Trivia question: She was the only Bronte sister to live past the age of 31

[dixiegrrrrl]

and today is her birthday ( 1816).

Hands off that google, I saw you.....

[Orrex]

1. Brontesaurus?

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. That was an earlier non-literary Bronte family. Sorry,

"What do we have for the contestant, Johnny?"

"Your very own cycad palm, Orrex.!!!!
Yours for hours of gardening pleasure and reptile attraction action".

Thank you for playing and stick around for the next trivia question.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I honestly don't remember...

But how gifted they all were!

In their short lifespans, they did so much...

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and so on...

Happy Birthday, Mysterious Bronte Sister!

[leftofcool]

3. Emily?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Not Emily....

But thank you for playing.
Your consolation prize is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwX0ej2wwzg
( For Emily, Where ever I may find her -Art Garfunkel)

[Mr. McD]

4. Charlotte

Pleasure
by Charlotte Brontë

True pleasure breathes not city air,
Nor in Art's temples dwells,
In palaces and towers where
The voice of Grandeur dwells.

No! Seek it where high Nature holds
Her court 'mid stately groves,
Where she her majesty unfolds,
And in fresh beauty moves;

Where thousand birds of sweetest song,
The wildly rushing storm
And hundred streams which glide along,
Her mighty concert form!

Go where the woods in beauty sleep
Bathed in pale Luna's light,
Or where among their branches sweep
The hollow sounds of night.

Go where the warbling nightingale
In gushes rich doth sing,
Till all the lonely, quiet vale
With melody doth ring.

Go, sit upon a mountain steep,
And view the prospect round;
The hills and vales, the valley's sweep,
The far horizon bound.

Then view the wide sky overhead,
The still, deep vault of blue,
The sun which golden light doth shed,
The clouds of pearly hue.

And as you gaze on this vast scene
Your thoughts will journey far,
Though hundred years should roll between
On Time's swift-passing car.

To ages when the earth was young,
When patriarchs, grey and old,
The praises of their god oft sung,
And oft his mercies told.

You see them with their beards of snow,
Their robes of ample form,
Their lives whose peaceful, gentle flow,
Felt seldom passion's storm.

Then a calm, solemn pleasure steals
Into your inmost mind;
A quiet aura your spirit feels,
A softened stillness kind.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Ding Ding...we have a a winner !!!

Thank you for playing. You are now eligible to add your own book trivia question.:party:

[LisaM]

5. How about Anne?

I'm pretty sure it wasn't Emily.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. sorry, not Anne.

Tho there is a Princess of that name..........

and this stunning portrait is yours to keep, for playing along.!!!

[Sanity Claws]

6. Gummo?

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Creative answer.

Your consolation prize is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJRGFoJN8k0

[Sal Minella]

8. I believe Charlotte, who was the oldest, lived the longest?

Lived to marry and die in childbirth, irrc -- after seeing all her siblings succumb to tuberculosis -- ? (it's been a long time since reading about them).

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Yes, you are a co-winner with Mrd...see # 4.

And you too are eligible to come up with the next trivia questoin.


We await your response.

Tension is building.

[Sal Minella]

14. What did Branwell Bronte's life have in common with the movie, "The Graduate?"

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Plastics????

:rofl: :rofl:

[Sal Minella]

20. ooops, post below is in wrong place.

Plastics is an excellent answer. Love it.

I'll never forget Benjamin immobilized in his diving suit at the bottom of the pool -- he just wanted so much for his physical self to evaporate.

[Sal Minella]

19. Branwell Bronte's real-life lover was a married woman named Mrs. Robinson.

She was the daughter of one reverend and the wife of another.

Branwell intimated to his family that the affair ended when her husband found out about it. Branwell was heartbroken.

"Benjamin Braddock" was the lover of The Graduate's Mrs. Robinson. He would have done better with plastics, yes. heh.

Wiki has a short and interesting article on Branwell. A very young and talented Michael Kitchen ("Foyle's War") plays Branwell in "The Brontes of Haworth."

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. I am off to Netflix to find the film...I like Michael Kitchen. Thanks.

And extra points to you for the film reference !!!!!

[Sal Minella]

24. If you'd like to see Michael Kitchen in a role 180 degrees away from the genteel and

patient Detective Inspector Foyle, rent "Falling" -- he's a grifter and a scoundrel, with intellectual pretensions and seduction skillz with the ladies -- he bamboozles Daisy into hiring him as a gardener and next thing she knows, he's in her bed, and she thinks it's all wonderful. Great movie. I just wanted to SLAP that smirk off his face.
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Falling (2005) NR

After extricating herself from a destructive marriage and resettling in Yorkshire, the only thing British novelist Daisy Langrish (Penelope Wilton) wants is some quiet time to write. When her neighbor, Henry Kent (Michael Kitchen), graciously offers to tend her neglected garden, little does the reluctant Daisy know that it's his way of seducing her into another harmful relationship. The supporting cast includes Thomas Lockyer and Joanna David.
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http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Falling/70045226?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=844444245_0_0

[LisaM]

29. So is the fact that Benjamin's and Branwell's initials the same

a subtle reference to same?

[Sal Minella]

32. I find it difficult to see it any other way --

but what could the scriptwriter have had in mind while doing this? I can't see that Elaine's mother and the mother of Branwell's tutee had anything in common other than the name. Would be interesting to know. Any guesses?

As to what Branwell and Benjamin may have had in common -- beyond a protected and cherished status in the bosom of the family -- I have no idea.

[Sal Minella]

34. I just read on IMDb.com that Benjamin's father and Mister Robinson

were business partners.

If religion is considered to be a business, Branwell's father and Mrs. Robinson's husband were in the same business -- the ministry.

Something very sly going on with the writers of The Graduate, I think.

[Sal Minella]

15. What were the male names Charlotte, Emily & Anne published their 1846 poetry under?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Hmmm..I need a lifeline for that one...

anyone?

[Sal Minella]

18. Actually I knew that one WITHOUT looking it up --

Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell -- because they believed poetry written by women wouldn't sell.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

21. Me too! Me too!

I always found the name Currer curious. One always wants to make it "Currier" like Currier and Ives prints.

Side note: everyone always reads Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" (I read "Villette" too) but very few seem familar with Anne's "Agnes Grey" and "Tenant of Wildfell Hall" both quite good reads on their own. One is about a poor governess but without the dramatic happenings of Jane Eyre and one is about an abused wife. Sorry to say I can't remember which is which, but they're both worth a look.

[Sal Minella]

23. And however did those little parsonage girls learn about abused wives?

Have a feeling I may not want to know the answer to that, actually.

And how did Emily come up with that terrifying, destructive, obsessive relationship between Heathcliff and Kathy? I tried to watch the Merle Oberon - Lawrence Olivier Wuthering Heights after reading the book -- big mistake. Follows plot superficially, has none of the overriding self-other fusion-confusion of the book.

And we will always wonder what Branwell might have written in the long run, had he been allowed such.

*sigh*

From the Netflix website:

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) NR

Anne Bronte's dark romantic tale of a married woman in search of independence from her brooding husband springs to life in this BAFTA and Peabody Award-winning BBC adaptation. Helen Graham (Tara Fitzgerald) claims to be a widow when she moves to the Yorkshire moors and takes up residence in the crumbling Wildfell Hall. But a handsome young farmer (Toby Stephens) suspects there's more to her past than she's willing to admit.
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Edit: I've seen this, and it's nicely done. Pulled me right in.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

25. Wow! I would love to see that.

In the book her husband was more than brooding, he was cruel. I think it was really a book about the plight of women who were often lured into bad marriages and then found themselves and their posessions nothing more than chattels of often undeserving, rotten husbands.

Wuthering Heights actually scared the crap out of me when I read the book in my teens. Dark, obsessive, destructive, passion - oh, my! And the visceral hatred and cruelty in the book! I agree that the movie doesn't even come close a little bit to capturing how strange the love affair and the lovers really were.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. I read Jane Eyre when I was 9 or so...

( was a very precocious reader )
and it scared me. I came from a distant and generally unhappy family, and had no historical context for the book, so I over-emphasized with the young girls.
Much later saw several movie versions.
Really depressing times for those "heroines", wasn't it?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. I read that when I was in about 5th or 6th grade and it scared me too

Her dreadful cousins and aunt and then that school! Mr. Brocklehurst. Ughh! :scared:
At least it ended well - Reader, I married him. I still get chills. The worlds first, best, romance novel.

[LisaM]

28. I knew that one too.

It's just because I don't like "Jane Eyre" anywhere near as much as I do "Wuthering Heights" or "Agnes Grey" that I didn't know that Charlotte lived longer.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

30. What was the name of the elaborate fantasy kingdom created primarily by Branwell

with participation from the others?

[Sal Minella]

31. Anglia. ... Angria... Angeria. ----

the first thing I thought of on seeing the name was "Anger" -- but that's probably not applicable. None of those are right, are they.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

33. Ha! I really couldn't remember exactly - I was counting on YOU!

Pretty weird life in the parsonage. I know they worked on the country for years , created a language, etc. Maybe someone else will remember without googling. I think you're close.