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A review by gillianalice
The Brontë Myth by Lucasta Miller
4.0
"One could go even further into the question of why our culture still needs so many of its female icons--from Marylin Monroe to Princess Diana--to suffer and die, as if we want to see them punished for their fame."
This took me a while to get through, but mostly because I'm a slow reader when it comes to non-fiction. My main takeaways from this book were:
1. Everything I thought I knew about the Brontës was a fabrication.
2. I really want to re-read Wuthering Heights.
3. People cannot just accept that women can be talented authors.
I mean, honestly. Everyone got so obsessed with WHY the Brontës wrote what they did that the focus moved towards their lives rather than their literary contributions. It's intensely frustrating.
This took me a while to get through, but mostly because I'm a slow reader when it comes to non-fiction. My main takeaways from this book were:
1. Everything I thought I knew about the Brontës was a fabrication.
2. I really want to re-read Wuthering Heights.
3. People cannot just accept that women can be talented authors.
I mean, honestly. Everyone got so obsessed with WHY the Brontës wrote what they did that the focus moved towards their lives rather than their literary contributions. It's intensely frustrating.