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October 27, 2015 8:35 AM Subscribe
Charlotte Brontë sketch identified as self-portrait. [The Guardian]
A sketch of a woman’s head by Charlotte Brontë, previously thought to be of another pupil drawn while the author was at boarding school in Brussels, has been identified as a self-portrait. The literary biographer Claire Harman said the drawing, which she suggests shows Brontë looking into a mirror, preceded the novel Jane Eyre, in which the protagonist also draws herself in a similar fashion. The sketch dates from 1843, four years before Brontë published Jane Eyre, one of English literature’s great masterpieces, and when the young writer was suffering the agonies and insecurities of unrequited love.
Look at that sketch... just look at it!
Bronte was the original snark!
posted by markkraft at 8:54 AM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
Bronte was the original snark!
posted by markkraft at 8:54 AM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
Related: Self portraits of 20 famous authors. (Who'd have thought Bukowski pictured himself as a Ziggy?)
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:56 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:56 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
It looks like Kate Beaton's work. And I look forward to Kate Beaton's depiction of this story.
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:03 AM on October 27, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:03 AM on October 27, 2015 [10 favorites]
Jorge Luis Borges, after he was blind...
Oh, come on.
posted by Segundus at 9:04 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh, come on.
posted by Segundus at 9:04 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
I need car window decals of Charlotte Brontë smirking at a Ford logo, Osama bin Laden, the Patriots, etc. Now
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:12 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:12 AM on October 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
It looks like Kate Beaton's work.
Yeah, that was my immediate reaction. It's Kate Beaton's Dude Watchin' With the Brontes!
Of course, having read Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, it would not surprise me in the least to discover that Kate Beaton will at some point be projected back in time, and actually was Charlotte Bronte.
Oh, add your own damn umlauts! Do I have to do everything around here?
posted by Naberius at 9:23 AM on October 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
Yeah, that was my immediate reaction. It's Kate Beaton's Dude Watchin' With the Brontes!
Of course, having read Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, it would not surprise me in the least to discover that Kate Beaton will at some point be projected back in time, and actually was Charlotte Bronte.
Oh, add your own damn umlauts! Do I have to do everything around here?
posted by Naberius at 9:23 AM on October 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
It looks like Kate Beaton's work
I like to think it's Ms. Brontë's sketch of Ms. Beaton. Now, if Ms. Beaton will sketch Ms. Brontë sketching Ms. Beaton, we will have an endless sketch recursion, which will allow the beginning of time travel as weknow it will know it.
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:29 AM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
I like to think it's Ms. Brontë's sketch of Ms. Beaton. Now, if Ms. Beaton will sketch Ms. Brontë sketching Ms. Beaton, we will have an endless sketch recursion, which will allow the beginning of time travel as we
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:29 AM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!"
- Robert Burns
posted by markkraft at 10:19 AM on October 27, 2015
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!"
- Robert Burns
posted by markkraft at 10:19 AM on October 27, 2015
Charlotte Brontë -- amazing at multiple things.
posted by shakespeherian at 10:56 AM on October 27, 2015
posted by shakespeherian at 10:56 AM on October 27, 2015
Well that was totally disappointing. Unless, of course, Brontë actually was an owl or something.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:06 PM on October 27, 2015
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:06 PM on October 27, 2015
Needs a Velocipede.
posted by antiquated at 2:01 PM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by antiquated at 2:01 PM on October 27, 2015 [2 favorites]
That has rather more character than most of Charlotte's sketches.
posted by thomas j wise at 3:26 PM on October 27, 2015
posted by thomas j wise at 3:26 PM on October 27, 2015
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