Posts Tagged ‘Charlotte Bronte’
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2026 – the year of poetry and change
My colleague and I learnt that this year is the last year we will be teaching the Certificate IV Professional Writing and Editing course at Gipps TAFE as the course is going to be axed. It’s a sad thing – I’ve been teaching there for over twenty years. When I started we were face-to-face, the ...
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Rebecca in 5 Bites
1. If you think about opening a story with a dream, think again. Daphne du Maurier’s opening of Rebecca has it down to perfection. Mrs de Winter the second’s dream of Manderley combines the surrealism of the dreamscape with a carefully crafted sensory exploration of the wild encroaching on civilisation. The descriptions of the garden ...
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Jane Eyre in 5 bites
Why read Jane Eyre? 1. For Jane herself – a rebellious woman From the opening of Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel, we’re batting for Jane. We first see her, an outsider to the group of ‘contented, happy little children’ grouped winningly around their mamma, sounding like a Victorian family portrait exuding virtue – Jane, the ...