Edna O'Brien reads a tragic letter from Charlotte Brontë written just after Emily Brontë's death
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Charlotte Brontë was the eldest of the Brontë sisters, three siblings whose novels--Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Halls, to name but three--are now considered classics. In 1848, Emily died from tuberculosis; she was just 30 years old. A few days after her death, Charlotte wrote to her publisher.
Legendary Irish novelist Edna O'Brien joined us to read the letter in March 2016 at Letters Live at the Freemasons' Hall, London.
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To be able to right so eloquently about her sibling's death, just days afterwards, is incredible. I doubt I'd be able to form more than simple sentences. Beautiful and heart-breaking.
That was lovely. She read that with the style and grace perfectly befitting the subject.
This was beautiful! Ms O’Brien read this wonderfully.
Wow. What a beautiful letter. It breaks my heart.
What a lovely letter and reading. Thank you. I am sad for her sisters passing but also glad that she no longer is in pain and torment that tb could be. Her letter made my sad but happy, not the right word but another escapes me, that her sister is in a far better situation now....she did love her sister so much..
Unable are the love to die for love is immortality….Emily Dickson ❤️ 🕊️🕊️
An exemplary example of the deeply human consolation offered by true literature, read with perfect inflection by the Sibyline Edna.
Wow. No words.
And I thought Dickens could write.