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2026-04-27 09:40 UTC
@paranoiapen@mas.to >and Woolf sees this as a flaw in the work, because she sees in this passage the author's voice taking over and intruding to cry out about her own pain, instead of focusing on Jane's.
I disagree about it being a flaw - I loved that passage when I read it for the same reasons Woolf dislikes it, and I identified with the feeling. But I agree that it is there because of the limitations imposed on Charlotte Bronte, and she would have written differently if she'd had more security and>
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@rubyjones@wandering.shop 2026-04-27 09:42
@paranoiapen@mas.to >freedom in her own life. The Bronte sisters' work is full of that pain, and I think that's part of why we remember them. But they would have written different (and probably more) works if they had been men. Anyway - apologies for unloading my thoughts on you, I have many of them and am pretty passionate about this work 😅