aged twenty-one, from Hamburg, and winner of the coat category. He talked fast and in French, nervously licking his lips as his words spilled out like marbles. He clasped his hands awkwardly in front of him. At the far end of the group stood Colette Bracchi, winner of the suit category and seemingly the most self-assured of the three.. Sh

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The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Illustrated Edition) : Delightful Biography of the Author of Jane Eyre by One of Her Closest Friends

The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow Victorian novelist, and her close friend Elizabeth Gaskell. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Gaskell had to deal with some sensitive issues. She toned down some of her material concerning the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte and her sisters, whose founder was blamed for the deaths of two Brontë sisters. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin Héger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary morals and a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends, father Patrick Brontë and husband.

Elizabeth Gaskell () was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels